Great video. I bought my first complete 32 grille in 1970 and thru the years had owned 50+. My favorite is the virgin undisturbed shell with grille and I've had a lot of them. Most of the time I let the excitement of the moment overrule my common sense and price be damned it comes home in the truck. I think the most I've ever paid was $2750 and the most I've ever sold one for was $3250. I had as many as a dozen on the wall but am down to 6 now. I recently sold a pair to a guy ringing the inside of his garage with shells. Hard to believe theirs still enough available.? My good friend Jim Rench (RIP) had 20-30 in his shop. The crowning glory of collections was the Seacrest collection in Oklahoma in the 70's. If you were lucky to get an invitation. If you were queer for 32 Fords there was no other place like it. More NOS parts and restored cars than should be allowed. Sadly he died and the collection ****tered around the world.
I was lucky enough to visit the Seacrest 32's in the 70s. I believe most of those cars were by restored/maintained a local guy called "Big Virg"/Virgil State, here in Tulsa.
Forgot about Big Virg. I think he may have taken us on our tour although we were allowed free range to wander about as we pleased. We were there as a club, Midwest Deuces which opened the doors for seeing the collection.
Looking at that one I spot little flaws in the Brookville roadster shell I have that was bought as a blem. The Blem part was scratches from trash in the die from what I figure but the surface that would be behind the stainless ring and under the lip of the hood is where the real flaw is. Interesting and educational video.
Quickie original grille repair. A friend here found a grill that was missing bars in the center and some very rusty ones.The crank hole bezel is a current repro. on the right lower.He just wanted it fixed for a wall display he had.I had some left over spare bars that I straightened but not enough to do all so had to splice the ones on the right lower in pics.Took me a couple hrs
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