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 ******, decent interior, upgraded suspension and steering, original three on the tree shifter modified for auto use, solid frame, vintiques wheels, excellent tires, good gl***. 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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