Barn Find!!! What Is It!???

Hi me and the wife found this car on a mountain biking trip can anyone tell me what it is? how much it is worth?

thanks!

 

looks like a 30-31 buick

 

its a yellow lab, im almost positive

 

It is kind of hard to tell from your photos, but it may be a Franklin - guessing late 1920's. If you checked under the hood, the Franklin's had air cooled engines.

As for the value, it is really hard to tell - the right person/collector would pay way more for it than someone like myself...

Malcolm

 

Kind of looks like an old Franklin, (forerunner of the Pontiac ).

 

I'll second that! BUICK...Not Franklin.

 

hmm, or a Buick.... to me, alot of the larger "luxury" type cars from this era look the same.

 

Yeah its a Buick 30 or 31 pobably a 30

 

Lone Wolf broke the code!

25 grand if it was running/drivable. Looks like it is missing the cowl lights and who knows what else. Probably be worth 8-10k to the right person as it sits. If the motor is missing, then probably about 5k. Looks like a 1929 Model 47 with the number of windows there.

 

Interesting... I had some wheels off a Buick of that vintage, and the spokes were alot shorter... I'll have to dig up one of the ones we saved (the rest went in a GBM bonfire a couple years ago. )

Jay

 

How about a 1929 Buick,................

 

I know Oakland later became Pontiac but I never knew the Franklin was also in the lineage.

 

franklins were made in ny. oaklands were later to become pontiacs,franks is right.

 

it's all there motor, ****** and all. it just needs lots of work im thinking of picking it up if i can make the rite deal!
would you put it back to original or make a custom out of it?
im thinking going back to stock!

 

You might ask if it has a ***le. Maybe it was owned by someone who could increase the value. Maybe it was the getaway car for D. B. Cooper.

 

My step-grandfather, Ed Shindler, of Grand Rapids, Mi was a great machinist and old car guru. He hauled a Franklin home from out east withthe gear box in pieces in the back seat. He made the necessary gears and got the old girl running. I didn't know that the air cooled Franklins were part of the Oakland/Pontiac family. He had it in a car show in Hudsonville, MI in 92 I think...Oldest son Sean was just a year old then and sat on the wood running board. This thing even had the original paint on it!

Thanks for cranking my old memory..

 

There is no relationship whatsoever of the Franklin to the Pontiac, Oakland or even General Motors. There was another model line in the Buick family called the Marquette.