If you own a hot rod shop that specializes in old school builds, do we have a deal for you! There is a guy in Billings, Montana selling the most amazing collection of stock, rusty, patina ridden, 1930s Chevy and GM cars we have ever seen. Panel trucks, sedans, coupes, even a 1.5 ton truck are all up for grabs. As you can see in the small photo below, the cars appear to be grouped together and most of them have long since become unwilling convertibles as their cloth roof center sections have rotted away and disappeared.
The seller also says that outside of the cars is a huge stash of extra fenders, grills, running boards, and other miscellaneous parts. The asking price is currently $60,000. While that is a pile of change, it may be a deal when you break it all down, especially if you can drag these cars to a shop or business and use them as cores, base cars for customer projects/builds. If you are really shrewd, you could flip the rusty hulks after buying them for a profit, although we imagine the market for people looking to spend big bucks on a 1930s Chevy coupe for restoration purposes are pretty low. We’re thinking that these are best as hot rod fodder.
Call us crazy, but these seems like one hell of an opportunity for a shop or a group of shops to throw in and scoop up and great collection of real deal steel cars!
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RACINGJUNK FIND: A MAJOR LEAGUE GATHERING OF ORIGINAL 1930s CARS FOR SALE
I hate to sound boastful but this is nuthin. About 5 years ago I stopped on the side of a road in northern Idaho to look at a used 50’s jeep on the side of the road with a 4Sale sign and some obvious other stuff in the weeds beyond.
After talking to the owner and observing his dirt floor log cabin he was living in complete with several dogs, he took me “over a small hill” to see a Willy’s wagon.
As we topped the hill, there hidden out of site 200 yards from a main highway, was about 50 “Patinaed” 20’s and mostly 30’s coupes, sedans, trucks. What was more interesting was looking at the ground it was obvious many more had been setting there, and recently. Being careful not to make the eccentric owner operator mad I asked a dumb unassuming question and he answered that he was “selling out” and “a guy from CA” (no clue as who) had “bought all the 20’s/30’s and few 40’s” and had already hauled most of the 200 or so away. Would love it if someone knows this story, who purchased, and maybe has a picture before they were moved.
We travel the west back roads ever year and although I don’t remember for sure where it seems this was just north of Sand Point.