Gary finally found his dad's original FM3 Moulin Rouge 1970 Road Runner convertible, which his dad raced and beat on for a year, but told stories about for a lifetime

by 1976 it was in a junkyard, hacked on to get the engine out through the radiator core support area, and when some guy saw it there, he saved it by buying it and putting it in his barn where it just sat waiting out the years. 39 of them. Nothing was ever done to the car after getting it out of the junkyard.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/son-gets-fathers-pink-road-runner-convertible-back-40-years/