Montana ranch auction w/lotsa Fords!

[NIsaacs]

Kinda late but some of you might be interested. Pretty dang clean bodies with glass.

https://www.mills-auction.com/lyda-ranch-auction

[shady]

I dig the '55 Buick. The patina is perfect and the chrome looks nice. Set that body on a Ford frame with a 390 and blow everybody's mind. although I do have a soft spot for nail-heads that goes back to my old man and TV Tommy Ivo.

[Falcon67]

Get that Willis truck running and it'll be bomb proof.  Barely make 55 in more or less stock form, but woe to any modern vehicle that that would happen to run into it.

[machoneman]

So, so much farm equipment. Must have been a dealer or was given a ton of it by farmers pulling out.

[NIsaacs]

So, so much farm equipment. Must have been a dealer or was given a ton of it by farmers pulling out.

No dealer, just an old farm/ranch with a large collection/bone yard. I worked for the owner in the late 60's, when I was in high school. He was fresh out of the Army and took it over from his father-in- law. Probably started in the early 40's.

 So, I drove some of that old stuff. One of the Jeep pickups, the '54 Ford F-250 and an IH pickup. If I recall, the '54 had a 272 y block in it. In the description, the '59 Ford is an old cop car. I have a lot of round trips in his wheat fields on one of the old LA Case tractors. They were big and old and could really pull, but were gas hogs.

My brother still lives in the area so he sent me the flyer. Good memories of the good ole days. Since there are about a dozen old Fords, I thought I would share.

[turbohunter]

Good memories of the good ole days. Since there are about a dozen old Fords, I thought I would share.

Glad you did, thanks.
Man I’d love to pull a couple of those bump sides home. But I don’t have a home yet.

[cammerfe]

So, so much farm equipment. Must have been a dealer or was given a ton of it by farmers pulling out.

No dealer, just an old farm/ranch with a large collection/bone yard. I worked for the owner in the late 60's, when I was in high school. He was fresh out of the Army and took it over from his father-in- law. Probably started in the early 40's.

 So, I drove some of that old stuff. One of the Jeep pickups, the '54 Ford F-250 and an IH pickup. If I recall, the '54 had a 272 y block in it. In the description, the '59 Ford is an old cop car. I have a lot of round trips in his wheat fields on one of the old LA Case tractors. They were big and old and could really pull, but were gas hogs.

My brother still lives in the area so he sent me the flyer. Good memories of the good ole days. Since there are about a dozen old Fords, I thought I would share.

Unless the '54 had a replacement engine, it only had 239 CID. The 272 was introduced for the '55 model year. When I replaced mine I went for a 312 out of a '57.

KS

[GJCAT427]

 Hate to say it but the junkers will probably get most of that for pennys on the dollar.  Neat stuff though. I would love to get the dodge power wagon.

[HarleyJack17]

Yeah that Power Wagon and the pre-'73 Highboy could be redone and be worth some good money depending on how bad they are. I myself would love to have a crack at the Power Wagon. Be a cool rig to put around town in. I would really be curious to see what those two go for. To bad I am a long ways away too.

[cjshaker]

Hate to say it but the junkers will probably get most of that for pennys on the dollar.  Neat stuff though. I would love to get the dodge power wagon.

I doubt (hope) the majority of it will get junked. Farmers love old tractors, and some of those will bring collectors out of the woodwork. There is also a vintage gravity fuel pump in the pictures, and those bring big bucks. There are quite a few people buying collections for parting stuff out, and that collection is big enough that it will probably bring a few serious buyers out.

I agree with Marc, I'd love to bring that Highboy home. And the other bump looks to have a pretty solid body, which I'd also love to have to get my old Highboy back on the road. Mine is rusted too bad to save.

[Thumperbird]

Just beautiful, I could walk that farm for hours, what fun it would be to be able to go just pick one out and take it home!  Well maybe not a combine in my case anyways.

[NIsaacs]

My oldest son bought the '69 Ford Highboy ($3250) my brother will pull the hydraulic bale retriever off and sell it to some local rancher. We will do a meet and greet somewhere about half way. Northern Colorado or South Wyoming.

'70 F-100 4x2 $1k, '76 F-100 4x4, engine was dead $900, '75 F-250 4x4 $3k, Vintage Wayne gas pump $1k.

I told my brother I would bid $1500 on the Power Wagon so a scrapper didn't get it. That didn't buy the spare tire,  . It went for $7k and they drove it around.