I HAVE A 1939 FORD DELUKE COUPE THAT I BOUGHT FOR THE STEERING WHEEL , DASH, AND FRAME. The p***enger side is nice with no rust outs but the drivers side is gone. I am gonna remove the p*** door, fenders , the grill , headliner bows , seat springs , headlight buckets, frame,bumpers, dash and column , then cut the nice floor, quarter panel, tail pan, rear widow section and windsheild off bfore i trash the swiss cheese , I need advise on where to cut here are some pics. I ams going to sell the stuff I don't need to help pay for m project.... Any advise would be appricated , thanks I want to save all of it I can Hopefully I can help someone find what they need to finish their car! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT
Personally?... DUDE! Keep the whole thing and gather the parts you need for the "dusted" side and make a decent rod out of it. You CAN do it!... Or, just cut the heck out of it...sell what you can, and dump the rest for any kind of a profit. I'm just sayin'... Lotsa' guys here have started with less...
My T is getting the dash wheel and column. My 36 5 window is getting the frame , also even up on railroad ties it will turn to dirt before I get to it got way to many projects as is. I do love 39 deluxes and 40 standards but If I'm gonna build one I think I want a better start. Besides the only thinh getting s****ed is the bad side and maybe someone can get use out of these parts . But thanks for thr replys
hey, Damn, that thing is cherry FWIW BOB DRAKE is repopping complete '40 bodies and probably parts as well. It's sad that one has to be cut up over needing a little quarter and roof work " Humpty Dumpty was pushed "
The trick would be to find the one that sat on the right side and splice the two together. That's some wierd rot on that car. The left door doesn't even look too terrible considering. You can probably part it out right down until all that's left is the ragged edges where it rotted. If you have room to keep it whole I would let my buyers dictate where to cut it, as long as cutting what they want doesn't ruin something else. Or maybe offer it whole and see if someone else wants to try to save it.
Damn, I'd like to slice that right down the middle and hang it on my shop wall!! Maybe we can work something out?
I would sell the body without cutting it but I figured it might be worth more as parts. The frame , dash, column, wheel, and grille are staying withe me thouigh.
Yep, if you don't have a back burner for it, sell the body as is to someone that will save it! Then take the $ and buy parts for your project. There was a 40 coupe roof for sale on the HAMB awhile back. Then there was the thread involving a half buried coupe in the Hollywood hills that a HAMBer hacked a portion of the roof from. If you can ac***ulate the needed quarter and roof sections, the ready to go package body would be more valuable to a prospective buyer. It would be a long shot and perhaps a long wait to find a quarter panel, but as mentioned, Drake repops the body and sells seperate panels. IMHO, even with all it's needs, it still is a 40 coupe and should be saved. We've seen much worse saved. As an example, HAMBer Chris posted a thread of a 34 sedan that had one side rotted away and was pieced back together.
Don't chop it up. If you were closer I'd like to have it, as I have the parts needed to put it back together. Are you maybe coming to Iowa soon?
I agree that the body can be saved, but the hard part is finding someone willing to take on the challenge. I'm splicing two coupes together right now and parts are expensive. So you will make more selling the parts than you would just selling the body and help save a few more coupes in the process. george
While I know it can be saved, I'm not gonna do it. I will post it in the cl***ifieds to see if there are any takers .
Ok I posted it If you want it let me know. I am not gonna keep it around long, If no one wants it I will part it out.
I have a friend who is a lurker on here...he saved a 32 five window that was just as bad....built most of what was missing from scratch...
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