SCORE!!!!!

[Pancho]

I'm one of those people who never has any luck, but yesterday I was at a salvage yard getting some parts for a customer vehicle and I get to talking to another customer. We start talking about hot rods and I mention that I'm looking for a body for my Model A project. He tells me about his brother's neighbor who has some sort of early Ford body behind his house. Says he'shad it a long time and never done anything with it. I get directions and go over to the guy's house. He says that he'd probably sell it but its not a Model A, its a 32 roadster.We go into the back yard and underneath a tarp and about 5 chevy P/U hoods is a roadster body. Both doors are on it and the windshield stanchions are there. No deck lid but both back fenders are on it. Someone's removed the firewall but he says the guy he bought it from has that piece. He'll call him. I ask him what he wants for it. He says he'd like to get the $200 he paid for it back. I'm picking it up today!!!!!Moral of the story: Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.

[Paul]

cool!

I love stories like this!

show us some pictures!! I wanna see!!

Paul

[34Fordtk]

YOU SUCK!! Post pics asap http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[roadstar]

I'm having a REAL hard time with this one.

[haring]

BWAHAHAHA!

$200.

That's awesome. You are a god.

[Hackerbilt]

So how did you explain peeing your pants when he told you the price?
Better get it before he calls the guy about the firewall and firewall guy tells him the TRUE value of a 32 roast'er!!!!
GREAT catch bud!

Bill

[ray]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm having a REAL hard time with this one.

[/ QUOTE ]

i've heard some incredible stories of rocky mountian tin being found dirt cheap in colorado...

[AHotRod]

It pays to get off this computer and get out in the world!
You ROCK!

[29EHV8]

Pics,we gotta see pics.I wouldn't have left it there.I woulda phoned someone with a truck to come over and get it!
You gotta get some pics up for sure today.I hope you got the registration at that price!LOL.....Shiny

[fab32]

Roadstar, Have you got a crystal ball? Mine is showing the same image as yours I'm sure. Just last week I went and looked at a '32 roadster for $175 (much cheaper than this one) and the only thing wrong with it was someone had keyed the whole side. Told the guy "not interested", but would reconsider if he had it repainted and replaced the Ardun with a SBC.

Frank

[Levis Classic]

How about some pictures you lucky BITCH!@!!

[JimC]

I am with 60s Style, I like stories with a happy ending.
Kool find.
I wish you well on the build.
Did any one mention, we like pictures.

Jim

[**DONOTDELETE**]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm having a REAL hard time with this one.

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no one, I mean no one leaves a 200 dollar 32 roadster behind to get the next day. I could be in the deepest part of the fucking Smokey Mountains and I would sleep in that fucking car before I left it behind. Although I will say I have heard stranger things..... but not many.

I'm having a hard time with this one myself.

[34 GAZ]

Get it today, no yesterday. Take Monday off, take the whole week off. When is the party, you,ll have to celebrate http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Harrison]

BULLSHIT!!

[FORDY 6]

I'll believe it when I see it

[MrGasser]

Well....roadstar and I both know of a similar instance that just happened to a good friend of ours,...found a Deuce 3-winder body and doors in an abandoned garage in some nasty 'hood in Detroit,...

First thing I said when I heard about it was "BULLSHIT!!",...but, it was true. I'll talk to him and see if we can't get some photo's...

right Rudy?

[Deuce Roadster]

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Well Pancho......

I hope it is true.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mr. Moore, we do not know you and so you have to understand that when you find one of the Holy Grails of Hot Rodding for 2 hundred dollars.......there will be a little scepticism.

A decklid will cost you 3 times the purchase price of the body.....and firewalls are out there.....

Good Luck with your FIND .

But you will have to show some pictures to gain credibility.

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[BLAKE]

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[Radshit]

I believe it...I have run across stuff like that in Ft. Garland and in the San Luis Valley there in southern Colorado........but the local folk have to know you....luckily I had friends with relatives there....

[Pancho]

Well guys, I'm pretty new to Fords so if I bring this SOB home and its an "A" instead of a 32 will I be shunned? I'm just going off what the seller is telling me so when I get it home this afternoon I'll post pics and then as the bard said" The truth will out". I don't think I can go wrong on any open top 20's or 30's body for this price, period. Do you?

[roadstar]

Yes it is true. Randy and I do know a person in the Detroit area that FOUND a 32 3 window in an abanded house in a ghetto area of the city.

So I told myself I would never be skeptical again when I hear stories like these.

Butt is is obvious here I'm not the only one with some doubt.

So lets see some pics and yeah, whens the fricken party http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I bought (what I thought was) a 34 three window for super cheap once and I told all my friends about it. Turned out it was a 33. Boy, I sure felt stupid. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


If it doesnt have a top and is a Ford, you did just fine.

[burndup]

uhh, you're a little late for april fools...

If your lying we hate you,
if you're telling the truth, we hate you MORE!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[littledeucecoupe427]

I think I'm going to puke and then fling myself off a cliff or something. That has to be one of th ebest stories I have ever heard http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[quickrod]

lyin bitch............ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[JamesG]

BUUULL ahah ah ah cough cough.....shit...... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[candyman]

My oldlady cried when we walked around the corner and saw my $100 49 mercury. The dude didn't care what it was... or what it was worth... he just wanted it gone. It happens... believe me it happens....

[haring]

[ QUOTE ]
when I get it home this afternoon I'll post pics

[/ QUOTE ]

Yea! Pictures!

I can't wait. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[RocketDaemon]

so when was this in 1964?

[general gow]

how do you type tears of jealousy (oh and joy, yea, joy...)?

[ray]

any of the "bullshitters" notice the point of the story? you'll find the deals if you follow up on EVERY old car lead you get! if some ol lady says there is a forty or fifty something 4 door rottin in her yard, go check the fucker out!

and there are still lots of people that don't have these funny computer things, and thus have no idea what the fuck ebay is, or what 32 parts are going for now...

[mr.midnite]

"WHERE"S THE BEEF"?

[slazzen]

I hate this guy already where are the pics if he walked in to my garage with that shit story it wuld be judgement day today put up or get out lets see this shit pile

[Pancho]

Well, so much for my BIG SCORE! Got this sumbitch out from under the huge pile of junk and guess what. It ain't no 32 roadster! As Forrest Gump said" I'm not a smart man" but even I could tell it was a cutoff Model A coupe. You guys will laugh your asses off when you see this POS I dragged home. It's rougher than a stucco bathtub. Someone bobbed the rear quarters and built a gawd-awful roll pan. They tunneled two tail lights per side. Guess what they used for the tunnels. Tomato cans! It's covered with house paint, the cowl is missing, they chopped the doors, no trunk lid, one bobbed, mashed back fender, etc. But on the bright side I already have a frame to put it on. What ever I do to this thing has got to improve it. There's nowhere to go but up! To all the skeptics who responded; you were right, I was wrong. But I'm not going to stop looking! Yesterday I spotted what looks like a complete Model A tudor sedan out behind a shop in a neighboring town. Also a 70 Chevelle, 62 Tempest 4-dr, 60 Catalina htp and a 57 Buick sedan.That old shit is getting scarce but its still out there. Now, let the derision begin.

[Germ]

Sounds like FLORIDA built it?

Or maybe the DEACONS, in SAN DIEGO?

[52plybizcoupe]

i will laff so hard at the guys who called bull shit if it is a 32

[JamesG]

[ QUOTE ]
Well, so much for my BIG SCORE! Got this sumbitch out from under the huge pile of junk and guess what. It ain't no 32 roadster! As Forrest Gump said" I'm not a smart man" but even I could tell it was a cutoff Model A coupe. You guys will laugh your asses off when you see this POS I dragged home. It's rougher than a stucco bathtub. Someone bobbed the rear quarters and built a gawd-awful roll pan. They tunneled two tail lights per side. Guess what they used for the tunnels. Tomato cans! It's covered with house paint, the cowl is missing, they chopped the doors, no trunk lid, one bobbed, mashed back fender, etc. But on the bright side I already have a frame to put it on. What ever I do to this thing has got to improve it. There's nowhere to go but up! To all the skeptics who responded; you were right, I was wrong. But I'm not going to stop looking! Yesterday I spotted what looks like a complete Model A tudor sedan out behind a shop in a neighboring town. Also a 70 Chevelle, 62 Tempest 4-dr, 60 Catalina htp and a 57 Buick sedan.That old shit is getting scarce but its still out there. Now, let the derision begin.

[/ QUOTE ]

If it's not a 32' and if it's that shitty, what ever it is, I would have kept my $200!

[thirtytwo]

a friend once told me its amazing how many 32 end up being model As when you go check them out , but sometimes a model A ends up beig a 32 for some lucky guy,

its always worth checkin out... 200 bux doesnt buy much in the roddin world im sure you still did ok, but not quite as many will be jealous

[burndup]

yeah, you actually BOUGHT the fugger, thats punishment enough, I guess... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

dont EVER count your chickens before they hatch!

The old man you bought it off of is laughing all the way to the bank... er, liquor store, by the sound of it...

[roadstar]

I will give you alot of credit for coming back on here and admitting such a blunder.

[Antibilly]

GermO drives a air car...built in Florida by a friend of a deacon. gets great gas mileage http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[haring]

I don't care if it's a '32 or not.
I WANNA SEE SOME PICTURES!

I don't care how junky it looks or how lousy you think it is. If I found a '30s body for $200, I would have bought it, too.

[Paul]

[ QUOTE ]
I don't care if it's a '32 or not.
I WANNA SEE SOME PICTURES!

I don't care how junky it looks or how lousy you think it is. If I found a '30s body for $200, I would have bought it, too.


[/ QUOTE ]

ditto

Paul

[zibo]

that's some funny shit.
you shoulda offered him $100.
and kept the hoods.

tp aka zibo

[johnnylonghair]

Just incase you didn't here this before YOU SUCK.

[Pancho]

Well, guys, I've been trying to figure out my wife's new computer and as you might guess..... I'M TOO DAMNED STOOPID TO SEND PICTURES! I've been working on the "lil douche coupe" aleady. Good name, huh! Especially since I took such a hosing on this deal. It's just a hacked up modelA but I'm seeing possibilities. One thing about it, no matter what I do to it the car will be better than it sits now. This will be a good place for me to practice my metalworking skills and try my hand at some fabrication.This thing is very incomplete. Is there a way to ID this body without front fenders or a top. I understand that 28-29's are different from 30-31's? I've seen a few of these coupesters on this board but not in one place all together. I'm really going to need help with making this hack job look presentable. Any info or things you learned the hard way doing your coupester would be welcome. I'm enjoying the HAMB big time. It keeps me humble and reminds me not to take things too seriously.

[general gow]

28-29s have a narrower cowl with a rather pronounced inward swoop beginning where the windshield posts would be to the front of the cowl. 30-31s don't taper nearly as much from the a pillar to the firewall. I'll see if I can find some pics...

Mark