John Bloom Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Not mine, but if you want to get into the old car hobby and your budget is 5-6 grand, there is a lot to love here........ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/741268817722014/ Ran great 3 years ago when put in garage. Hasn’t run since. Doesn’t start right now. 3 speed on column. Solid body with some bubbles in paint. Great interior. Chrome in good shape. Exact mileage is unknown. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Should sell within 72 hours of ad placement. Nice start into the hobby, room for 3 or 4 kiddies in back, just make them finish the ice cream outside, that interior looks ok for a famy cruiser. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bloom Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 7 minutes ago, Steve_Mack_CT said: Should sell within 72 hours of ad placement. Nice start into the hobby, room for 3 or 4 kiddies in back, just make them finish the ice cream outside, that interior looks ok for a famy cruiser. Those were my thoughts too Steve. There are some things that could make it even nicer and if a guys buys it for 5,500....he could tackle some jobs as funds became available. These cars have a reputation for cruising easily at highway speed. I'd love to see a young person with a family jump into the prewar era with this car. It could provide lots of fun very economically. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Agree John. Oh, the first no cost change would provide better outward visibility and presentation. Please lose those 24#$% fuzzy dice!! 😡😉😁 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 SOLD! not surprisingly... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bloom Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 Wow, that was quick. I think when I saw it this morning it had been listed for 10 hours. prewar, split window, Buick quality and club support, reasonable paint and interior..... for 6 grand. I wish I had bought that car in my early 20’s and gotten some exposure to this era. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrudy Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Well bought. I would lose the dice and drive it as is. This would be a fun car to cruise in. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 A great pre-war car for anyone at a great price. Has some things that can be worked over time to make it more correct, or just drive and maintain it as-is. These cars ride and drive like more modern cars (i.e., '50s or '60s) and the big 320 straight-eight will cruse at 60 mph day long. Hopefully whoever bought it will show-up here sometime soon... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, EmTee said: These cars ride and drive like more modern cars (i.e., '50s or '60s) and the big 320 straight-eight will cruse at 60 mph day long. In total agreement with that statement. I have a 1940 Roadmaster model 71c ( same 320 cu in engine) and the car has never had the engine opened up since it was new, has less then 55,000 miles on it and Doug Seybold did a major "tickle" to make sure all of the mechanicals were in good order. Very powerful cars, and like an occasional hi sped run to get all the cobwebs out of the system. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumBob Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 What is it with these damn fuzzy dice? Half the cars posted here have these wretched things hanging from the mirror. If I bought an old car and it had fuzzy dice, I'd hand them back to the seller before I drove away. Either that, or I'd throw them out the window as soon as I turned the corner. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 I have always felt the same way about those stupid things! As far as I could tell, they were a very short-lived fad sometime in the 1950s. I actually remember seeing a few when I was about five! Then in the 1970s, hobbyists into modern "collector" cars went nuts for them! I have never really been into postwar cars myself, so never was even tempted to want a set. However, I tend to lump them into a similar category as I do after-market wire wheels and fancy step plates on model T Fords. More hobbyists running them that way today than probably people did when the model T was just a practical car! Yes they do show up in era photos occasionally, less than one T out of a couple hundred! Probably a hundred times as many fuzzy dice sold to collector car hobbyists in the recent forty years than were ever sold in the 1950s! I don't think I could keep a set if someone gave them to me! And please. Don't a whole bunch of people give me some and try to shame me into keeping them? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif in Calif Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 5:38 AM, Steve_Mack_CT said: Should sell within 72 hours of ad placement. Nice start into the hobby, room for 3 or 4 kiddies in back, just make them finish the ice cream outside, that interior looks ok for a famy cruiser. When I was in High School my father really got after me because he discovered a spot of ice cream about the size of a pin head on the door card of his car after I borrowed it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Better fuzzy dice (😝) than Dingo Balls (🤮) I can actually remember seeing those things in cars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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