Is this worth Buying??? Ford truck with Olds engine

Looks like frot dog house, radiator and extra parts would get your money back. If it were closer I'd buy it.

 

Just think about it this way. IF you can sell it for $500 to somebody who really wants it, you only paid $300 for an olds rocket!

 

Oh, I'm fully aware of how that works...I just have a hard time thinking someone would pay 500.00ish for this thing.

 

You probably know your own market values more than we do. Sometimes I see really low prices out your way.

In other areas, that truck with no motor is easily worth 500 or a little more with correct marketing.

If I needed olds stuff, I'd jump on it. My builds pay for themselves. My parts are free in the long run. I'd sell the truck for 500, then try to free up the olds to make it run, and sell it also, then the flywheel stuff is free or almost. Yes, labor, but I doubt you are lazy.

Hey, I ended up with a spare olds stick setup, everything needed between the crank and driveshaft...with a topshift LaSalle for dessert.....just by doing deals. Try finding a complete setup with an olds fork, LaSalle trans,TOB sleeve, output flange etc.

 

Id buy it. Paint with brush and tell the wife you bought a shed.

 

Swell Time Chris!!!! Swell Time!!!!!

Don't think "can I make the $500 back??", think "what am I going to do with all this cake that I am going to make going to shows and selling the creamiest Ice Cream around"??? A whole new frontier for you to make money and buy '33-'34 shit!!!

 

Maybe try to sell it the truck engineless first, maybe for $400 or $500, and when you have a buyer that understands the situation, take his cash, buy the thing, pull the engine, and have the dude come get his truck.

 

Also it looks like a 303 with that low number heads and later style 303 covers.

But I also wondered about the relocated oil filter. I can't see why that was done in that chassis, unless they used the starter changeover half bell. If it has that, go do a deal on that truck

PS- I think I read a thread by Paul about the very earliest olds used a different tooth count on the flywheel ringear, and I think it was said that the difference is made up with the starter gear. So if you get it all, save that starter too.

 

That was the second thing I looked for (after confirming it had a stick trans) was the starter. It is stock, on the drivers side. There is an oil filter on the firewall, with lines going down to the passanger side of the block. Thats what makes me think it has a reloactor in it.
Thanks for the info on the starter, great info!!!

 

Might consider finding a girl that would be willing to live in it. She'd be a keeper.

 

Yeah, but chances are if I find a girl that digs that thing...I might not dig the girl

 

yeah finding a chick that digs it is one thing but teaching her to walk upright is another!

 

Just buy it. That way when Jamie gets mad, you could just live in it. Oh and I like the hotdog idea too!

 

You mean, Jamie could live in it?



"Hot dogs, get your hot dogs...."

 

Better be careful where this is going Chris! In 30 yrs you could be that "crazy old guy with the Ford parts" that lives in the old Ford truck with his dog. Actually buy it for the motor, your Dad might just need the truck.

 

I'd say buy it, Pull what you want and put the rest of the truck up for sale. That thing is odd ball enough that someone will fall in love with it especially if it has a clear title. With a small block Ford or Chev and compound four speed it would make a great swapmeet runner for someone. Or clean it up and make a mobile party palace out of it.
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Pro-street wtf ! no, I would put some modern running gear in it and make it somekind of retro-deliver vehicle. Chris, did you wind up with this yet?

 

Havn't got it yet, still dealing

 

Thats awesome! I grabbed somehting just like that a few months ago. There was a 1939 Ford 2 ton truck with a dump bed that had a 1959 Olds Rocket 303 motor and trans in it. Not quite sure why the coversion but the old guy we bought the truck from said it was a very common engine swap in truck like this. The ole' flatty just wouldnt cut it. I got my truck for $700 and I thought it was a good deal. The motor still turns over.

 

Turn your back on it and walk away - politely.

Make sure the owner has your phone number.

Are you able to go to the same places as he does?
Interesting things happen during accidental meetings.

Say you offered him $500. and he doesn't accept.
Once you leave he'll be missing the $500. he didn't get and thinking about it off and on.


Sometimes you gotta walk away from things.

I turned my back on a 'free', looked to be rust-free Chrysler New Yorker with 440 a couple days back.
People wanted it removed from their property, but when I went to look at it they wanted a hundred bucks.

Kinda went against the grain, ya know?

 

HAHAHA. We went to go get some free "old ford junk" in a guys barn last year. Said it was his Dads and he wanted it gone, needed room for equipment, bring a tuck and load it up. Got there (2 hour drive) and then it was all the sudden valuable. Said to make him an offer. It was all pretty junky model T stuff, but a few good items I wanted. I made him what I thought was a generous offer and he was about insulted.
Went from free to priceless in like 4 hours.


On this truck I'm letting him stew on it. Thats what he said to do, give him a week or so to see if anyone else would buy it. I don't need it that bad to worry about, so I thought I'd let it ride. Will probably go back this weekend.

 

Just wondering how this turned out. I think the Olds stuff is worth the money and whatever you sell the truck for afterwards would be a bonus.

 

It amazes me the things people look at and see no value in, WTF. Trucks like that are pretty damned hard to find anymore. If you need the Olds flywheel that bad, swap a Chevy motor in it, make it run, and flip it and I guarantee it would sell, you might even make a few bucks.

 

Thanks for more or less calling me an idiot. Gotta remember too, that would take a lot of time, PLUS a running SBC that I don't have. Wiring, brakes, gas tank, tires tha hold air... I mean sure I'm sure I could part it out and make money, just asking if there was anything really worth a shit on it.

Honestly though thanks for the idea.

 

One running junkyard/late model beater donor truck manual trans carb motor, one vintage adapter, a couple 1-800-hot rod front motor mounts, a few bucks worth of wiring to connect the coil to the battery and make it crank - presto, it runs. What's that going to cost? $500, $750 tops and a couple extra hours work when you pull the Olds motor? It don't have to drive, just be able to run enough so a guy can see and hear it do that. Maybe stick a repop Coca-Cola sign on the side. Heck put a '60s Ford motor in, those things are so worthless you should be able to buy a runner for scrap price.

I can't remember what my buddy sold his '55 Ford panel truck that looked just like that from the cowl back for, he might have traded it off, but I know the asking price on it was $3500 when we still had it to sell. And usually when he trades stuff off he gets things worth more, money-wise, than the asking price he had on the truck.

I guess it annoys me when people look at stuff and have no concept that someone else might see value in it that you don't. I'd expect that on a mini-car forum, but not here.

 

I can see potential in it!! I'd make the top a tad shorter, make the wind shield area look a little better (maybe rework it to use an F1 windshield) Add some cool lights to the roof, maybe stick a couple sliding windows in the sides (like something on a vendors truck) Put a wood floor in it, rolled and pleated white vinyl couches inside, maybe a little table, and an ice box...T-bird buckets for the front seats, 60's dash of some sort...Since it's set up for an early Olds motor I'd throw my 394 in it, 3x2, 4spd...Chrome the wheels that are on it, WWW's, make a set of caps the fit over the hubs (like a modified set of Deluxe caps or something) Swap out the grill bars for something a little less sqaurish...(maybe make a Chrysler grill fit in the hole, with canted lights) Rework the hood(fill it full of louvers) and fenders a bit, find some cool lights for the rear (I like '47 Buick tails) Polish up the aluminium, and paint the nose black, or candy red, lower it quite a bit, add some lake pipes, maybe stick a cool visor on it too, and deck the engine compartment out with finned goodies, oh and then I'd have to have "lockwoodcustoms" here on the HAMB do a bad ass grinder art mural all over the aluminium body....I think that would be sweet...Now if you were only closer...I've got the cash, but your to damn far...

 

Go in halfs and it's yours. I'll pull the engine, you take EVEYTHING else

 

So is that how you think of me, no concept? I was just asking if the thing was worth buying for the part I needed, not is the truck worth restoring.
I have bought two F series trucks in the past year:

This one:



and this one:






I needed just a couple parts off both, tried selling them on the Hamb whole with no takers (one 500.00, the other 700.00) and ended up parting and scrapping both of them. The big truck was a 5 star so that stuff was snatched up right away. But in the end I made a little more than I bought them for, but spent weeks advertising, stripping, packaging and shipping stuff...just was not really worth it. And before you point your finger at me and call me the dumb ass, stop and realize that I don't live in NY were everything rots into the ground. Trucks like these are all over. Pretty hard to sell something like that here.

Now, onto the truck in question. If no one bought it I would have to part it. The hoods nice, but the fenders are large truck only, grill is banged up, frame is worthless, the engine is locked up and who HONESTLY would buy that body? I mean like I said, thanks for the idea, but think before you call someone a dumb fuck. I mean were talking a 50's rotten van bodied F-5 truck, not a 32 Ford or something.

 

Chris...you need that truck like a hole in the head.....
Do you really wanna be fuckin' with a truck like that when ya could be working on cooler shit??? C'mon man.....MOST times things like this end up being more TROUBLE than they are WORTH.

 

Thank you Josh. You are 100% correct in my book.