47 Ford Truck Sells For $800,000

[BobbyFord]

Not sure if this is for real. I got this in an email. I Googled it and there's a bunch of threads about it all over the place. Thought it was cool, though...

FORD TRUCK SELLS FOR RECORD $800,000.00
These pictures show a 1947 ford 1/2 ton pickup truck from Whitby, Ontario, Canada that was just sold to FORD MOTOR COMPANY of Detroit , Michigan , USA for the sum of $800,000.00, plus a new Ford F 350 dually truck.

This truck, according to Ford records, is one of only 35 that was ordered and built in 1947 with factory installed.... McCulloch water cooled supercharger, special carburetor, and special very low profile air cleaner for the McCulloch, due to hood height problem. When installed, intake has lower carb mounting height 'special supercharger intake', (see above air cleaner) Edmunds finned aluminum heads, Fenton cast iron headers, factory dual exhaust.

OTHER OPTIONS ORIGINALLY INSTALLED ON THE TRUCK: Sliding rear window, installed outside sun visor, vacuum powered dash fan, factory compass, ashtray, smokers kit, locking steering column, dome light, inside sun visors, bumper mounted fog lights, some form of factory cruise control with knob & wire in dash.

This truck was started to be restored by Dave Hill. Dave and his father Len purchased the truck from the farmer who was the ORIGINAL OWNER, and who ordered it equipped as it is, new in 1947.

Dave has added his own custom touches like the early luggage rack metal box in pickup bed rear, blue dot twin taillights and other details. Metal covered the spare tire cover.

What makes this truck so rare and valuable? As one of ONLY 35 documented "originally built", it may be the only one remaining with original numbers matching example that can be authenticated and was by a team of Ford museum employees before the offer, and the purchase was made. Apparently there 'might be' two other survivors that are in pieces, but cannot, or have not, been authenticated.

[1972hiboy]

Thats cool. I love having a flathead v-8 sitting on a engine stand in the garage its just eye candy. thats a handsome amount plus oh wait for it......a brand new 2012 truck! sound like another thread? this person really did do the trade haha.

[1972hiboy]

accidental repeat post.

[basshound71]

Worked for a guy in high school that had a wheat truck close to the same year. Loved driving it, it was sooo freaking cool. His had a 289 in it

[Mancar1]

Very cool truck. I just kept looking for the nude after seeing the sign in the window.

[forrestbump]

Truly amazing!!! Imagine what the original cost was for this Ford Truck so equipped? ...I'd love to know!

Thanks for sharing Bobby

[AlleyCat]

Bobby, I got this as an e-mail too. Been a couple years ago. I can't tell you any more than you've already learned but it sure is a sharp truck. Flatheads have a sound all their own and it is cool.

[fitzwell]

hell, i'd sell my 46 for about 1%of that. And it's got Air, power steering, and disc brakes. Advantage with mine, you can throw stuff in the bed & use it as a truck....

Cool truck, but 800K???

[woods]

yeah, I have one of these, but I use it to haul garbage to the dump, so I couldn't sell it.

[Whateverman]

a factory supercharged flatty? that's soo beyond wicked it ain't even funny

[mk]

Amazing, the crap floating around the 'net. This little fantasy was proven to be pure unadulterated horses**t about a year ago...


mike

[woods]

Yeah, it has. I didn't want to rain on the parade (yet). But, here you go, from the writer.

"I, mike lynch of whitby Ontario Canada originally took the pictures and wrote the story published in www.hotrodhotline.com back in early november 2010. About the " 1947 ford pickup truck sells for $800,000" too the Henry Ford Museum. Also included in that was supposedly a 2011 ford 350 dually truck.

Larry shackleton ( roddin shack ) wrote about the story here in this group with many replies about it.

Some new information has come to my attention and i have to report that the story as told to me by the owner of the vehicle , IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PACK OF LIES !

there is no $800,000 from Ford
there is no 2011 ford 350 dually truck
there is no 41 willys purchase from the winner of performance world 2010. The car was from Quebec & sold last august for just under $200G to a buyer in montreal quebec.
I spoke to the builder last saturday dec 4 and he told me where its been sold too.

This morning 9.45 am dec 6, he answer'd to these questions re the sale of the 47 truck, " how come your not driving the new dually" "Oh it uses to much gas " , but u got $800G to play with who cares ??? Lie #1

When are you getting the 41 willys, oh i got a deposit on it and guy is holding it until the spring , OKAY lie #2

Where is that willys from anyway, Brampton, okay lie #3 its from Quebec

Problem with people like my postman who lives in Pickering Ontario, is once they start telling lies to make themselves feel important, they cannot stop themselves and just keep coming up with more and more lies to cover up the prior lies, until it all gets thrown in their face and they are EXPOSED.

The conveluted story of lies concerning the 8 ford museum employees coming to his house to verify the validity of the serial numbers, the preposterous price offered , the fact this was the ONLY remaining example of one of 35 factory built with : McCulloch supercharger, edmunds aluminum heads, Fenton cast iron manifolds for true dual exhaust. This was the biggest lie.

I believe that the farmer in oshawa ontario Canada who dave and his father bought the truck from , probably had those items DEALER INSTALLED along with the many other options that was on the truck.. I think that would be normal at that time 1947. A friend of mine rick Fendly , his father was a mcCulloch supercharger dealer after the ww2 and installed many of them, according to Rick.

When i was taking pictures of the truck for the story i kept harping on the FACTORY INSTALLED storyline he was pushing and did he have any written proof from Ford that it was so.......he never came up with it, despite my repeated requests.

I have tried to get thru to the henry Ford Museum in Michigan and talk to the curator to verify the original story. I have telephoned and i have emailed, but absolutely no replies are forthcoming from them, dispite repeated attempts. Thanks Ford Museum for your help (__!__) .

SO THERE WE GO FOLKS, GET YOUR SHOVELS OUT, BETTER YET BRING ON THE BULLDOZER BECAUSE HE IS BUILDING A HUGE PILE OF B S , HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO FACE IN THE SPRING AT THE CRUISE NITES.


mike lynch.........net name ....madmike3434"

[mk]

Sure like to know more about that blower, though. Looks like the install was well crafted; too bad he made it into a gook wagon.



mike

[70 ranger]

What a shame that this truck now has such a stigma to cary around with it. It sure is nice! I found one of these years (42-47?) on my families farm in Alberta a couple of years ago, I poked around thinking about wether or not I should rent a trailer and drag it home. It needed a lot of work and had no box. Next year when I go out there I am going to check to see if it has one of these super chargers on it!

[Bullitt390]

I was going to add no way was Ford going to shell out 800 large + a truck for that. And even if Ford DID buy that truck they certainly would not have the sales price advertised all over. Much like the Edsel Model 40.

Josh