The Ford Barn

Wick · 07-30-2012, 11:39 AM

This has not been the best year for Auctions with Model A or T parts. Friday evening my friend Brian called with a tip on a auction near farmville Va. Listed in the local paper,there would be some parts therehe felt.
Well it was worth the trip,just 40 miles from my Moms house so I was able to stop for a visit,then hit the Auction.
Heres my Ames Horn I bought and a N.O.S. T rim.
Wick

[email protected] · 07-30-2012, 12:12 PM

Depends on the auction. Just the other Sunday of last week there was an auction of all items from Gordon Williams who restored Model T's in Harvard, IL. Tools, fixtures, shelves, Model T engines, frames, radiators, Ford diesel truck and Well Fargo enclosed trailer, and on and on. In my opinion everything was going cheap but maybe it wasn't promoted properly and not a huge crowd. The auctioneer was selling entire shelf sections loaded up with Model T parts and they were going for less money then when he sold the shelf unit itself without the contents. Bulk of the stuff bought by 4 or 5 guys and a lot of old Model T guys watching the auction. A few Model A items that were lumped in there as well. I bought a nice unrestored Simmons carburetor that is all there.

oliverguy · 07-30-2012, 12:21 PM

Pretty much all the auctions now are from collectors that horded huges amounts of stuff. When they die it gets passed onto someone else. Maybe in two more generations it will actually be put on a car. I see very few farm auctions now where someone actually used or farmed with the stuff. I think those orginal guys died 20 years ago and I"m not even 40. I'm glad I got to see those auctions when I was a kid. Unfortunately my kids will never see those type of old auctions which had model t parts, horsedrawn farm equipment etc "in the rough".

[email protected] · 07-30-2012, 12:28 PM

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Felt sad for Gordon's widow who needs the money. I am sure she had some dissappointments on what certain "prized" items went for.

This was actually her second auction as she stopped the first one in early June as things were just going way too cheap. She changed auctioneers and rescheduled it. Maybe it was better this time?

07-30-2012, 12:12 PM	#2
[email protected] Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Illinois Posts: 730	Re: Auction find the other day Depends on the auction. Just the other Sunday of last week there was an auction of all items from Gordon Williams who restored Model T's in Harvard, IL. Tools, fixtures, shelves, Model T engines, frames, radiators, Ford diesel truck and Well Fargo enclosed trailer, and on and on. In my opinion everything was going cheap but maybe it wasn't promoted properly and not a huge crowd. The auctioneer was selling entire shelf sections loaded up with Model T parts and they were going for less money then when he sold the shelf unit itself without the contents. Bulk of the stuff bought by 4 or 5 guys and a lot of old Model T guys watching the auction. A few Model A items that were lumped in there as well. I bought a nice unrestored Simmons carburetor that is all there.

07-30-2012, 12:21 PM	#3
oliverguy Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Reading PA Posts: 241	Re: Auction find the other day Pretty much all the auctions now are from collectors that horded huges amounts of stuff. When they die it gets passed onto someone else. Maybe in two more generations it will actually be put on a car. I see very few farm auctions now where someone actually used or farmed with the stuff. I think those orginal guys died 20 years ago and I"m not even 40. I'm glad I got to see those auctions when I was a kid. Unfortunately my kids will never see those type of old auctions which had model t parts, horsedrawn farm equipment etc "in the rough".

07-30-2012, 12:28 PM	#4
[email protected] Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Illinois Posts: 730	Re: Auction find the other day Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Felt sad for Gordon's widow who needs the money. I am sure she had some dissappointments on what certain "prized" items went for. This was actually her second auction as she stopped the first one in early June as things were just going way too cheap. She changed auctioneers and rescheduled it. Maybe it was better this time?