In popular music, The Police song Roxanne pleads with the would-be partner not to “sell your body to the night,” and many enthusiasts might wonder why anyone owning a hot rod like this would offer its Henry Ford steel body for sale. The listing here on eBay offers no insight, and frankly it’s none of our business! Maybe the owner has children or other companions who need a Victoria or other body offering an enclosed rear seat. Whatever the reason, the complete body with no floor or other patch panels can be yours for the eye-opening price of $45,000 or best acceptable offer.

Normally we’d enjoy an engine picture, but here’s a shot of the cargo floor. By 1934, Ford offered a number of attractive paint colors, and this one may have been Vineyard Green. These cars came with wooden structure in the upper body and the listing claims all but one were sound originals and the piece that “holds the dome light” has been replaced.

The trunk handle at the bottom indicates an original trunk car. Handle at the top is the rumble seat option. Despite the myriad ’34 hot rods built over the last 80 or more years, their primitive good looks when properly setup with a sick stance like this makes me want to start building one this weekend. Personally, I’d go for the Victoria body for the same reason mentioned above; cars with a back seat let you share the fun with more people.

The seller offers an original black dashboard with the sale. While some folks argue that “surface rust” is just a nice name for rust, I normally distinguish types of rust with a ball peen hammer. Anything that doesn’t give way is surface rust.

More hints of dark green paint appear at the rear threshold, though nobody this side of the Ford Museum would worry about putting this body back to its original hue. The asking price sits above the median sale price of a complete car according to ConceptCarz, but maybe the rising tide of inflation floats all boats. What’s your favorite ’34 Ford body style?