Auction today

[Great Lakes Greg]

A '27 Fordor at auction today. Went in the hay barn in 1970. Engine free, interior a complete loss. Good sheet metal, wire wheels a bit crusty, but should clean up. Sale price of $2700. I suspect this was high, but was pushed up by the eventual winner, the son of a previous owner back in the 1960's.
A fairly interesting auction, and I did manage to score a few Model A bits.

 

[FL&WVMIKE]

Looks pretty decent to me. You don't see these too often. Are they considered to be rare, today ?
MIKE

 

[Great Lakes Greg]

Nobody in the crowd was real shocked at the price, though many knew a former owner was after it hell or high water. Touring bodies are like bellybuttons (everybody has one), but the fordors are kind of ugly ducklings, so maybe there are not as many around?
I'll leave the speculation to the experts, of whom I am not.

 

[bart78]

I have not seen many. But they are ugly.

 

[oldmotorsguy]

Fordors: so ugly, but a lot of them out there. Butt ugly, if you ask me.

 

[Doug Money]

I don't know. I get a lot of compliments on mine.

 

[Steve Jelf]

Not bad when you clean them up.

 

[redmodelt]

I guess some people like them'
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/333919.html?1368319414

 

[FL&WVMIKE]

How can anyone call them "ugly" ? I think they are quaint looking, or cute.
MIKE

 

[The Hot Rod Grille]

Not sure about your neighborhood, but here in WV $2700 doesn't buy much in the antique Ford market!

Jim

 

[luckyal]

Likely the very ugliest Model T or A ever made !
Al

 

[bart78]

I will agree al. Hot rod grille I would think 2,700 could buy a pretty nice t project any where.

 

[dumb person]

I would think 2,700 could buy a pretty nice t project any where.

Not here... that wouldn't even buy a rolling chassis.

 

[Brother Hesekiel]

Aside from the questionable beauty -- which is always in the eye of the beholder -- and generally lower desirability, restoring a Fordor's wood skeleton can be a real challenge. It's good that some people like them though, 'cause that the only way our grandchildren will be able to see them one day. If they were all cut up to become Speedsters, Fordors would be extinct long before dino fuels run out.

 

[Old Redneck]

It looks like it all there. That the main thing. I like it. Always wanted one but that down the road.

 

[Steve Wastler]

Nooo, not ugly.. quite the contrary. All vehicles are a work of art, just some more appealing to the eye than others. It really makes you think about the progression of automotive body design. With the early closed cars it started with simplicity, and you cant get much more simple than straight lines.