How Close to home have you found them??

Found this on Thursday and bought it... drug it home on Saturday and got it running this weekend. We had been looking for a late 50s Ford pickup and found one on ebay and bought it back in Sept. It was up in Independence, KS. Then I find out about this one Thursday, it was 2 doors down from my Pop's house in a barn.

It's all complete except tailgate, bench seat, and cluster. Someone tried to hack in a mid 80s cluster for some reason? They clipped all the wires and rewired a new tractor ignition so I'm trying to work out all the wiring, but I got it hooked up enough to get it running this weekend.

Now I'm ready to get the wheels painted and add the whitewalls!!!


The bed and cab were loaded with new electrical/brake parts along with some really nice older Chevrolet parts which included a turbo 400 transmission. Oh also it had a toolbox mounted in the back that had plenty of tools in it also.









Pops' new tractor and the 60 just peeking through the barn doors







White haired guy (Don the old hot rodder neighbor) is the father in law of the owner, and the guy in the hat (middle) owns the barn where it was located, which was 2 doors down from Pop's house, that's Pop on the right. Oh and Maggie, Don's dogg.




The old owner (IDIOT) mounted a mid 80s dash cluster in the dash, it only had 2 wires connected? The rest were just hacked off!




All the car parts that I found covered in the bed. Well just part of them.




There was so much **** in there, I had it all over the yard while I was cleaning it out!




"...Breaker 1 - 9, Breaker 1 - 9, What's your 20..."

Nice look at the instrument cluster... Oh and the purple tint!




A complete engine, carb to oil pan!!





The toolbox in the bed!!




Just in case I go cruisin' through the hood, I gotta know what Gang signs to flash.




Let's see your finds close to home!!

 

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found my tbird 10 blocks from my house and had known the owner for probably 20 years didnt know he had a old car just sitting in his front yard with for sale sign drove it home it needed lots of work but was super straight old car

 

I bought my A pickup in pieces from my next door nieghbor. My A sedan was an abandoned resto about 6 miles away.

 

I found my OT '68 one owner Camaro at my next door neighbors house. Hey, are you thinking about selling me that neat-o CB console unit out of your newly purchased '60. Hope you have alot of fun with your pickup this winter!

 

When I got out of high school in 92' I found a complete 38' Willys pickup 3 miles from my folks house sitting behind a garage. I traded a freshly rebuilt 354" hemi for it.

 

Better let me know if you want it, as it's next to the trash can awaiting Monday morning pickup!! Pop scavenged the CB out of the console thought... so all you'd get is the plywood!

Winter??? Heck I already got it running!

 

I bought my Hemi and Whippet 2 1/2 miles away. The guy even delivered it. He has a bunch of model A's and some muscle cars, and 1/2 acre of cars and parts stuffed in behind his fence.

 

i found my model A less than a block from my parents house. I lived there since 91. i knew about the car for about 5 years before i finally got it

 

I got mine about 2 miles from my home and the guy I bought it from helped me get it running so I could drive it home.

 

My 56 New Yorker with the 354, across the street from where I lived. Was in great shape nut did some custom touches to it and painted it black and put on Appliance Banana slots, back in 1967. I think they were appliance anyway.

 

around 18 years ago my lil bro bought a 59K original mile 1963 SS Impala 283/glide,white with fawn interior from an elderly woman down the street from our house.
The car had the buckets and floor shift and was in great shape save some rust in the floor board and a kind of ****py but ok second paint job.

He went to talk to her as wee lived there and knew f the car for sometime but she swore she wouldnt sell. He seen she had a newer Cutl*** now and decided it was time to talk. He was right at 17 and had a daily driver but had saved up some money to talk. He asked about the car and she told him she wouldnt have ever sold it ealier but now with another car she didnt need 2. He didnt have all the money yet for what she had asked so she let him cover it up and come clean it up on occasion while he got her the rest. Its a car he wishes he had never sold.

His first car came from a neighbor of my grandma which was a friend of my dads whom grew up together as kids. It was a 1967 Impala which I later inherited and we still have. IOn the other side of grandma another friend of the family sold me an original owner. 1967 white w/ red int 289 auto mustang.Grandma lived on that block all her life and seems everyone kept there cars and dad made sure to keep up with their whereabouts for when we grew up.

 

i have a 57 ford swb on ebay right now cheap if anyone wants another one similar to this one and it came from about a mile away from me

 

I once picked up a very clean, bone stock 1960 Chevy Biscayne Bubble top with a 6, 3 on the tree and a posi rear from an old coupe who had babied that car from the day it was new.
I picked it up for my wife who was my girl friend at the time. It was green with a white cap. That had to be about 1971.

 

i found this 4 blocks away from home behind a mechanics shop..... i pushed it home.

 

My 56 Buick was 2 blocks down from where I grew up.. In the original owners garage.. Hadn't moved an inch in 21 years when I towed it home.. I was 16 it was my first car

 

...barn finds are the coolest!...good luck with yours, it's a nice one.

 

Nice find.

My Daughter and i Found the 28 Tudor about 4 or 5 miles from home.
It ran and I probably could have driven it home, but i was worried that the mechanical brakes would not stop me if i needed to stop quick, so I went home and got the trailer.
<--its the one in my avitar. Now in hundreds of pieces all over the place.

 

Thanks, I'm going to get it street worthy and sell it to fund my big back gl*** 59!!

 

I found both of these less than 1-mile from my house and turned them into this,1-year later,the "leftovers" where sold/donated to help other trucks.....price,$1000 for both...

 

got her running, just need to finish up the wiring and put the new wheels/tires on!!

 

Found mine a mile from home in yuppie suburbia. The owner used to own all the land all the houses are now on and the golf course his overgrown two acres was behind. He had hot rodded it in the early 50s and used it to tow his model A race cars all over the country, but it had been sitting there on blocks since '58.

Now I drive the **** out of it, including hitting every El Mirage meet I can.

 

My next door neighbor found this car about a mile away in a garage.No one knew it was there but the owner.Old man had it in the garage since 1954.Even had some flathead speed parts with it.My neighbors brother bought it.You might have seen these photos in Rod & Custom a couple of years back.

 

Beautiful car.

 

I gotta buddy with a black 35 Olds 3 window 'zactly like that one! He rebuilt the original engine/trans and drives it with the original black paint and mohair interior.

 

A few years ago I went to a swap meet 40 miles from home and brought a 1909 model T speedster. Turns out he lives in the same town as I do. I drove it home from his house the next day. Never saw that car in town before or knew about it.

 

My wife and I were on our way back from trying to buy a 56 chevy (big project). Seller was draging his feet after a verbal agreement. So one block from our house we spot a 52 Chevy deluxe sport coupe. We end up buying it, running driving suvivor with 96.000 original miles for little more than we were going to pay for a 56 chevy basket case.

 

DAMN Holme's, that is a score! My current ride (avatar) was right at 30 miles away.

 

Model A was 71 miles from here. 55 Chevy PU was 20 miles from here and my wife's grandpa owned it. 47 Chevy Fleetmaster Coupe was always here as my dad ordered it new when he came home from 3 and 1/2 years of war in 45'.

 

How did your dad order a 1947 chevy in 1945?