Made the trip to NC today and bought this '51 pickup well under the $15k limit. Super nice, straight rust free body, perfect floorboards, decent black paint, strong running Chevy 350, 350 turbo tranny, decent interior, upgraded suspension and steering, original three on the tree shifter modified for auto use, solid frame, vintiques wheels, excellent tires, good glass. Needs new bed wood and exhaust. WHAT DO I WIN?
I would buy Terry Burtz' new 5 main bearing model A block and crank $4000, a new Miller head $4500, spend $1500 building it, and drop that baby in Johnnymerc49-51 1930 Ford sport coupe he has up for $4300. Somehow I would have to finish this with the remaining $700 ( who am I trying to kid, with a 10k banger engine I'd have to go all out on the car)
Not mine but this is a pretty good buy. I would offer 12K and see where it heads. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1940-ford-sedan-2-door.1197621/#post-13691093
I think about this all the time. It this day and age it has changed a bit. Up til now I have less than 15k in my coupe, but there's 15 years of scrounging before now involved with that, I'm sure it would be harder now. If I had a straight 15k . This car is up for 14k obo. I have seen others in the 10-12k range in similar shape. Lets say you were able to get it for 13. I would spend a few days polishing out whats there and clean up the engine bay. I like whitewalls, So I would get the right size Firestones to give it a little rake and fill out the wheel wells. Drop axle, bend the steering arms. Shackles to drop the back. 2x2 Intake with 2 holleys. Car - 13k Stones- 1k axle- 250 shackles- 50 Intake + carbs 700
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