If you’ve been waiting to buy a 1932 Ford project, this might be the one for you. The car was purchased from an estate sale where it had previously sat in a barn since 1981! This car is in amazing original condition and can be found here on eBay with a starting bid just under $33,000. The car is currently located in Huntington Beach, California and the seller states the car has been in California its whole life!
The current owner has gone through the car and made it run and drive. Under the hood, the following have been addressed: radiator flushed/boiled, replaced all hoses, and rebuilt the water pump, installed new points, condenser, rotor cap, new coil, rebuilt the carburetor and fuel pump, replaced the head gasket, flushed and lined the gas tank.
The lights and gauges still work and operate off of the original 6-volt system. The seller doesn’t say much about the interior, but it clearly has an aftermarket seat. Other than that, it looks like it is in amazing original condition.
This is a really cool car and it appears that you could hop in and drive it the way it is. 1932 Fords are some of the most desirable cars from this era and are often cut up and made into hot rods and customs. It is rare that you see one in such original condition. Hopefully, the new owner won’t chop it up, but that is often the fate of these cars. What do you think will happen with this car? Would you hot rod it or drive it as-is?
I would not hot rod it nor would I leave it as is I’d restore and repaint it and drive it every chance i got. We have plenty of hot rods around and enough repop stuff around to build this car from scratch so why not restore to original. I met a guy at a car show here in Calgary with a car like this completely restored and bone stock ( or so I thought …! ) it looked like it had just rolled off the line and there wasn’t a single old part in it, all repop parts. Except the engine. Goes to show you that this one does not need to be rodded.
I just read a new post on a restored model A in beautiful condition with an asking price of $9k so why would anyone in there right mind pay $33k for this one. Clearly a little shopping is needed before laying down your cash. Some one is dilutional here and I think it the seller of this car.
What a difference a year makes Mark.
So true Dirk I guess I’m just not that fussy.
It doesn’t seem to make sense, especially with a Model B which is damn near a Model A anyway, but the A was made for 4 years compared to one for the Deuce, and it really seems sometimes like almost every ’32 coupe or roadster was turned into a hot rod by the Nixon administration, so scarcity is an issue, but with this being a 4 especially, I’d much rather have a nice Model A for under ten grand than even a complete project Deuce for $33k.
I have to agree with you on many areas. A Model B was not much different than a Model A. Oh it had an automatic advance, full pressure lube and a fuel pump (the latter could actually be a disadvantage on a blistering hot day), but the only real edge was the styling. A Deuce is a nice looking car! I actually prefer the deuce over the ’33/’34 models. I guess it’s just actually OWNING a Deuce. But then, can you really justify the extra $20K?
It’s largely a matter of rarity, there gotta be a gazillion “restored model As” in the world but only a very small handful of original, unmolested ’32 coupes left. Even given a choice between a “restored” car, of any kind, and an identical original car in good, unmolested, driver condition, for my money, the original car is more desirable, by far, to the “restored” car.
There is a big difference between a Model A and a 32 Ford of any description let alone a coupe. A’s are more than plentiful but 32’s are as rare as rocking horses.
Guys were paying mega bucks for these in 70’s and 80’s just to hot rods out of them. Then came all of the repop stuff you could imagine, so there’s no need to cut up an original now. Its really nice to see one so complete. One has to wonder how this one escaped the rodders torch for so long especially in SoCal. Hope it goes to a good home and gets the restoration it deserves. I also think anybody wanting a high dollar hot rod would be crazy not to start with the new stuff. nuff said
They weren’t paying mega bucks for these in the seventies. Started getting pricey in the mid eightys and up
That would be my Sunday go to meetin’ car just as it sits. And it should not, not, not be cut up or molested.
Right!
I’ve wanted a Deuce coupe/roadster/pickup/Victoria all my life and would jump at this one except it’s miles out of my budget. While I’d prefer a full fledged Model 18 (V8) a B is OK too. Full pressure lube, automatic advance, what more do you really need?
What I really need is some luck. I read a story in Reminisce about a guy who bought a property to fix up and move into. There was a sagging garage at the outer edge and inside was a project that had been forgotten about for many years. It turned out to be a Model B coupe, and all the pieces were there. The guy wasn’t even a car guy, but he quickly became one. Did a superb job of restoring it, and is out there having a ball. Why can’t those deals show up within earshot of my hometown? Maybe I shouldn’t complain too much as my ’49 Chevy was a barn find.
Sounds like you need to start buying property with sagging barns.
Original Henry Ford steel is more highly prized than any aftermarket body. This car will be scooped up by a hot rodder with deep pockets.
And shallow sensibilities.
“All original ? “, didn’t anybody notice the wrong bumper bars and overriders?
And headlights but this is pretty minor stuff that could be put right in a matter of minutes.
Picky, Picky, Picky
Don’t forget those 48 Chevy tail lights.
Probably purchased for a couple of grand. Gotta hate curbers…..
Nothing wrong with curbers, we live in America where you can buy what you want and sell what you want. It’s called capitalism
I agree! That is what makes America the greatest country in the world. There is room in this hobby for everybody. Regardless of financial status.
Awhile back one of the guys here got his nose out of joint when I used the expression in reference to hot rod misinformation that, “you’re not one of us”. But the comments here are emblematic of my point, on at least two counts.
For those that think this is just about the same as a Model A because of being a Ford, a banger, nearly same vintage, etc., let’s play a game, and use dated references to boot. You’ve got a wild night planned and your two date choices are Rachel Welch or Roseann Barr. Hey, they’ve got all the same components so, no diff, right?..…………….hello………..(and I don’t mean at closing time.)
What the hell does “chop it up” mean. Okay, maybe chopping the top? Making it a hiboy by removing the fenders……is that “chopping it up”? Look, I get that some value the presence of a factory stock restoration, and there are plenty of them out there if you’re an actual enthusiast in the market for one of these. You step up and get in the game you make the rules. The going price for such a car……….selling not asking……..is in the vicinity of $32k, slightly more for a V8 car. As for the “chopping it up” notion, the bulk of this slice of the hobby in recent years has been mild modification in sync with traditional values where the car deviates only marginally from stock.
There ya go Joe, I left plenty of meat on the bones for you to further educate the interested, as you do so well.
Original condition? So it came from the factory this way?
Wish it was a 3-window with a V8
This would be a perfect candidate for a “sympathetic restoration”! Restore it mechanically, making it safe & reliable, clean it thoroughly and enjoy it. This car would be more unique if left as is…
Agreed, this thing is fantastic looking as it sits. I’m sure we all like ‘hot rodded’ 32’s, but after a while they just start looking cookie cutterish anyway. Why take something so unique and make it common.
Really happy to see all the supportive comments here about keeping this remarkable old Deuce stock instead of making it into just one more hot rod.
But I’m really sad to think about what _actually_ awaits this survivor – high probability of being cut up into yet another Foosian monstrosity and being lost forever.
Aweee, anybody can restore one, takes a real man to cut one up! 😎
Tired cliche’…
@diehardchevy. Or a Moron!
Uncle Bob , I knew you would nail it, and thanks for leaving me a little space. I just don’t know, how long we can keep this up. This Hot Rod or Restoration, and a Model A is just like a 32, etc. Bob ,we are just too old and we have been doing this way too long , and they just don’t get it, no matter what we say. Even when. you tell them,how many 32’s you have owned, built ,help build, driven cross country, written magazine features about, and personally know every 32 Ford expert in the United States , and on and on! They just don’t get it ,or understand, what a 32 Ford is, in the history of “Automotive Culture ” I GIVE UP “. And quite honestly ,in a very few years, it really won’t matter ,because it is becoming ancient history.
I understand what a 32 Ford is ” over rated ” that’s what it is.
Only the guy that ends up with the pink slip has any say in what happens to it, everybody else is in the peanut gallery.
True enough. And theoretically, you could buy a Van Gogh and repaint it here and there to better suit your tastes.
You’d be kind of an a-hole with no regard for history or preservation, but you could do it. After all, everyone else is just the peanut gallery.
Yep….like the difference in sisters….going oversea’s I’ll bet.
Uncle Bob, You get it right as always, and thanks for deferring me some space. However, I think I am going to try and let up a little. I could have predicted almost every comment, I have read. In the history of our Automotive Culture, the 32 Ford is icon with a status possibly greater or equal to any other year and marque, you can name. Without question ,it is the most replicated, car and year, of any reproduction automobile. Its popularity is unsurpassed, as one of the most collectable and historic cars, you can obtain. As an owner and builder of several, driver having logged many miles behind the wheel , a lover of the car ,and an interested elderly historian, who has discussed with many, of the considered experts, this automobile, and its significance to Automotive History. I seriously can’t understand the majority of the comments and where the information came from, to make the statements many of you have, about the status of any 32 Ford. Quite seriously though, it really doesn’t matter because this history ,is the era of people who are not a whole lot younger than the car, 86 years old. The younger generation is making its own history ,and soon no one will care about Ancient History.
I would chop that to bits without thinking twice.
@Austin. You obviously don’t know the true rarity of a near original ’32 Ford.
Most of you would be happy that I don’t have the money to buy this car because I’d hot rod it ….. I’ve always loved hotrods. lol