Ebay Watch: Clean Original 1946 Crosley Sedan

I love cars like this '46 sedan that just popped up on Ebay: original, unmolested, clearly beloved.  It's amazing when any 1940s car survives in this kind of condition, but when the car in question was built cheap, sold cheap and designed to be run to death, survivors like this are almost never found.

Crosley Surrey (AKA Golf Cart) for $250!!!

Man, I no sooner get rid of the Crosley wagon body than I find something else my wife would strangle me for if I brought it home.  Good thing it's two time zones away.

This custom Crosley 'Surrey' is for sale in Fort Worth, Texas for what seems like a bargain price of $250.  I say 'bargain' because the running gear is there and the Aerojet engine turns, so this baby might just might fire up with some coaxing.  Even if not, Aerojets are great rebuild candidates.

Body is a '49 or '50- looks like it's got hydraulic brakes given the filler hole in the driver's footwell.  And the body (what's left of it) doesn't look too rusty.  I'm guessing Fort Worth is in the dry part of Texas.

The seller (on the HAMB hotrod site) calls it a Surrey, but it looks pretty much like the custom Crosley golf carts I've seen before.  One way or t'other it's pretty cool for $250.  If it was half as far away it'd be keeping me up tonight.

Man, That's Cheap

I don't know much about this 1948 sedan for sale in Vermont- seller says it has new tires, runs, the floors are good and there are a few dents. It also has a boat gas tank- a lil trick that kept my '49 convertible going for years. At $1500 seems like you'd be hard pressed to go wrong. And for the newbies- that hood ornament ain't rare, it's wrong.
Certainly puts this Phoenix, AZ ad for a 1948 sedan in a different light. Seller claims 30,000 original miles (not all that unusual for a Crosley, actually), but the five year old photos, lack of interior photos, missing hub caps (and is that a missing rear window?) don't exactly inspire confidence... especially when the asking price is triple that of the Vermont car. Maybe it's Braje equipped and the interior is really nice and we just aren't seeing it. Great color.
Those do look like CA plates, so it appears to have had a history of living in the dry country. Sedans are awfully cool- I'd never been that excited about them until I saw Dave Wheeler's Slo Cal Special at a meet a few years back- the economy of design in the sedans is really a thing of beauty.