I don't post much but I thought someone may be interesed in it. It's not mine but it is in my neck of the woods. Frankfort, Ohio
1949 FORD F-5 4X4 TRUCK - $3000 (FRANKFORT)



FOR SALE: 1949 FORD F-5 MARMON- HERRINGTON 4X4. THIS TRUCK IS ALL ORIGINAL. FLAT HEAD V-8, 4 SPEED TRANSMISSION 2 SPEED TRANSFER CASE. THIS TRUCK IS COMPLETE. I AM NOT SELLING THE WRECKER BED SITTING ON THE BACK. THIS TRUCK WAS ORIGINALLY A SOUTH CENTRAL POWER COMPANY TRUCK. ENGINE WILL TURN OVER ONE QUARTER TURN. THIS COULD BE A STUCK VALVE. THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE TRUCK IF YOU RESTORE IT. IT IS A VERY RARE FIND HERE IN OHIO. SAVE THIS ONE FROM THE CRUSHER. I AM ASKING $3,000.00 OR BEST OFFER NO E-MAILS PHONE CALLS ONLY. CALL (740) 99 EIGHT-589 TWO. IF NO ANSWER, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE. I WILL RETURN YOUR CALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.

 

If rarity bore a relationship to value, it might be worth what he's asking. Unfortunately, reality gets in the way. Stu

 

I think M-H are kind of hard beasts to put a value on. This one looks to be in pretty rough shape. We all know that it take a lot of work, and money to make an old truck nice again. Add the fact tha M-Hs have some very special hard to find parts. You rarely can get what you have in a project, a M-H with their special parts can more than double the cost of restoring one. They might be rare but that doesn't make them worth a whole lot.

 

What Bob said. I'll have so much more in mine than I could expect to recover it's scary. Values are on the rise for fully restored trucks, but mostly for the smaller models. There's a '38 or '39 tonner for sale now, seems nicely restored, with asking price $70,000 plus. A '38 M-H woodie sold recently for about $225.000. Chuck has said there were a lot more of the bigger models converted simply because of the type work they were built to perform. That F-5 honestly looks like a $1000 vehicle. The last F-3 I bought was $1000 (Wisconsin), and the F-3 before that was $750 (Oregon). There's an F-3 in Virginia that's gone unsold with the guy asking $1800. I talked to him several times and he's willing to let it sit before coming down on his price. And like Bob mentioned, having spare parts is part of the game. I'll have parts of three trucks, that's just Marmon-Herrington parts (Arizona, North Dakota, Virginia), in the project when it's done. Then there's the normal Ford donor truck pieces that everybody has to have. Stu

 

If I was saving it from the crusher it should be about $500.
A couple years ago I watched a running 38 or 39 get relisted on ebay several times with a $1500 starting price and it never did sell.

 

Yeah, the medium duties sometimes don't find new homes. Seems to be even more so with the old SnoGos. You'd think they would have been well maintained and low miles. Chuck may speak up on this, but I recall him saying the SnoGos have a lot of unique features, like under drive gearing, that makes them less adaptable or more work to convert for use on today's roads. Stu

 

Yeah, I'd bet those old M-H trucks have gears in the high 5 or low 6:1 range which means 40-45 would be screaming to drive it anywhere.

 

I would love to have it but I also think the price is high. I am looking for a new project but probably would not go more than a thousand for it.

 

The media coverage these days of the high end auctions like Barrett Jackson, Mecum and RM tend to make everyone think they're an expert in the valuation of vehicles. I think has this has driven prices way up and tends to make the sellers alot less flexible and reasonable. There was a guy several years ago that was trying to sell a 40's SnoGo in Old Cars Weekly. It was in there a long time and I don't know if it ever sold.