It`s in Valentine, Nebraska, Saturday & Sunday, September 27 & 28, 2008 far away but some sweet items (Fords I`m talking about.....) on sale there:
Upcoming Auction Page of Fowlkes Realty & Auction

 

holy crap... what a pile of old iron!!!

 

Good find Morris, I would love to hit that one up, lots of neat stuff there.

 

Go for it Sheldon if you have the time, a good road trip for the PSD.

 

Heh I wish!

Ya know I really do like different kinds of old trucks, but the ford/merc sure has the nicest front end IMO. I was checking out those older cehvies, and they are nice trucks, but the front end just isnt as nice.

 

Some rare Studebakers, a '50's Station Wagon and a early '50's pickup. Nice old Ford P/U's and tow truck in that link Morris..

I went to an auction preview in North Dakota today. A nice '57 Ford with a hot 351, nicely dressed too. Some nice early Impala SS's, a 409 engine waiting to be re-born, tractors McCormick-Deering, Ford 801(?) + (with interesting select-matic ? transmission), an old Fordson (my favourite), old GTX's some in great shape, some needing a lot of work and a early '60's Suburban 3 door, with the rare 4WD, 4 speed. std. and inline Chevy six.

Also what looked to be a late '30's-40-41 Ford Coupe with those nice chevroned tail lights. At least I think it was a Ford, not all the parts were screwed on, so that's a guess. Potential exists.

A bunch of engines, out of the cars, mostly Chevy small blocks from the '60's and a few 396 big blocks, including the uncommon L-66...the 396 -2 bbl. @ 265 hp. My dad had one in a '69 Impala he used for towing. It had a THM 400 trnny and a 12 bolt axle....great tow vehicle, also front disc brakes and F-41 suspension. Sorry to get GM on a Ford site.

 

Better bring some home Les, they`re not making any more of `em!

 

My wife told me I could only go to the preview, not the auction and I could not take my credit card. In addition she indicated that I already have a '67 Matchless 750 Scrambler and a '78 Yamaha SR500 single.

But I sure liked that chopped, early '50's Ford F100.

BTW, I found out about the auction in an edition of Hemmings.

 

Don`t you just hate that, when at the same time your inner voice is saying '' Go for it, you live only once!''

 

flathead heaven........

dont see the chopped f100 tho...

 

I didnt notice the chopped one either..

 

Yep. The '62 Corvette in '78 for $ 5000, the BSA Spitfire 650 for $ 500 in '78. the '66 Sunbeam Tiger (Powered by a Ford 289 V8) for $ 1900 in '69 and the Austin-Healey 3000 for $ 1900 (again) in '69. I didn't listen to my inner voice for any of these, but I did for the two motorcycles I still have.

Les

 

That vette woulda been worth a ton now a days. Sounds like you have come across a ton of neat vehicles back in the day.

 

Lots of stuff there alright hollayy

 

Back in the old days, a muscle or sports car that was a couple of years old, was just another old car. Not too many collectors back then. Mostly they were regarded as old gas guzzlers. Things have changed, nowaday, for the better as far as appreciation for interesting vehicles.

If I was wealthy back then and knew what I know now, I could of bought scads of interesting cars, back then. But as it happens, I wasn't wealthy and knew little.


Also $1900 for a Tiger or an Austin Healey 3000 may seem like chicken feed, but in '69 if you were making 6-7 Grand, you weren't doing so bad.

I was still an older teenager back then in '69 and I recall some of the 'older' guys (they must of been in their '40's) at the company I worked for, were typically making about $ 4800-5000 @ year (gross) and had a couple of kids and a mortgage.

$ 1900 was a good chunk of a working man's yearly salary back then. In 1970 you could buy a brand new, base Ford Maverick for $ 1970 dollars. That was the promotion then, same cost as the numerals in the year.