Imagine Having This Barn Find

i am older than you, so I remember those cars.

I care about them.

they were REAL cars made out of REAL steel, not this cheap foil paper thin metal.

They WERE special, they had very little to NO emissions crap on them.

the engines could be bored out,and rebuilt, where today's engines have to be tossed out.

they DO stand out in a crowd, of people that actually appreciated how cars were built and had muscle for the day.

they were cheaper, and more fun to drive, than any of today's high priced cheap metal and plastic, and overly computerized BS that drove up the prices, by like what, 1,000 %...????

the cars YOU like now, you will love them when YOU are OLDER as well.....

only problem is, with the cars of today, unless someone buys one and stores it away for ever, and ever, they WILL NOT stand up to the rigors that a full on frame car does....

 

There are far more barn finds than barns. Barns often can cause more damage due to high humidity. This last car I dragged home never saw a barn and good thing due to design

 

This guy's youtube is full of barn finds.

 

With all due respect sir,

You are a few watermelons short of a Swift crash.



This is not a car you see every day. It is neither Corvette nor Jaguar (though those are both cars that would bring a smile to one's face.) If THIS doesn't stand out in a crowd of Camrys, Tahoes and Jettas, then I am most certainly at the wrong garden party.

And having driven one, I can tell you it's a blast. While there isn't the aftermarket for "all things small block" (which I might add,,, fits.) you can still find enough of these floating around that you can customize to taste. And more than enough power is available to wrap one around a tree when you run out of talent.

*snicker*

I remember when Ford used to put fake leather all over the exterior of their cars (Mercury actually) in the dumbest spots. It wasn't enough to have a vinyl roof (because convertibles were temporarily outlawed) they had a "leather" truck lid with spare tire bustle. And I think there was one Cougar or Mark 4 that had belts ON the hood. (Recalling hood tie downs from the 1920's but so poorly executed they didn't even make it to a cut line.

It's POSSIBLE they were a particularly tacky dealer add on in the 70's and not officially endorsed by Ford but I saw a lot of them when I was a kid. Thankfully, the underlying cars were so bad they went to the scrapyard before they ran out of warranty.