1953 Chrysler T&C HEMI

I love these cars. Love 'em. Still....as a starter with some bondo (we are only seeing one side) and certainly some rust as stated, I think $3K is too much. I know it's a beauty...diamond in the rough and all that...but there's a long, long way to go to make it the way I would want it. With that said...I would love to have it.

 

Of course, 3 K is plenty of money. However, as these cars continue to rot out, they won't get cheaper. I'd hate to see what something like that will go for 10 years from now

 

Yes, you make a good point. And this is a hemi car as well. I guess, to me anyway, it would depend on just how good the body, frame, etc is with this car. It takes a ton of money to do them right and you need to start with something solid that you don't have to fill half of it with bondo.
Wagons have gone up a lot since the time I have been on this site. I still can't get used to some of the money that some of these wagons are going for now.

 

Unfortunately, as with any commodity, the price will increase propotionately to it getting scarce. Sometimes, one has to fork out more, to be happy. Selling such cars has become like selling artwork and functions principally the same way.
Heavens, no. No bondo. Welding where possible and filling in using lead, in such cases. Bondo invites further damage, since it cannot seal out corrosive substances

 

More pics.

 

Sorry, Hans...bondo is a generic term to me meaning body work...not necessarily the use of Bondo.

Thanks for those extra pix, wadada. They sure help. I'm impressed that the car still has the alligator interior. The car looks like it could be saved for sure but....oh, the money it will take to take it to its original glory.

 

It looks clean for something that old found in a barn. But, then again, looks are often deceiving. Only a complete teardown and subsequent acid bath will reveal the truth.
Old wooden barns are good for preserving cars, because fresh air moves through constantly to keep the vehicle dry. The only problem is, if the body has holes in it, varmints will get in and munch on the upholstery to build nests.

Is this blue canister an oil fill for the trannie or do one of those 3 belts drive a power-steering pump which gets filled by that canister?:

 

Are you referring to the oil filter?

 

Yes, that's the crankcase oil filter. They stuck them on many brands of engines way up high. They were fun changing oil without spilling a quart from the filter element all over the engine, fender, and clothes.

 

Yup...I had a 49 Caddy vert and the filter sat up on top of the engine. Most did back then.

 

Show off. I had a 1949 Dodge Coronet coupe.

 

Yeah...well...I wish I had NEVER sold that car! I bought it in '64 with 14,000 miles on it and the car was chauffer driven for an old man that changed the oil every weekend. The car was like brand new! I bought it in Florida. When I moved back to Wisconsin people would stop me on the street and offer big bucks to buy that car from me. It was yellow with a tan vert top and it gleemed with all that chrome on the grille & bumper. What a smooth car that was.

 

Well! I also wished I'd never sold my first car, that maroon 49 Dodge.
But I sure would have traded you even up for that yeller Caddy! I'd enjoy driving it here Florida. :banana:

 

Now that I see how prices for the same old heaps I used to scrap now skyrocket, I wish I hadn't sold any of my cars at all

 

But most of us would have ended up like those threads "sitting and rotting" because we wouldn't had time or money to fix them up.