Dean Micetich, the taller half of DicE magazine (here), is putting his ‘32 Ford 3-window coupe up for grabs. We got the email this morning and he describes it thusly:

“I’m asking around $55,000 for it or trade for anything interesting:
It was built in 1968…see pics. It was a Venice, CA car. No magazines or anything but it is a time warp. It sat in a garage from 1970 until 1999. The grille was swapped for a chopped down original passenger grille and Arrow headlights were added, also. The Kennedy Brothers got it and updated the chassis a little to make it safe and driveable! Including a SO-CAL Speed Shop center cross member, F100 steering (instead of ‘32 Ford) and replacing the 4-speed for a TH350. Plus, new wiring, rebuilding brakes, etc., etc. It has a 283, 350 trans and ‘50 Olds rearend. Split wishbones front and rear. Old dropped axle, ‘40 Ford brakes up front.

The body is real nice! I was going to unchanneled the car and the Kennedys said it would be easy because whoever channeled it left half of the subrails, so it wasn’t all hacked out. Interior was done in the ’60s. Diamond tuck with chrome garnish moldings and old SW gauges that all work, except for gas gauge. But I didn’t have the heart to do it. Car runs and drives great and is tagged etc. Wheels are magnesium Halibrands on rear and old aluminum mags up front.

I would trade anything interesting, really…bike or car…depending on what it is.”

So, there you have it: a gennie 3-window coupe with some good, slightly documented, southern California history. The price isn’t horrible and the willingness to trade makes it that much more interesting. We dig the passenger grille and headlights more than the early Seventies version of the car (see below) and even though we’d chuck that 283/350 combo in favor of a nailhead or hemi and go looking for the 86ed 4-speed, the price or trade deal makes that completely possible.

If you’re interested, drop us a line here and we’ll put you through our rigorous screening process before passing you onto the seller. Dig it!

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Awright, we don’t usually open up the doors of the ACF auction house more than once a week, but John Watkins has decided to let go of his bitchin’ Deuce sedan and this thing is even bitchiner because it’s got some good history. John Otis, who owned the car in the Fifties when it showed up in Car Craft magazine, finally turned it over nearly twenty years ago and Watkins did a great restoration of it. You can see more about the car (here). John’s in Texas, so drop us a line if you wanna get in touch with him and put this thing in your driveway. Hey, wouldn’t you rather drive this to work every day instead of your Sonata?

Every once in awhile, we’ll be featuring the sale of a custom car we really dig. The formula’s pretty simple: the car either has some neat history, is a good specimen of a specific era of car culture or, well, we just really dig it.

We’ll kick this off the with the Tanimura T: Dave Tanimura has a good eye for era-correct hot rods and customs and he found this little guy somewhere near San Rafael, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Nor-Cal. It’s a ‘27 T roadster pickup with an early-Sixties Corvette 327 and a 350 automatic. Judging by the build, interior upholstery and body, he guesses it was probably built in the late Sixties and was given some Seventies-era touches – like “Daisy” chrome 15″ wheels and radials – that he’s since removed and replaced with slicks and bias-plys on chrome-reversed steelies.

It’s a neat runner and the thing is absolutely turn-key and a riot to run around in. Plunk down the cake, jump in and tear-ass outta there, broseph…

You can get in on the bidding (here).