What's a real steel body go for these days?

I dig the "soul" of which you speak. That is why when I started my glass roadster I started picking up all the original components I could find to go along with the build. I want it to have SOME history or at least for pieces of it to have it.
Wp

 

538,667,012.87

That is our national debt if it was in $20k deuce bodies.

 

so what percentage is my body???

let here it! opinions? you may have to go back a couple pages to look at pics....

 

The funny thing about all this is 25 years from now somebody's gonna be driving around in worn out brookville 32 Ford with a faded H.A.M.B alliance tag on the firewall and an old reciept from the H.A.M.B. drags under the seat, braggin' to their buddies about how much history the car has!

 

I'd say you've got at least 60% original Ford steel...

 

That's some funny sh*t. How long does it take for a Mustang II front end to become "Traditional"?

 

Well...That´s not exactly accurate. See, I heard they "just" sold one of these restored at Barrett-Jackson for 7 billion so I take it my rusted-to-hell basket-case shell has got to be worth at least 5. But seriously...I mean this is really quite an investment we´re looking at here.

 

Kevin, I think that our difference in perspective may come from our different automotive backgrounds. I was a restorer first (and I guess I still primarly am a restorer). To my way of thinking (and feeling), a restored car (or more particularly an unrestored original) has soul without any additions made by a restorer/hot rodder. But I can understand your way of thinking (feeling).

Let me put it this way, I would not have the same emotional feeling if I found a neglected fiberglass or Brookeville body sitting at the back of a junkyard that I would have if I found a Henry original in the same circumstance. I doubt that many of us would.

At any rate, a car does not really have "soul"...that is just a word devise chosen for lack of a better word to communicate an emotional feeling that is hard to describe.

 

That's a great point. Like it or not everything most of us on here hate will be considered cool and the way "everyone" did it "back in the day" by some future generation.

 

$800.00

No cherry.
I'd really like to know what they were thinking on the firewall Then I see the "graphics" on the side and the top gone, then know not much thinking was involved at all.

I was going to use the quarters off this body for another coupe I have, but decided to build it into a coupster.
Jeff

 

I say do it. How 'bout a removable hard top that has the lines of the original?

 

I am http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=335443

 

Brilliant minds thinking alike-

 

After watching various bodies selling both on the Hamb and on E-bay I decided that 15 Gs for a perfect 32 sedan body that was complete and had never been rusty or needed any body work wasn't such a bad deal after all. It's going to make a nice sedan delivery.

 

BTTT one more time and I'm done...

 

Paid 19G for this!!

 

What you have done with the 33 now, it was worth every penny and more! Yours 1933 roadster is one of my favs on the HAMB!!! Lets see a pic now

Do you need the family version of your 33 , it could be yours for also less

 

i paid 20 grand for my 32 ford 5 window body, doors, grill, 2 dashes, 2 fenders, trunk lid and a rough frame

 

Well im not complaining about he money worth every Öre (cent)

Got it thru Swedish Car inspection last September.



Drove over to Tibro Swapmeet 25 of October 100Miles one way




More info here...
http://www.brandow.eu/ford33/upd5/ford335.htm


And the whole story so far.
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The only "right price" for a steel body is the one that you are happy paying to the seller and the one that the seller is happy to receive from you. it could be 50 bucks or 10k...as long as you BOTH are happy

 

Love this signature...

 

I paid $1000 for this body........

.......... in '82
Here's a cheap one.......

......... only problem is that you need to have owned numerous junkers over the years to accumulate spare panels.

And where you don't have spare panels.......

You've gotta get creative and paste one together from '32 (wrong side though) and '31 and '34 parts

And another cheapie......

...... free
And a 5w bought for $1600......

...... in '88

and so on.....

 

Holy Smokes !,.... I guess they seen you coming !

 

I just left a wet spot in my pants and now I need a cigarette... Damn, warn a brotha the next time

 

It's not really a reply to the question, but I bought a pretty rough '32 cab and frame for $150 in 1981. Then I found another '32 cab with doors in better shape in 1986, I paid $275 for that and it seemed like a lot of money at the time. The one that makes me laugh ( and cringe) was every year at our local swap meet, there was always a 1932 five window coupe body. It had been chopped and channelled. The floor was missing and it was pretty rough but saveable. I used to laugh because every year it was there and always the same price- $400. I thought they were dreaming. I'm not laughing anymore; and I haven't seen it at the swap meet for 20 years.

 

I payed 16.5k for mine. Sold off the chassis for 3800. The tank to a hamber for 150. so about 12k or so for a body?

 

I remember this one. It was a good deal in my opinion.

 

I watched a 32 Ford Tudor body go for $6300.00 last month. Very solid body. Nothing else just the body. It sounded like alot to me but it's just like land. They aint making anymore of them.