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Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:34 pm Post subject: If I had the money...

What about this for a cracking car:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1932-Ford-Model-14-Deluxe-Very-Rare-Unspoiled-example-of-the-iconic-32-Ford/293297012695?hash=item4449dd3fd7:g:zMkAAOSwznZdsvtU
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1954 Location: East Yorkshire

Oh dear!

What a lovely motorcar?
The interior is in exactly the condition I like.
That's one heck of a distributor cap, now...isn't it?
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22451 Location: UK

Agreed, very swish

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Rootes75 · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 12:14 am Post subject:

I think its a superb car, lovely condition and British built.
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roverdriver · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 6:38 am Post subject:

While the B had a more refined version of the A engine with counterbalanced crank shaft etc., it is a vehicle that in my Model A days, I would have dearly liked.
This example looks superb. Does it have the small bore engine similar to the ones in U.K. Model A's?
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mikeC · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:53 am Post subject:

It looks a nice car, but I really don't understand Ford prices. For that money you could get a superb Rover of the period, and there have even been nice Sunbeams and Talbots of the period at that sort of price recently; all vastly superior cars in both quality and performance ...
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Rootes75 · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 12:13 pm Post subject:

You could say that for Ford prices through the decades, even look at the Escort and Cortina models, GT's - R/S - Lotus, prices are sky high.
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1954 Location: East Yorkshire

There are some similar concerns amongst the sidevalve Ford world...as prices start to climb for decent condition small Fords....so do the basic project prices expected,start to rise.
I doubt we'll return to the days of picking up a project of anything for a couple of hundred quid, or less?
As for quality?
Well, quality takes on many different forms...?
Quality is something Ford themselves could never be accused of failing to deliver....which is one reason why they sold so well?

I don't associate cost savings in manufacture [a Ford prerequisite?] with a lack of quality, or a lack of decent engineering...
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Dellow Mk2, 1951 built, reg 1952.
Fiat 126 BIS
Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ford Pop chassis, Ashley 1172 bodyshell, in pieces.

roverdriver · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 7:18 am Post subject:

Here in Oz, as I am sure applies elsewhere, some makes are popular and therefore command a high price, others are not.

If a Ford of almost any age, or a Holden (Aussie G.M) is for sale, there seems to be a queue of people bidding, but for a well engineered car, such as the Rover, there is little interest.

This low interest is, of course, good for a buyer and not so good for a seller, and the investor steers well clear.
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mikeC · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:22 am Post subject:

Exactly, Dane, and the very reason my back catalogue of cars includes so many obscure models!
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in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on!

Rootes75 · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:18 pm Post subject:

Thats one of the reasons I went for Hillmans, prewar cars attract very little/reasonable money.
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Longstroke · Joined: 01 Oct 2019 Posts: 24 Location: Wiltshire

Fords have always delivered value for money (when new), and folk can remember their Dad, Grandad, or somebody else's driving one. Because they're so commonplace they often get trashed early, bought by those wanting a hack, the types who want to hot rod/thrash them. Then folk go dewy eyed with nostalgia and buy them to restore which sends the prices rocketing. When I was a kid in the Sixties, my Dad was always very dismissive of Fords eg there was a sales rep in our road who had early Cortinas and there'd always be a problem starting them on wet cold mornings, whereas my Dad's fifteen year old Riley (which I've now got) would start instantly. However, in about 1980 he bought a Cortina 2 litre Mk4 and from then on swore it was the best car he had ever owned before or since.
I must admit I quite fancy a Model A (a kind of basic Grapes of Wrath thing), 32 - 34 three window coupe (closet hotrodder?), or a mid/late Sixties Mustang Fastback (pretend I'm a TV private detective).

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:29 am Post subject:

I too would like a Model A, I have a fondness for the Fords of this age as my Grandfather had them when he was a young man just before the war. He would quite often talk about the cars of his youth.
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1954 Location: East Yorkshire

If I had the money....a certain [preceding?] contributor on here, who is selling the Karrier Bantam [I've seen the advert!].....now, that is something I'd dearly like to own.
As a well-experienced [in old vehicles] chum said to me the other day....If one was to have but one 'classic' vehicle, that Karrier would be the ideal candidate!
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Dellow Mk2, 1951 built, reg 1952.
Fiat 126 BIS
Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ford Pop chassis, Ashley 1172 bodyshell, in pieces.

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:45 pm Post subject:

She is a lovely little truck, we wont though be seeing much of the proceeds of selling her. We have a business rates arrears bill for almost £3k that we have had to find due to our landlords making an almighty cock-up with our unit that we rent.

Their fault-but in the eyes of the law our problem and our bill!!

We have taken quite a few calls from Ireland about the lorry, huge interest over there.

ITs always a great shame to have to sell any vehicle.
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