sorry if this has be disscussed before, but i did search for it. car guys straight up trade cars sometimes. who has cool trades? i guess i'll set the pace.... about 6 years ago i bought a 4 door straight 6 '64 nova for 275 clams. i was gonna put in a 283 and a powerslide that i allready had in it for my wife to drive(she cant drive a stick). i didnt have a garage at the time, and realized the swap was gonna be trouble... i traded it for a '75 dodge dart ******* 2 door slant 6 auto. the prior owner was drivin' it w/ a ****ed up power steering pump until he broke his arm and couldnt steer it anymore. about 50 bucks at NAPA for a reman power steering pump and some cragar SSs i had left from another car and i was smooth cruisin'.
Isn't my story and I think my buddy messed up, but you gotta remember prices back in those days. My roomate had a '56 Vette that he traded for a '69 435hp 427 Vette. The '69 ran terrible and the owner wanted to trade. My roomate, who was the service manager at the House of Corvettes, traded. The only thing wrong with the '69 was it needed a good tune-up.
2 stories. 1. I bought a 76 courier off craigslist for $400 with a boat in the back. sold the boat for $250 on craigslist then drove the wheels off the courier for bout 6 months. Then traded it for a 86' dodge ram 3/4 ton 4x4 with 33's. Straight trade. 2. I bought a 93 civic totaled car off craigslist. took all the 5 spd stuff and swapped my daily driver over. Sold $500 dollars worth additional parts off of it. Then traded the total civic minus the parts for my dream truck. a 63' Ford F100 Unibody. Which is now my current project. Which led me to this beautiful forum. Will include pics
Buddy had a '40 Ford coupe someone had whacked the top off from and lost, except for the windshield frame, which was on but chopped badly. The rest of it was a rolling shell that had sat outside for ages - no paint, etc. Someone was trying to build a carson top custom out of it. It had okay floors in it, but it was a real POS. He swapped it for two quarter-midgets on Model T rails with Crosley running gear, an old Nascar Grand National ch***is that's supposed to be a Petty car, and a '35 Ford coupe that had been a race car, but was never cut up and the doors still open - with a set of fenders, a hood and a grille it would look like a stocker again. If we can ever verify the ch***is to really be a Petty car, it could be worth a good $10K all by itself. The only trouble has been that to do that you have to take it to them - maybe one of his trips to Florida he can bring it along. It has a lot of the right details in the cage, but doesn't have torsion bar suspension up front and has regular leaf spring suspension (no truck arms or anything) out back, but the frame rails look like they could have been unibody car stampings - my guess is if it was one of theirs it will turn out to be about a 1979 era car, when they went from Mopar to GM. That's just one of his many, many trades. Come to think of it, I swapped a bunch of old vaccuum tube radios to these guys that I had to get rid of anyways. In exchange I got a '26 Dodge cowl and doors, and a '29 LaSalle cowl that's just about rust free. I have enough tin piled up now a guy could build half a dozen cars I think, there's a '29 Chevy truck cab top and back that could go with either of those to make a pickup out of.
i traded a days worth of work (worth about $800.00 ) for my 55 pontiac. (my avatar). it was a driver when i got it.
about 3 years back i kinda 1/2 *** tossed out my '52 chevy for sale. i really didnt want to sell it, but i really had to many projects goin' on. a guy about 4 hours away heard that i was lookin' for a british motorcycle. i traded him my stock '52 chevy for a stock '71 BSA. good trade? i thought so. i'll look for some pix. that'll make this story cooler.
The story goes that the original owner traded this beauty for 1 horse and a cow or was it 2 cows and a horse? HERES THE WHOLE STORY IF YOUR INTERESTED. http://www.stillrunnin.com/magazine/sr2/49-50
I am the guy that always gets screwed in the "lets trade deal" ! So, I am not letting out any of my fine stories.
Wow, you saved me from being the only one. I have had pretty good luck with one of my buddies dropping stuff off at the house and saying "here you need this". The 292 for the 48 came that way.
I got a boat given to me then traded it for a 49 Dodge pickup. Traded the Dodge for a 62 Chrysler Newport. Sold the Newport to buy the 54 ford parts car for my 53 sedan. Traded a bunch of junk for a 77 chevy pickup. Pretty solid good running AR truck. Sold it to buy the 53. Both deals I ended up with enough cash to pay for gas food for 3(wife and 3 yr old daughter go with). All in all not a bad deal so far....
Hard for me to complain. When my Dad NEEDS to get rid of something, he drops it off at my house just so he doesn't have to sell it. '71 chev swb 60 caddy 2drhdtp 48 willys truck 33 chevy stock car Yes, at this moment they all run!
Built a 1936 fenderless ford as my first hotrod a couple years ago. Someone elses starter project tha i got running. Drove the hell out of it for a year then a guy in town offered to trade me a 32 5w. Nice body and a brand new frame with brand new superbell front end and and an 8" set up in the rear. I thought about it for about ummm 1 min done deal.
I traded a 1971 Dilly single snow mobile trailer for a 1965 Pontiac funeral car . Supposedly one of only 26 made!? (trying to confirm this with Superior Coaches)
Went to a town about 3 hours away to buy a 73 F-100. paid 800 bucks for it. While driving home, stopped for gas and a guy pulled in to fill up his chevelle. Had a for sale sign, so I went over to inquire. Said he wanted to sell it to buy a truck cause he was selling firewood. I offered to trade and he accepted. I made it home with a 69 SS396 4 speed car, green with white stripes, no rust. Think I did ok....
I got my 30 Ford in a trade for a 1958 Chevy Biscayne I had. Was a good deal both ways. He wanted a sled, I wanted a hot rod. Worked out great until my wife and I had another kid hahaha, now I need a backseat again and my 30's still in the garage waiting for another trade...or a bag of cash!
I've made some bad trades and some good. I'm fresh out of cheese so I won't whine about the bad ones. I'm not sure if it counts but the Stude in my garage came by way of a stalled F-100 Project. The short end of it is that I had a '53 that I was into pretty cheap, channeled and sectioned, trick ch***is, blah blah. It wouldn't sell, I tried to give it away then one day I saw a fellow HAMBer by chance. He had this old Stude ('53 Starlight coupe)that he also couldn't sell, an Ex-blower car. He mentioned that he was going to trade me the Stude for the Ford. He didn't ask. Him and his brother are both kinda like that BTW, they make a decision and its a done deal, pretty damned good quality in my book, but I degress. So about a week later he shows up with the Stude on a roll back, and about another Studes's worth of extra bits 'n' pieces along with a 2x4 Poly mill (minus the intake) I ended up with it all. It doesn't stop here. The city was on me about too many vehicles etc. So I gave the Stude to a younger friend of mine. It was his dream car. A couple of years p***, I'm in a new place with a garage. My young friend shows up with the Stude on a trailer and drops it. He's going to trade it for left overs of my '65 truck (bare body and ch***is). he's a lot like the fella I got the Stude from originally. Its early in the week and I'm unemployed, so I tell him I'll do a quick scab together of the Stude and he can come after the truck. He says no drive the truck until you're ready to drive the Stude, do it right and make it sweet. he keeps comming by every once in awhile with something else he thinks I might need for the Stude. I'm going to finally give him the truck body this summer(nearly 2 years later). So I guess its two sweet trades for one? Or maybe I lost a wore out truck body.
I traded an 89 wrangler, for a 63 impala ss, with 80k original miles. 3 weeks later, i traded the 63 for the 31 ford tudor in my avatar, which is what i wanted in the first place.
that's a great trade. Maybe I should have made the deal for the guy offering me a boat, i could have traded that to the guy with a 4x4 golf cart, that to the lady selling her ex's wrecked lawnmower racer, and then traded that for the sedan I've wanted in the first place!
Had a customer who owed me $2500 for over a year. I went over last year to press him some more & he offered me a car to satisfy the debt. It was a 55 Chevy 2 dr hardtop in rough driver condition w/ a new set of TT2's & new rubber. I took it to a show a month or 2 later & sold it for $8500.00
Back in '75 I traded my '56 Chev which I got free (only had to put a motor in it) for an even up trade for my '34 Ford which I sold 12 years before then. I had put a '48 Merc with 3 duces and a 3/4 race cam but it was gone, ended up putting a big block Ford in it. AND the stupid thing I did was to sell it again.
About 1970 or 71 traded a steel deuce roadster (no engine or trans) for a running and registered on the road 56 vette,about 7 years ago traded deuce 5-window highboy (sbc) for 1955 nomad with extensive dragracing history. Now building fake brookville rpu!
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