I Finally Get a '32
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32 Model B
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Hello 2935ford, I am sorry I gave you the wrong info on the front axle, I learned something new also. But I wanted to congratulate you on your find. I chased my 32 pick-up for a while as well and looks alot like yours. We have alot of fun with ours and hope you have the same with yours. Bob.
Panel Pete
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Story huh? You gonna share that story or hold out on us? By the way - beautiful truck. You're one lucky fella!
garrisonm89@yahoo.com
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If that clutch brakes loose, and I'm certain it will, then drive it. If it starts to clunk then stop driving it. And come back here and tell us how it's acting. We'll diagnose it for you.
2935ford
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I bet we all have one of these.
The story.....here goes.
I heard about the truck in the summer last year. The fellow that owned it passed. His sister gave it to his best friend. He held on to it for several months thinking about what he would do with it. He decided a month ago to sell it.
I heard it was for sale at our club meeting. As he was a member....I went over and introduced myself and asked if it was in fact for sale? Yes. Could I come over and have a look? Yes.
I went over and liked what I saw. Asked what he wanted for it. We finally got a price (a knockout price to low to mention) and I said I'll take it. He then tells me he couldn't sell it to me as he had promised it to a friend of his who would act as the middleman for the sale. I was a little frustrated to say the least. I left.
A few days later, yup, that's right, the middleman calls me. He wants more money (of course). We haggled and finally settle on a still better than average price. Good, I thought, an agreement albeit verbal, but a done deal. Now I'm excited.
Two hours later.....he calls back to tell me it sold to someone else. Ok, now I'm pissed! How does this happen? Simple. Another club member told the middleman he wants this as one of the ones the middleman owed him for buying lots of cars from him in the past. I knew this fellow was going to just turn it over for profit as he doesn't build or work on cars.
A week passes and I find out from a friend of mine that's exactly what happened. It sells to, now follow along here, to another club member who builds cars. This fellow knew the original fellow who had passed and was the one that picked up the truck and delivered it years ago to the fellow that had passed.
Are you still with me?
So, knowing it will get street rodded, I called the lastest owner and asked about the truck and what his plans were.......yup, street rod......but not for awhile as he has other projects on the go. What are you going to do with the original parts, I inquired? Sell them he said. We agreed on a price.
Well, it just kept going over in my mind. I called him back a few days later and asked if I could come out and see the projects he was working on.. Sure, come on over.
During my tour and conversation the truck came up. Right away he asked if I wanted to buy it. Well, by now......it was more than I had but it gave me hope.
As I was about to leave, the thought hit me of a trade. I told him about my '28 Tudor and by golly, he was interested.
He called two days later wanting to look at it. He came over and basically said yup, I like it, let's trade. The very next day we went to DMV and did the paperwork and yesterday we went and picked it up and brought it to my place.
I also found out, he had offered to buy the truck from the first fellow way back when. He was told he could buy it under the condition he would not "hot rod" it. Well, he couldn't promise that so he didn't get it.
Phew! That's the story.
The story.....here goes.
I heard about the truck in the summer last year. The fellow that owned it passed. His sister gave it to his best friend. He held on to it for several months thinking about what he would do with it. He decided a month ago to sell it.
I heard it was for sale at our club meeting. As he was a member....I went over and introduced myself and asked if it was in fact for sale? Yes. Could I come over and have a look? Yes.
I went over and liked what I saw. Asked what he wanted for it. We finally got a price (a knockout price to low to mention) and I said I'll take it. He then tells me he couldn't sell it to me as he had promised it to a friend of his who would act as the middleman for the sale. I was a little frustrated to say the least. I left.
A few days later, yup, that's right, the middleman calls me. He wants more money (of course). We haggled and finally settle on a still better than average price. Good, I thought, an agreement albeit verbal, but a done deal. Now I'm excited.
Two hours later.....he calls back to tell me it sold to someone else. Ok, now I'm pissed! How does this happen? Simple. Another club member told the middleman he wants this as one of the ones the middleman owed him for buying lots of cars from him in the past. I knew this fellow was going to just turn it over for profit as he doesn't build or work on cars.
A week passes and I find out from a friend of mine that's exactly what happened. It sells to, now follow along here, to another club member who builds cars. This fellow knew the original fellow who had passed and was the one that picked up the truck and delivered it years ago to the fellow that had passed.
Are you still with me?
So, knowing it will get street rodded, I called the lastest owner and asked about the truck and what his plans were.......yup, street rod......but not for awhile as he has other projects on the go. What are you going to do with the original parts, I inquired? Sell them he said. We agreed on a price.
Well, it just kept going over in my mind. I called him back a few days later and asked if I could come out and see the projects he was working on.. Sure, come on over.
During my tour and conversation the truck came up. Right away he asked if I wanted to buy it. Well, by now......it was more than I had but it gave me hope.
As I was about to leave, the thought hit me of a trade. I told him about my '28 Tudor and by golly, he was interested.
He called two days later wanting to look at it. He came over and basically said yup, I like it, let's trade. The very next day we went to DMV and did the paperwork and yesterday we went and picked it up and brought it to my place.
I also found out, he had offered to buy the truck from the first fellow way back when. He was told he could buy it under the condition he would not "hot rod" it. Well, he couldn't promise that so he didn't get it.
Phew! That's the story.
2935ford
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Newc....here's a couple of pics of the cap.
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Brendan
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someone told me, that your memory is like a big file cabinet, the older you get,and the more stuff that you learn and do, the more files that you put into your file cabinet.it just take more time to sift through all those files!