Projects SHOEBOX Barn Find in Oklahoma

BARN FIND REDUX!
Who said they aren't out there? Longtime friend, Travis, with '49 Shoebox Ford - Deluxe Model - gets ready to send his car down the road after having it since 1974! Originally picked it up in Alabama. One day, he spied it up the hill, off the highway, and spun a U turn to go back. No engine but the guy was ready to sell. Hard to make that long throw column shift after a trucking accident. A Merc long block was on order and a few weeks out. Travis flipped the cash and drug it home and soon slid the new Merc mill in the hole. Few years later he transferred to Oklahoma and flat towed it out here. He added 2x2 setup, dual glasspacks, more chrome and etc. Tranny is an overdrive so the puppy could keep up the pace. Not started for 4 years or so and there it sat out in the barn (shed?). We talked over a year about how maybe I should give the crate a new home. OK, so I says! And there we go out Sunday, myself, son, friend Martin and his trailer. Headed into town to see if we could pull the little guy out. Changed the tires the previous week to a set of freebee junkers just to get it rolling. Yanked it out of the shed and across the yard with my 4WD and to the waiting trailer. Twenty miles to home and now it's in the yard! Needs battery, WWW tires and TLC. Picked up a set of 2.5" rear lowering blocks for it. This car is pretty much unmolested so what ever we do will be minimal just to get it back on the street... Paint it black with tasty flames?
Enjoy the photos.....


This is how we found it.


All four tires are flat! Spare had air in it though!


Pulling the wheels to get some rollers...


My 4WD snaking it outa the back yard to Martin's trailer


Pit stop for gas and to check the straps.


Couple bucks at the car wash and ya can see the mill. Not started for 4 years or so...


Blue dots of course


"Custom" trim


Brakes are OK, probably just need to be pumped up?


Back home in the yard at last. Ugly black walls -this thing needs WWW!


Dash looks dirty, car smells like a musty basement! Odometer reads 52,156 miles?


Rear view in the yard taken the next day.


Vintage Okie tag is a keeper! The #1 stands for Oklahoma County.


Ready for a pick nick?. Found a half full bottle of Jack buried in here.


Full dash shot. I put the fuzzy dice in the glove box for safe keeping!


I'll drag these tires to the next swap meet. They should hold air! These are 15" rims that replaced the original 16".


Number one son here as part of the expedition. Just before dragging it outa the shed.


Yours truly...


Home in the back yard...

 

Wow, what a find ! Congrats to you. Love those blue dot tail lights.

 

Nice find!. looks like a damn solid car

 

Always nice to see a decked out shoebox.

What are the big plans for it?

 

Nice! Why paint it? It looks pretty good right now.

 

Man ....good candidate for a little spit n polish, getter running kinda car. Nice find

 

Congrats, glad to see you got it out of the shed, cos the shed was about to lay itself down on it soon.

 

Real nice find!

 

Wow really nice find and with all the trimmings.The mill is the icing on the cake with the double carb set up.Really nice find!

 

Looks good. Most I've seen are nothing but rust.

 

Great find! Can't wait to see it. My first car was a '51 Ford conv. Back in 1958 it was in worse shape than your '49 is today.

Al

 

Cool find, my wife's grandfather bought a 1950 sedan new. I tried to get him to sell it to me for years, it has been in his basement since the 70's. I always went down to see it after Thanksgiving dinner. He never would sell and passed away in 2005. He told me he had already promised it to one of the grandsons, however, the grandson he spoke of is not a car guy. It is still sitting in the basement today. Might be there forever. Wished I had some pics to show you, it is in super shape

 

Go back for that vintage camper!! to pull with your new rig....

 

That puts a big smile on my face, ENJOY. So Cool. Slim

 

is it just my computer, or does it look like i should have 3d glasses on to look at the pictures?? nice find BTW

 

That's sweet. You gotta love having chrome/stainless that nice!

 

Good to see that you bought the ford. I remeber you telling me about it at the winfield workshop in Oklahoma city.

 

Very cool,keep us posted!!

 

where is the u-tube video of it running and driving? c'mon were waiting. that looks like a pretty great score.

 

that is sweet!

 

thats a beauty get her running and away you go and the stainless on the top of quarters really rare i have built 12 of these cars stock and custom and never ran across that stainless only seen it once in person good luck

 

man that car is nice!,just a little detail work will be enogh to put on the road again,congrats!

 

Great find. Good luck with getting her back on the road.

 

Just WOW!

 

Congrats! Clean her up, give her some new shoes, get her running and safe, and drive it. Looks like it's already painted. Enjoy!

 

pin it and drive it

 

nice find, good luck with her

 

very nice find. looks dam solid. i'd keep the paint and black steelies and black walls. it'd look like a cool old moonshine runner

 

Damn such a nice find! Congrats man, Hopefully one day i'll actually have a barn find haha

 

I vote black on black on black or just ship it to me.