Junkyard Find: 1951 Ford 2-Door Sedan

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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