Found On Road Dead

[nkaminar]

On a recent drive to a meeting of my club, while taking secondary roads, I found this car on the side of the road. I think it is a 1932 Model B. I did not lift the hood to peek, as I was respecting the private property. But it looks like a 4 cylinder head gasket in the weeds. It needs lots of work, more than I am willing to take on. It is on highway 67 east of Boonville, North Carolina.

 

[JayJay]

Good find, NK. Brings back memories. I remember back in the '60s we used to drive the back roads of the Sierra Nevada foothills towing a trailer looking and finding things like this. Often as not the owners of the property were happy to get rid of them for free. One scavenging trip I went on we picked up a roadster and enough spare parts to fill the trailer.

 

[Joe K]

Model 18 (V8) with the headlight bar insignia snapped off?

Wikipedia:

The term 1932 Ford may refer to three models of automobile produced by Ford Motors between 1932 and 1934: the Model B, the Model 18, and the Model 40. These succeeded the Model A. The Model B had an updated four-cylinder engine and was available from 1932 to 1934. The Model 18 was the first Ford fitted with the flathead V-8, and it was available in the Model 40 too in 1933 and 1934. The company also replaced the Model AA truck with the Model BB, available with either the four- or eight-cylinder engine.
The three car models were replaced by the streamlined Model 48 in 1935.

I am reminded of a Model B pickup which was "standing by" in North Grafton, MA. It sat there through my High School years (1969-1973) After I bought the Avatar (1978) I attempted to approach the owner about buying it.

Older man. No wife apparent. I'm 22 years old. "You don't know anything about antique cars - I know what I have here. Gonna fix it up when I get round to it (someday.)"

In the early 1980s I moved away from North Grafton in pursuit of a career and lost track of the truck. I assume the house was "cleaned out" on the gent's passing.

Round to it came and went. It's probably recycled into a Toyota.

Edit: I just checked Google Maps and the house is still there. Nicely spiffed up with a lawn and full middle class amenities. No car apparent.

Joe K

 

[gdmn852]

Hello, had a couple of incidents with the gonna fix it up some day car finds back in late 60 and early 70,s cars would sit rusting away for years! Until property would get cleaned out. Someday never came .

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

As I always say, those are the same guys who haven't cut their lawns in six months or repaired their leaking roofs, But, by gawd! They're gonna' restore that car someday. Kiss the car good-bye, hello car cruncher.
Marshall

 

[P.S.]

Hopefully, it went to someone like us

 

[ModelA29]

Rare car only 4,116 standard Fordors made with a 4 cylinder. They only did 2,620 Deluxe ones. There were over 28,000 V8 Fordors.
Interesting there were more 4 cyl deliveries than V8. Only 41 of the A400 4 cyl. I'd like to find one of those under a tree.
Being a 32 will add GREATLY to its value.

 

[gdmn852]

Hello again, 1932 Ford is probably the most in demand Ford ever made, with the 1933 34 close behind. Steel repro bodies are being manufactured,! One of the car finds I mentioned earlier was a 32 V8 Tudor, sat next to a house for years, didn’t look bad when I first saw it but through the years, top fell in , windows got broken, grass grew up around it, then one day disappeared. Property was actioned off , sub division now sit where farm was .

 

[ModelA29]

.... One of the car finds I mentioned earlier was a 32 V8 Tudor, sat next to a house for years, didn’t look bad when I first saw it but through the years, top fell in , windows got broken, grass grew up around it, then one day disappeared. Property was actioned off , sub division now sit where farm was .

It probably still lives today........