Barn Find!

[Rams]

Was visiting my son and DIL last weekend, was helping him do some yard work with my tractor/tiller and 3 point platform. We also needed a box blade to help move and contour some dirt. I didn’t bring my box blade but his neighbor had one sitting by his shed in plain site so we decided to ask to borrow it. My son knew the man. He loaned us the blade without a question. We conversed for a while and I asked what else he might have, just in case....

He took me around to the end of the shed and the door was open. There it sat, inside, covered in dust. Black, completely stock 67 Cconvertible, 427CI, 4 speed Corvette! 84,000 miles. My jaw dropped and I was speechless. Said he hadn’t driven it in years. Said the engine ran but he thought he heard a ticking in the engine.

I offered to buy it immediately but he wasn’t interested. Said he bought it new and did not have a need to sell it. I made sure he knew I was available for adoption. 

[..]

Shame that some just let them sit and deteriorate.

My ex FIL had 6, Mid 70's Eldorados. One was a driver. The rest all needed work. In his brain all were wonderful. As were the slowly rotting 7 Chris Crafts he had in various storage yards.

[Avanti]

I had a basement/garage fined in 1982. It was a 1959 Corvette completely disassembled.  The body sat bare on the garage floor and the frame was leaning against the wall.  All other parts were in the basement, boxed, bagged and tagged.

Restored it, sold it and bought my first house.   I think you can still buy a house with one.

[Jess from VA]

I had and mostly restored a '69 drop-top.  I don't want another one.

It was fun, but it drove and rode more like a truck than my new truck does.


Barn find.

And I could never understand this concept... how hard can it be to find a barn?


 

[cookiedough]

sort of reminds me of the time I went to look at a cheap scooter (honda silverwing) in the boonies on dead end street a log cabin mansion of a house.  I pulled up in the dark cold winter with icy road to the shed waiting and waiting no one around so I called him again since he said he was home.  He answered his phone and said go on into the shed he will be there in a minute.  He was driving pulling up in a 20K UTV but before he pulled up I got into the shed in AWE.

It was really a shed of a mansion big enough for a normal person to live in heated, smooth as glass concrete floor and about 5 cars under cover some 60s thru 80s muscle cars, sort of a like a museum.  I was in awe to find someone had this much money let alone the house being easily 800K,  a shed worth more than my house (over 100K) and am sure the 5 muscle cars as well over 100K easily.

Scooter needed work for sure broken pieces, etc. but said it ran well being a Honda and all as am sure he was telling the truth me starting it but with the icy road and under 30 degrees out was unable to test drive it so I passed on the deal.

Some people have more money than they know what to do with I guess?  I would not call them barn finds though but more like mansion shed fines.  From the outside it looked llike a plain metal huge storage shed but on the inside was pretty pristine and well laid out.  For a minute I thought I was in Jay Lenos car garage....

[Rams]

It was fun, but it drove and rode more like a truck than my new truck does.
 

No doubt, suspensions have improved immensely along with brakes and drive trains.   But, one should expect that from a 52 year old vehicle.   My bet is, neither you nor I can complete with younger versions of us. 

Rams

[Alien]

My dad's cousin (my second cousin?) bought a 1965 Corvette roadster brand new.  Nassau Blue, with the 365 HP 327, 4 speed and factory removable hardtop.  He drove it for about 10 years then parked it.  I grew up lusting after that car that was rotting away in his backyard.  When I grew up and established myself, I had a serious talk with him about buying it.  He said he's think about it.  A few weeks later, I went out of town for work and when I got back, he had sold the car FOR ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!!  This was in 1999.  The guy he sold it to flushed the fuel system, rebuilt the carb and brakes and polished it up.  He was driving it within a week.  I was so pissed.  I have promised myself that an identical car will be my 50th birthday present to myself (in 6 years).

Ride safe,

Alien

[Gryphon Rider]

My dad's cousin (my second cousin?) bought a 1965 Corvette roadster brand new.  Nassau Blue, with the 365 HP 327, 4 speed and factory removable hardtop.  He drove it for about 10 years then parked it.  I grew up lusting after that car that was rotting away in his backyard.  When I grew up and established myself, I had a serious talk with him about buying it.  He said he's think about it.  A few weeks later, I went out of town for work and when I got back, he had sold the car FOR ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!!  This was in 1999.  The guy he sold it to flushed the fuel system, rebuilt the carb and brakes and polished it up.  He was driving it within a week.  I was so pissed.  I have promised myself that an identical car will be my 50th birthday present to myself (in 6 years).

Ride safe,

Alien

Before my dad died, I noticed my old skis were missing from the rack of five or six pairs of skis he had in his storage room, so I asked him where they were.  A couple of years previous, he had sawn them in half and thrown them out!  They were given to me by my uncle, had a classic '70s psychedelic design, and were what I used through my days of skiing glory, age 13-21 or so.  They were similar, if not identical, to these, which have Look bindings that might be the same as the Look Nevada bindings I had on mine:

This photo is from a SOLD ebay listing. Darn!