'63 SWC fulie barn find
07-01-2010, 03:41 PM
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'63 SWC fulie barn find
Maybe this has been posted in the past by someone on the forum but I see the last comment on the following page was made by the Editor of Motortrend Classic just a few weeks ago:
http://www.classicnation.com/2009/02...-split-window/
Read the comments that people wrote. Some of them are hilarious. I particularly like the two where the posters are going to get one like it and take it to Chip Foose. It's also quite sad if the story is true that the owner refuses to sell it because it belonged to his son who never came home from Viet Nam.
Take care,
-- Steve
http://www.classicnation.com/2009/02...-split-window/
Read the comments that people wrote. Some of them are hilarious. I particularly like the two where the posters are going to get one like it and take it to Chip Foose. It's also quite sad if the story is true that the owner refuses to sell it because it belonged to his son who never came home from Viet Nam.
Take care,
-- Steve
Last edited by RatDog; 07-01-2010 at 03:44 PM.
07-01-2010, 11:54 PM
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07-02-2010, 07:46 AM
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That must be the cousin to my car.
Much better now though.
Rich
Much better now though.
Rich
07-02-2010, 08:00 AM
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I heard a rumor about 15 years ago about a swc fuelie that was sitting in a garage pretty far from me so I didn't really do any more investigation then. But last year a friend of mine who's also a Corvette guy came around and started to talk about the same fuelie and he mentioned that he knows the owner and the car is just sitting and gathering dust. I asked him in what condition the car is and he didn't know but he said he'd find out.
It turned out that the car was restored in the States back in the 80's and the gentleman had bought it right after it was finished and he had it shipped to Finland and parked in his garage where it had been used as a garage work bench and it was covered with crap...
I persuaded my friend to ask if the owner might be willing to lend the car to our Corvette club's booth in a big car show and the owner said sure. I promised to take good care of it, give it a good was and have it detailed it for him.
When we went to pick the car up it really was buried under piles of stuff and it took us two hours just to get crap of, not wanting to make any damage to it. Once we rolled it out it turned out to be in real good condition and very presentable for the show. The owner was really surprised to see that we came with a trailer. He asked that why don't you just drive it?
A fully restored 1963 all numbers matching fuelie that has been sitting still for the past 20 some years... I didn't want to be the one to destroy it, thank you very much. 
We got it on the trailer and stopped at the nearest gas station to get air in the tires.
Even as dirty as it was it looked really good.
I was feeling proud just to be able to give it a good was and get it shine again.
After the weekend at the car show we took the car back to the owners garage where we rolled it back to the same spot where we'd picked it up few days earlier. I could just see how it would slowly start gathering dust and stuff would start piling on it again.
The owner was really pleased to see it shiny again, but had no intention to start driving it...
So not really a barn find, but maybe a future garage find in progress?
It turned out that the car was restored in the States back in the 80's and the gentleman had bought it right after it was finished and he had it shipped to Finland and parked in his garage where it had been used as a garage work bench and it was covered with crap...
I persuaded my friend to ask if the owner might be willing to lend the car to our Corvette club's booth in a big car show and the owner said sure. I promised to take good care of it, give it a good was and have it detailed it for him.
When we went to pick the car up it really was buried under piles of stuff and it took us two hours just to get crap of, not wanting to make any damage to it. Once we rolled it out it turned out to be in real good condition and very presentable for the show. The owner was really surprised to see that we came with a trailer. He asked that why don't you just drive it?
A fully restored 1963 all numbers matching fuelie that has been sitting still for the past 20 some years... I didn't want to be the one to destroy it, thank you very much. We got it on the trailer and stopped at the nearest gas station to get air in the tires.
Even as dirty as it was it looked really good.
I was feeling proud just to be able to give it a good was and get it shine again. After the weekend at the car show we took the car back to the owners garage where we rolled it back to the same spot where we'd picked it up few days earlier. I could just see how it would slowly start gathering dust and stuff would start piling on it again.
The owner was really pleased to see it shiny again, but had no intention to start driving it... So not really a barn find, but maybe a future garage find in progress?
07-02-2010, 08:56 AM
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The " could have bought " corvette / hemi car stories have been the dreams of many gear heads and after repeated accounts some acrually believe them. The computer has influenced so many people by way of values, parts availability,and general knowledge one must be a pastor to convince one of his followers a car is low valued so it can be bought for a very reasonable price.
Dreamers will still be dreamers. The latest stories involve 250k homes being bought for 10k due to forclosures. I'm sure they don't realize someone is holding the " paper " on these homes and they will be first in line to rebargain the bargain.
Dreamers will still be dreamers. The latest stories involve 250k homes being bought for 10k due to forclosures. I'm sure they don't realize someone is holding the " paper " on these homes and they will be first in line to rebargain the bargain.
07-02-2010, 10:18 AM
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I heard a rumor about 15 years ago about a swc fuelie that was sitting in a garage pretty far from me so I didn't really do any more investigation then. But last year a friend of mine who's also a Corvette guy came around and started to talk about the same fuelie and he mentioned that he knows the owner and the car is just sitting and gathering dust. I asked him in what condition the car is and he didn't know but he said he'd find out.
It turned out that the car was restored in the States back in the 80's and the gentleman had bought it right after it was finished and he had it shipped to Finland and parked in his garage where it had been used as a garage work bench and it was covered with crap...
I persuaded my friend to ask if the owner might be willing to lend the car to our Corvette club's booth in a big car show and the owner said sure. I promised to take good care of it, give it a good was and have it detailed it for him.
When we went to pick the car up it really was buried under piles of stuff and it took us two hours just to get crap of, not wanting to make any damage to it. Once we rolled it out it turned out to be in real good condition and very presentable for the show. The owner was really surprised to see that we came with a trailer. He asked that why don't you just drive it? A fully restored 1963 all numbers matching fuelie that has been sitting still for the past 20 some years... I didn't want to be the one to destroy it, thank you very much.
We got it on the trailer and stopped at the nearest gas station to get air in the tires.
Even as dirty as it was it looked really good. I was feeling proud just to be able to give it a good was and get it shine again.
After the weekend at the car show we took the car back to the owners garage where we rolled it back to the same spot where we'd picked it up few days earlier. I could just see how it would slowly start gathering dust and stuff would start piling on it again. The owner was really pleased to see it shiny again, but had no intention to start driving it...
So not really a barn find, but maybe a future garage find in progress?
It turned out that the car was restored in the States back in the 80's and the gentleman had bought it right after it was finished and he had it shipped to Finland and parked in his garage where it had been used as a garage work bench and it was covered with crap...
I persuaded my friend to ask if the owner might be willing to lend the car to our Corvette club's booth in a big car show and the owner said sure. I promised to take good care of it, give it a good was and have it detailed it for him.
When we went to pick the car up it really was buried under piles of stuff and it took us two hours just to get crap of, not wanting to make any damage to it. Once we rolled it out it turned out to be in real good condition and very presentable for the show. The owner was really surprised to see that we came with a trailer. He asked that why don't you just drive it?
A fully restored 1963 all numbers matching fuelie that has been sitting still for the past 20 some years... I didn't want to be the one to destroy it, thank you very much. We got it on the trailer and stopped at the nearest gas station to get air in the tires.
Even as dirty as it was it looked really good.
I was feeling proud just to be able to give it a good was and get it shine again. After the weekend at the car show we took the car back to the owners garage where we rolled it back to the same spot where we'd picked it up few days earlier. I could just see how it would slowly start gathering dust and stuff would start piling on it again.
The owner was really pleased to see it shiny again, but had no intention to start driving it... So not really a barn find, but maybe a future garage find in progress?
