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Re: Cars in Barns
Here is my find, 1972 Ford GTS, all there close ratio top loader 4 speed, 351c 4v cobrajet setup minus the factory ram air option.
Had been there 17 years before I got it, in a barn no bigger than the car itself.
Mice had gone though the entire exhaust and made nests in the 4 barrel cleveland heads.
Air cleaner was full of walnuts, and the intake had then stacked up like a mountain.
Gave $600 for it from the second owner, who bought it from his neighbor who bought it new {which that guy still lived there also, and happened to have a pinto wagon sitting in the front yard}
Took 6 hours to drag it out and hand winch it on the rental trailer.
No ignition keys, but thankfully the wheels were straight. Tires aired up amazingly enough, and I pulled it through the gate that was 3" wider than the car on each side.
I was so excited, in leaving I managed to rip the trailer tounge jack off the trailer {unhooked my truck, used to drag the Torino out of the barn}, and then hit something leaving, and sliced a trailer tire.
I drove 30 miles to the next town on a flat, crashed at a hotel, and got home the next day, rental place chewed my ass but I offered to pay for a new tire and called it even.
Here is my find, 1972 Ford GTS, all there close ratio top loader 4 speed, 351c 4v cobrajet setup minus the factory ram air option.
Had been there 17 years before I got it, in a barn no bigger than the car itself.
Mice had gone though the entire exhaust and made nests in the 4 barrel cleveland heads.
Air cleaner was full of walnuts, and the intake had then stacked up like a mountain.
Gave $600 for it from the second owner, who bought it from his neighbor who bought it new {which that guy still lived there also, and happened to have a pinto wagon sitting in the front yard}
Took 6 hours to drag it out and hand winch it on the rental trailer.
No ignition keys, but thankfully the wheels were straight. Tires aired up amazingly enough, and I pulled it through the gate that was 3" wider than the car on each side.
I was so excited, in leaving I managed to rip the trailer tounge jack off the trailer {unhooked my truck, used to drag the Torino out of the barn}, and then hit something leaving, and sliced a trailer tire.
I drove 30 miles to the next town on a flat, crashed at a hotel, and got home the next day, rental place chewed my ass but I offered to pay for a new tire and called it even.
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