- Seller: Pony Express Motors (Contact)
- Location: Ottawa, Kansas
- Mileage: 8,900 Shown
- Chassis #: 98BA652632
- Title Status: Clean
- Engine: Flathead V8
- Transmission: 3-Speed Manual
Socked away since America’s Bicentennial, this classic seeks a new home after the late owner’s family decided someone else can write its next chapter. The 1950 Ford in Ottawa, Kansas, reportedly shows 8,900 miles on the odometer and is offered here on Barn Finds. Indoor storage helped preserve its as-parked state, a bonus for whoever revives it. Imagine the memories it evoked as the owner and others walked past it for nearly 50 years —nearly twice as long as it had driven before being parked!
Emerging from its long slumber, the pale yellow Ford looks ready to roll, but bring your trailer because this classic’s brakes are shot, according to the owner’s son, who curates the sale. Between the end of World War II and 1950, most cars made the transition from fenders to the full-body styling of this Ford, which must have seemed rather sleek and futuristic. Imagine tripping back in time and explaining to car shoppers of 1949 how another ten years would bring monstrous highway cruisers with fins and space-age spears and fins.
Plan a trip to the upholstery shop before traversing Route 66. What’s left of this ride’s possibly-original striped cloth is long gone. Ford’s elegant two-spoke steering wheel found its way into hot rods of all makes. A three-speed manual gearbox transmits power rearward from the running V8.
The flathead made an even 100 HP in 1949, according to Ford brochures at Lov2xlr8. This Flattie runs and sounds great and should be easy to trick out thanks to a lively aftermarket.
This car’s back seat (as opposed to the flat storage of the business coupe) and lack of “Custom” callouts in the beltline trim should make this a Deluxe Series Tudor Sedan, similar to this Custom Deluxe Tudor Sedan. After sorting the interior, mechanical bits, and safety items, I’d drive this one a while before deciding on an all-out restoration. How would you give a second-life to this long-stored Ford?
Bid On This Auction
Anders bid $2,600.00 2025-10-21 05:06:27
explorer bid $2,500.00 2025-10-19 16:54:26- Anders bid $1,700.00 2025-10-18 13:26:48
freeman bid $1,500.00 2025-10-18 02:45:30
rick2691 bid $1,000.00 2025-10-17 09:10:00
I think it’s cool and to answer your question I would work to get it running and driving fix the interior and just drive it maybe some nice aluminum wheels raised white letter tiers. I don’t like the look of giant wheels and low profile tiers on a beautiful car like this the lines on this thing shows its coolness
What, no mention of one of the most iconic radial engine airplane grills ever made? And no photo of it head on clearly showing the iconic appearance? It even has the bumperettes to serve as the landing gear!
It is almost worth purchasing this just to marvel at the design and artistry of this remarkable part.
Seriously, I love the look of this car and if it were closer I’d drop a bid in a heartbeat.
Sitting for 50 years and it runs? Wow! That’s a testament to the owner taking the time to prep it for really long term storage.
Looking closely at the body it seems too straight to be true. It’s been very, very well preserved during it’s long slumber.
My dad had a dark blue’50 w/skirts awesome looking car!
It looks to have a 12 volt battery in it, there’s no radio or overdrive and somthings going on with that grill being crooked. Would make a good project, it has a nice visor and seems almost no rust.
Why did you promote this 1949 Ford as a 1950? And I see that it has no horn-ring, indicating one of the lower-tier models. I remember, in the early summer of 1948, when these came out, how shocking this body-design was! The 1949 Lincoln and Mercury still had some hints of the receding 1940s — but not the slab-sided Ford. Having owned and driven a 1946 Super Deluxe Tudor flathead V-8 for many years; if I were to get this one, I would fix whatever is needed to make it roadworthy, including the original clock, return it to six volts, have the seats redone in their original fabeic and pattern, clean it all up, and then use it as a daily driver.
And you can see the influence of the Loewy Studebakers team of 1947 on this. Yes, stude took those lumbering Detroit boys by surprise.
As did Kaiser
“First by far with a postwar car”: too bad they downsized it so drastically — and that slant-down trunk didn’t help matters. Then, low on cash, they had to stick with that ungainly body through 1952. Kaiser (also in 1947) built a full-sized postwar automobile (but then they were starting from “scratch”, as was Tucker in ’48). Still, the 1949 Ford, coming as it did fairly early in 1948, startled us greatly. But it failed to hold the road under slippery conditions anywhere nearly as well as Ford’s old venerable Model T “buggy” suspension which had persisted right up through their 1948 model year. Rattling door-handles, too, were an annoyance with those ’49s, as were the rear deck spring-returned trunk-lock flaps. Ford corrected both of those headaches with 1950 re-designs. Someohow, it seems almost like “yesterday” that these cars were brand-new and exciting in dealers’ show-rooms.