Projects Nice Find today a old custom, vintage race cars, and race engines...name those parts

Well some days I love my job guy hit a gas meter and went to fix it and found alot of old cool cars and a custom
Not sure what engines these are


Just plain cool

something I snapped while walking around the place
pontiac



cool custom



race car hideing in the back





Cool av8-60

this place had a ton of speed parts in show cases I didnt snap any pics at the time I was still feeling the guy out to see if he would run me off if I took some pics.....he also had 2 other race cars and I saw some race engines the guy called Drake engines not sure what those are.....has 2 Huge criscraft boat engines that looked to be 12 piston but couldnt get to them....had 4 vintage race steering setups hanging from the rafters along with a ton of nose cones from differant races some with numbers and gold leafing......Im going back tomorrow as i couldnt stay long
anyone know about some of this speak up cause this guy didnt have alot to say about these items.....nice guy showed me around in the heat for 45 min

 

11th picture down in the top right you can see the boat engines..... also that same car in the pic had a v12 in it

 

What a find. Does he know he has enough stuff there to sell on Ebay and retire?

 

Wow! Way cool, I love the custom/sports job with the 3 Caddy fins.

 

Cool, I love the roadster with the Caddy fins as well !

 

Whoa, I'm curious what that flathead V8 is in the second photo. Pontiac/Oakland? Or an early Caddy?

 

he has some 30's caddy chassis setting around so may be....also he has 3 49 ford trucks that arnt to bad.....also has a 30's aa flatbed with a late 40's flathead and some banger motors with some speed parts
Im going to try and get at the parts in the cases and he has a ton of vintage trophies setting around
the story is the guy that owns all this has fell and broke his hip and looks to not recover from it so the brother has taken over his estate and is going to sell off most or crush it and the money is going to the kids

 

what front end is that on the custom

 

"brother has taken over his estate and is going to sell off most or crush it and the money is going to the kids "

It's up to you to see that nothing gets crushed.
You best get over there and make an offer on the entire place if the right price can be had (before they start shopping the estate and it ends up in auction). Get a loan, partner up with a few close car friends. Buy it all. Keep some, sell some, make a few bucks.

The (Allard-esque) Caddy sports job kicks ass!

 

I talked him out of crushing some told him to give me some time.... he has alot of mid 70's cars and trucks that he is hauling in this week..... he has alot of frames and 30's sheet metal laying around.... the av8-60 has offy heads and intake is that worth getting he wants $1000 or $1500 with run stand not sure the stand is that good but..
its locked up but "it was running last year"

 

has a complete LaSalle picture this but with alot of rust

 

Picture # 1 is an air compressor
Picture # 2 is a early Caddy/LaSalle flathead

 

thank you jrblack30 that will help

 

That custom is bad ass!!!!!
Clark

 

Ill try and get some better pictures of it

 

more pics of the custom,please...love the 3 fins,who would have the balls to build that today?

 

and it has a 12v in it

 

I want to say the custom was a car featured in one of the little pages. Perhaps Rodding and Restyling?

 

great find, keep us posted

 

I am interested in all the race cars,please keep me in mind.
No kidding.

 

man if I could get a confermation that would be great ill start a search

 

what is a good price to get a vintage race car for.....im still green to all this to make a guess I dont want to get raped and I dont want the guy to get pissed that im low balling

 

Nice!

 

See if he wants to sell the Stutz chassis or at least the wheels and hubs, I'm very interested!!

 

a stutz thanks I forgot what that was and have been racking my brain to remember that.....Ill talk to him about it....
He didn’t really seem interested in the chassis so I’m sure I can get them at a reasonable price

 

Nice find, hope he sells a lot to keep it from the crusher.

 

I'd think your best bet is to buy it all as one package rather than pick and choose, that could get too involved and nit-picky.
Sounds like you need a partner or two with the knowledge, interest and funds to make it work.

 

Did you ask how much for all of it?

This is how I get most of my cool stuff, walk into a place, agree on a price and pay up.

I'd be interested to buy the lot, PM me if you want to partner on it.

 

I have not found the car yet in any of the ones I have but it seems very familar. Maybe it was copied off the one we're thinking of if nothing more ?It's still period and cool if not cool period. Goodluck with the find.

 

How about pics of the speed parts?