Showing posts with label Jerry Heasley barnfind master. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Heasley barnfind master. Show all posts
Thursday, July 04, 2024

barnfind Hertz Shelby GT 350 mostly parked for 44 years, the owner takes it to car shows, and it runs... but it's been garaged for 44 years without it being a driver anymore.

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It was featured in Mustang Monthly in 2009
Thursday, November 16, 2023

original owners of a 66 396 SS Chevelle parked it in the yard in the mid 1980s, at the end of it's daily driver use, and it just sat there for 35 years. Then it was sold, refurbed, and they got to take it to a car show

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https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2022/11/12/video-original-owners-drive-their-rusty-1966-chevelle-ss-396-to-a-car-show /
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Friday, October 21, 2022

'70 Mach 1, with a 428 CJ and a Hurst rowed 4 spd, 50k miles, spent 46 years stored in a barn until the guy finally convinced the widow to sell it, and pull a wall off her barn to get it out the "easy" way instead of moving the car collection anchored in front of it preventing thieves from stealing it

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Pam held onto it after her husband Phil passed away. Phil and Pam weren't the original owners, but they took care of the car through the...
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Friday, July 17, 2020

We're going to fix it up someday translates to it's sat there for decades, we forgot about it until you mentioned it, we;ve been hoping to win the lotto, and oh, it's not for sale, we figured we watch it get covered by a flood that would require us trading it to the AC guy for a new AC system.

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you can see the flood water still in the foglights https://www.hotrod.com/articles/not-gonna-sell-1968-mustang-california-spe...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

stored in a South Carolina barn for 44 years because the owner was fed up with people asking to buy this '59 Corvette fuelie. To spite them, he never drove it again, and died. Stupid? Yes.

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The '59 has both tops, a Wonderbar radio, and came from the factory in St. Louis with the 290-horse fuel-injected 283.  The original...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

a 75 Bronco with a 302, that has stayed in place since 1992, long enough to sink until the axles hit the ground.. because, you know, he's "going to fix it up someday"

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I bet what ends up happening is that someone in his family gets to where they need hospital care, and then he sells it. Never...

Her son died in 2006, and she's had his 88 Mustang GT sitting in the driveway for 13 years, without the keys. She doesn't have a car of her own to drive, relying on friends for rides... so finally it was heard of by a local shop who traded doing work on it for using it to make videos on how to fix Mustangs

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Shelby GT350H that was left out in an Ohio back yard for 40 years to rust away might just have been saved in time. Jerry Heasley finds another cool barnfind, and gets the car pulled out of decades of neglect, on camera.

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in the video, around the 7 minute mark, we learn that the original owner bought spare parts and stuffed them over the beams...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

Dick Harrell COPO 427 Camaro finally gets out of the garage... after 40 years of storage. The only 4 speed Harrell ever built... spent 90% of it's life so far in a garage not being used

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and the kicker? The old guy who was "going to restore it someday"? Inherited it when his brother died in 1977. He just made a ...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

1967 Shelby GT 350, bought in 1979 for $4k, used as a daily driver for a few years, then taken apart about 15 years ago... and then the owner became to ill to carry on the restoration he'd planned

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So, his wife decided it needed a new home, and the buyer invited Jerry Heasley along for the reveal of a Shelby that hadn't even bee...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

if you love barnfind stories, have you stopped by Jerry's youtube channel? He's the finder of the barnfinds that show up in Mustang Monthly, Hot Rod, and Muscle Car Review

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRGiFDEn6naVP1UQSeViIdQ  for his videos and a look at the hundreds of articles he's don...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

when they know what they've got and in order for you to buy it, you have to buy the entire estate... that's a bugger. But it's worth it when it's an original-owner 1956 Corvette, 1 of 111 with factory installed dual carbed 265 with the Duntov special high-lift cam is suddenly on the market for the first time

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“I had to buy the whole estate to get the car,” Bob Kunz said. Kunz, who is famous for rebuilding carburetors says he “got a pile of pap...
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