Old famous Drag Cars today in barns and fields

Does anyone have any pictures of old famous or well recognized drag cars from the past that are just sitting the weeds or in barns, some may just be rotting away.

We've all ran across an old drag car at one time or another with the lettered up paint faded sitting in a junkyard or in a field or in a shed.
Not just any old car that was said to be a drag car but the one's that were the real hitters in their day.

If you have pictures lets see them.

 

ttt on this, should get some nice pictures

 

If there were, they wouldn't be there for long.
There's sort of this big movement to restore these old cars. Some of us have heard about it.

 

I've see a few old famous ones sitting I gotta scan some pictures.
Although guys are restoring them there are the one's that the owner says "naw it aint fer sale... I'm gonna fixer up it sumday"

 

Isn't there a web site for funny cars sitting around. I remember looking at it a few years ago.

 

its not famous, but the barn find look is what i'm after.

 

This is a old g***er I bought a few weeks ago, it almost went to the s****per... also not famous but real

 

Wow what I could do with that???

 

Somewere in HAMBland there is a photo of the 554 Mooneyham & Sharp car before it went to New Jersey @1964, just sitting behind someones shop.

 

Looks pretty damn good if ya ask me.

 

Found it!

 

That's crazy to see something like that in that condition and the car sitting next to it.

But...I guess there was a time before the nostalgia craze when the old cars like that were just considered to be outdated and obsolete

 

still, hard to believe that not many still exist. There are some still out there, just looking at pages and photos on the HAMB, I find myself asking "wonder where it is now?" many times.

 

This was in 1980-1981, and I don't have any pics, but there was an orange 1940 - 1941 Studebaker coupe that was in a backyard in Canton ILL. It must have been a pretty nice car at on time, since it had a black, (i think), ****on tuck interior. It sat for several years with the drivers door open. Don't know what happened to it, but hopefully someone saved it.

 

The previous owner should be drop kicked in the neck for even considering that.

 

Here's one we found in New Hampshire after it had sat outside for 20 years. It was the "Mystery Willys" . It was quite popular back in the 60's at the Dover track and in Connecticut.

 

Here's a picture of it back in the day. We have a build thread on it just look for "beside the barn find" Enjoy

 

and another one from the same source I believe

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369879&highlight=knotts+berry+farm

 

Saw this on another forum...:

 

That's a shame to see that Willys going to waste... makes you wonder what runs through peoples minds when they do that.
Some idiots like the attention they get when they turn down buyers that could possibly save it.

 

That old Charger Funny Car was for sale a while back... was said to be Don Shumachers old Stardust.
Someone needs to save it... like me!!

 

Not necessarily famous,... But ! a two time national champion Loren McCombs Blue Racer.
1964 U.S. National champion,.. 1966 Bristol Spring Nationals.

 

Yeah the best explanation I've heard is that with the cars, they're the crazy guy with the cars that would be worth a fortune if they fixed them up. Without them they're just the crazy guy.

 

There used to be an old G***er here in Illinois that sat on a farm in a pig lot, it had Halibrands on it and all.
The hogs would lay right up next to it in the shade, the wheels were burried about 4" in pig duke.
The owner actually got his rocks off by telling people it wasn't for sale.
Someone told me he died a few years ago and the car was sold and restored

 

Found in a coach house in upper NY
Its here on the west coast now
Early Lil John ****era car (R&B Auto, Kenosha WI

 

There is a thread on here about a dragstrip(Georgia?) with a lot of old race cars that can be bought.I believe there is even a contact number.
Step up to the plate and buy one.BobG did.

 

Cool thread....

Needs a bump

 

Not famous ,but kind'a cool