Do Original Mufflers have any value?

[dedgar]

So I think my original muffler in my 70 finally opened up with a hole. It's dated 1969. I have replaced the tail pipe, but the original muffler was still going strong.

Does it have any value to a guy wanting an original that he can fix to use it again?

 

[JefeAZ]

Ive never seen an original muffler. Pic?

 

[dedgar]

 

[fordfan]

I would definitely keep it with the Bronco! Display it on the wall with the "FoMoCo" clearly visible. That's rare for sure! I have a couple with the converters still, but not a C9 muffler..

 

[56f100bbw]

My 56 f100 has long round mufflers like that and put a Pr of them on my 76 bronco 5.0 very quiet mufflers and fit great better than an oval mufflers

 

[ared77]

"Does it have any value"

I know it does in the Mustang world! I'd display it like fordfan suggested.

 

[BronCowie]

"Does it have any value"

I know it does in the Mustang world! I'd display it like fordfan suggested.

^^^Yep^^^

 

[House]

Yes my old 70 had a C9 muffler on it. Way cool. Someone should want it! Maybe me?!? haha

 

[tbruz]

I have a NOS one that I've had for a looooong time. Its slightly different than the one pictured as it has a shield on it so that nothing touches the hot muffler.
Reads FORD versus FOMOCO.
Engineering number characters are printed versus stamped and the leading digits are illegible but I can faintly see the xxx-5230- and maybe AF or AFA as the suffix
Thanks
Tbruz

 

[DirtDonk]

Not sure if they all had shields all along, but the later ones at least after '73 did. I don't remember seeing shields on the original '72 mufflers, but I was not paying as close attention to that detail back then either.

What is the engineering number on yours tbruz? Same "C9" as the other pics?
And for pics, there are tutorials, but click on the "go advanced" button below, click on "upload photos" that comes up in the lower left of the next screen, then follow the prompts in the next window that pops up.
Pretty straightforward as such things go (hope it does not change over much in the new forum!) but it helps a lot if you have images of less than 1MB.
If they're more than 900k or 1m then try one of the image resizing apps to get it smaller. Does help.

Paul

 

[Rustytruck]

My California 74 didn't have a shield on it when I took it off and hucked it.

 

[House]

I think it is a 75 and up thing…?

 

[gnsteam]

My California 74 didn't have a shield on it when I took it off and hucked it.

I think it is a 75 and up thingÂ…?

Are you all referring to this shield that is still on my 76?

 

[56f100bbw]

My 77 bronco from California has a long shield for the muffler in a short one for the converter

 

[knack]

So I think my original muffler in my 70 finally opened up with a hole. It's dated 1969. I have replaced the tail pipe, but the original muffler was still going strong.

Does it have any value to a guy wanting an original that he can fix to use it again?

Looking at the title of your post - is there anything original to these trucks that doesn't have value?

I've spit out my coffee a few times looking at what some used or repo part sold for, and thought about the one I scrapped. I just never been a collector. My parents grew up during the depression and held on to EVERYTHING. Maybe it's just a reaction to wading through all the junk when I was a kid.