junkyard auction

craziness

Still zero bids... nosurprize.

There may be 1.5 million $ worth of stuff there... but it will take three

years & $700,000 and an army of people to sort/categorize/sell the

stuff on eBay and pay out another $150,000 in auction fees.

$800,000 is what I think a place like this is worth, honestly.

You're buying liability and headaches from the EPA as well.

What is this from?

Hey Sixty8, they have your '59 Buick:

Yup... saw the Buick flattop... I -heart- that patina.

The nose piece is off a mid-to-late 1930s COE truck, I think it's like a '37 Dodge... maybe.

EDIT: that was a shooting-from-the-hip answer btu now I'm really baffled. I KNOW

I've seen this gril ebefore and the emblem reminds of a Dodge Bro. logo but I do

not think it is a dodge, did International Harvester make COEs in the 30s? Or

perhaps this is a REO or GMC...

The grille slats have Diamond-T written all over them but I do not think it is a Diamond-T...

This is starting to bug me.

Balthazar is quite knowledable in COEs, he owns a '40 Ford barrel nose that was de-barrreled.

Edited January 9, 200719 yr by Sixty8panther

"de-barreled"??

The grille must look bigger than it is: it's from a '37 Olds F37. Those 6 lower louvers are rather distinctive (the Olds 8 have a different grille)- I have an article where the author reminisces about how ideal the louvers were for popping soda bottle tops. Of course, cars in those days were made of real, actual steel; no doubt the F37 grille could pop bottle tops forever without sheetmetal distortion.

F37

Thanks Balthazar for solving the mystery! I wish the guy was selling that piece alone, as I would love to hang that on my garage wall at home! And yes, it looks big enough to fit on a truck.

Sixty8, I thought the same as you in that the piece was from a COE truck. I knew it had to be a GM part, just wasn't sure which vehicle it was from (way off from a truck).

Balthazar: No, I do not think "de-barreled" is in the dictionary...

but Honestly I made enough of a retard out of myself by talking about

Diamond Ts and Dodges when the darn thing was off a 1937 Olds. You

know the REAL irony? XP emailed me a link to a Craigslisting of a 1937

Olds about a month ago, it was all screwed up and some moron had

monotoned it back in the 1980s so the WHOLe car was black, no

chrome or nothing. Gross. This turned me off so much I never even

went beyond a quick phone call with the guy. The car was like $3000

but it still needed a TON of work.