This 1952 Chevrolet Fleetline has been in a barn in Europe for nearly fifty years! It can be found here on eBay U.K. with a buy-it-now price of £4,700 which is around $6,150 USD. The car is located in Leeds, United Kingdom, and the car has apparently been overseas since at least the early 1970’s.
Unfortunately, the barn suffered from a roof leak causing some significant damage to the car. Parts of the outside of the car looks decent but the entire floor pan and interior appear to need to be replaced.
The seller states several parts of the car have been addressed: “The car is missing the radiator hoses as I changed out the rad the old one was bad and the hoses suffered dry rot. The frames good the front end has all been greased up and has very little to no play. I’ve pulled all the brakes for rebuild all parts have been kept together for ease of rebuild.”
This car looks like a really big project. It may be better off donating the best remaining parts to another project. What do you think? Is this worth saving? Would you pay for shipping across the pond?
No
Not only NO, but **** NO !
No.
Its scrap
You gots to love those GM “Torpedo-backs”!
I love the GM fastbacks of that era but $6k for a rusting hulk with no floors? Oh but “ it runs and runs well.” How would he know if it has no brakes?
Convert it to an RV, the toilet disposal is already in place. There is nothing like a survivalist EnviroDump, just hose down the edges periodically.
The Brits still have some really good panel beaters (metal fabricators). Let it stay there and be restored in the UK, they’ll do a nice job and old Yank Tanks (as they call them) have a substantial following in the UK and in France.
Isn’t Ed from Wheeler Dealers between jobs? Someone might be able to get him to work on it. If I remember correctly, his labor was considered to be free when the build spend was tallied at the end of the show.
Steve R
Ran when shipped.
Not as bad as the one they pulled out of Foss Lake, OK, a few years ago but this one can still be fixed. A lot of work but a Fleetline is a worthy cause.
It’s funny how a person’s tastes change over the years. Back when I was a kid, I wasn’t at all impressed with this style. Nowadays I kind of like it….
Yeah, can be fixed, if you have deep pockets. All it takes is money.
Some Brit will save this. They’re quite good at this type of thing.
I like the ‘lines’, style, whatever its called.
Let’s shipem some prts for the restoration!
That and the ’49 Caddy Sedanette were two of GM’s best “styling” efforts of the time (along with the other GM makes use of the same bodies). But I thought the ’51’s were the last of them, either I learned something new, or, it is a ’51 but was titled as a ’52 because that is when it was sold. You can tell by grill, but I have forgotten how.