BIG BLOCK JAMO

are you getting sick of the "barn find" bs as i am?? i'm waiting to hear about the 67 427/435, L-89, m-22, side pipe, bolt-ons, leather, speed warning, power window, radio / heater delete, 2 top (vinyl hardtop),roadster "barn find" that some creep found in new york city on 59th st between broadway and 7th ave. the original owner put 25 miles on the car and was killed in viet nam. the car was stored in his aunts "barn" and hasn't been touched since march 1967. i love to hear more of these "barn find" stories. anybody got one?

Railroadman

Yeah, it's a beauty. Can't believe I got it for $8,000, but they REALLY needed the garage space!

JohnZ

PeteZ had lots of them .

_Nomad_

You found my car?

70mph@2200rpm

Just once I wish it were a really nice old barn, on a few acres, that I could restomod into some stylish diggs.

65 Pro Vette

Now you know it was on 58th street!! Not 59th, there are no barns on 59th.

BIG BLOCK JAMO

Pete Z.. where are ya?? we need to hear some of your "barn find" stories...
come on bro...

MarkL36

I know its not a barn, but I first saw my 66 427 390 AC coupe with POP and original motor in a open garage while driving though a neigborhood in Seabrook Tx. Days before, flood waters from hurricane Ike had crept up 3” on the tires. I nagged the guy with phone calls and emails for almost 3 years before he sold it to me. At the time I really didnt care if it was a big block or not. I just really like the car. I am now doing a full restoration on the car. Mark

BIG BLOCK JAMO

great story. that's my point. most people must think that garages are barns.. any more stories out there??

Top_Notch

Purchased a home back in 2000. Previous owner was a packrat. Agreed to purchase home "as is" with contents of the garage. Last moved in 1978.

Currently for sale.


Do you see it?



There it is. It's a 1966 roadster.

Railroadman

Top Notch, did you know it was in there (which must have helped the sale) or discover it after you had bought the place (which would have boggled your mind)?

shemp

If I remember correctly Pete Z's weren't barn find he bought them brand new and he thought they ran like crap so he put them in the garage and bought another one. We miss you Petey.
Shemp

rgs

Well....It was 1988 and I knew virtually nothing about Corvettes. My 67 427/435 one-of-a-kind (per Noland Adams) ex-Southern California Corvette Club class A racer wasn't in a barn when I stumbled across it. It had been pulled out of the barn, a corn crib in Central Iowa to be precise (because they painted the crib) and it was setting under the tree outside it for at least 5 years. I had no idea what model year it was at the time I bought it. The interior and allot of parts were in the owner's basement. Thinking of putting it back together as a vintage race car, I paid $750 for it, Yes you read correctly, $750. That was what I though it was worth at the time! It was the original block with perfect stamp pad, clean frame with shim marks, inspection paint, and stencil all there. The body had been chopped up for racing, fenders flared straight out 8 inches, windshield cut off at the body, roll bar cut in, etc. I owned it for 2 years when I traded it to Pro Team for the 65 396 I now have, plus they gave me knockoffs, a hardtop, delivered, and $10,000 cash. At the time of the trade, I had a total of $906 in the car including the original $750 and 5 bucks at the car wash to blow the rotten leaves out of it.
And yes, somewhere in a box, I have all the pictures and paperwork including the writeup Noland did about the quirk in the engine stamp pad (an I where a 1 should have been).