Vettrocious

Last week we had a nice pic here of a Corvette junk yard from a few decades ago. Looking at the cars in that yard, it occurs to me that most of them were in much better shape than the two 65's that have been on sale on eBay this week. Lump this in with the moss covered car at Carlisle and it leads me to believe we've come to a point where we've just about dredged up every up even the extreme bottom feeding "barn" finds out there. We even had a barn find in new barn. How's that work?

The Corvette barn find may soon go the way of a the dodo bird😥.

Frankie the Fink

It was also interesting that all the Corvettes had crashed front ends...the rears in all I could see were fine.. Hmmm.....

R66

Not just Corvettes, Camaros, and Mustangs are crawling out of the woodwork as barn finds. I am convinced most of them are 'barn find clones'.
I have a 68 Camaro that has been in an enclosed trailer for over 20 years. If i just move it to the 'barn' the value will probably triple.

Loren Smith

You need to apply some faux dirt or your barn find fraud will be easily detected. Also, get you a rodent chew replicator tool.

GTOguy

Years ago there used to be many decent high performance cars here in the California wrecking yards. There were also many decent used high performance cars for sale at low prices. I walked past many a junked GTO, Chevelle SS, Charger, Corvette, etc. that would today go for big $$$ in the internet. I still can't believe the depth of restorations now being done on what were formerly total rusted out wrecks. I think as the supply has dwindled, the hobbyist is willing to start at a much lower entry level these days.

Easy Rhino

I think that this is what we are seeing.

Cars that would have been allowed to peacefully languish into their eventual return to the dust from whence they came are now being rousted out and served up as "running when parked by mature driver" examples to be restored.

This is counter to the argument that prices are plummeting as people rush for the exits to dump their unwanted C2s.

Randy G.

With all the people on the road texting and not paying attention to the traffic in front of them nowadays those rear ends may come in handy.

GTOguy

No kidding! I see more than one distracted/texting driver every day I drive. Almost got taken out by an 18-wheeler pulling doubles on I-5 this past week when he drifted into my lane. I had to dart into the left lane in an instant with no time to look to see if it was clear. Luckily it was, or I would have been toast. (Driving the company's 2002 Prius!) There's a reason I haven't been on my motorcycle in over 3 years. And I don't drive my '15 Ford anymore, either. When I'm in my '61, I sweat it out at every red light, hoping I don't get punched from behind by an SUV. It used to be the drunks you had to watch for, but if you kept off the road from 9pm to 6am, you were pretty much OK. These new distracted drivers are 24-7, and there are a lot more of them.

Nowhere Man

in the mid 2000's when the price of mid years started to climb and the economy was great
i can recall shells being drug up to Carlisle that were peoples parts car years ago being bought up. then you had people dragging up cars in the same shape as that white 65 being brought out of the wood work.

I would think there still lots of projects left out there people don't know about. and remember the internet message board is a small percentage of owners and restores

cv67

x2 really dont know where peoples heads are at these days
Run through any parking lot some soccermom is speeding through there in a 5500 lb suv on her phone not even looking....people walk out RIGHT in front of you without even looking are we in a world full of zombies?

Im not the sharpest tool in the shed so if I notice....

Remember the days when you could go to pick a part and pull a 440 out and 2 cars down theres a 396 chevelle...guys threw out Qjets etc. Damn..what id give to go back and fill a trailer with motors-guys threw out 400s like they were cursed

aafadca

That ticks me off to no end! I had to take my 94 year old aunt to get groceries yesterday because some boy rear ended her a few days ago! We think he was on the phone or texting. She's a little sore in the chest where she hit the steering wheel. She may be 94 but she's still sharp and able to get around. Hopefully this will teach the boy a lesson. Her son, the lawyer, has already started to work

emccomas

We have not reached the bottom of the barrel, not by a long shot.

I know of a storage building full of 56-57 Corvettes. I am guessing that there are 20 or so cars in that building. I have seen the pictures.

All of them are solid projects that had been collected since the 1970s.

There are other buildings that I have been told about (but I have not seen the pictures) that have many 1958-1960 Corvettes, and yet another building with 1961-1962 Corvettes.

Same person / family owns all of them.

These cars will continue to come out of the woodwork for many years to come.

GTOguy

I think the OP meant was the low quality of cars being the bottom of the barrel....not that all the decent ones were gone. I may be wrong, but that's how I read it.....On the GTO forum a couple of years ago, a guy had 26 1964-1967 GTO convertibles, all in a storage building since the late 70's. All were original paint and most were all original, parts wise. Most were 4 speed cars. All were 'survivor' condition and many ran. None were rusted or crash damaged. It took him two years, but he sold every one of them except for the one he kept on ebay for excellent money. He'd bought them as cheap used cars in the 1970's. I hadn't seen cars like that for 35 years.

1snake

I get calls about them all the time. Last year I picked up a 2 owner, 65 BB conv. with 29K miles that had been sitting in a garage for 25 years. I guess it's not really a "barn find" but there are lots of "garage finds" out there.

Randy G.

I'm looking for a '63 split window with a Eucalyptus tree growing up through the transmission tunnel where the shifter used to be if anyone has any leads.

Vettrocious

I've got lead on a red oak, but there's been on run on eucalyptus lately...

Randy G.

tuxnharley

Sorry, only coastal redwood tree cars in this area. OTOH, they tend to have less damage than the Euc cars as redwoods are slower growing....

Railroadman

And down south you may find "Kudzu cars". No telling WHAT'S under all that green stuff! "Thelma, where's the durn Vette go? It was here last week, but ah cain't seem to find it!"

Easy Rhino

And this would be as opposed to "Jimmy Hoffa" cars at the bottom of lakes.

Open the trunk you say? You first!