Hot Rods Orange Crate

I saw that the Orange Crate is for sale 250k. I think I’ll look for some loose cash.

 

Here is a link to the actual for sale ad

https://opposingcylinders.com/13339...ewL-TkV5OK-V9_8pJAogFjdibxohbZw20KiXgwZjv_sXY

 

Cool and well known but this would fall into the "Beer and Pizza" column for me. For $250,000 there are a lot of others cars I could all buy and still have plenty left over for all the beer and pizza I wanted.

 

Worth every penny of the asking price. Cheap at twice the price. Clone or restore it for the asking price. One of the few 32s that is actually worth owning.

 

If 250 of us each throw in a grand..... Just sayin....

 

Owned by a HAMBER I’m pretty sure

 

@couverkid

 

One of the few "famous" cars I've seen for sale that I would consider well worth the asking price.

 

I think it's worth the money from a historic standpoint. It would surely take all my loose change!

 

That's easier on the pocketbook but man drawing straws to race it's gonna be complicated...

 

Makes me wonder what it would fetch at auction...

 

I hope who ever purchases it, drives it as has been done lately.

 

Oldest first! Youngest last! Actuarial tables show that this is the best procedure.

Hey I'm a retired scientist, what do you expect?

And should we start a gofundme thing?

 

Yes to truly play you have to have met with some major denarius along the way...but I love the pics and history...

These things have become a form of Collectable Art that has provenance and there's nothing wrong with it...an alternative to gold bars in a sense...

 

Well darn! I just spent my Christmas money!! Well maybe next year....

 

So, you would have it for a week once every five years, and the prick before you would leave it dirty and with no fuel.
I'm out...............

 

"With original tires". Well, that does it for me. Now, if it was a used car with new tires, I might think about it.

 

it's only money, that involves History and passion - if ya got it, buy it - if not, don't concern yourself about the price - be Thankful that it still exists

 

Fell in love with that car as a kid when I built the scale model.

 

I think that on a grand scale, best bet would be to have in your garage "The Orange Crate" parked along side of Dave Stuckey's, "Little Coffin". In order for most of this to happen, the garage would be a wooden building, built upon 8 cinder blocks with a dirt floor located behind your 1960 mobile home measuring 8 feet wide and a whooping 32 feet long. One must set your priorities!

 

Someone should buy it just save our heritage.

 

Iconic..price doesn't seem unrealistic.

 

I'm out.

 

I'd be out too. Not only do I not have that kind of money to spend on a collectible, for me the enjoyment factor would not be there.
While I do like to look at 'em, and appreciate the history, just not really in to collectible toys. I like to use my toys and abuse 'em. Break 'em, fix 'em, break 'em again. Repeat.
This would be better off in someone else's care.

 

If it were mine I'd swap a 1600 dual port and transaxle into the back end, plate it and drive it ... leaving the existing engine and trans in place for the aesthetic value/wow factor.

 

That is such a cool car, I was there at the "CHRR " at FAMOSO in 2016, when Orange Crate made an appearance over at Squeak Bell's place and he had his 32 next to it.

 

I’m out. There’s no room to take the grandkids for a ride.

 

When were the flames added to the body? I don't remember the car having flames.

 

I don’t know when they were added and I never felt they were an improvement either.