1941 Ford Wrecker

[alsancle]

I'm posting this for my internet challenged friend. See my personal comments below on the truck.

1941 Ford Truck (1-ton) asking $20,000. It was originally a

Brush Fire Truck, bought by the late Leo Maroney, owner of Package Steel http://www.pkgmail.com/ in Sutton MA. In 1993 Leo had it very professionally

converted to a working Tow Truck. Has old-style crank winch and newer style PTO unit. Both work great. 2 separate booms can be moved independently of each other. Overall, the truck is in super nice condition; new dry-cell battery, windshield and window rubbers and felts, rebuilt wiper motors, new wiper arms and blades, new plugs & wires. It was purchased from Leo's estate in Nov. 01 by the current owner, Byard Libby. Odometer says 7,900 miles and we are 90% sure this is correct. Engine is a 8 cyl which starts up easily.

Now, some comments from me: Byard is a fairly well known restorer in the Classic Car circles (at least in New England). His specialty is Duesenbergs and he has worked on at least 20 of them.

Right now he is in the process of a complete restoration of a 31 Model J Murphy. A previous full restoration earned best Duesenberg at the yearly ACD festival. I'm mentioning this because he is a fastidious [censored], and he doesn't mess with junk. I was with him back in 2001 when they were having the estate sale for Leo and he bought the truck. I also took a bunch of the pictures. In general it is a good idea to personally inspect anything you buy first, but I will say in this case the pictures do not lie. It is a really nice truck, there is zero rust. I don't think it was ever out in the snow.

There are some minor scratches in the paint (it as not been rubbed to my knowledge). I don't believe there are any dings or dents.

I will mention that it probably needs tires (although you can ask about that). Also, I know that it does about 45 mph with the pedal through the floor so without adding OD or changing

the rear end you won't be doing any highway driving.

I have more pictures at http://home.townisp.com/~alsancle/FordTowTruck.html

If you have any additional questions you can email or call Jane Phillips who works for Byard. Her cell is 508-769-1121 email libsclassiccar-at-townisp.com. Note you need to replace the -at- with @ to make the email work.

[Mike Cullen]

Sweet looking truck! It would be the berries for someone with a wrecker business to use as advertisement and for a few local not too heavy jobs while the modern trucks were out ringing the register. Show and go and tow!