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Wednesday 2 September 2015

Junkyard Find: 1951 Ford 2-Door Sedan



14 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin

We’ve been seeing a lot of 21st century Junkyard Finds lately, so today we’ll change up and go to one of the older cars I’ve seen in a self-service yard lately. This ’51 Ford showed up at a Colorado yard last month.
02 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin

It has the look of a long-abandoned project: interior gutted, bodywork, etc. You’d think that a non-rusty two-door shoebox Ford would be worth enough to keep it safe from the clutches of the wrecking yard, but such was not the case here.

15 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin

Someone put some work into the body and paint and then forgot about the car, but it’s impossible to say whether that happened in 1968 (with indoor storage since) or 2008 (with outdoor storage).

07 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin

You could get the ’51 Ford with the famous flathead V8 or the 254-cubic-inch flathead straight-six engine. This car has the six.

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A Denver friend owns this ’49 sedan project, so he was all over the junkyard ’51 within hours of learning of its existence, grabbing bits and pieces for low prices. When you have an elderly project vehicle and one like it shows up at U-Wrench-It, you drop everything and pull what you can!

 

This generation of Ford was the first true postwar design from the Detroit Big Three, and the first Ford to be mostly free of the late Henry’s erratic leadership and limitations as an engineer. Other than the Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle, few cars you’d find in this sort of junkyard will have this level of historical significance.00 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 02 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 04 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 05 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 06 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 07 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 09 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 10 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 11 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 12 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 14 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 15 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 16 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin 17 - 1951 Ford Deluxe Down On the Junkyard - photo by Murilee Martin

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