Recovered: 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350H sunk in Ohio backyard 40 years
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Seriously Jerry, this is better than carrying the Dead Sea scrolls into daylight the first time.
Better than carrying the dead sea scrolls into the light? I seriously doubt that....
I love our automotive history but pinning this comment is pretty stupid. The Dead Sea scrolls affirmed God's sovereign preservation of His Word. I love Shelby but this is just a car.
I couldn't agree more Brad. Some folks sling those quirks around like kicking dust BUT it's much much bigger than anyone could imagine. To have just one of the dead sea scrolls is worth more than a million Shelby mustangs. Don't get it confused folks. His word is Supreme over any thing and any one...
@Richard Siegfried he was exaggerating for effect!! You know…being ironic!! Now go back under your wet blanket!!
😄😁😁😆 I'm amazed that they're able to do this
How you could be a young man growing up through your 20s and 30s with that car in the back yard without ever getting it on the road is completely beyond me....speechless...
I was thinking the same thing... They obviously knew it was a "Cool car" I even loved my dads push mower because it was my dads...
Probably lack of money to restore it but didnt want to sell it for.. emotional reasons.
I'm only 14 and I working on 3 projects vehicles that my dad own and 1 truck that I bought a while ago. A 66 Mustang coupe with a 289 3 speed and it has a 9 bolt rear end. A 51 GMC pickup with a 248 6 inline with a 4 on the floor with a granny gear and it's a short bed. 78 Cheyenne C/10, short bed, singlecab, 350 with high performance parts and a big cam, and with a 400 turbo transmission, and it's a 10 bolt rear end same off the 51 GMC. And lastly my 96 Dodge Ram, short bed, single cab, 5.2 Magnum 318, heavy duty 4 speed auto, and with a Chrysler 9.25 rear end. Got to much to work on, but im at least happy to work on these 4 vehicles that are special to me.
I can fully understand not being able to afford even a mild restoration, but not pushing it into a the barn or even sitting it on top of some plywood and sticking a tarp over it is just baffling.
Dont think my father would have given me permission. As it seems to be a gift for his wife.
It never ceases to amaze me how little people take care of the things they buy or receive as gifts.
I'd understand if they didn't know anything about cars, but he clearly does. His Dad bought a ton of extra parts, his Mom got a signed model car by Shelby....So they obviously loved the car..... Why the hell did he leave it outside like that then??
It’s called LIFE!!!! Shit happens when life calls, deal with it!!!!
@@1982MCI How does “life” make you forget your expensive specialty muscle car? Did you get a brain tumor or some shit?
Its called being an idiot. Ive have daily beaters that ive never shown this kind of neglect to
@@1982MCI Nope, not buyin' that.
My Dad found me a nice 66 mustang for my first car. I tore some thing up on it one day. And my dad said Chesley You Can Tare Up A Tank With A Rubber Hammer ! 😳😊🤔 And we Bondo together. Still the toughest car I ever owned . And I've owed many !! ⚒️🤭🤗🙃😅😄🤫🤫🤫
Didn’t want to drive it in the winter, but left it outside in the mud to decay for decades.
I'm not one of those numbers matching fanatics, but I can appreciate the nature of this thing essentially being a time capsule. Looking forward to following along with the restoration!
This is crazy. Who would leave a car sitting there for over 30 years especially a Shelby mustang. That is insane.. Well it’s so cool that you guys got it going again
I've written over 800 barn find stories over since 1991 in car magazines. Here is what happens. When the car was "left sitting," the owner had no plan to leave it there for 30 years. One year turns into 2, and 2 into 3, a gradual process that passes so fast as to leave one's head spinning. That is the way life is.
The spare NOS fenders that they bought decades ago are now worth at least a grand a piece. Who knows what an original spare Shelby hood would cost? It might be the only one on the planet. Their dad was a smart to hunt for parts back in the day. A lot of the people leaving comments are freaked out by the rust. For a car that lived its whole life in Ohio and then sat under a tree for ages, the car it isn't that bad. The big thing is that the important stuff that makes it a Shelby is all still there. Hopefully Boss Cars will shared the restoration process on UA-cam.
As someone who LOVES Shelby Mustangs this story is somewhat bitter sweet. While I’m delighted to see it being saved by a group of professional enthusiasts 👍🏼 what an absolute crime to the car gods this rare GT-350H was left to sitting outside for such a long time while there is a garage near by 🙈🤣 I look forward to seeing this piece of Shelby history resurrected to its former glory 👌🏼
Real classy restoration shop. What an amazing story to come across a Shelby guru. Especially like the end where they say, someone sees a rusty old, the original owner sees youth. You know you hired the right people. So amazing to see a devoted Shelby rescuer.
Thank you for recognizing that. The Parkers are enthusiasts first, and that got them into the restoration business full time. Notice they don't even put restoration in their business name.
@@thewriter2549 reminds me of the mantra "if you have the passion the money will follow." It's simply not a job if you love what you do, these guys faces were lighting up just walking around and observing the car.
I can see the original owner parking it right back in the dirt after the restoration.
It's sad that the owner treated the car in such a bad way, but I'm happy to see that it is now good hands. These were such beautiful cars.
Good to see people taking care of such a rare piece of American auto history..........
You have barns on the property and you leave the Shelby outside in the elements for 40 years!!!
That's what i was thinking. They bought parts and kept them safe in the barn? Why didn't they park the car in the barn. And not buy spare parts? Are they going to park it in the back yard again after it's restored?
@@stephendennis5969 Duh they're morons lmaooo
Yep. Makes no sense to me, either. So damn sad.
Idiots
Look at the condition of their roof! The garage etc
I just don't understand owners like that... They live in the boonies and have a bunch of land yet they can't park the car in a shed, barn, or under some covering to protect the car.
Oh I understand them perfectly well. My lazy, sorry, good for nothing uncle parked his once stunning 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass, red with white hood stripe and white vinyl, 'out back' in 1980. He was so lazy, he didn't even throw a tarp over it. It now has small trees growing through the floor boards. He gets offers on it, and fancies himself as some sort of car collector. What it amounts to, is a simple minded dolt with an utter lack of creative skill, or ever having the unction to turn a phillips or google an answer to fixing up something. Like all democrats, all they think about is looking and desiring nice things, but have no gumption or capability to learn or do or build or improve OR MAINTAIN anything themselves.
@@notalone2575 I think throwing a tarp over it would damage it even more, then it would never dry...
I would like to see it full restored.
This car is beauty-full.!
Great Job of all those men.
Greetings from México City 🇲🇽
Bought parts to redo car! But left it outside for 40 years. They had big buildings all over the property. Why not put it in a dry place. Just doesn't make any sense! What a shame! This is my favorite car of all times. These people will completely rebuild this car. They are the best in the business! SHAWN
Amazes me how someone who loved this car enough to buy so many parts for this thing over the years would still let that thing sit and disintegrate. People are strange.
Same. This sort of sacrilege deserves harsh punishment
Yes exactly. I mean at least put it in the barn up on blocks
Absolutely amazing! Please keep a video log over the next 2 years, would love to see the journey to the end result.
I would love to watch this resto. Please keep us posted. I know you just film the barn find portion of the story but hopefully boss cars keeps the videos coming
Same here.
Sacrilege! It makes me miss my first car. 66 Fastback 289. Cool car for a 16-year-old.
Cool story bro
Real Kool 😎
Now that's nice!
Shit car
@KhartikeyenSath lol, and I bought it with my paper route $$$.
Y’all found one of my dream cars 30 minutes from my home town, I grew up eating at the south side dinner in Mt Vernon, took my drivers test in that town.
$35-40 grand... No way. this is at least a $100k restoration
Exactly 😂😂😂
That's what I was thinking. It helps to have to many OEM parts available, but it's still gonna be way north of $40K
Correct 100k plus
Those brothers should have their asses kicked for letting it just sit there rusting away.
But why? 40 years ago the car didn’t have the importance that it does today.
The future can not be predicted.
the car was and still is a gas guzzling 12mpg dinosaur. imagine that as a daily driver? These cars were dumped in the 1980s for gas economical cars. its only 40 years later that everyone is ooohing and ahhhhing over these cars, mostly people who were not driving in the early 1980s and are clueless.
@@david4272 why do that with any car. these things weren't cheap back then anyway.
I agree with you. But back then these cars were mas produced and not very significant. But the importance of them has gradually built up through the years because of the brand. Cars sadly get abandoned all the time but very much less so with exoticas like Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren etc although some do.
It probably got parked for a reason and then forgotten about. My father has one of those, an Austin Healey 3000. Bought in 1972 needing work and its still there. A barn find in its purest.
But an ass kicking warranted? Really? Life happens for one reason or another.
The Shelby's were always recognized as special, valuable cars from day one. There is no way that these owners did not know that they had a very collectable, valuable muscle car rotting away in the back yard.
I like Rick he talks sense and is very knowledgeable hes the right guy for the resto!!
The dad knew what he had, but the kids didn´t care. Way back then dad bought a lot of spare parts, the kids let the car rust outside. Shameful.
So his dad had the hindsight to buy a bunch of Ford parts but not enough to at least cover it with a tarp?
Wow. Can you image working at a shop like that? All those awesome Mustangs. I'd be in awe just going to work everyday. You can tell these guys have a passion for what they do. I'm super jealous of them all. I'd love to get my hands on a vintage GT 350H project.
How can u neglect such a beautiful car it's a tragedy.
40 years sitting in the dirt,and sinking into the ground,and the owner says,i think it's time to restore it??????????🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't fix morons. Lazy, indifferent morons.
I would have to say the body men that restore this are totally dedicated and love their job to have the patience to get the job done right.They are definitely skilled.
I can't believe that the kids left it outside all those years.
Rumor has it if you plant a GT 350, you get a 427 Cobra tree, lol
It's always great to see people you know doing what they love. And in this case, it's glad to know that something they wouldn't let me buy is now getting the love and attention it deserves.
Why wouldn’t you push it back in the garage with all the parts!?
Madness
Mabe they just go busy with life. Somethinga are more important then stuff at times.
Not sure why everyone is bashing the current owner of the car when it was the mother and father who owned it and now the son is wanting to restore it. I'd blame the mother and father, who have probably passed away, not the brother of the man in the video who can now get it restored and treat it like it should have been all along. Just a guess mind you, but I suspect I'm spot on.
AS A SON YOU COULD OF AT LEAST COVERED IT KNOWING SOMEDAY YOU WOULD GET IT. IF YOU GOT TIME AND MONEY TO BUY EXTRA PARTS WHY NOT TAKE CARE OF IT.
My last parts mustang, a 1969 mach 1, complete car but very rusty I found 20 years ago in 2001 and even then they were getting especially hard to find. It is amazing finds like this come up as the classic mustang supply mostly dried up 20 years ago regarding parts cars or backyard cars.
Is that how smart our school teachers are , let a bad ass car set for 40yrs, the spare parts is the only things that could be garage kept wtf
Years go by fast when you're very busy and before you know it decades have gone by. Then 2 decades then suddenly your dream car has been sitting outside 40 years.
juana washington the good part is there are folks out there that can and will bring this beauty back to her glory days. Sadly there are zero cars today that are or ever will be this rare and collectible.
I'm not mad at the guy who owned it. This story wouldn't be here without him. At least he was willing to let it be saved. I hate it when you come across something like that and they refuse to let it be saved.
Wish we could watch the restoration!
Who leaves a Shelby Mustang out in the elements, abandoned, forgotten? It hurts my soul just watching this car in this condition.
Down the street from where I grew up sits a 63 split window corvette. It hasn't moved from that spot since 1968. The owner won't sale it, but it's just rotting away. It sickens me to see people let classics rot away.
*They always say~"I'm going to do something with that car one day"~And it rots away to dust and a geese spot*
I had a neighbor with a convertible 69 Camaro SS. Sitting out with half a cover on it. I talked to that guy, I tell you it must have 3 times a week, always courteous with him. Never got a budge. Nice person , so disrespectful to reason though.
He just let it sit there rotting, rain coming in.
I just said after about 5 years or so to let it go. These are selfish people;
They say "I can't afford to fix it, so nobody can have it". It's right above being a crime. They finally sell when it's like this. These rotting classics are everywhere.
@@wildbutterflytiedye it's hard to say what this corvette would be worth if it was restored, I know it's a lot more than I could imagine.
@@Wixom2200 a few years ago i saw an abandoned fastback mustang very bad condish ,in a front yard ,,,,they wouldnt sell it cos there son got killed in NAM KIA
Too bad it wasn't in one of the barns. What a crying shame it was left out in the elements.
Dear Mr. Heasley. Kudos to you Sir. This is an amazing video and story. PLEASE make more as you restore. I would love to see!
Personally I don't think even $40,000 would be bad to restore this car. After all today's junk cars cost that much and are worthless after 40 years. This car will be an investment like a diamond!! Only increases in value!
Which is why it wouldn’t be a Daily drive
21:45 He says he can completely restore the car back to original for $35,000-40,000? Does that sound like an accurate restoration cost? I was thinking $100,000-200,000. I don't know much about the costs involved.
SanFranciscoBay Maybe he doesn’t have to pay for labor
Yeah it will probably be a half ass restoration with rigged wiring, mustang body panels some jacked up welded spots and a single stage paint job.
Closer to the 200k
My friend has one in extremely original condition. In Deep South Texas. He purchased it new after Hertz turned it back in. He saw it at a Ford dealership when he was 21. He still shows it at local car shows.
After it's "restored", you'll have a mustang with some Shelby parts on it.
Arent all the Cobras like that?
@@rafaturbo75 Technically, yes. Shelby took mustangs and converted them. But, as I'm sure you know, my point was that when you salvage an original Shelby tach and fender tag from a GT350 and put it on a '66 fastback with stripes, it's no longer a Shelby. Just my opinion.
So it will still be a Shelby. Your comment is nonsensical.
Even if this car was in mint condition and the car was a major collision repair. The car would still be a Shelby Mustang when finished.
@@ezacher4634 You're right - it will be a Shelby radiator top, right shock tower, and fender tag. You can have my place in line to buy it.
All that barn area and this car sat outside all that time! You just can't fix stupid! Sorry! But thats just the long and short of it. It would be so much cheaper to bring this super badassed car back to life if they just put in the corner of a barn somewhere.
Wow ! This is just too cool ! I really like the way everything is explained so well. I would love to see some of the work along the way, and the finished product.
I will if possible, but travel has been very restricted since covid-19.
@@thewriter2549 You could ask the folks at the shop doing the work if they could take video or pics of their progress. The worst they could say is no, but when they realize the free publicity they'd be getting from your UA-cam channel, they just might say yes.
@@thewriter2549 man I can't wait until this car be refixed by is going to be looking good
Parts are in the shed but the cars in a field
Exactly
My thoughts exactly. How can you walk outside your house everyday and look at that rotting away?
hard to understand why the garage is filled to the roof with junk and a 66 Shelby Mustang is sitting in the dirt outside for 40 years..
Poor baby with a new life. 🖤 Thank you so much for rescue this wounderful car!
I also wanted to fulfill this dream, but unfortunately these vehicles cost a fortune. Then I bought the successor from 2007 and I love my car too. ❤️
But Hertz's 1966 Mustang remains a legend!
A $500 carport would have prevented $30,000 in rust repairs. Some people are completely clueless what they have.
Would of had to have a concrete base to the carport or it still would have sunk down into the dirt and mud and still would have rusted the same way.
Kenny C only thing stopping me from car ports is the fact I don’t have a concrete drive way yet lol
Breaks my heart to see a car like this left to rust in the mud.
I'm from Ireland loving the video. Can't wait for more. Bit of a lift through this hard time
Thank you. I have been working on another and then there was the latest, the 1970 Boss 302 original owner.
@@thewriter2549 I'm from Ireland too why didn't he put it in the shed all those years ago ??
My aunt was one of those. She had a classic car and when I asked her if I could buy it off of her. She told me and I quote "Id rather let the goddamn thing rot right there before I sell it to anyone! lol
Fool of a woman
The original owners clearly knew the important significance of this car as they collected factory direct replacement parts and stored those indoors as well as signatures. Yet they chose to park it under a tree on the dirt ground for 40
years 🤦🏼♂️
Right 👀 why leave it on dirty uncovered?? Even the way the son said how it was driven around the bushes didn't sit well, why leave it there? Lol
I'm not much of a car guy. But this is an unbelievably cool story - and there's hope for all of us!
Full restoration will be around $150,000 and it'll be worth about $135,000.
This ^. I was shocked when the shop owner said 40k. He must know nothing about restoration or he is being deceptive knowing he can make tons more later when "things come up".
@@Burnedtoastify he said 40 for body work. This will be well over 100K and probably approaching 200. And they'll have a Shelby/base mustang combo.
Well over 100k to restore! Small things like restoring the steering wheel. That guy in Florida is going to charge $1,000 just for that. I spent $2,500 on a pair of bucket seats for my '69 Road Runner. Gets out of control really fast.
@robert burns 21:45 He says hey he can completely restore the car back to original for $35,000-40,000? Does that sound like an accurate restoration cost? I was thinking $100,000-200,000. I don't know much about the costs involved.
@robert burns Is that body work only? Excluding interior and drive train? How much do you need to charge per hour to make a profit?
Geez there’s a lot of negative comments on here from people that claim to be “Motor heads”. Y’all see a waste of time and money but a REAL car guy sees potential no matter the cost. NOTHING is unrepairable. I would be lucky to have a rusted out GT350H and a percentage of the folks posting negative comments on here would be too. That’s an icon not a rust bucket.
Bring that ole gal back to life. Let her enjoy the freedom of the open road again. Rust does have an expiration date.
Grow up. It's just a car. Just because a group of idiots call it special, doesn't mean anything.
@@truantray stfu simp
oldman crow I gotta bridge I can sell ya for cheap.
See there’s an ever dwindling group of people that love anything and absolutely everything about automobiles. I just happen to be one of those people. It drives my wife crazy how much love and admiration I have for a “bucket of bolts” like this. I see more than just a car. I see someone’s life. I see stories of good times gone but not lost. I see potential for more good times. I don’t see what a lot of y’all see, just a lump of rust sheet metal and fabric. I guess that makes me a tried and true car guy.
oldman Crow I understand what you're sayin', but when you replace the original front fenders, front aprons, doors, rear quarters, trunk, trunk lid, entire floor pan, seats, wheels, monte carlo bar, shock towers, tires and send the steering wheel out to see if it can be saved, at what point does that original Hertx Mustang cease to exist? They said the Dad bought the car, what part is left that the old man touched? Oh ok, he looked at the same tachometer that the son looks at. It's just beyond ludicrous !!!
Jezz...right up the road from me. This break my heart. Cal's towing is awesome. 11:18 truth... The meaning rust belt is multidimensional
Cal's knew their stuff for sure.
Amazing the owner bought spare parts to help keep up the car,then just leaves is out in the mud for 30 yrs
AND.......a garage 20 ft. away. Scratching my head.
Beautiful piece of history in this car...please use your love and knowledge to save this beauty - it’s worth saving..thanks..
When I was a kid in H.S. in the mid 60's my Dad owned a '66 A code Mustang (base 289 w/4 barrel and dual exhaust) I enlisted one of my best friends and a damn good mechanic and couple other gear head friends for a GT 350H caper. We put together enough money and talked his older brother into renting a GT 350H from Hertz for the weekend. We pulled the Hipo K code 289 from the Shelby, swapped the valve covers, aluminum intake manifold and air cleaner assembly on to my base 289 (I did keep the Hipo Autolite carb from the Shelby) and installed it in the Shelby, the Tri-Y headers stayed on the Shelby...we did it in one day and had the car back to the dealer the next day. To the untrained ear and eye it looked and sounded the same (the K code had solid lifters which was the only sound difference at idle but the Hertz rental techs didn't catch it). We put the Hipo 289 in my Dad's Mustang and with his permission I put a pair of headers and an edelbrock manifold on his car as cover for the engine swap. My Dad was an old Ford guy and an Engineer and the first time he drove it he came back and said "this is a different engine" and I told him what we did. He was not happy but didn't make me go turn myself in either. Years later he told me he got a kick out of how much gumption that took and that it was a pretty sly operation. It must have been like 30 years later I read an article that Hertz had the same thing happen quite a bit with the first batch of H cars and thereafter they had locks installed on the motor mounts and gave the Rental Reps a very specific checklist to look for on returned cars.
A perfect one (SFM6S804) just sold at Mecum for 110K. This one will probably cost that to restore and it will always be known as a rebody/all new car.
WOW!! A Hertz Rent-A-Racer!!! Can't wait to see the finished car.
How do you leave or forget a 66 Mustang in the woods? Crazy.
To each their own, but man this is far past a restore project I would touch, even with unlimited cash.
as it sits it should be parted out for whats worth it and baled
Drove it to and from work except in winter but yet here it sits!
35-40k seems well under half what it would cost. Probably 40k just in parts. Another 80k in labor.
And they still had a profit of around $200,000.00. 8 of them sold for over $300,000.00 in 2017
So many people pretending they know how much a restore would cost really cost, let the people who have SEEN the car determine what it will cost. It will still be an original Shelby GT 350 BECAUSE they are keeping the bones of the car, the vins will still match, and the parts that were Shelby produced will be restored.
As for letting it sit, who knew what it would be worth? NOBODY. If you weren't around in the 80's, you probably won't get it, but in 81 this wasn't even a 20 year old car. And people weren't thinking "Wow, this is something really special, I should just park it in a climate controlled shop and never drive it." Back then there were still so many muscle cars around (and this one had been a Rental!) that they just weren't thought of as they are now.
Then in the 80s a lot of people sold off their "Muscle Cars" to the next generation because the cars just were not practical, and they had grown up, got married, had kids...
So I say good for them for not scrapping it. Good for them for finally getting it restored! It is and will be an amazing car.
I applaud you.
Except almost all of the car will be getting replaced. There will only be a fraction of the "original" car afterwards.
My buddy , in 87 , bought this very nice 72 Skylark.
It was eat your dinner off it clean.
The guy was selling it to make room for the grand nat he just bought , and still had all the paper and plastic all over it and just the mileage home from the dealer (20mi at most) ......
I've driven past there recently , and the place still looks the same overall, I don't know if the guy still lives there and that car is there, but when a house doesn't have major changes since then he could still live there.
Most new owners remodel.
Not sure how he saw into the future like that , and had that kinda money for a toy to put away.
Starlin Reese I disagree with the “not knowing it’s worth so it’s ok to rot” part of your argument. Sure you won’t know if it will increase in worth in the future but it’s a car; a large expensive piece of metal that you NEED to get around. Even if you buy a new car, cars are not like cheap plastic toys that can just be thrown to the side like that. That car could have easily been stored in a nearby barn or garage given the location and if they truly didn’t need it it could have been sold while it wasn’t a rolling rust bucket.
To far gone junk now
I’d love to see a full restoration video of this mustang. Hopes it’s there from start to end
The ice rain saved the Shelby tag from falling off.
You know I think you're right - frozen to the fender apron!! I never thought of that!!
This story needs further discussion. 1st they knew it was a valuable car many many years ago that's why they bought all those extra parts. Yet they just left it sit outside to disintegrate! This makes no sense. We need more of the back story on this piece of automotive history please...
No not really in my opinion. He said his dad would get parts for it, when he could, a lot of people in the 70's would do that for their cars whether they needed them at the time or not, just in case they couldn't get them anymore. My grandpa gave me a 1960 Falcon Ranchero for my graduation and with it came 2 NOS quarters, 1 NOS door skin and chrome trim he got when Ford stopped tooling for the early Ranchero's. He later put a 66 mustang 289, an 86 mustang transmission and a 78 mustang 2 rear end in the car and I wouldn't take love nor money for it.
On the same note as an auto mechanic for 65 years he kept parts for many cars, when I bought my 74 Maverick grabber he gave me a NOS stripe kit for it he had in the shops attic.
mental illness..."treat something or someone like shit for decades and see if they or it sticks around"...It is something that many humans do...and suffer from.
Cool video. I grew up in Mount Vernon and live 5 minutes from Boss Cars now.
I'm from Ohio, from the Greater Cleveland area, and I can't imagine parking a Shelby Mustang for 40 years on the side of my house and let it deteriorate like this.
I'm also from Cleveland and my dude has a 71 Chevelle convertible doing the exact same thing SMH
@@mell6481 I live in Norwalk, Ohio. There is a 1969 Cobra GT Torino sitting in a back yard 2 blocks from me. It is slowly settling into the dirt. It is very restorable, but the owner says he is "old school". I guess that means you let it sit and rot, rather than sell it to someone who can actually do something with it.
@@johnhipp8267 That's Blasphemous lol
It just blows my mind that someone would buy an expensive sports car for a school teacher to drive and then just abandon it in a backyard to deteriorate for 40 years.
It wasn’t an expensive sports car when it was new. You could’ve bought this with a part time job while in high school back then.
Ok, it's been 2 years lets see it! Man It's sad when folks don't make a 2nd video on these!!
Agreed here as well. I will if I get the opportunity.
It kills me... I know of a 58 Thunderbird coupe MELTING into the ground, about 8 miles from my house... Nope, ain't fer sale!
And there's an ultra rare 1960 Dart convertible not too far from me.... Also rotting.
Oh yeah... And a brown 57 BelAir convertible I know of... Sitting forlorn in a field, and I'll be damned if it's not wearing a sign that says "NOT FOR SALE"... And that's only been for the last 14 years since I noticed the car. Kicker is, is that there's a big garage about 50 feet away from it. Prolly filled with the hoard of margarine tub lids.
The owners were smart and bought many spare parts yet they left the car out in the elements for 40 years...go figure.
The owner in 67 and the owner in 2020 are two different people.
And dumb enough to leave it outside instead of in the perfectly good garage 10ft away
@@thahoova6818 .... They are called barn finds because they are great cars hidden away and preserved in barns. This is just a great car exposed to the elements and therefore is returning to nature.
@@thahoova6818 but... But... But the garage was probably full of the margarine tub lid hoard!
I rented a 1966 Hertz GT 350H for $19 a day on June 23, 1966 in San Diego. The next day I was off to USMC boot camp in San Diego, and Hertz picked up the broken down GT350H from my parents home; Brakes failed from too much street racing the night before and the $19 rental fee was waived.
The diecast car in original box sighed by Shelby worth more than the actual car.
Family doesnt deserve the car for letting it get like this in the first place!
I like this guy. I would want Rick restoring my Mustang! True Pro!
Then, a teacher drove a Ford Shelby cobra. Now, a teacher drives a Ford Focus. The difference of cost of living.
I'm guessing the teacher's husband was a wealthy farmer.
And the Ford focus probably costs 4 times what that Shelby cost when it was new. So crazy.
@Ivan Volkov tell that to my 79 f250 still running and driving!
Why did the family leave leave such an iconic rare GT like this to rot in the dirt.
You guys are great, breathing life back into what was once lost.
I can't watch these anymore. I have actually grown to despise people that leave classics out to rot. I have run across several in my time and tell them give me a price and they always say, "I've got plans for it..." or "I'm never selling it"... And years later it's still rotting out in their yard.
Agree. They should serve jail time.
I know is sad. Im a chevy guy and this does hurt. Shame for the car. Buys new hood. Would have 2 if they eould have saved the car.
there's somthing i'm trying to understand.
If you buy a car like this and then replace every piece of sheet metal
And all components down to the bolts. It seems to me all you're really buying is the VIN number?
At what point does replacing everything make it a different car??
Cars have been rebodied forever and it's legal most places. Happens all the time.
If they can get the motor going I think that will have some value.
Thats correct that's where the money is , and 40k to fix not even close.
Car was 35 miles from my house SMH. Amazing these type of finds are still out there
How those folks let that car rot for 40 years is totally beyond comprehension. Cheers!
My '69 MGB-GT was so beloved by the original owner that he parked it in the woods in 1981, covered it with a cloth, and never drove it again. Never even started it once, in all those years. When I got there, it hadn't moved in coming on 40 years, but he made sure to keep the key inside the house so no one could steal the thing. It was sunk into the dirt to the hubs. Made no sense to me. It's safe now.
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Iam a PROUD owner of a 66 charger all matching numbers,including the original certification card,and the original owners manual that came with the car,and I can tell you one thing,she parked in the garage where all classic cars should be parked,not outside in the dirt
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Surprised the windows survived threw all that weather it must of witness, totally so glad stumbling into these VDO always been a engenige and hard work fan thanks.)
Owner was smart enough to buy all new parts , How about Owner was not smart enough to put it in a Shed with a cement floor . LOL
I know I rather lay with my wife the put a car in storage. But if cars are more important that love making to you. To each there own.
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Your story reminds me of what my x wife told me when I was working on my 56 Ford F-150 at midnight In The garage, “ She said are you coming in I said no, then she said well then you can stick it in the tank”. I laughed all night
Imagine what it looked like the day they parked it 😎
That motor is what I had in my 64 1/2 cobra fastback, very rare screamer. I blew the motor on the 1/4, made my wife's day, and parts were stupid expensive.
I’m confused here, they buy fenders, quarters and all these parts then just proceed to let the car rot to death outside! I doesn’t make sense at all...
Dave Black yup first thing I thought about was that. At least park the car in a barn
Can’t see how this would be less then 125k to restore. How someone could walk by this car rusting away for 40 years is beyond me. Who buys new fenders and hood 40 years ago then leaves it to rot? He took better care of the toy!
More indicative of truth, as Mark Twain wrote so long ago - “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Since we deal in truth on this channel, we can indulge ourselves in stories beyond our possibility to imagine.
These were the Shelby Mustangs that Hertz car rentals offered but decided not to renew the contract after many of the cars came back with signs of racing on them.
Heard one story where a manager of a Hertz rental center went to a drag race one weekend and saw a couple of his cars in the pit area, he went over and immediately collected the keys and had them towed back.
Not to mention back in the late 60's some guys would go to Hertz and rent one of these black & Hertz gold GT 350's and take parts off the vehicle or even swap out the heads or the original intake manifold, carb etc. and then 3-4 days later return the car thinking that most rental car people wouldn't know the difference. Unreal, but that was definitely possible & likely if you owned a stock 289 Mustang and were mechanically inclined in your buddy's garage in 1967.