[elky] Re: '29 Chevy (was: Ford) truck
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:17:43 -0500
Yep, that truck is just like the one that is being rodded where Cort's cars
are being stored. I would love to do a wagon too, but wagons are not as
cheap as they used to be.
I have been watching the auctions on TV, and there are some really cool
muscle cars going for less than $20K. Desirable ones! 68 matching numbers
Camaro SS for 18K, for instance. That's sick cheap, when you consider the
price of a new one, and which one would I rather be seen in?
These days? I would say buy the one that someone spent $26K restoring it,
for $12K and personalize it. Or get the one that everything has been done
but the paint.
JC
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah...I think we might have to get out the wet noodle for 40 lashes.
> :) Here's my take on it: It's a 1-ton which makes it undesirable as a
> street rod...mostly. There are more and more "farm trucks" or commercial
> vehicles being rodded, cuz the half-tons are pretty rare, especially 30s
> Chevys cuz they used so much wood in their construction that a huge
> percentage of 'em rotted away and they were scrapped. Having said that, I
> think it'd make a WAY kool hot rod hauler, the other option (which I see
> frequently enough at car shows) is to do a full restoration on it...which
> would be much harder than makin a hot rod.
>
> But picture this: A big block motor, truck gearbox and rear end, duallies
> in the rear and a tilting bed to drive the hauled vehicle on and then add
> A/C and all the comfort goodies...and haul your car to the salt flats. :)
>
>
>
> The photo above is a 39 COE (Cab Over Engine) but it's been given the
> treatment I had in mind for the 29.
>
> Now...there is a HELL of a lotta work to be done on it. Complete frame
> off, replace frond & rear suspension, steering, drive train...and then you
> could start on the rollback bed. It would be a LONG-term project and you'd
> have to replace just about everything on it. You'd pretty much have the
> frame (which might need rebuilding...grinding out rivets, replacing any
> badly-rusted pieces, squaring it up and welding it back together) and the
> body (second verse, same as the first) with everything else
> bought/adapted/fabricated.
>
> There's the middle of the road approach, tho. That would be to make it
> roadworthy, then maybe use a 292 sicks and a B/W SM420 transmission (the
> granny 4-speed from 60s /70s pickups) and make it a "fun truck," more or
> less a "traditional rat" if you can say something like that. Not the
> current Goth or "suicide rat" that seems to have taken rat rods over the
> top, but a "traditional hot rod," using whatcha got to make it run and
> enjoy. You could make a flat bed outta 2x12s and add the tilt feature later
> if ya wanted. But that's still a lotta work.
>
> Is it worth it? My take on that is that it's worth whatever someone is
> willing to pay for it. If you're considering buyin, doing a cosmetic
> "fixer-upper" on it and then selling to turn a profit, I don't think you'd
> make money on it. This is a terrible time to be selling anything. Bleeve
> me, I've been trying to sell a whole lotta stuff and I'm coming up empty on
> everything. Nobody's buying. It's a buyer's market, not a seller's.
>
> There are a coupla trucks of that vintage on eBay and for a fully-restored
> flatbed, the asking price seems to be somewhere between $10 and 16k. I'd
> bet a rather large sum that there's more money invested in the resto process
> than that if they're recently done.
>
> So there ya have it...for what it's worth.
>
> r
>
> On 9/25/2011 7:46 PM, Saul Marsh wrote:
>
> Oops it's a Chevy truck. I might have just forfeited my elkylist
> membership :)
>
>
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> *From:* Saul Marsh <saulmarsh72@xxxxxxxxx> <saulmarsh72@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* "elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx><elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:45 PM
> *Subject:* [elky] '29 Ford truck
>
> Ray, is this a good deal? just suprised to see something like this in
> Wichita. Not shopping for another project.
>
> http://wichita.craigslist.org/cto/2616508184.html
>
> Saul
> '76 GMC Sprint
>
>
>
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