Bringing Home A Rare Classic! 1950 Shoebox Ford Business Coupe!
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
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Won't be any mid advertisements within the video as I know people will want to watch these videos more like this! If we get an hour long video THEN there will be mid point advertisements!
So, we're learning as we go about this Shoebox! I'm also not going to edit the preview picture to how I normally do for we like how the scene turned out!
There is going to be a sloppy edit in the video since we discovered a specific area on the car that's a no-no to show online! Other people do it but we don't as people can steal your car's information! Happens more often than you think trust us on that! DON'T SHOW YOUR VIN'S AND BODY TAGS ONLINE! Enough said on that topic!
This old classic Ford has been sitting for years and no one wanted it! Someone had it destined for something else and thankfully those plans didn't go through or else it would have been permanently ruined!
In the end of everything, why didn't anyone want her? This car was sitting in that spot for 20 years and maybe moved once so what is the issue? We will show you!
Pinning this!
Accidentally cleared out two comments amongst some spam ones, deepest apologies on that! We encourage you to come back and make those statements again! Someone thought this was a Club Coupe though it isn't. Hope that person sees this and remakes their comment stating that as we welcome criticism! To the reply towards that, the VIN, body tag and title states this as a Business Coupe. Someone tried to convert this over to a standard passenger car. Why we don't know. Probably it was part of the guy's process to make it a convertible?
Who knows really! We'll be reverting stuff back for it to be a proper Business Coupe while getting it ready for the 351 Cleveland CJ in time!
I have seen a number of titles for cars like these mislabeling what the car actually is where 2-dr sedans are listed as coupes and vise versa. Is there anywhere on this car that shows a body number 72C (Deluxe Business Coupe)? If that number is actually on the car, that would prove that the car started out as a business coupe. Body number 72B (Custom Deluxe Club Coupe) would be the other number this car would be. If this car was converted over it had to be 50 years ago since the state of condition of this car looks like it all happened over the same period. The arm rests, ashtray, swing out window bracket and the rubber on the back window (no rubber, bracket, armrest or ashtray on a fixed window business coupe) all look as old as the rest of the car and not some years later update.
Club Coupe and Business Coupe are the Same Exact body. The difference was no back seat and fixed windows on the Business Coupe. Yours shows that it had the Club Coupe Quarter glass as they were a big wing window. Doors are 49 because it's the old Fridge style handles.
I don’t know how many times I have to state this. The VIN states this as a Business Coupe as the back glass is not wing windows. Someone put ‘49 doors on it.
The car is a Business Coupe that someone butchered and was getting ready to turn it into a convertible.
Unbelievable that people who didn't love this shoebox one!
It’s just typical Human behavior.
That ole girl must have seen many a highway! I could imagine her door to door selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. Maybe parked at many a motel or rest stops!
I’m sure the dial was flipped in this from the mileage it must have seen! We’ll be looking up the history of the car in March next year to see if there’s anything there or hopefully there!
@@TheDirtCatBrothers nice! I’d like to find info on my “Silent Malibu” I picked up from Steve Magnante’s junkyard crawl video!
These cars are ridiculously expensive to bring back. I wish I would have left mine in the field where I found it.
It’s only expensive if you let someone else work on them.
Put it back to original 👍🏻💯🇦🇺⛽️
Some originality will be present within the car but not entirely
That's right, dude! Original 💯%!
That hood isnt 51 cause 51s hood didnt have the half moon in the hood in front
It’s a ‘49 hood. We made corrections on the doors and hood in later videos while we learned more.
Should NEVER create a convertible by slashing the top off of a tin-top. The frame is not strong enough, so your "convertible" will be a rigid as a wet noodle.
We know. Luckily the guy who once had this with those plans didn’t get that far.
Looks like the whitewall tires may have been "Porta Walls". A white dough-nut shaped rubber ring. With the tire unseated from the rim but still in place, the inside of the ring fit just under the outer wheel rim. Re-inflating the PW was now pinched between the rim and the tire, giving the white wall appearance for less. Worked great on conventional ply tires, not very well on bias ply and stuck out like a pie tin on radials at speed. Narragansett Bay.
They’re all mix matched with the big white walled one from a ‘61 Galaxie. Think one is appropriate to the car and that’s it.
The grills were different between the 49, 50, and 51, and that is not a 51 hood.
We are aware.
What would the cost to buy a salvage car such as this one?
Cheap. Don’t like sharing that kind of info online.
Why cut the floor and put a 4 speed in it when a 3 speed with Overdrive was a factory option? The stock V8 was 239 cubes, but a 255 Merc V8 is outwardly the same, so it will drop right in. The 49 and later Fords were supposed to have a hypoid bevel rear end, but this one looks like a spiral bevel, so it must not be the factory correct one.
You do realize there are ways around cutting the floor and if we have to it can be fixed with body work. Whatever rear end it has won’t be used for the CJ build so original or not it won’t be used in anything else but maybe a homemade trailer for the property only.
What about bolting a T-5 5 speed up to the stock flathead and then you just have to cut a small hole for the floor shifter.