Projects just a nice find. 40 ford coupe

I love talking about cars, and stuff. so when I had a yard sale a couple weeks back there was a few leftovers. I rolled a few things out front and put a free sign on them. an older gentleman drove up nice and quietly and thought he could use a few things so I said "your welcome to anything you'd like".. thank you he says, I see you have a few old cars around. Yup, love em. "ok" he says. I have a jaguar I bought in the late 70's.
Yuck!!. I said to myself. Lol
hmmm.. I thought for a bit and realized he didn't say it was new when he bought it. again!, hmmm??. well I said ide like to come see some day if that was ok. sure he says.
so one day I wander over and boy was he excited!! he started talking about all his old farm equipment and implements dating back to the early 1900s and giving me the tour of a lifetime. boy! it was great. I started getting a bit anxious and asked about the jaguar. he shrugs it off and says oh that's somewhere over there. well get to that eventually. Lol. well before we did I was amazed of the 60 70 year collection of antiques and collectables he acquired over the years, "so cool"
eventually we get to the spot and this is what I have discovered, enjoy.

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along with many other interesting items and tools
Thanks, Ed

 

You never know what you’ll find...

 

My favorite XKE.

 

Heck with the Jag,were you able to score on the RPU or the 40 coupe? HRP

 

Cool! It always pays to be friendly.

 

Oh man, That 40 coupe looks nice! Id love to have that jag.

 

well, the gentleman is 95 and says he's not quite ready yet to let go. Lol but we've discussed value a few times. hope it works out. for more then myself I cant have em all. even if I try like hell. the jag is a 3.8 1964 xke rag

 

Well, You're not in New England, the Jag is an early XKE, sure would look good in anyone's garage along with the RPU and '40 Coupe. Bob

 

Every one of those are good cars to have. First time I have heard of a Goliath so I had to google it.
I still do not get the logic of covering up the license plates. If you drive a car on the road everyone sees it anyway so why bother covering the plates?

 

True, but someone might trace that plate and try to work a deal on the cars Ed found, that is my guess. Bob

 

Wow, three big ticket finds in one, along with the other stuff! You need to keep channels open with this old gentleman.

 

Some great stuff there.

 

What the heck is a Golaith? Gary

Never mind. Given their super small engine sizes, they should have been called "Davids" however.

 

Very interesting to look at, but I have a tough time "enjoying" seeing cars like that stored in that manner.

 

I saw a Goliath in an old wrecking yard last summer in SD. I thought it was misnamed as well.

That 40 coupe delux would be nice.

 

Those cars were a real PITA in traffic in Frankfurt, Germany, when I was stationed there long, long, ago.

 

Oh, by the way, the pronunciation is 'GO LEE ATH' according to the locals.

 

I do have a picture of the dodge I will post for you.

also this

 

Cool! Man, that 40 is NICE! I'd be on that like ....you know what! I've always waned to hot rod one of those Borgwards. Had a '57 Borgward Lloyd Alexander for about 10 years and did nothing with it. Prolly be the same with a Goliath.

 

The guy is 95 years old and he "drove" up to your yard sale? Heck that alone impress me.
The Wizzard

 

Looked to be an old Oliver Tractor in one of the shots, out of the 30's maybe, I grew up on Olivers but a little later models

 

I guess I am blind I don't see any jag's in any of the pictures.

 

M

Me neither..

 

Probably deleted due to the rules that foreign cars and sports cars are OT. Goliath may be next...

 

Thank God for that as I have been over these pics a few times and didn't see a Jag,,

 

Glad I saw this early and saw the Jag, sure was a nice one, hood was down, it may have had a flathead. Bob

 

Goliaths were exported by Borgward-Lloyd-Goliath of Bremen, Germany to the U.S. and sold new in California, Yep OT but this one sis a lot better condition. It looks to be a scaled down Nash.
Lots of other good picking, Dodge limo, belly tank, Ford coupe etc.

 

That little wagon a Standard 10? Nice coupe ,and the Dodge would be OK too.

 

Which always made me wonder why it is that Anglia's don't get deleted.

 

I think because Anglias and Fiat Topolinos are legitimate DITD drag race bodies.