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Fundraising, For sale, and Wanted => For Sale by Private Parties => Topic started by: 55chevr on May 11, 2012, 03:05:54 PM

Title: 34 coupe body
Post by: 55chevr on May 11, 2012, 03:05:54 PM
I saw this while surfing the net ... A long way to go and Customs issues ... might be convenient for one our Canadian brothers.

http://novascotia.kijiji.ca/c-cars-v...AdIdZ377794038


Joe
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Jack Gifford on May 12, 2012, 12:57:28 AM
I don't find any '34 coupe at that link?
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Peter Jack on May 12, 2012, 01:02:31 AM
Probably sold shortly after posting.  :| :| :|

Pete
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: 4-barrel Mike on May 12, 2012, 01:05:15 AM
Type "1934 ford" in the search box:

http://novascotia.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-1934-ford-coupe-5-window-W0QQAdIdZ377794038 (http://novascotia.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-1934-ford-coupe-5-window-W0QQAdIdZ377794038)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$(KGrHqFHJBME-dq2kM)eBPqDZwS1IQ~~48_20.JPG)

Probably thinks it's solid gold. <shrug>

Mike
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Stan Back on May 12, 2012, 01:27:19 PM
Well, it is the super-rare front-wheel drive model.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: 55chevr on May 12, 2012, 03:23:32 PM
A little further for you than most Canadians ... In fact the North Pole might be closer.   
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: 4-barrel Mike on May 12, 2012, 03:56:25 PM
I'll bet it was a 4-barrel car too!  (Note the battery box hacked into the driver's side - V8 starters are on the other side.)

Mike
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Rob on May 13, 2012, 05:38:57 AM
Now that's getting toward the end of the earth, I wonder if he'd ship it?  :-D

Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: fastman614 on May 13, 2012, 01:14:35 PM
Well, depending on exactly where the body it in Nova Scotia, I found that, for us in British Columbia, it is about 3900 miles to Halifax, NS.... and "only" about 3700 miles from Los Angeles, CA... From New York City, it is about 900 miles to Halifax.....

I don't think there are actually big customs issues on the (probably re-)importation of a US built car body into the USA....unless one of the Border BOZOs makes it into one.... there is a deal regarding all North American built cars (as well as many foreign ones) that, under NAFTA - the North American Free Trade Agreement - exempting ALL vehicles that are over 15 years old from FEDERAL safety requirements.... I know that bringing vehicles north into Canada is only a matter of having paperwork in hand and pre-clearing the exportation of the vehicle with the US Customs - and paying our taxes up here too - but the last vehicle I brought in to Canada was an incomplete 20 year old Harley which, due to my being away for long enough to bring in a maximum tax/duty free exemption, I paid NO tax.... Your US Gov website should have links to the relevant US Customs websites for information on what you may need to know or have to do to import something like an old Ford car body.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: racefanwfo on May 13, 2012, 04:59:19 PM
Biggest pile of junk i have ever seen. They would need to pay me to take it then i would take it to the scrap yard and have it melted down.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: fastman614 on May 13, 2012, 11:55:11 PM
Biggest pile of junk i have ever seen. They would need to pay me to take it then i would take it to the scrap yard and have it melted down.

Methinks you are correct about this....

However, I recall an article in Hotrod Magazine some 30 odd years ago about a deuce coupe built by "li'l" John Buttera..... he said to the effect the the car started out as the biggest piece of bleep he had ever seen..... so.... who knows?
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Rob on May 14, 2012, 12:32:03 AM
You guys are spoilt for choice, that's about average condition down here and definitely repairable!!

Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: 55chevr on May 14, 2012, 06:35:43 AM
Half the fun (fun?) is the repair, build and fabrication ... I am working on a Model A Coupe for 10 years that started out considerably worse. It isnt a race until you get to the salt flats.


Joe
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: thundersalt on May 14, 2012, 04:04:07 PM
 The internet, steel and fiberglass repo stuff apparently have spoiled many. When I saw that pic I first thought someone found an old pic of my 34 when I found it in 1979. Same color with the same 6" missing off the bottom right side, firewall gone and cut back to the hood line. It was un chopped so I thought I found a peach (then I chopped It)
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Tman on May 14, 2012, 04:50:52 PM
Thats a heck of a good find. VERY SAVEABLE. In case you forgot, Henry quit making them a few decades ago :roll:
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: fastman614 on May 15, 2012, 02:05:01 AM
Having a friend who, along with his now late father, were into the vintage and NOT the hotrod end of early iron, I know that anything that is in really good condition often gets snapped up by purists (vintage restorers) who, in this part of Canada, seem to have either huge bank balances or huge real estate backed lines of credit - or both!....

.....and we hotrodders would happily go and purchase brand new repro stuff at (,sometimes, much) lower prices......
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Tman on May 15, 2012, 11:45:03 AM
Yeah, the stuff many of us have been working with was usually thought of as unsaveable by the restorer crowd. But, the fact is the restorers are dying off.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: NS_Rider on May 22, 2012, 07:36:43 PM
Only 111 miles from my house...too bad I'm not talented enough to tackle a project like that.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: McRat on May 22, 2012, 08:04:55 PM
Wow.  That's what we call Theft Recovery + Jewish Lightning + "Needs TLC".

Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Rob on May 22, 2012, 10:56:17 PM
Jewish Lightning?? That's a new one on me..
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: fastman614 on May 22, 2012, 11:48:23 PM
Only 111 miles from my house...too bad I'm not talented enough to tackle a project like that.

NS_Rider.... if you have an entrepreneurial streak, you could use some "Jewish Lightning" during the deal-making process and try and turn over a profit....
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: McRat on May 23, 2012, 10:37:44 AM
Jewish Lightning?? That's a new one on me..


Yeah, that was not politically correct, sorry.  It's arson to collect the insurance money, especially with businesses, but can apply to houses, cars, and boats as well.  Horses "get sick", arson looks too suspicious.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: manta22 on May 23, 2012, 12:42:28 PM
That was a term used in New York for frequent suspicious fires in loft buildings when the owners were in financial difficulties.
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Rob on May 23, 2012, 10:04:22 PM
Ok, now I'm with the program.

Down here it's more commonly termed a "Jewish stocktake" when referring to a business. Neither as you say are PC nowdays.

Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: 34 coupe body
Post by: Koncretekid on June 02, 2012, 03:54:47 PM
Coincidentally, I was within about 20 miles of that car just last Saturday night.  Had I known about it then, I would have tried to convince "she who makes the decisions" to make the side trip to have a look.  Although, after just having driven 44 hours from Colorado, we were quite anxious to get home.  We are in Yarmouth, about 250 miles from Sherbrooke. Normally we would have taken the ferry from St. John, N.B. to Digby, N.S, but we missed it by 9 minutes, so decided to drive around, visiting friends in that area Saturday night before finishing the drive on Sunday.  Of course, I would have to put about 8 bikes out in the weather to bring that in to work on it.  And I really don't like bodywork as well as wrenching.
Tom