It's a good lookin car, I say yes, it fits what you're trying to do with it. Drive a finished car around for a while then sell it. As long as you can do a couple little things and resist the temptation to rebuild it.
I like it alot but sounds like a side track car,if the chevy is the one you want, maybe you should just stay focused on it. ...........that would be the logical thing to do, but......
Buy it! That's cheap! Got a buddy building one,at the roller stage with everything mocked up,and he's at twenty g!
I do not know if you or who is doing the work on the cars. But if you are the one, the Chevy will just take that much longer to get finished. I am not big on fiberglass cars and the one pictured looks utilitarian. Since you have not bought it yet, I will say that the tire size, firewall, and engine do not do it for me. Neal
Spend the time and money on the 33 3 window chev , find a steel car if you really have to have something to drive now !!!
Real hot rods don't have interiors Yellow plug leads Gotter go, and rear tires are to small, firewall has that big fat lip that is so ugly...... Aw shit Jim, buy the damn thing, you know you want too. Flames would be cool.....
Needs bigger back tires too. I wish I could have found something like that last year. I'd have snapped it up.
Outside headers to fill the gap between the body and front tire, looks too plain unless you are going to put a full hood back on. Black firewall and black wires. 5x^ taller rear tires. How much of the interior is missing, does the wife sew?
You are just parking money in that Glass car, and whatever you put into it you most likely won't get back. I'd put that money in the steel Chevy. Bob
There is a done pro built glass '32 full fendered 3Window that can't find a home for 40k down here, well less than the build cost. Bob
"new" $42,500 (Shawnee Ks) Used- you have to compare apples to apples, you have a plain jane car, don't compare a used show car to yours. You are looking around 25K for a plain jane glass '32 driver.
To the OP: If you are a regular on this Forum, I would think you would know by now that asking for an opinion on this sort of thing is a pointless exercise. You will get, as you have, diametrically opposed opinions that leave you exactly where you started. In the end, you have to make a decision for yourself. On the other hand, for opinions on specific technical issues, there is no better place to come. Ray
That's a cool coupe, & I don't think the price is much outa line. I also don't think I'd sink a budget of $4k to make it right-er. It's not that far off IMO. If you can keep the interior Spartan, that'll save a bunch. Choose headers or a hood, tall pie-crusts out back, maybe trim rings, maybe change wheel color. If you go hoodless & headers, at least route those bright-ass wires down under properly. More pleasing to the eye air-cleaner/valve covers, call it done. I'd venture you'll get your investment and a little more if & when you move it.
Is your sedan finished now? The three window will likely be at the top of it's price bracket by the time you get done playing with it and you may not even break even on it. I've been watching cars on line a lot lately and I'm not real comfy with the way some stuff is selling, or not selling. Hard to tell what this year is going to be like. Flip a coin. Tim
you want t, you'll buy it - there are a lot of nice rides out there available in the $25K range that you can get in and drive for now. you do not want to give this car to your Daughter.
The Ford is nothing but a distraction. Even when finished, you'll feel short changed driving it wishing you had put the $$$ into the Chevy. Does the Ford run, drive, stop, etc? At $4,000, I think you're underestimating costs to finish. You can spend that much just for the interior. Another grand on tires, rings, caps. The firewall is a huge eyesore and screams "fiberglass". It isn't an easy fix if it's glassed in, which means you may ruin the cowl paint in the R&R process. Nobody has mentioned those horrific cowl mounted mirrors. They'll need the holes filled and paint matched. You'll have the engine stripped down to repaint that tacky (Ford engine?) blue color. Does he have touchup paint left? Exhaust hanging down needs replaced. Remember, it's a new build and you'll have to go through the inevitable PIA task of working out the bugs (of someone else's work). I agree with Tim. The market is really soft and there are a lot of cars on the market in the $25-30k range for buyers to choose from. If you have the $25k for this and the $$$ to build the Chevy while you drive the Ford, you should just invest in the Chevy, perhaps farming out some of the work to move along the build.
No Jeff I didn't buy...(THAT) one but I'm working on another one. I got a little worried that someone here on the HAMB would see this post and beat me to the punch and buy it before I could get to it. so I deleted all the responses and the original post. Drove 3 hours to the guys house with the trailer and was VERY disappointed at what I found. He took LOTS of strategic photo's and sprinkled in a ton of imagination to make it sound sweet. Said he had about 800 miles on it and the brake rotors had that fresh out of the box look (not shiny like they should be). The inner structure (what little of it that there was) was made of particle (chip) board. A broken window bad paint. It did sound good though with the half exhaust (ending at the mufflers). I guess they cant all be great deals on nice cars.
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