barnfind/survivor pic request thread

Not mine, but I downloaded them off of the internet because I like looking at it.

 

Here's a pair of '37 Chevy 1/2T's I pulled out of two barns in Central Bridge, NY, back in the late-80's. I had a lead on the red one and drove out to take a look. I was hemming & hawing about it's lack of a few parts and the girl that was selling it, told me her father, who lived a couple of miles away, had another '37 with the missing parts and would sell it. I hot-footed it over and bought that one, too. As I recall, I got both of them for $500.00.

When I brought them back home, my wife said, "Well, I suppose you bought the truck, didn't you?". I told her, "No, dear, you told me I couldn't buy a truck, so I bought TWO of them !". She got over it.........eventually.

I ran into some financial problems a year or two later and sold them both. They got turned into a couple of street rods, unfortunately.................

 

This 40 was a Virginia barn find... The story on the car is the guy my dad bought this from was an old dirt track racer and this was his tow car. He blew the motor up in 54' and put in a 59AB flatty, .060 over, alum heads & 2 2's, cast headers and some other stuff and never got it to fire up. His son played with it in the 70's and put in a new wiring harness. The old timer stopped by my dads shop to admire the cars outside and told him he had a 40 Ford forsale but it was in VA. He sold it to my dad for $600.00.



This 52 2dr Fleetline(yes, I know it has a 51 grille) was another field find... Dad bought this in 1981 at an estate auction. The farmer who bought this new for his wife passed away in 1957. His wife died in 1955. The car was left in an open barn with 6,339.9 original miles on it. My dad documented it with the VCCA.



I don't have any pics of it right now but his old 40 Chevy coupe was a gasser from the early 60's. He streetrodded it in the early 70's then traded it for a couple of A sedans. He last saw it at Bike Week in 79' at Daytona with NY plates on it...

No pics of this one right now either but his old 40 Studebaker was also an old gasser with a 413/727 in it. Parts were stolen off the car while it was being stored at the shop. He finally got disgusted and sold it when he bought the 40 Ford above...

 

btt for night crowd

 

The street rod trend sure ruined a lot of good tin. (as did the rat rod trend I'm sure)

 

I found a couple of good ones in the last year. I bought this Hudson truck out of what was left of a barn. I had to cut 5 or 6 trees down to get it out. The second one is my A model Sport Coupe. It had set apart in a barn for the last 40 years. No pics of them in their original spots but these are after I drug them home.

Later,
Kevin
Ooltewah Speed Shop

 

Ohhh. That Hudson is one of my favorites... Well, after a 37-40 Stude Express...

 

A post I made last year on the subject:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=198145

Cris

 

Here's mine. Built in '53 in Fresno. Stored until 60s. On road in California until early 70s (tan interior makeover and yellow repaint go back to this period). Then back into the barn until a few years ago, when someone got it out of the barn and into a junkyard. Here are a few shots of what it looked like then, and what it looks like now. Everything that comes off, like the rusty headers, is being saved.

 

heres my buddies barn find, but it was in his barn!! he bought/built it in 1956 and still has it, were gonna work on it one of these days when he gets around to it.

jeff

 

come on Jeff. GET that thing on the road!!! It is cool as hell...

 

Found mine in a little one car garage at a small salvage yard at the west
edge of Springfield, MO in 1973. It was sitting there full of bales of
hardwood flooring, and surrounded by wooden store counters that came
out of an old dime store on the Springfield square. Had to enter thru
the window in the side of the garage to get to it. The owner let me make
several payments on it, which I mailed to him every few weeks. When it
was paid for, I took a tow bar and some good tires and wheels, and pulled
it back to Joplin.

Looked like this at first (old photo, not so great).

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Looks a little better today.

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Traded for this several weeks ago, came out of Wichita. I don't have much history on it. Has new chassis. Was channeled at one time. Plans are to build a driver and leave body as is.

 

I know its a scooter, but this is my only barn find ever. Found it 4 years ago in a garage in the town I worked in while at a garage sale. Its a 1962 Lambretta TV 175. Pretty rare. Claimed to be the first bike with a front disc brake. All original and even had its factory fiberglass front fender intact and not cracked(rare in itself).

Story is the guy I got it from get it in trade in the 80s for some plumbing he did. The little old women didnt have money and offered her deceased husbands scooter, that he bought brand new. I got it for $20!!!

Fell on hard times and sold it 6 months after getting it for 4 figures!!

I regret selling it to this day.

 

Sat in a garage scince 1984. Neighbors never knew it was in there, were amazed when we pulled it out.-MIKE

 

Not really a find, but this was my grandpa's car. It's all original, straight 8, 3 on the floor, 60,000 miles. He bought it in 1979 from a man in Iowa. I got it from my uncle earlier this year. I had to put a new seal in around the pivot ball. Other than that it's one of the smoothest running cars I've seen. I think it's had about 2000 miles put on it since '79. Sorry about the size, but I am computer dumb sometimes.

 

more?!?!?!? love this stuff

 

btt. any more?

 

My Essex had been sitting in a storage shed in Dauphin Manitoba since 1988. Very few towns people knew it was there. I was offered it last year. More on the story with loads of pics on my website.

 

1949 chevy C3100, found in a barn on a Kansas farm...I scraped off cow shit older than I am!

before...

and after a little elbow grease

 

I've posted this a bunch of times. My dad spent almost 30 years tracking it down. It was in the barn from 1951 to 2005. It's a 1928 Stutz that was specially built for a wealthy playboy. There is a whole thread on it if you are interested.

 

that things pretty wild!

 

Some of you might have seen this before. 69 Daytona with 34k.

 

Not as nice as some but she runs and goes

 

You need to do an update on your Shumacher thread, how's this beauty coming along?

 

41 Hearse.

 

56 convert.

 

A friend of mine found this 34 in a calf barn, in 2005. It had been sitting north of Leaf River Ill. since about 1960. I bought it like this last June.

 

heres my A roadster built in 1958 ....shes been sitting in a barn since 1973
until I dragged her home 2 weeks ago

 

I found this in a Shed in Southfield Michigan in 1996. A 1937 Adler Lemans streamliner race car. Here is a picture of me picking it up along with a 66 T-bird vert I bought. The second pic is after I had cleaned the dirt off of the aluminum body. The last picture is after it was restored after I sold it to the blackhawk collection.