Look what was in this Guy's Garage

[ChuckG]

And the neighbors never knew:


http://coolcatcorp.com/millerauction/MillerAuction.html

[Mr.DJ]

Originally Posted by ChuckG

And the neighbors never knew:


http://coolcatcorp.com/millerauction/MillerAuction.html

Wow Chuck, great story...thanks for posting that link.

[Mike Penner]

Originally Posted by ChuckG

And the neighbors never knew:


http://coolcatcorp.com/millerauction/MillerAuction.html

I think every muscle car collector has wondered from time to time if there are any hemi cudas or challengers lurking, half rusted and abandoned in some old guys barn. Its like a collective dream.

[ChuckG]

Originally Posted by Mike Penner

I think every muscle car collector has wondered from time to time if there are any hemi cudas or challengers lurking, half rusted and abandoned in some old guys barn. Its like a collective dream.

I've wondered Mike. You know what, I'm sure someone out there has a number of muscle cars just sitting some place waiting for the owner to pass.

When I was a kid in elementary school, the class went on a field trip to the Crawford Auto Museum. Crawford is now TRW. The guy giving us the tour stated that they find their cars mostly in barns. They then purchase the cars and restore them. Crawford at one time had the second largest classic car collection, next to the Henry Ford Museum.

They're out there and eventually will be discovered.

[ChuckG]

One correction......Thompson Products is now TRW. Crawford was involved someway with Thompson. I don't remember how though.

[blackarmy]

Originally Posted by Mike Penner

I think every muscle car collector has wondered from time to time if there are any hemi cudas or challengers lurking, half rusted and abandoned in some old guys barn. Its like a collective dream.

I know a guy RIGHT NOW that has such a collection. 2 71 challengers, 1 73 CHallenger, 1 ORIGINAL 1968 Dodge Charger R/T with parts matching 440. and finally a 1964 Pontiac GTO. he just doesnt have any more mola to get them running. so they sit there waiting for when he has enough dough.

[Mike Penner]

Originally Posted by blackarmy

I know a guy RIGHT NOW that has such a collection. 2 71 challengers, 1 73 CHallenger, 1 ORIGINAL 1968 Dodge Charger R/T with parts matching 440. and finally a 1964 Pontiac GTO. he just doesnt have any more mola to get them running. so they sit there waiting for when he has enough dough.

Actually I'm talking about the truly forgotten gems, like an original unrestored 1970 hemi challenger sitting under a rotting tarp in an old farm house. I remember walking into a delapidated shed on my grandparents property - a farm - in Visalia (CA) in the early 1980s and looking at the ancient, rusted tools hanging on the walls. They were sheathed in cobwebs and seemed like they hadn't been touched in ... years? decades? Maybe some widow whose husband had long since died let his stuff, including the challenger, sit in storage on site molding and forgotten. Who knows.

[WildKarrde]

The guy I bought my Dodge Stealth from watched over the course of 10 years as the guy next door to him, who owned an original '67 Shelby GT 500 parked it in the garage, and let it rot. He refused to sell it, just out of stubborn ego.He died, and somebody bought the rusted shell for something like $30k.

[ErikM3]

They are out there. People like Jay Leno go and hunt for them, well he as well as his numerous staff. I saw a show recently where he "found" a Bugatti in a garage not far from where he lives, pretty wild. He said there are others around that were owned by guys in the movie biz that went to war in the 1940's and never returned so they just stayed in the garage until the wife kicked off and soon were discovered by family cleaning out their house.

Jay went onto say that there are likely numerous Muscle cars out there still hidden due to their young owners in the late 1960's going off to Vietnam and never making the freedom bird home