Price estimate 1932-36 pickup

[bikemaniac]

Hi,

What are 1932-36 pickup V8s usually sold for when in a driveable condition but otherwise cosmetic bad condition?

Lucas

[Talkwrench]

Really depends on how bad, and just how driveable it is...??? Ok I'll go out in a limb 12 - 20,000 USD ?

I'll be honest and say I paid 18,000 USD a few years back for mine, running - driving. Cosmetically Ive barely touched it.. Still driving it daily on the same engine, but needing a fair bit of mechanical work elsewhere.

[CA Victoria]

Out west, a non running project truck $6000
https://visalia.craigslist.org/cto/5389302655.html

[banjoQ]

Been offered 10,000 for mine, not that I would ever take it. Could not find another for that money.

[Scott H in Wheaton]

There are a few listed on Ebay right now. Log in, find the listings, follow them to see what they end up selling for. That will get you some actual prices instead of guesses.

Price will depend on what afea of the country you are in, how driveable is "driveable", and what cosmetics younare willing to accept.

[tubman]

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I don't know, but wouldn't the '32-'34's be quite a bit more than '35-'36's in the same general condition?

[totto]

Lucas:

I restored my 1934 pickup and its worth more than I put into it; but $15,000-$25,000 is a "ball park number".

Henry

[alanwoodieman]

barn find 34 pick up, complete, some rust asking $9000.00 been in a barn for 30 years

[34pickup]

Originally Posted by tubman

I don't know, but wouldn't the '32-'34's be quite a bit more than '35-'36's in the same general condition?

I believe you are correct. At least around here they are.

[Lawson Cox]

Not in my book. LOL 35's rule.

[Scott H in Wheaton]

NADA has classic car pricing, take it with a grain of salt.

1934..
Low retail $11,900
Average retail $14,700
High retail $32,400

1936
Low retail $7,500
Average retail $10,600
High retail $20,600

These are supposed to be for running driving cars, not projects or parts cars.

I've been shopping and watching '36 1/2 ton pickup prices the last few years and I think the above values are WAY low. Usually not a large selection for sale at any one time, and the one that are for sale seem to command much better prices than what is listed.

[Talkwrench]

I'm with you Lawson! Least we can fit in ours. : )

[oldandtired]

32-36 covers a lot of territory. If your behind covers a lot of territory, the 35 and 36 have more room.

[Hoop]

Way too many variables. Cosmetic for example suggests paint and chrome, not rust and rot. Try to find rear fenders especially for '35/'36.

I'm not sure what NADA is basing their prices on but I'd like to know how many vehicles were in their sampling and were they mixing street rods with originals. I doubt enough originals sold to give an accurate price. $10,600 as an average price for a 35/36 .... I'd buy every one I could find. And I don't know how much NADA really knows about early Ford trucks. Talkwrench's $12-20 is realistic ... but still too many variables.

Watch where the market is going ... then check the availability.

By the way, many of us consider the '35 Ford pickup one of the most beautiful trucks ever built.

[Heard]

Originally Posted by Hoop

Try to find rear fenders especially for '35/'36.

Yep, I just priced some yesterday. All steel. $3750/pair. I think I'm going to have to try to fix mine.

[jimTN]

Any 32 has a premium added to the price. The white truck above will just about part out for the price! There are plenty of basket cases out there with badly rusted or butchered frames, beds rotted thru where you can see the ground, cabs rotted out where the glass was broken out fifty years ago and missing critical parts. The good stuff is much harder to come by and seems like most of it has been butchered. If you are going to play, you will have to pay!

[Vanspeed]

Originally Posted by Heard

Yep, I just priced some yesterday. All steel. $3750/pair. I think I'm going to have to try to fix mine.

Don't turn away so soon. I have owned my truck since October so not that long. Fenders were gone. Found a good pair locally for 600.00

[Jeff/Illinois]

Originally Posted by Scott H in Wheaton

NADA has classic car pricing, take it with a grain of salt.

1934..
Low retail $11,900
Average retail $14,700
High retail $32,400

1936
Low retail $7,500
Average retail $10,600
High retail $20,600

These are supposed to be for running driving cars, not projects or parts cars.

I've been shopping and watching '36 1/2 ton pickup prices the last few years and I think the above values are WAY low. Usually not a large selection for sale at any one time, and the one that are for sale seem to command much better prices than what is listed.

I absolutely agree. GOOD solid '35 and '36 pickups in stock form seldom come up for sale. Most you see are chopped up street rods, no comparison on value.

When a nice original condition '35-'36 does come up for sale it is not unusual for them to sale into the low to mid $30,000 range all day long.

Look at what any 1930's pickup truck well restored brings be it a Chevy-Ford-Dodge-Plymouth. They are preemo bucks and Hemmings even stated a while back that 'pre-War pickups in restored stock condition are hot, they are and will be in great demand.

[Krylon32]

Hot Rod Pro over on the HAMB has been offering a really nice stock 32 PU for in the mid 20s. Think he still has it?

[Vanspeed]

I think the value of 35-36 trucks is way low too. They seem to rarely come up for sale and when they do they are gone quick. I was looking at a good roller that the guy was asking 8k for and I thought he was asking way too much. I called about two weeks later and he said it was sold. I had to give 4k for mine and most would have walked away.

[bikemaniac]

I think what I meant by bad cosmetic codition: The car should be street legal, i.e. no massive corrosion, working brakes, steering, lights, but surface rust, dents, scratches, torn upholstery would be OK.

Lucas

[Hoop]

I thought I was "acquainted" with the prices on '35 Ford pickups since I own one.

I think my estimate was low and, as I search, am amazed at their recent price rise. Mine is not "restored" but simply an original with an old paint job. Certainly glad i have it.

[Jakno]

Hoop, what a beauty of a truck you have. What is the color truck ?.

Don't leave the keys in that ignition !

[Hoop]

Not sure the exact green but close enough to the original tint.

Want the truck to look like a basic gas station parts runner. Served many years at the Amelia Island Concours as just that ... the official emergency service vehicle, but never as a show entrant, both of us working to earn our keep.

Thank you very much.

[Teltruck]

I always liked the 35 and 36 pickups. I restored this 1936 Bell Truck years back.My Farther used it. Hoop like the 35. Bet you timed it to perfection
Bob

[Hoop]

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Bob, what a beatiful truck. Telephone trucks have been one of my favorites since seeing my first one at Hershey many years ago. Hope you still have it.

Timing mine? It is a tribute to how good the original design is. I tend to ignore my own distributors. I'll pay for it.

[Scott H in Wheaton]

Originally Posted by Heard

Yep, I just priced some yesterday. All steel. $3750/pair. I think I'm going to have to try to fix mine.

Don't hate me for this, but I got my rear fenders and a bed...mounted as part of a home made trailer...for $200

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[GSCOV]

Running and driving but needing cosmetics? The cosmetics are where the money is spent. You can buy a good running engine or a transmission and rear end. But can't buy a used paint job or interior. I wouldn't spend more than $9000 on one. Trucks are also harder to sell and get your money out of than a desirable car of the same vintage. Paint and interior and some re-chrome/replace will almost double the investment. Need to be at $20K all in. It's rare for someone to step up and buy one for more than $25 all done.

[Scott H in Wheaton]

https://youtu.be/-qFo9X39K-0

This one is still under $4k and has less than 24 hrs to go. Of cousre it doesn't run and there are no pics of the frame or interior.

[Scott H in Wheaton]

This one is very presentable, but with only 4 hours to go you will have to bid somewhere north of $12k before it meets the reserve:

http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/252264136004

[bikemaniac]

I think I need to clarify I bit:

I have been active in the Ford A forum because I own a 1930 Model A. I am from Denmark and my plan is to ship the car to NYC and drive it across USA following the Lincoln Highway to SF. In SF I want to sell the car and hence not bring it back home. The trip is 100% adventure for me, riding along with a socket set and no cell phone at all. I want to make my way cross USA like in the old days by talking to people.

The thing is, I dont want to keep the Model A: I cannot see myself as having the Model A as a hobby - this is why it is purely adventure for me - I mean the trip. I cannot see myself cuddling this car for the rest of my life.

It is a different story with the early V8 flathead. I am absolutely amazed by that engine. The sound and the torque at low revs which enables the driver move the car at idle speed. Next, I only like the body styles of the early Ford Pickups. I dont like the passenger cars neither the later pickup styles. I could see myself owning such a car as a hobby mainly due to the V8 flathead.

So I have a few options:

1. Go to USA with my Model A and while driving across searching for early V8 pickups and buy one while I am there. Sell the Model A while in the US, continue in the V8 and ship it back to Denmark.

2. Sell the Model A right now, go to USA and search for a V8 driving around in a modern rental car. Then the adventure is limited because I will mainly just get a trip to the departure harbor.

3. Go to US with my Model A and believe that V8s never existed and live happily ever after.

Lucas

[Teltruck]

Hoop:
Still Have the Bell Truck.
Bob

[Scott H in Wheaton]

your trip sounds wonderful! why no cell phone? you said you want to talk to people...last time I heard of it you speak into one end of a cell phone and people talk back to you on the other end.

when people made these journeys 60-70-80 years ago the cars were fairly new and spare parts were in stock at every gas station along the way.

Talk to Old Henry on this forum, he does lots of traveling in his old Ford

make sure to bring:
1) cellphone
2) AAA auto club card for emergency tows
3) a trailer or chase vehicle full of spare parts, as you won't easily find spares for Model A or 35/36 v8 when on the road in the middle of no where.

[bikemaniac]

Originally Posted by Scott H in Wheaton

make sure to bring:
1) cellphone
2) AAA auto club card for emergency tows
3) a trailer or chase vehicle full of spare parts, as you won't easily find spares for Model A or 35/36 v8 when on the road in the middle of no where.

No, I will not do that. I have trained myself in emergency repairs using whatever parts are available - even used radiators from modern cars. If the car completely brakes down I will just scrap it be it in the middle of nowhere. I will pay a local truck to pull it to the local scrap yard and then continue by foot, bicycle or hitchhiking. Or make a 3 day ebay add and wait for the winner to pick it up. My car is cosmetically in a bad condition - it will not be a total financial loss if I have to scrap it.

Lucas

[Jeff/Illinois]

Lucas sounds to me that you have this well thought out. It will be a lot of fun drive the A then plan on selling it over here.

Kinda hard to 'stumble' on a good stock '32-'33-'34 or '35-'36 pickup in all my travels around the U.S. they don't pop up like other antique Fords. It would be just pure luck but then again-------- the way to track this stuff down is talk to people, all kinds of people while you are over here. The kid in the gas station. A waitress. The guy behind the tool counter at Sears. Stop in the local Ford garages talk to mechanics somebody knows somebody that knows somebody.

You could probably trade that Model A towards your V-8.

Good luck to you let us know how you make out.

[bikemaniac]

Why are the 32-36 pickups so rare? Because most of them have been hot rodded?

[Lawson Cox]

[QUOTE=bikemaniac;1233503]Why are the 32-36 pickups so rare? Because most of them have been hot rodded?

Because they were "rode hard and put up wet" so many times they just became "Junkers'" and were scrapped for the war effort in WWII is probably the main reason. Remember, those were hard times.

[JonC]

Originally Posted by Talkwrench

Really depends on how bad, and just how driveable it is...??? Ok I'll go out in a limb 12 - 20,000 USD ?

I'll be honest and say I paid 18,000 USD a few years back for mine, running - driving. Cosmetically Ive barely touched it.. Still driving it daily on the same engine, but needing a fair bit of mechanical work elsewhere.

I love the fish tails

[34pickup]

Originally Posted by bikemaniac

Why are the 32-36 pickups so rare? Because most of them have been hot rodded?

They were a work vehicle. People didn't scrap work vehicles until they were completely worn out. Almost every original truck I have ever seen was close to being junk unless it had been previously restored.
Most of the survivors I see now are hot rodded. I had to hot rod mine because there was almost nothing left in usable condition. I am using the cab roof,back,cowl, one fender and two bed sides, every other part was beat to hell or rusted away.

[Jeff/Illinois]

And how stupid was I about 30 years ago to GIVE away a perfectly good '36 pickup cab-front fenders- and box to a friend that was going to restore his dad's '36.... I sold a pair of rear steel fenders CHEAP DUH

Even today I have offered to BUY BACK with cash the stuff I gave him he hasn't done anything with it. Kind of an odd little guy. He refuses thinks he has a gold mine in my old parts

[mobebk]

for what its worth, I've been toying with the idea of selling my 36 and I believe I'll get around 21k. The paint is good, scratches here and there, but mechanically running great. (I still have a 37 truck that I like more and running out of space)

[Scott H in Wheaton]

Originally Posted by mobebk

for what its worth, I've been toying with the idea of selling my 36 and I believe I'll get around 21k. The paint is good, scratches here and there, but mechanically running great. (I still have a 37 truck that I like more and running out of space)

Start by updating your user profile here with a town and state where you live.
Never know, someone here might step up and make you an offer on it.

[Fe26]

By the way, many of us consider the '35 Ford pickup one of the most beautiful trucks ever built. __________________Quote Hoop.

x2 on that.

[Jeff/Illinois]

Originally Posted by mobebk

for what its worth, I've been toying with the idea of selling my 36 and I believe I'll get around 21k. The paint is good, scratches here and there, but mechanically running great. (I still have a 37 truck that I like more and running out of space)

I'd say your price isn't out of line. Nice truck. IF I had the space I'd be calling you tonite on it.

We made the exact same floor mat for ours from some rubber mat from Farm King!!

[mobebk]

I'm running out of excuses to tell the wife. I said I was keeping it until I finished it, but she see's me driving it more than working on it. The 36 truck is currently in my wifes parent's house, my baby is a 62 falcon in my garage, I have the 37 in my dads garage, I bought the 59 thunderbird for my grandpa, and the current project is a 61 comet

[mobebk]

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I'm a huge ford nut, only buy FOMOCO, and I like old cars but dont have enough garages to put them in...

[HtRdLcn]

I picked up this complete '32 cab for free. It's been sitting in the back of a guys garage for 15 years.

[Kerk]

#25 My choice for a driver & maybe a 36. Does not have to be show vehicle. Been there done that. Fun is driving them and have done that !

[sprint29]

Glad to see that there is still interest in the old trucks. I am in the process of restoring a 1936 back to it's original new condition. I was lucky because this truck was stored inside for about the last 30 years. Someone had put a 241 red ram hemi in it, so some of the firewall and frame had been cut on for clearance. Pretty much everything else is in really good shape. With very little rust except for the front panel of the bed. I already rebuilt a 36 flathead with the babbit main bearings and a transmission that are now ready to install. About the only thing that I need to come up with is a steering gear and shaft assembly. The original one was replaced with something else so the hemi would fit. If anyone knows of one, let me know.
Thanks
Mark

[al's28/33]

I paid $10,500.....back in 2004 and she is priceless to me....... I figure they are worth 10-15 if in good running condition. 20 K and up if restored.