1939 Coupe for sale

[Wm Steed]

OK, seems as how nobody else wants to comment to much on the question posed, so I will throw my two-bits worth in.

A '39 Plym coupe is probably the third/fouth desirable body style in the '39 line. The convertibles being at the top, followed by the station wagon/sedan delivery.

The value of the car is probably quite low when you take into consideration the fact that is has not been running for over ten years and it has been taken apart to some degree. Add in the rust out of the floor pan and missing accessories and the fact that the car is located in an area that is infamous, the Salt Lake City, Utah area, for extensive rust out.

I would place the value of the car somewhere around $900., maybe as high as 1,500. In spite of what kind of a value someone else would say the car is worth, the deciding factor is are they willing to open  their wallet or just  their mouth.

I turned down a 'complete' 39 coupe for $1,500 that was a one owner car in Montana two years ago. The problem was that the grandson had taken the car completely apart twenty years earlier to 'restore it'. All of the parts were scattered around a garage, two sheds and the yard. I offered them $500. for the whole mess...Bill     

[Carla]

jensele,

Is the hole in the trunk floor something some previous owner cut for some reason, or is it rust?

If its rust, what is the state of rusting on other parts of the body?

The extent of body rust will make all the difference in the price you could realistically ask for the car.

Sadly, some cars will be found which were used near salt water, or kept near factory operations which generated airborne rust-producing fumels. An example would be the old Del Monte pickle plant on Taylor street in San Jose CA, where millions of pickles were produced in large wooden vats of vinegar (dilute acetic acid). Cars regularly parked near the pickle plant would be literally rusted away to nothing from the acid fumes emanating from the works. There are various other industrial processes which produced just enough of corrosive fumes to destroy the nearby vehicles, so if your car had been in such a situation, it may be not realistically restorable.

One of the saddest examples I've ever seen was an otherwise perfect 140 Jaguar drophead which was owned by someone who worked on one of the shipping piers on the San Francisco waterfront, and had a parking space out on the pier. The chassis frame and body parts of that car were literally reduced to nothing in that salt air environment.

cheers

Carla



cheers

Carla

[jensele]

I have a 1939 coupe that I want to sell.  It is fairly complete - missing some chrome on the front, what I call the license plate light on the trunk.  It has a large hole in the trunk floor.  It ran 10 years ago but I started to take it apart and work on it then.  It is located in Brigham City, Utah which is about 60 miles north of Salt Lake City.  I have pictures available.  What can I expect for a selling price?