Projects Nice Find today a old custom, vintage race cars, and race engines...name those parts

nice stash, I got to think he would rather sell than crush. Give those parts an other life. Hell hamb only auction.

 

Is that compressor/motor a Hercules or a Wakeshau ?
It does not look like Continental, but I could be incorrect.
Tom S. in Tn.

 

The guy does not know any of the history or really what he has.....Im going back today and talking with him He is scared that there could be money hidden in some of this stuff and if he sales as a lot will never get it.....hes trying to make some money for the kids but not drive away buyers at the same time....nice guy just not savey on what he has out there

 

Riks gonna be poppin in with pics of the thing. I know it.

 

Man thats a Great find!!!

 

Definitely get a buddy or two with some knowledge to help you make a fair offer. Do it like Frankie from American Pickers and "bundle it".

 

Wow amazing .

 

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This proves that it's still out there!


Great find and good luck on 'salvaging' that stuff.


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You said "Drake engines".................I'm guessing of the same "Drake-Offenhauser" fame............................Sweet!

 

I keep coming back to this thread to look at that llittle custom..More pics,please!!! I'd be very interested in details and a price on that..thanks

 

the motor in the second pic looks more like a 29 lincoln flathead

 

A year or two ago sombody posted a pic of this car on the HAMB, they had found a pic of it on the web. They didn`t know anything about it. The pic was from taken from outside lookin in the shop, all you could see was the side view of the rear quater. you could just make out that it had 3 caddy taillights. Nobody had any info on the car. I`ll try to find the thread.

 

I think this is just the latest version of Telstar..

I want this car..I'll start knocking out my living room wall after work,and I promise it a good home

 

I dont think this is the car, but it would look something like this restored.

Lon Hurley's '46 Cadillac from Rikster's site.

Hosted on Fotki

 

wow thats cool.....I went out yesterday and he wasnt there but I talked to himon the phone and he was excited at what I had found out on the hamb.... the "kids" are coming down the 16th to look over the stuff and tell him what to scrap and what to sell.....I made a agreement with him that if there were any 60's and below cars that were told to scrap I would give scrapprice plus give him $100 to put in his pocket and ill get them out......he agareed and he also found out there a cushman mail cart or enclosed 3 wheel cart....will try and get out there tomorrow

 

I can be in Owasso in 30 minutes if you need help.....Vic

 

sooooo???? what happened?

 

Ok so I have been going back and forth with this guy about these cars......Today I atleast talk turkey and found out he is just to far off on prices..... he was going to scrap the caddy's and I told him I would give him $700 for them and he wouldnt have to lift a finger...Big NO.... so I go $1000 I just want the engines and I would part them out..... he said Its worth $3000.....WTF he was scrapping it 5 secounds ago for mabye $500.....also there was a 49 ford sunk into the ground still solid but had been there forever you could tell......I said how about $1000 for the ford he said nope I need $2000 I can get them pretty solid rolling with flatheads for $1500 all day....last ditch effert I ask for a crazy price for everything on his land and all the stuff in the sheds....."I WILL NOT SELL AS A LOT"
Man hes under the impression that if its old and someone is interestedin it its worth a fortune......I made sure he hadmy number and told him to cruze ebay and craigslist on prices and get back with me
Sucks cause I know from our phone conversations that the guy that owns this stuff his kids were down from kansas the 16th and they told him"just get what you can for this junk and get the place cleaned up"........I evan shot him a crazy price for a locked up hemi to see if he would bite nope.....I felt like he thought if I wanted it for 100 he would think it was worth 300.... like I was low balling......This guy has no clue about any of these cars or the history he kept asking me questions and it seems the more I truthfully answered the further the price was on the stuff.....If I told him about the history he would tack on more money
Im done for now he has my number and when reality hits hope he will call

 

Did he price the custom? What would it take to buy it?

 

Man that sucks! I once went to buy a model t "with the top cut off" and when I arrived, I muttered ... touring car. Yeap, the price went up when he found out the top wasn't cut off. I sure hope this works out for you mister!

 

That guy sounds like a fucking dick. It is so sad to see that custom like that. I really hope that custom gets restored.

 

Good luck with this. I hope it doesn't just come to getting scrapped instantly without so much as a call one day. You know how people are.....Keep us posted.

P.S. -- Easy on the "texting" style posts, saints....some folks wont put up with that kind of misspelled, jamed together bunch of words on here....Just my $.02...

 

fucking great...

"I'm going to sell these for scrap"

"I'll give you $1000.00"

"I want $3,000"

how did you keep from punching him in the face right there?

 

The engine in the second photo is a 20's Lincoln engine.

I would be interested in that engine if you got a hold of some of this stuff.

 

Don't know if it is the same Drake but Meyers Drake Engineering was the people who purchased Offenhauser Engines at the end of World War 2. The Drake stuff could all be prewar stuff especially if in the open wheel car.

 

He's just afraid of being screwed thats all. He has no clue to value, he probably wont give a price on something and will wait on an offer and double or triple it.
Too bad. Very likely the stuff will disappear one day.

 

Yep he said he has 6 of them Ive seen them from far off but he wouldnt open the gate to the building so I could get a close look. The pic of the yellow racer has the building in the background.
Im still going to stop by from time to time to make sure he holds up to his deal of not scrapping them. He talked about dragging all the cars to a open flat area so they could be looked over by buyers so Im holding strong that he still will sell or at least has a auction.
He said If the owner passes that the stuff will be held up in probate so they want the stuff gone so that doesnt happen. What makes me want to cry is this guy was good at racing(judging from the trophies in the shop) and loved what he did, and had. now hes laid up and the people that could care less about the history of this guy is willing to just chunk the lot

 

Yep everything was make a offer and then he would say no or if he didnt he would say let me pass that offer on to the kids and see what they think(what I took as piss off)

 

I'm pretty sure that custom/special has a DV32 Stutz engine in it. I could be mistaken but the car is known in the Stutz community.

 

Looks like a V-8 60 HP for one of the midget cars.