Noticed in the daily fishwrap that a local was selling off his Ford collection. Apparently this fellow was
The guy for having
The right Fords, especially V8 models. Looked up the auction site and it was indeed, pretty interesting. You can skip the sets of correcto spark plugs ($200) and bits and pieces and enter Lot # 67 for the actual Henry Ford Detroit Iron. Very interesting notes in the auction details about the advent of the styling of the 1932 models... you gearheads will know what I'm talking about!
Good stuff on the '33 look for you California Kid lovers. Cool little history lessons on each example as well as the tale of acquisition. There's about a half dozen '36 Fords of different models going off that will make you cry some. Holy smokes, a '39 Tudor V8 owned by a Catholic church with
29,100 miles, Oh Jeeesus! Estimate on that bad boy is $25,000 - $35,000. Wonder if they'll take a Subaru trade-in? The estimates for these babies was a lot more reasonable that I would have thought but I kind of lost interest in collector cars when Goats started going for a Billion dollars.
BTW, it's tomorrow. Ah yes, the link: http://www.bonhams.com/us/ Click "online catalogue" of the Jack Hogan Collection.