....Should you get this car ?
Like tha others have been saying...." If you can Afford " ...it and still have food
in the cubbard , then Go For It.
I've never built one of these but have been around a few in my time and they
are expensive to build and can be frustrating but Well Worth the effort.
$22,000.00 seems a bit high but reasonible. Do some research. Go to www.oldride.com and also check those out.
Personally I'm a fan of these cars. I love the old Hot Rods and Rat Rods
that are coming back into style. I would love to own one but can't at this time.
Good Luck with it.

 

if its what you want i say go for it,

 

Looks pretty cool to me!

 

They do make all of that stuff RJ... but my experience with aftermarket is that about 1/3 of the time atleast, it doesn't quite want to match up exactly. One time I got a set of door handles for this torino that were like a quarter inch from matching... I measured everything and it should have matched, and didn't. Turned out ot be the threads being off, and I was able to put the original threads in to the new handles and get away with it that time.... sometimes the bolt holes will be like a half inch off for something.... hard to say without working on one, but it doesn't always just bolt up and go... plus you always have about twice as many problems as you expect.

 

i would say $20-22k is about right if its something you can jump in and take to the cruse in. like RJ said, they are not the most difficult thing to build yourself, but you still come out to 16-17k if your lucky and using as many new parts as possible.... and then ya still gotta build it, which takes time to do correctly at home..... and if you farmed out the work to a qualified shop, your back up to a $20-22k price tag, and ya still gotta wait to drive it. if you can swing the pricetag without putting stress on your finances, i say go for it its a sweet lil roadster.

 

PSH! A car like that, all body work done at a shop, all painting done, all assembly completed there.... you're looking at $30,000 i'll bet!

 

yep, probibly. if its a fiberglass body or mostly fiberglass parts it's not worth as much as a finished product but i would say $20 is a good buy. and the body looks straight enough where if ya got sick of the flat black, you could have it painted ( personally, i LOVE a candy apple red or blue with a bit of metalflake and a TON of clearcoat. ), add a hood and put a set of radir mag wheels on it, and you have a compleatly differant car!

 

My 2 cents I'd go with a semi-gloss black color and call it done for now. You will get so many compliments from other people you'll loose count.

The fancy paint work can always come later if the funding is there and the desire.

You can rent a compressor from most tool rentals and if you screw it up, start over. The John Deere semi-gloss from a Tractor Supply store isn't as expensive as a gallon at a auto paint store. I know a lot of Tri-5 guys went with the JD paint as their first paint job just to get their car in to one color.

Duane, the aftermarket parts being off from original isn't just a problem with classic Furds. Us Cheby guys fight the same battle. I read a post today a guy complaining about Taiwan parts he was sold for his '57. Some members responded these parts were a better grade versus parts from previous years we were sold for our cars.

Back to the subject,
Speeday Motors is a decent place to buy parts for early Furds. They sell a lot and their prices aren't too hateful.

I got the electric fuel pump for my dad's '41 Dodge pickup from them about one year ago. Now they regularly send me their catalogs which include some Tri-5 parts as well as some for 4th generation Montes.

 

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The John Deere semi-gloss from a Tractor Supply store isn't as expensive as a gallon at a auto paint store. I know a lot of Tri-5 guys went with the JD paint as their first paint job just to get their car in to one color.

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kinda off topic but i just gotta mention, my dad goes to the mack truck dealership for his paint. sounds strange i know, but they have a nice range of color choices, and you can get a gallon for about what a quart of duplicolor's paintshop prouduct goes for. we've done a couple of cars for other people with that paint, just single stage color / clear, wax it and it looks amazing for the amount of $ invested