This seller must know that what they have is pretty special because they have included just one single photo in the Craigslist ad. This 1938 Ford Standard Tudor is located somewhere in the United States – it’s on the Cookesville, Tennessee Craigslist but they don’t give a phone number or city so nobody but the seller knows where it is. This body style is, I believe, known as the 81A and it’s a Standard as opposed to a Deluxe. I have read that Ford didn’t offer a Deluxe, or DeLuxe Tudor model in 1938 but then on another site it shows a 1938 Ford DeLuxe Tudor. This is one desirable car, but with only the one photo shown above there is NO ENGINE PHOTO showing the Ford flathead 85-hp 221 cubic-inch V8. I always wonder about CL listings without phone numbers, especially those with just one photo, but hopefully this is real. Thanks to Junior for sending in this fantastic looking Ford Standard Tudor!
The seller says that “Car sat for 30+ years in a garage and was brought back to life about 4 years ago. Door sticker from 1976 shows 25,163 miles and today speedometer reads 26,179.” This beauty has had “recent plugs, wires, Stromberg 81 carb rebuilt, fuel pump rebuilt, distributor serviced.” Would you keep this one original, or…?
Absolutely would leave this wonderful old sedan alone and just enjoy her for what she is! Fantastic!!
I agree. This looks way too nice to be screwed with….period.
Just saw a post for this on CL in NYC??
https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cto/d/1938-ford-tudor-sedan/6569373114.html
A reverse image search shows this same car for sale all over the USA and Canada. Fake ad to harvest contact info. Caveat Emptor.
If you get a bad feeling from the ad, let it go.
If I have learned anything from buying cars for 30 years it is follow your gut.
If the seller doesn’t want to put any information in the ad, how do you think it will be to deal with him during the sale?
There’s not much to go on here, but from what I see I would leave the exterior alone. I’ve never seen one of these.
I saw this one, and categorized it with all the other one pic fake ads of nice old cars for low prices, I bet this is one.
One picture and not much else in the CL ad, but there’s a bunch more photos on another classic cars ad site.
Looks like a nice, mostly original car, and it’s located in Jeffersonville, Georgia, not TN, apparently.
Well, as if my day couldn’t get much worse, someone has to feature something like this to really mess with my head. Some 35 years ago I had a ’38 Ford Std. 2-door slope-back. I kept it at a friend’s place just three miles out of town. I was locating parts and preparing for the day then I could really tear into the car and restore it. One Saturday morning I drove out to the farm and made my way over to where my three vehicles were stored. Alas my beloved ’38 was gone, vanished during the week. Never forget it and still bristle whenever I think about it. I might add that mine was a V8-85 and I still have all the parts I accumulated, plus the engine and radiator….
The ad says it’s a V8-60. That was a common powerplant in the later 30s. Henry Ford hated six cylinder engines. Giving in to requests for more economical sixes, Henry came out with the 60, only 136 CID, and wouldn’t power much more than a washing machine (midget racers and more recently a custom motorcycle builder love them). I heard that it cost as much to produce a V8-60 as it did a V8-85. Cute little engine though….
Some friend.
That car? That price? No location? No phone? I smell a fake ad.
Just click on the upper lh corner of the ad and you can reply by email.
My guess is he’s harvesting email addresses, once you reply and he gets your address, you start getting more junk in your inbox. Don’t do it Bro.
I fell in to a deal like this onetime, I found a 53 Chevy 5 window Pickup, in a barn in upper Michigan about 15 years ago, the seller sent me a pictures of the good side of the truck. I drove 770 miles, one way to see this deal of a Truck.
The seller said it was running, and drivable, that he had just decided to sell it.
Well let me tell you it was a mess, yeah it was running on about 5 cylinders, it smoked like a freight train, the gas tank was a 2 gallon jug sitting on the fender, how he drove it I will never figure out it had no clutch to speak of, the shift linkage was jammed in place, the right side of the bed was roached, the rear fender was missing. I asked them how they drove it here from the barn, he said well he drove it and I pulled it with my tractor. Need less to say I drove 770 miles back home without a 53 Chevy 5 window.
This may be the real deal. The same photo was posted on smclassiccars.com and topclassiccarsforsale.com with much greater detail in the posts. Here are the links:
http://smclassiccars.com/ford/467523-1938-ford-standard-tudor-sedan-v8-60.html
http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/ford/428256-1938-ford-standard-tudor-sedan-v8-60.html
Interestingly, this one in St. Charles, IL has the EXACT SAME STAIN on the passenger side of the back seat. What are the chances?!?
What does this car and a tornado have in common?….if you see either approaching the backwoods someone is going to lose their still…
Think it is a scam no one prices a car like this for this price, and they will not respond to attempts to contact. nor can you determine where it is. I live in Tn as well not far away. Another game and the little 60’s are rare roday my dad had one in the day and they were terribly underpowered
Must be the same guy that had a horse trailer listed a few years ago on the east Tennessee craigslist, maybe Knoxville that had pictures etc. and a reasonable price, after sending him an email to come look the next weekend he informed me the trailer was actually in a friends warehouse close the North Carolina coast and I would need to send money and he would ship it to my home for free. lol
Pure scam
One of the ads lists a possible phone number on the car: Four 7 eight 2 three 3 three 2 nine 2. Interesting how the CL ads, one lists it as an automatic while the other has manual and $10K. Another of the ads lists the location as Jeffersonville, Georgia, United States
It would be nice if it was real, but I have my doubts.
Not sure if its a scam, I am sure it is 38 standard, the deluxe has a different front end, then in the 39 the deluxe was sold as the standard with a different front end on the deluxe , which it then became the 40 standard the following year. Ford Marketing, and a way to maximize profits. The V-60 was a big mistake the cars will literally not get out of their own way. The little motors are somewhat of a collectors item, they even made speed equipment for them, mostly because the were in midgets and in speed boats. Most of the ones you see now are coffee tables.
Last but not least my standard response to all of you that want to save the world and all these cars because they so rare, and some one is going to ruin it, because it is the last of the specie. Look around at the market and see how many of these there are and just what the demand is and the price, and then maybe you can chill out and get a life
Stromberg 81 carb tells me it is a V8-60 car. The V8-60 being a little underpowered for this weight auto, and the 4.44:1 gear ratio (so it could get out of its own way) leaves a lot to be desired at the top end. BUT – the V8-60 has its own legion of devotees, not to mention that there weren’t too too many made for this year. Adds to the rarity and uniqueness of this particular car.
No such place as Cookesville, Tennessee. That would be Cookeville, and I doubt this scam posting is coming from the vicinity of my home on the plateau.
Sure smells fishy.too bad if it is a scammer,here we are trying to have fun and you get a creep tryin to pull some *hit….Hope karma catches up with him…..