I located an excellent possible car I would like to buy but it's in California and me in michigan.Has anyone had a similar dilemma ? I need someone who knows what to look for in the car ie.rust prone areas and previous accident damage yada yada... Any suggestions where to find someone to be my yes to inspect the car ? Your input/opinions needed .
If it's close to Bob I'd say try and get him. Only thing is, after fixing up his 57 once, tearing it apart and doing it again, he's going to be more picky than I am. But, that's not a bad thing since you're so far away. I'd rather have someone with a critical eye when evaluating a car I'm going to buy. Jim
No disrespect,but bob who? I welcome someone fussy to look at it.I just need assurance that it's solid,never wrecked good car. the car is near Gardena.
Bob Lee, aka 57agin, or Rick Crawford, aka 57tudor here on this site. There is also Ron Woodside, aka shopratwoody. You can send a PM to either of these fellows and ask if they would be willing to help you out by looking at it for you.
Thanks Mr Potter! I will check and see . :003:
Mike b:
I'd like to help you out, back about 40 years ago I lived in Gardena, CA. I will need to know the address of where the car is at and how to contact the current owner. I will try to have Rick go along with me, he's the mechanical expert and between the two of us we should be able to come up with some pictures and an idea of the condition the car is in. At least from a surface view, under the patina a whole new animal could exist.
I've checked with Rick and he'll be happy to go along, too. We are looking at this coming Friday to do this, as we are expecting a storm to arrive Friday night and stay around till Monday.
You can reach me at rlee@ovsd.org.
Bob
57 AGIN
bob,email sent requesting your phone # so i can talk to you .
Bob and Rick went and looked at a car for me.I can't thank them enough for doing that! It really is nice to know there are still good people out there. The car has issues and I don't have any pics to contemplate on and use to make a lower offer but at east I know the extent of the problems. Thanks guys!
Way to go Bob and Rick. That deserves a few more karma clicks.
Rich
Neither Rick nor I aren't sure why Mike B can't open the PDF file of photos we sent him. But, Rick spent some time on the phone with Mike and he 's aware of the problem areas. The car would have been a great "project" car. But the money asked was well above reasonable, especially if you add in the shipping costs. I was impressed with the back seat arrangement on this 70D model. The back seat folded down just like the middle seat in a 57 Ranchwagon, it had a split upper rear seat and solid all the way across bench lower seat resting on a swivel bar when in the down position. I didn't know Ford did this in 1957. I thought this kind of convenience feature wasn't around until the 1965 Mustang Fastback introduced it in 1964.
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob,
Did you take pictures of that seat set-up?
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Zapato:
Yes, we took 3 or 4 photos of that unique seat setup. I've got the pictures where I'm at in a PDF file. I'll see if I can separate them out. I'm sure that Rick can help out, if I'm unsuccessful, as these photos came out of his camera. I also found out why I couldn't send the report on the 57 inspection to oneadam12, the file size was just too large for my email system to handle (17 pages of PDF files mostly photos).
Bob
57 AGIN
Zapato:
If you go to the above posting and click on the attachment you should be able to see the three photos of the 70D's back seat. I had to do a work around to get the proper photo's displayed. I called up the PDF file, paged down to the photos I wanted, then did an Alt/Print Screen to copy the photo on the screen, then I pasted it onto a MS Word page, named it and attached it to the above reply. I was able to open the replies attachment, so it should be available to anyone else. Let me know if you have any trouble opening the attachment and viewing the seat photos.
Bob
57 AGIN
Adobe wouldn't let me open them. Will try again later on another computer.
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Zapato:
If you have Microsoft Office, that should let you open the file in MS Word. Maybe Rick can post the seat photos he got out of his camera before he PDF'd them.
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob that rear seat set up does look cool.I could see a surf board through the trunk pass through lol.
those pics opened right up in Word for me. It looks to me like it was not open to the trunk, so I'm wondering the purpose of the fold down?
Rich
HI Guys.
Not sure why Mike can't open the PDF that I sent him, so I just sent him the pic's in 3 separate zip files. Hope that works for him. Here are some on my pic's of the back seat. Also this car had the stationary quarter windows in it. I seem to remember there was a thread on this topic last year. Now I have seen one for the first time, all I've seen in the past had roll-up quarter windows.
Rick.
57 Tudor.
Here are the quarter window pic's.
Rick
57 Tudor
Well,the car in California didn't work out as it was too much metal work needed for me.I did find a neat 70A that is as about rust free as you can hope for. It has an upgraded 302 and ado trans which will work out great for my needs.I will try and get pics here when I get it home.Things have a way to work out for the best... :003:
Those back seat seems to come from a station wagon. HR
My thoughts too. Looks like a 58 Edsel 9 passenger setup I saw a few years ago, been a long time so I am not 100% sure.....
I really like that folding back seat. Would come specially great in a car like mine with diminished trunk capacity or one with a trunk mounted fuel cell. You'd have 4-5 passenger capacity and if you were on a trip would allow luggage space without damaging upholstery. Pretty clever idea one more for me to track down.
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Zapato:
Keep your eyes on the Reassembling 57AGIN. I'm having the upholstery shop re-do my fold down rear seat and I'll provide photos. When I had it done before, the upper seat used a long piano hinge for the seat to rotate on. I believe Rene is going to use a different hinge setup this time and the seat should sit a little flatter when in the down position. It won't be as flat as the one in the 70D photos, because the lower seat doesn't fold down over itself to provide the base for the upper seat to rest upon. In other words, it won't be a station wagon type setup. Anyway we'll soon find out how flat it will sit.
Bob
57 AGIN
Bob, been following your thread religiously. Incredible build you have going lots of inspiration for the rest of us. My car (true business coupe) is lacking a back seat and it could kind of keep that look with the folding seat yet at the same time provide safe and secure seating for the grandkids.
Wondering not criticizing but there appears to be quite a color contrast between the paint colors and the almost aquamarine green color being used in your upholstery. Is the difference that strong in person or are the pictures creating an illusion ? How does it look in sunlight ?
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Zap....I think what you're looking at is pieces of his old upholstery
you're probably right. was puzzling to me.
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