bought a chopped 49 ford cpe today

Looks like you got a great deal! what are you plans for the ch***is after you strip it.

 

plans are bring the car home i have a stock frame with all the new parts to rebuild it lowered of course .I have a completely rebuilt flat motor finned heads and tri power all the chrome goodies and a rebuilt 4sp top loader with a early 57 ford 9in diff .Firestone www bias of course on either painted black rims or old skool smoothies with spider kits .Got all new black and white true tucknroll interior just waiting as for the out side i will see one thing is for sure i do have a very nice louvered hood

 

Did i mention the 390 has 428 heads on it

 

Can't wait to see progress! im gonna be swimming in envy.

 

Thats a sweet ride you got .Whats in running????????

 

Got any pics of that car????

 

Not to sound like a jerk but are they real 428 "cobra jet" heads or just stock 428 heads. If there not cobra jet heads there just as good as stock 390 heads the valve size never changed through any of the years or sizes of FE's.


Here is the stock parts # for the 352,390,410,428 - C8AZ-6049-M and or C8AZ-6049-A
(Exhaust valve is 1.57) (Intake valve is 2.04)

Here is the parts # for 428, "Cobra Jet" heads - C8OZ-6049-K
(Exhaust valve is 1.65) (Intake valve is 2.09)

 

To be honest never to the time to look at the #s on the heads just say the rebuild bill listing off everything and the price was i get her home i,ll take a closer look but iam 75% sure they are cobra jets only because i have bought many cars before from this guy and he is a speed man and when he tells you what it is he isn,t ********ting but hey say there not cobra heads i dont care iam not a big block ford fan anyway and the chop alone is worth what i paid i build cars for a living and in my view this car to get to this point would be at least 10 grand

 

I know where one of these are for $700 bucks. No ***le and really rusted. Has decent chrome grill and a few windows are in good shape. Could save the fenders. I didnt pop the hood because i lost interest soon as she said no ***le. Its in Monticello, FL.

 

Any pics i love seeing pics of good old rusty cars

 

great car!

 

The top looks good to me....not too much. If it was done right you'll have a nice piece.

 

looks like a nice project ,

 

good lookin ride man wish you was closer i would try to get that 390 from you

 

no. I left my cell phone in the truck when i went to look at it. The rockers where gone as was the rear section under the trunk lid and rear quarters. There was an engine in it still. Its been sitting there for awhile now.

 

So,did you get the 49 and the 51 Dash?

 

Well, hope your build turns out well.

 

man, pleaseeeeee post pics of the fe in the shoebox before you switch the body over..Im sticking a 390 in my 50 and am looking for ANY info or ideas of how to do it right and make it look right..congrats on the 49!

 

seems that D.R. gave ya a pretty good deal @ 3000
he wanted a hell of alot more than that when I talked to him
what are ya gonna do with the frame? and the motor/******?

 

I got a 49 cpe iam going to swap it over to .Ya he,s a decent guy i have bought a few things off him he always calls me up sometimes i go look other times no. I went to look at this for a buddy but he didnt want it and i liked the chop just for the point it was different normally i wont drive something somebody else has done just for the reason i cant say i did it but it was a hell of a deal so ill just add it to my other 8 vehicles .And yes he gave me everthing even 4 rear windows i,ll add it to my collection of stuff i never sell YES IAM A HOARDER i could build 6 of these cars with all the **** i have LOL

 

Thanks

 

Thanks

 

Hey have not got the car home yet but somebody welded a mustang 2 clip in then fab some mounts up for the motor when i get it home and apart i,ll send you some pics

 

Hey Rick , what are you going to do about the chopped rear window? You could always cut that one out and lay down a stock frame so you could use the stock gl***. You have enough rear windows to do it.

 

No i liked the idea of the shorter rear window .Everybody lays the gl*** down and i always like to be different and have people wondering so iam going to keep the shorter window it just looks way to cool .AS for getting a rear window no problem got a friend in the gl*** shop were all they do is curved gl*** he just needs template and a old piece to see the curve and away we go .Its strange cause when you first see this car you don,t really notice the rear window is shorter and when you do notice it you would not think its 4 in. but it is . By the way cool car

 

Looks like a hell of a deal. Nice!

 

You're en***led to your opinion, but I think it's Bull Spit. I put 100K on one of those ****py front ends in the 60's & 18K on my curerent 49 with a warmed up flatty & a t-5.

The first one drove great & so does this one.

 

Thats a beautiful color on your shoebox .

 

Thanks man