how 'bout some stories?

[pav8427]

i happen to know where there are a half dozen 425HP 409 chevy's.
they were stolen, when new, off of a train car in central MN.
they are under umptine(that is a word isn't it?)bushels of rotten grain on an abandoned farm.

honest.

doug

[vanzuuk1]

there is an old vette gran sport in a barn upstste ny . A friend of mine has seen the car it was taken from a dude that went to jail and never turned in as evidence. the cop who did it panicked and it changed hands a few times and it now sits without a motor or rims in some guys barn.I am convinced my friend told me the truth , he only knew it was a vette race car and he drew the flares and scoops on a picture i had.
there was a guy in mamaroneck with two shelbys rotting beside his house. I tried to ring his doorbell and he screamed at me before I even got near the door. they were eventually SCRAPPED at his request .I never got the whole story why he did that. this was around 1980.
when I was a kid in the 70s on warburten ave in yonkers my mother and i were about to cross the street when She shoved me back and a car flew past us , glanced off a few parked cars and into some trees, I remember the noise like it was yesterday and my mom saying motherf#$%^r! as the dust settled. People filed out of their houses and we all watched as the driver and his bloody passenger surveyed the damage . The passenger had cut his thumb in a boat accident and theywere racing to a hospital up the road. my brother and i kicked pieces of the car around while everyone waited for the tow truck . I will swear on my now deceased mothers grave that the car was a white plymouth superbird. The guy later tooled around town in a green roadrunner with cragars and stickers in the back window.
sorry if I was a little long winded but those are my favorites.

[colt zantop]

there is is a pole barn about 1.5 miles down the road from my house (as we speak) that has a lift in it. I asked the guy if he would let me use the lift to install headers on my 350 that was in my camaro before my LS1. when I got down there, he opened up the garage and there sat a mustang GT500!!!!!!!!! no joke, about 4 inches of dust and numerous hoods, and other car parts leaning on it. it has original motor, paint, and everything. I asked if he wanted to sell, he said it was parked there by a friend of his about 10 years ago and he is just (storing it) for the guy. the guy said he has no plan of doing anything with it....and he laughed and said it would prolly sit there for the next 10 years.....LOL....he also has 2 grand nationals, a 1996 impala ss MINT with 14,000 miles ( that my buddy who went down there with me bought the next week CHEAP !!!!!!!) a 68 firebird with super low miles, and numerous other cars. let me also say that none have car covers, all filthy with dust but all super clean cars as far as bodys, interior, EVERYTHING......he siad he would buy the limited edition stuff and just keep them....and then sell them to buy new ones....the only reason he sold the 96 to my friend was to use the money towards a z06 c5....but then never bought it...LOL

[FASTAZZ79Z]

So Doug wheres this farm your talking about??? Want myself one of the 409's

[zbugger]

One time, at band camp.........

[trapin]

If you're ever in Chesterfield, Michigan....take a drive down Jefferson avenue along the water and just north of Selfridge Air Force base there's a little tackle shop and boat livery sitting along a tributary. Next to the creek (and coming dangerously close to falling in) is a half covered '69 Mustang Mach 1 (not sure if it's original or a clone). According to the locals it's been sitting there for about 15 years. I know it's been there since I've been in Chesterfield (8 years). I've seen it up close and it's in great condition. Of course, the nut job that owns the tackle shop won't sell it. Says he's going to restore it someday.

Yeah...right. :bsjerk:

[CAMAROBOY69]

One time, at band camp.........
Damn, Allen beat me to it! :lmao:

[Matt]

I have plenty of good stories, but the great ones have nothing to do with cars....

[CAMAROBOY69]

Same here. Most are girl on girl action..oops said that out loud! Dang terrets[sp].
None of my car stories would even compare to the ones on here. My fastest car only has half the HP of some of the cars in here. Ive only been on one portion of the Power Tour last year and a day at woodward Dream cruise. Those were the highlights of my car stories. And I have to admit, really good times too. That was just last year. Like I said, weak in comparison to everyone else.

[pav8427]

So Doug wheres this farm your talking about??? Want myself one of the 409's

about 95deg. W. LAT.,45deg. N.LON.

or so.

[DarkBuddha]

Good car scores? I've got a few...

1988, local Carlisle PA newspaper ad, my '70 Mach, darn good condition, $1200. Served as my daily driver and I still own it.

1988, Ft. Bragg NC newspaper ad, '67 GTO 400 Hurst his/hers, excellent rust free condition, $800. Sold it in '89 for $1800, new owners restored it and sold it for $18k in 1990.

1989, hills outside Carlisle PA newspaper ad, '65 GS convertible, running driving, $500, sold it to my mom and it sits in the family barn in NC

1991, old Korean Sargeant's wife by word of mouth, one owner '72 GS350 convertible, beat but excellent runner, $350. Did nothing but drive it for a year and sold it for $1000.

1993, local Tampa newspaper ad, '72 Nova SS 350, ran good, rebuilt motor, rust free but slow as crap, SS console w/guages, headers w/dual glasspacks, Edelbrock intake, $600. Painted it, swapped in Mitsu Starion seats, installed '70s Pontiac 15" honeycomb wheels with 235/60s, Caddy rear disc swap, Caprice cop car front discs swap. Great car, completely reliable, but too damn slow... sold it for $1500.

In 1989, I went with a friend to look at a a '69 Chevelle for $750. It was stripped bare expcept for a pair of Toyota Supra seats and the stock back seat. It had a 350 and 4 speed, and it was frightening fast. The kicker was the four 2 barrel Holley's on the Offy intake. My friend passed on it since he couldn't handle the 4 speed, and my parents wouldn't let me buy it since we were moving the next month. I later found out that the intake setup was probably one of 3 created for the Gran Sport 'vettes. Still kick myself about that one every once in a while. :(

I've got others, but I'm starting to get depressed. :sad4:

[Flynlo416]

It was the summer of 1989 and I had been saving all my money from working at a semi truck tire repair shop to buy what I considerd at the time to be the perfect car an IROC-Z. I had $6500 dollars when i saw it. It was sitting on a used car lot near my house. It was a 1985 silver with t-tops totally loaded and had 70,000 miles. The dealer said he wanted $6000.00 for it. Needless to say I was at the bank and back to the car lot in record time. I drove that car all summer and then fall came around. i pulled into my driveway with my girlfriend at the time. We went into the house and no more then 3 minutes later I hear my car start up. I run outside and this big dude is tearing out of my drivway. I grab for the passenger side door and reach in the car but only come up with the plastic trim piece from the top of the door.
Well about 6 months go by and I'm driving past that car lot and I swear I see my IROC sitting in the back row. I go home and get the key's and title and go back to the lot well the vin dosen't match but my key opens the door and my ignition key starts the car. The dealer has no explanation and say's he got the car at auction. Turns out he was selling cars to people keeping an extra set of keys and then stealing them back to sell again. I never got the car back because my title and the vin didn't match. The insurance paid my loss and that car lot was gone about 8 months later.

[Steve68]

My friend and I looked at 68 RS in 86, the price was $2200, the couple were in the Airforce and the husband was just shipped to Germany, the car was clean no rust, low miles, the owner had pulled off all the modings and trim, but had everything, it had a 327, glide, speed sensor, low fuel warning, tach, gauges, both spoilers, and it ran and drove great, since we showed up in my buddies 69, she told us she'd let us have it for $1200, my buddy didn't want to buy it so he passed, jerk.

My own 68 I bought in 87 from a divorce court lawyer for $200, after it sat in my yard for 5 months, no rust, complete 68 SS, 12 bolt, muncie 4spd, built 350, what a deal!!

I watched my grandfathers 68 442 rust away buy the ocean in Fl, he ordered it new, maroon, painted white top, power windows, power seats, 360hp 400, 3:89 gears TH400, 80,000miles, nice going dad!! but I still got the motor,


Numerous other cars, I junked a 64 Cutlass S 330 hp, just a little rusty, also 68 Cutlass vert' had a nice 68 Impala vert' someone totalled for me, I saw numerous 68 camaros go away, my friends mom junk his original 70 SS454 Chevelle, oops, thats just some, Steve

[Fuelie Fan]

I got my 67 camaro convertible in 2000 for $2000, and turns out a bad p/n switch was all it needed to start. Sat in a storage lot for some 12 years.

One time, I took my bike off a fricken SWEET jump.

My dad's got a lot of those stories about selling tri-5's on his car lot for $800, makes me want to cry.

[Doug Harden]

I shed a tear every time I visit this site...

http://www.carsinbarns.com/

[CAMAROBOY69]

That site reminds me of the 69 Chevelle I actually had to turn down last year and it was only $100.00 Yes even I turned it down which is not easy for me to do. The rough ones are my favorite but the frame was even rusted thru like paper. Sometimes I wish I would have grabbed it anyway for only $100.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Here's one that makes me cringe.

Not sure on the exact year, but Circa '81 my Dad was talking to his friend, (who he'd known since they were kids). They guy had a '70 Chevelle LS6/M22 car and OFFERED it to my Dad. He was just getting on the FDNY, and also had no garage. For the New Yorkers on the board, you'll know that the 'velle wouldn't have lasted a night parked on the street in Canarsie (Brooklyn). He declined. From what I've heard, the car was in VERY good shape.

[vanzuuk1]

This will probably get me barred from this site but I had a smash up derby with a friend when we were in high school . he had an impala station wagon and I had my beater.The bad news is my beater was a rusty 307 69 camaro. You can call me whatever you want, but leave my mother out of it. The worst part is when I was shopping for a camaro a year ago , I must have seen fifty cars just like it for five grand!

[MoeBawlz]

Heres a story i had heard from someone else...

Somewhere out east, a there was a listing in the news paper for a clean 69 Camaro for $5,000... So this guy goes to check the car out. He speaks with the owner before he sees the car... The owner is a younger female. It was her fathers car and he had passed away several years ago, and aparently the car hasnt moved in 10-15 years anyway. he goes into the garage to see the car, takes one look at it.... turns to her and says "Maam I cant buy this car from you at that price" She asks "Why? Is the price to high?" he responds "No its far to low, you see what you have here is a very rare ZL1 and its worth a lot of money, get it appraised and sell it for what its worth"

[vanzuuk1]

that sounds like an urban legend , but I shouldnt talk. Who has heard the one about the hot chick with "if you catch me you can have me" on her car?

[dgumoe]

here's one for yous guys up in new york. im pretty sure this occured in farmingdale on long island but i might be off by a town or two. sometime in the 70's, my dad had a buddy who had these 2 super rare 66 mustang convertibles. i think it was some kind of wierd trim package or something stupid like that. well anyways, by some fluke of paperwork he didnt have them titled properly in his name. well apparently his wife was bangin his best friend on the side and he found out so obviously they go right to divorce court. well in the process, the little wench gets both cars titled legally in her name and he couldnt touch em. so after all the b.s. is over with. wifey and the new boyfriend take off on a cruise for a week. well while they were gone, my dad and his buddy and a few other guys rented a back hoe, dug up the backyard and blew a hole in the basement wall, pulled both cars in the basement and filled the yard back in. word has it, both cars are still in that basement. no joke im not making that up.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

here's one for yous guys up in new york. im pretty sure this occured in farmingdale on long island but i might be off by a town or two. sometime in the 70's, my dad had a buddy who had these 2 super rare 66 mustang convertibles. i think it was some kind of wierd trim package or something stupid like that. well anyways, by some fluke of paperwork he didnt have them titled properly in his name. well apparently his wife was bangin his best friend on the side and he found out so obviously they go right to divorce court. well in the process, the little wench gets both cars titled legally in her name and he couldnt touch em. so after all the b.s. is over with. wifey and the new boyfriend take off on a cruise for a week. well while they were gone, my dad and his buddy and a few other guys rented a back hoe, dug up the backyard and blew a hole in the basement wall, pulled both cars in the basement and filled the yard back in. word has it, both cars are still in that basement. no joke im not making that up.

Farmingdale, huh? I live about 10-15 minutes from Farmingdale. Anyone up for an excavation? :lmao:

[vanzuuk1]

Ralph I will help just for the adventure and a stop at raynoors chicken on sunrise hwy and a beer at stonehenge. Both places are probably gone but one had chicken and one had ... naked women. also Ralph I mailed you a money order today for the total amount.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

:lmao: Where on sunrise is this? I'm in.

[Fluid Power]

About 12 years ago I was looking thru the Wheeler Dealer magazine (long before the internet) noticed an ad for 69 camaro parts. I called and left a message. I never got a return call. Next week, same ad and I call again, no answer. This goes on for about 4 weeks before I get a call back. It turns out this guy is young (21-22 yrs old) and is an over the road truck driver with a young wife and baby at home. He was very carefull about who would come and look at the stuff fearing for his wife/childs safety. I passed the phone interview and went to look at the stuff...It was heaven...4/5 sets of fenders, 3 or 4 muncies, several blocks, etc, etc...What it didn't say in the ad is the parts also came with 3 cars...A z/28 w/ matching numbers that was stripped and painted and ready for assembly (the motor was complete and refreshed) a 307 coupe in good shape but a total rebuilder, (his daily driver) and a another coupe that had not been touched but was ready for a complete re-do. The kicker is after standing around and taking it all in, he needed the money to move his family the parts were holding up the deal....$10,000 and it would have been mine... It seemed when he drove truck, he would pick up the newspaper and see if anybody had 69's for sale, he would make a deal, load them up, bring them home and repair and then sell the cars off. He would stock pile all the best parts, and put the shabby or repairable parts on the cars he would sell. He had a nice collection of stuff. I lived in a small house with no storage, just gotten married, just started my own business and my old man was not going to lend me 10k so I could drag car parts to his house....I was crushed...I am not sure what happend to all that stuff, but I am sure it made someone else very happy and probably a lot of money....

[vanzuuk1]

ralph - raynoors was on sunrise in baldwin , right near where motion used to be. stonehenge was maybe 45 minutes farther out , it looks like a castle (sort of) but its just a tittie bar. well, a very good tittie bar.

[David Pozzi]

I bought the Lola T-70 in my sig below for $600. it was listed in an Autoweek ad in 1974.
It was wrecked though.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

ralph - raynoors was on sunrise in baldwin , right near where motion used to be. stonehenge was maybe 45 minutes farther out , it looks like a castle (sort of) but its just a tittie bar. well, a very good tittie bar.

Ahh, I see. Motion is still there believe it or not. Not sure on stonehenge, though.

[dgumoe]

hey ralph where in new york are you? i grew up ...well for the first nine years in brentwood

[Ralph LoGrasso]

hey ralph where in new york are you? i grew up ...well for the first nine years in brentwood

Hey, I'm about 15 minutes east of Brentwood in Smithtown. I too spent my first nine years somewhere else though, Brooklyn.

[todd8541]

A guy a couple of blocks from me had a 66 chevelle ss 396. I don't remember how original it was but I know that it had aluminum heads so it wasn't completely original. Anyway while in high school I begged him to sell it to me. It just sat there and told me repeatedly he was keeping it for his son. I got so mad one time that I was on a mission to save the soul of this car. I made plans to save it I was going to steal it. Now keep in mind I have never even thought of stealing anything in my life. Well my concious (bad sp) caused me to chicken out. Great bad deal on car but at least I dont go to jail right. Well the guy dies son gets it and has it crushed because the hated the ol guy.

Todd

[69rs]

I had a smash up derby with a friend when we were in high school . he had an impala station wagon and I had my beater.The bad news is my beater was a rusty 307 69 camaro.
Okay, vanzuuk1 :wedgie:, now :getout: !

[69rs]

A friend of mine in high school had an original 70 1/2 RS Camaro. He was the second owner. His girlfriend "borrowed" it (without his permission) during school to cut class and run to the convenience store. As she pulled in the store parking lot, she stepped on the gas instead of the brake and parked the car in the side of the Starvin Marvin!:pat:

Oh, and he didn't dump her!:slap:

[pav8427]

just heard one the other day. seems a farmer about 15-20 miles away has a 66 ragtop chevelle w/ a 375HP 396 4spd.

parked and dry for years.

doug

[C4Bird]

When I was 14, my dad and I were going to this old farmers house to look at some truck parts he had listed in the paper. As he was showing us to the barn the parts where stored in, I noticed some chrome shinning through ond of the boards on the east side of that barn. I did a little snooping as they were looking over the truck stuff and found what looked to be a 61 corvette. The car had been sitting for several years and had at least an inch of bird crap all over. I pointed out the car to my dad before we left and he had a look. The car only had 21k miles on it, it was a small block car with a manual trans and the guy said he had the hardtop for is stashed up in the loft of the barn. The guy said his only son had bought it new and had died in the late 60's. The car had sat there ever since. I got up the courage to ask the price and he said he'd let it go for $1000 cash only. My dad said thanks and we left. I think I asked my dad to buy that car 1000 times and every time he said "I don't like corvettes". I found out a couple years later he told a friend of his at work and the guy had bought it a couple weeks after we saw it. Guess he didn't want me to know he made a mistake...
-Nate

[bobbaganoosh]

When I was in high school we had a police officer on the campus, and his son and daughter went there as well. I was friends with both of them and went to their house often. The dad had a t-bucket and a beautiful black 55 chevy hot rodded a little. He died my junior year and left the cars to his daughter. She offered them to her younger brother, but he didn't want them and neither did she. She put both of them in a football pool and someone won them for a $100 dollar square. I didn't buy a square because I didn't have $100.

Also, in Texas it seems like I'll be driving down some road in the country and see all kinds of old cars sitting in fields, alot of them in pretty decent shape. Sometimes I'll stop and look at them and go up to the house and ask if they are interested in selling. Most of the time I get told they are not for sale, or they come up with this crazy price. I should start taking pictures for cars in barns! I'll probably get shot looking at a junk car in a field one day:)

[apex69]

I shed a tear every time I visit this site...

http://www.carsinbarns.com/


I too have shed many a tear, read after read. :crying:

[pav8427]

the wife gets on my case when i break neck for a flash of chrome or faded fenders while cruisin back roads.
believe it or not the best time to look for parts is in the middle of the winter. no leaves.

doug