Honest 32-5w Barn find what's is worth

It would be worth $9500 to me too... and probably the other 90,000 members on the HAMB.

For $9500... you could double your money and not even have to pick it up.

Sam

 

Geez Randy, I don't feel a bit bad asking 75k for my '32 all steel roadster!!!!

 

don't know that i'll ever understand 32 prices, especially project cars. this one for 30k or for a few grand more you can buy a driver


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=602151

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plus there's a ton of streetroddy style original body cars in the mid 30k range that would would be better and cheaper to redo than to start with a 30k barn find. i don't like driving cars other people built but if i really wanted a 32 i think i'd buy a older build and redo it the way i wanted rather than spend that much up front for a full project.

fwiw i recently p***ed on a 32 5w in better shape that was real close to being a driver, rebuilt late flathead, 39 box, old black paint, missing a few garnish pieces but mostly complete otherwise, full fendered, original frame etc for 28k. it was pretty well known in the socal area that the car was for sale, asking 33k and it took about 6 months to sell and it ended up going over seas.

if i was looking for one to build i couldn't justify spending more than about 18 on the one patinasteve posted.

here's a pic of the one i p***ed on

 

I am surprised it has not sold ... but times are tough.
I do believe it would have sold last year at LARS @ that price.

Randy

 

Like you said, "Times are tuff"---So, I just readjusted my "fair" price---Know what I mean??

 

There is always LARS 2014

I plan on being there ... and I will buy the cool drinks

 

I think you are right , the price is too high. I sold my all steel 5-W running and driving street rod for $35.K and had to fight and claw to get that. That is a $15-20 K. car to any one in their right mind!!!!

 

Since when did we have to be in our right mind, this is the HAMB.

 

GREG has a list too? :O

 

Thats what I did if you can afford it get it ,then get over the price and enjoy it

 

If I had $30,000.00 to spend on a 32 I'd buy a Brookville 5 window and a good perimiter frame and I'd be way ahead of whoever buys this one, and we'd both still be looking for a ***le. To me the big advantage to buying Henry steel is if it has a ***le, no ***le and the value goes down, the guys here are probably right, it will sell for close to that, just not to me. And yes I do know that it's worth way more than $9500.00. Just not to me. I'm with the guy who said he'd get 3 Model A's. Nice ones!! My 3 & 1/2 cents worth. But then I'm driving a gl*** A roadster I built. I enjoy hot rods but I'm not rich.

 

I did it ... TWICE ...
And do not regret a dime of it

 

GOOD LUCK with that ... Brookville does not make a 5W

 

Yeah, cause I'll be damned if I'm paying 30k for a project car.

Didn't I was looking for a patch of $9,500 32 coupes. I was eluding to the fact that I believe it's dumb as hell to spend that much for what is basically a project car. I could find better things to spend it on.

 

32,s are out of the fair price range, they are in the who,s got the most money range. They,v always been expensive in open market, but there was always the lone one that you could stumble on. I have bought all mine in the reasonable to ridicules cheap price range which I won,t say how much cuz it would just start a lot of grumbling. The Brookville roadster is a good buy in my estimation, they havent raised the price too much since its inception [that I know of]. The owning of an original car is compelling because of the feel of driving a real oldtime hot rod, but I think a Brookville would satisfy me if I had the dough.

I got rid of a 32 roadster becuz it had some rust but it was nothin by todays standards, nowadays you can buy lots of parts for em to make them worthwhile to build.

 

Look at it this way buying the 32 even for 30K is a investment.....As time goes on they are going up in price.....The guys that bought them 20-30 years ago and have enjoyed them since are happy as hell that their investments have gone way up in value.....What is funny to me is Guys act like 30K for a real american made 32 is crazy money, But the same guys go to the ford and GM dealers and order every option on that brand new piece of **** plastic japan/china made car or truck, And they lose there *** just as soon as they drive it off the lot.....In five years that new 30K car or truck ain't worth ****!...But in five years the 32 will be worth more....So I will stick with the smart investments and enjoy them while doing so.......As far as better things to spend it on....Whats better than a 32 five window??....LOL

 

I'm sure there are. I for one, don't get a hard on over a '32 Ford so I don't see the point of spending that much for one.

The car is worth what it is worth to you. There are some who think that 9,500 is fair and some that think 30k is ballpark. It's what you're willing to spend. That's what I love about the HAMB. So many are quick to tell you that you spent to much or you're crazy for not thinking it's worth X amount.

 

Really it all comes down to what you want and how bad you want it....I hear guys say all the time how they would love to have a 32 ford like mine but can not afford it, or justify spending that kind of money on a hot rod....Some of them make more money than I do.....Hell I am the poorest guy I know....LOL. I have 4 32 fords, All real steel cars, and my truck....So If I can afford them, anyone can....Ofcourse I do things differn't than some....I do not drive a new pickup or car....I finance my hot rods and Drive a beater.....As I think new cars and trucks are way overated....And they sure as hell are way over priced!!....

 

i still think 30 is real high for that car, how about this one from 3-4 years ago, back before eveyone was broke. it showed up at el mirage for sale on a trailer and sat all day with a 25k price tag, all original body, fenders, frame, as complete as they come, stewart warner ensign panel with wings gauges, complete interior, zero patch panels, had a 39 box with the adapter to an early olds (engine was missing). think about the guys that would have seen it at el mirage and p***ed on it at 25k, it was right by the start line, and knowbody jumped at it. the so-cal guys were out there, jim jacobs, dorsey, chico, etc. etc. and no one jumped. me and a budy looked it over really well and made some calls and simard ended up buying it, i don't remember the exact price but it was less than 25k. but for that car to sit all day with that many big $, real hot rod guys around makes me think the majority of the 32 price stipulation is an on line and big show/swap only deal.

that said if i was rich i'd own a few of them, i'll settle for the model a and 33/34 stuff for now, and if i ever have a 32 for sale it'll be on ebay or at the roadster show swap

 

OK I have not researched so I will just be dumb and ask, how much is a new steel 32 body? I mean I know how much a ch***is is so how much for the body, I wouldnt think you would be that far from being able to just buy a brookville 32 would ya? Just a question so please dont kill me here, or am I missing something? Jim

 

People don't go to El Mirage to buy cars....

 

Shes beautiful just the way she is, hell if you were as old as she is, You would prolly be showing cracks and a few rust spots yourself......LOL ....Best part about this car is it is all there and nobody has been messing with it.....I would love to add this one to my collection, but I promised the wife....I would not buy anymore for awhile.....besides the rust issues and stress cracks, whoever buys it will be able to hotrod it like the boys did in the 40's and 50's did...peel the fenders, and drop in a hopped up flatie....And go have fun....LOL

 

I like 32's but I'm not dying to get one. Plus 30k is a nice down payment on that new plane I need.

 

Jim,
To answer your question a brookville body is $25K but I do not care how nice your brookville or fibergl*** car is....It will never be a 32 ford!!....It will always be a kit car copy of a 32 ford...While I like them just fine, they are what they are.....To me there is some magic if you will about owning a real piece of history, that was hand built by hard woking american workers, and Crusing down the highway wondering about all the miles my car has seen in its lifetime and how many babes, babies rode in it..or how many babies were made in it...LOL.....whos mother in law rode into town in the rumble seat?......Anyhow for me and some others there is nothing better than owning the real deal......I am not saying I am right or wrong, but it is just me....

 

Glad I don't have my mind set on a 32 Ford! Big bucks.. With time he will get it.

 

It's more than I'm willing to spend but once I get all of my projects done I want a 37 myself.

Regardless, 32s in that shape might be worth $25-30k, Model As $8-10k, and Ferrari SWBs $500k... cars are worth what they're worth. I think that my 2 Vauxhall projects cost me a grand total of $900 so far... probably only have another $30-40k to go

 

Friend have you seen one in person or ever built a single one of their cars? You will in no way be bucks ahead over a real Ford unless your standards are very low, you have money to burn and have the need to buy it now...

The latest one of thier's I'm working on is a "29 roadster", just in the cowl it's 1/2" out of square from the leading edge of the hood flange to the winsheild posts. The right hand door is 3/4" longer than the drivers with a big hump in the middle so it doesn't match the body, now throw in a couple huge door gaps on the left side and the body is almost the same length overal on both sides. Then there are the exposed tin snip pie cuts in the quarters to make them fit the shape of the floor and make the radius around to the trunk panel. No original I've gotten ahold of is anywhere near this bad without being wrecked and certainly not held together with mig tacks and stripped out 1/4" Rivnuts.

I've not built one of the 32 five windows yet, but I went with a buyer to look at one. In the end he turned it down with cash in hand without any of my biased opinion after making a two hour trip to get it.

What's it worth? More than a fake......

 

I already have a 5 window projcet that I am working on.

It's interesting to see the opinions on the value of a car.
The issue for me is more if I like it that increases the value .

It's not so much about me buying the car I just wanted to share it on the HAMB

Of coure I would buy it if I could get a good deal, I think a good deal is $20.000

 

I couldn't agree more that is why I would like to buy it even though I salready hsve a 5 window

 

I think you are missing something, only a 32 made by Henry is a 32 everything else is repo.The guys that want a real 32 want it for that reason. I wouldnt buy a car for an investment however I sold my roadster for double what I paid for it 8 years ago.
I think the demand for real 32s is not going to wane any time soon,so you can be confidant it will at least not go down in value .
Unlike a lot of other so called investments.