Speaking of Barn finds

[Keoke]

Check this one out:

Texas Barn Find Collection

 

[NutmegCT]

Wow - wonder how the auction went? (Secret hope: that they all remain together, and only get dusted off.)

Here's a Hagerty video, where the owners are interviewed just before the auction. Quite a story.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/Articles/2015/06/17/Texas-Barn-Find

 

[Banjo]

If you watch closely in the video I think you can see that the Caddy Victoria convertible went for $200,000

 

[Darwin]

this story has the sale prices

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/how-40-years-of-love-built-a-texas-barn-found-car-121943929392.html

 

[Keoke]

YEP!!

 

[TRMark]

My "barn find".

 

[drooartz]

Was that found in your own barn?

 

[NutmegCT]

wow - please save that car!

 

[TRMark]

My Dad bought the car for $10. from a neighboring farmer in northern Wisconsin many years ago. He put it in grandfathers machine shed, my brother has the farm now, so it kind of got of got buried in stuff. I have the car in Montana along with the 41B John Deere on the other side of it. I restored the B, haven't started on the car yet. It is a 1939 Ford Standard with a V60 flathead.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I have a good friend who owned a 41 two door sedan for many many years. It wasn't nearly as pretty as the 39.

 

[pdplot]

What Ford did in the late 1930's was to change the grille slightly and sell it as a standard the next year while making a deluxe as well with a new grille. This was done, I believe, between 1938 and 1940. A schoolmate of mine, one Fireball Harris, had a '38 deluxe sedan with dual pipes. I still remember him peeling out of the parking lot in a cloud of rubber dust. That was 66 years ago. Another schoolmate, Sam Halsey, had a 1934 Ford with a Brewster body. Check it out online to see something unusual. Me? I had a '34 Ford convertible, bought for $150 and sold a year later for $125.00. Then a 1940 Ford sedan for $500.00 A much better and safer car. All Ford's had mechanical brakes until 1940 because Henry was too cheap to pay royalties. Like stepping into a pile of bedsprings, accompanied by groaning noises. It helped if you threw out an anchor.

 

[TRMark]

Ford started juicing in 1939. The easiest way to tell a 39 deluxe from a 40 standard is the windshield wipers, the 39 are driven from the top the 40 from the bottom. The 40 had vent windows the 39 did not, rodders prefer the cleaner look of the 39 and will convert the 40's.

 

[Keoke]

OH Man!!:

I loved the little 40 Deluxe coupe I could get one out of the junk yard for about $75. It had those neat little jump seats for the kids and it felt like it could fly. My young son would stand up behind me and say "GO Fast Daddy Go Fast.

 

[Keoke]

Now add this one:

Found under a cover in a barn this 1925 Bugatti Brescia sold fora record $951,216 at auction