auburnseeker

Very nice car. From anyone in the loop of these, Is that an optimistic or realistic price? Seems like Duesenberg money especially on a closed car.

But I thought no one wanted all these old junky prehistoric cars we like. They should be getting cheaper according to the general thought of the masses. No AC no PS and no display to tell us what to do next or heaven forbid when the thing needs servicing.

I hope the buyer when I go to sell my Hudson Pickup doesn't walk away when I open the hood and he sees the 49 full oil pressure 262 Hudson engine with the Wasp twin H set up on it, since it's not matching numbers. So far I think anyone that asks I have to tell them that's not the engine it's suppose to have. I still think this is a great car. Someone is going to get a nice car.

It seems like it would be easier t sell them separate. Even with extras that's a lot of money to plunk down for a pair of projects. Seems hard enough to sell one project car, less a pair of them that need full restoration. It would be neat to see them done. Just a long road with a high buy in and a lot of checks to still be written.

A 10 year old car in the Northeast is usually close to needing a heavy mechanical (because of corrosion) restoration just to be safe and reliable. A 20 year old vehicle is a collectors item.

Photos will definitely help as in today's short attention span world you will quickly get buried under ads with photos. Besides we really like to see photos here if only to drool for a few minutes, until we are onto the next new shiny thing.

There is some Canook in the blood chain somewhere though we finally lost our accent.

You always think of the GM cars when you think chrome. Looks like Studebaker was trying t out do them. I never realized how much chrome they put on their cars in the mid 50's. Looks like the previous owner spent the bank bringing this one up to snuff. You definitely could not restore a good example for the asking price. Plus it's a V8 Commander and not the Champion 6. Someone is going to have a lot of fun with this one. Great 50's color as well.

As they say they aren't making them anymore, but then again, they pretty much are piece by piece. There always seem to be a lot of Model A Mechanical parts laying around. Even some freshly restored pieces at reasonable prices offered up by rodder just looking for the tub of a partially or previously restored cars. I can't help but think of the ad on a local craigslist a guy had for a Model A engine that just needed assembly. It had been disassembled and painted. Good thing you could see it while disassembled because the scores in one of the cylinders were so bad you could see them in the thumbnail picture. I believe he was asking 1500 for it. That still sticks clearly in my mind.

You will want to be sure to only run good fresh gas in it. I had a boat I was rebuilding for the owner and the tank needed to come out. The gas smelled decent so. Put it in the bird like I had other older cars to burn it up with a little fresh. Huge mistake. I bent I think 3 push rods before it was all over and I had only good gas in it again. The gas looked fine as well. I got good at replacing push rods though before I was done. Gave me a good reason to pull and polish the valve covers as well.

Actually once you pull the body tub, the original poster said everything else is pretty much shot so the value is almost exclusively in the tub. Trashed Model A fenders, headlights and a boat anchor drivetrain no matter how complete, unfortunately have very little value as there is still quite a pile of parts that have been saved over the years and stashed away in far better condition.

Especially in the Northeast. Seems to be a wetter kind of rain.

Great looking car. I had a 57 About 6 years ago. I had owned it for 10. I bought it from a guy that said it needed a full restoration and was running on 7 cylinders. It had a ton of orange peel in the paint along with runs and sags and the bumpers were kind of crappy along with ancient tires and rusty wheels. I polished and cleaned it to death. Put new tires and aftermarket wheels to replace the rusted aftermarket wires, then gave it a full tune up and fixed the horribly adjusted throttle linkage. I eventually replaced there carb as well and bumpers. Wet sanded and buffed the paint. It was pretty darn respectable when done, I only had about another 3G in and drove it all over. Drove it to Lowes, a few 3 hours trips up into the mountains. It was a great car. Very reliable. I was just ready for something different. I would still like to get a 55 stick with OD. Almost looks too good to restore. Have you driven it yet? My only complaint is you get whipped around pretty good with the top off, especially at 70 MPH on the Interstate. Some people say they are a bit cramped for bigger guys but seem to have more room inside than my 60 Corvette that I eventually replaced it with.

Looks like the mice found their way into the headliner as well. Yuk.

It's a shame someone took what looks like a nice car and then left it outside for a few years after rehabbing it. How come all the barn finds only find the barn, once they spent a bunch of years outside first and we are not talking about their life as a normal car but later when they became an old car?

How does it work in heavy rain or fog or worse yet snow? The one sensor will be telling it something is in the way and the other will say it's clear. How fast does someone move pushing a bike? I Know I can't push one very fast. I can walk a lot faster without it. A person pushing a bike should be easier to see than someone just walking as well. Deer also seem to be able to move faster than a person and jump higher in many circumstances. How many deer accidents or other animal accidents have been reported involving self driving cars? To date I have hit one deer. (he ran into the side of my truck from between two snowbanks, It was a very small deer, so he actually hit me, one cat, actually went under the truck and got hit by the Rear wheels and one bird I know of as I pulled him out of the grille of my 1957 Thunderbird. (kind of ironic on the last one). My Dad Driving tractor trailers hauling logs in the North country then moving heavy equipment has had a few deer accidents, but no other accidents with well over a million miles on the clock. That's on roads that were so bad no one would drive on them and everything was closed. I've watched him back a tractor trailer fully loaded with logs over a mile out a woods road because the tourist in the Subaru. didn't know how to back up and the road was only 1 vehicle wide being it was winter time and the banks close in by the end of winter. Maybe if it was truckers like him programming the cars they would be better.

In deer and worse moose country, You spend almost as much time watching the side of the road coming up as you do what's directly in front of you. Same applies with old cars to many of us. We are watching everything one can possibly see in near 180 degree view to ascertain if that car coming up to the crossing where you have the right away is really going t stop or blow through it because he can beat that old car.

Nice looking car if I only had more money.

Actually he posted this for his brother and knows nothing about the car, so we probably won't see him back either way. So almost like a craigslist repost. Usually the guys who stick around don't start their very first post with a for sale ad.

The way it presented it looked like a craigslist repost. Sorry if I offended anybody. I'll leave now.

The reality that a restorer will want to jump on a 3000. Model a Tudor sedan with a locked engine wheels and Axles, missing a bunch of parts with every piece there needing some pretty good metal work and a frame that's cracked for a buy in price of 3000. is exactly what is killing the hobby, not the guys pointing out that buy in prices are being jacked up by wanna be flippers. (everyone thinks now that there slightly better Model A is now worth a whole lot more, the Barret Jackson Syndrome) This same car can be had running and driving, even somewhat presentable for 8000 or so with pretty nice examples, just north of 10G or so.

I was originally thinking the same thing, but the color looks off compared to other panels and there doesn't seem to be more wear on the driver's side where they always wear more. One could hope.

Jeeze, I hope my string of bad luck didn't head your way. Last fall when the crunch was on to get my garage enclosed before snow fall (which happened after the first 2, 12 inch snow falls the battery went in my diesel truck, which meant two new ones, my computer went south and they don't give new Macs away, then I had to put a lot of materials to finish on my CC as I ran out of money to get the job done while the help was available. As it was I had to make enough money the week they finished, so I could pay for the labor the following week. That was a lean month boy and I still had to buy the wife a little something for under the tree. Hope you don't have any other unforeseen problems come up. I'm going to start a new thread for my shop so I can quit Hijacking yours. We just had our taxes done, so I have a good handle on what I spent for my whole project, which not being completed, didn't get to start writing it off this year. Fortunately I didn't really need it as I'm good at spending almost as much as I make back on my business every year.

Plenty of room for the top hats in there.

Shame they used the wrong material, as it looks like whoever did the work, was pretty competent. Better than a blanket over springs.