BBI "car guys," when you have some time, check out this "barn find" feature. To say it's incredible is radically underselling it. You'll be wowed, and wowed again, then when you think you're over the top? It gets better. Then better. And at some point, seems like the awesome it will never stop.
Also, curious to know - of the BBI "car guys" - if anyone has or has had classic cars, fun cars, race cars, anything in that ballpark.
I recently sold a Mustang I had for 25 years. Raced it some, years back. "Street" fast. Became an ice cream-getter as the kids grew up. But it was time. Recently purchased a '73 Le Mans that I plan to low-budget race this coming summer, and work on in the coming seasons.
Other BBIers affected by this addiction?
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It's the Holy Grail of barn finds.
I love these barn finds. Thanks for sharing.
I love these barn finds. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, but technically, your 2000 IS a classic, depending on what state you're in ... and headed for antique status. :)
I had the same thoughts about my Mustang. It was a convertible, so wasn't super-conducive to running the quarter-mile without a roll cage, and it just wasn't THAT fast (high 12s/low 13s on Cooper Cobras). Don't yet know how the Pontiac will run, but it's geared for the track. Has a built 454. Not the number you'd admit freely t a purist, but I couldn't care less about that.
I love these barn finds. Thanks for sharing.
Let me know when you're ready to sell it and I'll take it off your hands. That was always one of my favorites back in the day.
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I have a 2000 Trans Am ws6. A bit newer than a classic, but it will be eventually. I hardly get to drive it, so sometimes it's hard to justify keeping it. Anytime I consider selling I think of how much I'd probably regret it.
I love these barn finds. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, but technically, your 2000 IS a classic, depending on what state you're in ... and headed for antique status. :)
I had the same thoughts about my Mustang. It was a convertible, so wasn't super-conducive to running the quarter-mile without a roll cage, and it just wasn't THAT fast (high 12s/low 13s on Cooper Cobras). Don't yet know how the Pontiac will run, but it's geared for the track. Has a built 454. Not the number you'd admit freely t a purist, but I couldn't care less about that.
I'm another Pontiac Guy. I had a 1967 GTO back in the day. That car was 10 years old when I got it, it was loaded with the Hurst Dual Gate Shifter and cold AC. It was Triple Black, and I waxed the hell out of it with Mac's Glaze-It. I had to fix a few things under the hood -- the QuadraJet Carb was all gummed up (I think the previous owner ran cheap gas thru it). That was a Boulevard Cruiser, but if challenged at a stop light.....it could giddy-up. I saw a car just like that on Mecum's Auction show recently and it sold for $80K.
I bought my DW a 1980 Grand Prix....one of the last of the bigger body style. I've always like the Pontiac Interiors, with just the right touch of wood grain on the dash....I believe John DeLorean had a hand in those early designs.
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I have a 2000 Trans Am ws6. A bit newer than a classic, but it will be eventually. I hardly get to drive it, so sometimes it's hard to justify keeping it. Anytime I consider selling I think of how much I'd probably regret it.
I love these barn finds. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, but technically, your 2000 IS a classic, depending on what state you're in ... and headed for antique status. :)
I had the same thoughts about my Mustang. It was a convertible, so wasn't super-conducive to running the quarter-mile without a roll cage, and it just wasn't THAT fast (high 12s/low 13s on Cooper Cobras). Don't yet know how the Pontiac will run, but it's geared for the track. Has a built 454. Not the number you'd admit freely t a purist, but I couldn't care less about that.
The 73 is a big car, no? What does that weigh? There can't be many of those left. They were serious rust buckets. I'm sure it's a head turner.
Pretty big. Just registered it so I can move it around on nicer days. I think 3700 pounds. Mine isn't the GTO version of that body style, and not RARE rare, but rare-ish, as it has the factory Hurst 4-speed. I basically was able to steal it from a guy who said he wanted to see me have it ... he's an older duffer and a HUGE car guy and street racer from back in the day. Just can't work the clutch anymore, he said. I guess he stole it from a guy 6-7 months prior to me getting it ... the guy early in the year ran into money troubles and had to unload it for a song.
The drive train alone is worth more than what I got it for. Just went through it on a lift last Friday with my cousin, who's a mechanic. The front end has been completely redone. Insane. Frame is rock solid. Couple little holes here and there but Ricky Keesler has agreed to work on it for me. (If you know his business, x, you'l know that's a big deal. He's terrific ... we graduated high school together. Great guy.
Anyhow, looking forward to some fun with it. Will have to swing by when the weather changes. You'll hear her come. lol
Oddly sexual faux pas, but hey, we're talking girls here. Recently decided the Le Mans' name will be Alice ... because driving her makes me want to blast Alice in Chains. :)
Humans are amazing creatures.
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Humans are amazing creatures.
Its not really a barn find. The guy actively collects and restores and just happens to store what he collects in barns. (again I could be talking about a different story, can't watch the youtube vid at work)
New phone, only a couple pics on Instagram.
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Motorcycle's are my passion now (cheaper... lol), but before kids I had a first year ('68) convertible Stingray. I have had other muscle cars but that was the only classic one (at the time I owned it).
33,000 miles and basically all stock except for a Borla exhaust. I go back and forth on doing anything to it.
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I bought my neighbors 1972 Karmann Ghia in 1976 for 1500. Sold it 2 years later for 1200
Worth between 20-30K now