There were stories of an old Hot rod in one of Fultan Farms barns...It turned out to be true and now I own the car. Its the one in my avatar
When I first moved to Spokane there awas a story about a nice 32 coupe in the 3rd level of a barn. I chased it and chased it. After 2 years i gave up, and 3 weeks later I get a call. To make a long story short, I found it, bought it and I am building it for my kid.
wish i could find the right barn, maybe i will if i go to upstate, ny, becuase there is so little stuff around here its depressing
What is now a forrest preserve in Il. Near Tinley park . There is buried a 1931 dodge body. A 1948 cady flathead and 20 flathead fords. How do i know i buried them there in the 70s. My god fathers house use to be there.
True story.About 30 years ago at my friends place(recently purchased) I spotted an old car tucked under the corner of the house.It was a 1954 English Ford Consul(little brother to the Mk 1 Zephyr). They were planning on selling the house and he was so embarrassed about the old car he buried it in pieces under the house.A couple of owners later and they intended to build in underneath and found it when digging for foundations.
I was going to say that Model A's are cheap and easy to find, I've even picked up partial ones for free. I have 2 1/2 or so now, just sold one, friend has a bunch more. But a coupe or roadster for $1000? Good luck, maybe if you build a time machine first. Well.. then again, I've seen guys on this board saying $800 is too much for a coupe I could spend half a day cleaning up and flip for $2500 no problem, so you never know, you might get lucky and find a seller who thinks it's still 1970, too. The last good story I heard was the '46 Ford ragtop in the one junkyard we were getting cars from. I never could find it, then someone else did and we'd walked past it 100 times. Did okay, though, I bought a '53 Skylark out of there instead. Walked past that 100 times too, stopped one day to tie my boot and saw the badge on the fender and about fell over.
There are two 32 five windows in my neighborhood. One has been stored in a garage for over 50 years and the only reason I know it is there is that I played with the guys kids when I was little. He would yell like crazy when we got near it! The other sat next to a garage for years and I would sit in it and play vroom vroom when I was three! He just put it away about 20 years ago. It's kinda neet that I am old enough to know they are there but the younger guys in the hood have not a clue! LEGENDS usually have a foot dipped in truth! Neither is for sale but I will keep on them! Thanks for the thread.
Then there's the story with the girl with the Vette with the license plate frame that says: "If you can beat me, you can eat me". I've heard it served up in a couple of versions, but the message is essentially the same. Bob
Maybe not a legend or myth, but there's a guy not too far from me that has property with a bunch of cars on it that have been sitting for some time. Half of them are up to their axles or deeper. He's got a Chevy Laguna that a tree flattened and then the ground washed up around, so now it's about 3 feet tall. Anyways, I asked him what the big plywood box in the back was all about. He said there was a Porsche in it. I didn't believe him, but looking through a hole - sure enough there was some sort of early 911 or something in there - not for sale of course.
In my area some folks talk of a weird guy with a basement full of Corvettes. Big house with a big basement. Supposed to be over 25 Vettes and a bunch of parts. The myth is true ... I know him and helped him move many years ago. 17 1963 spilt window coupes a few 63 Vette roadsters a couple of Big block 66/67 Vettes some other 63 to 67 Vettes ... A lot of parts also. He also has a 32 Ford roadster and a 33/34 Ford coupe. TRUE ... seen them with my own eyes ... .
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In Sweden a Olds 1938 were store in 1939 under the war in a basement. The car had only 12000 km on the odometer when it were stored. Under the war the house were build out and it were inposeble to remove the car after the war without demolish the walls. The car stand there to 1976 before it were move out. I takt to the owner about 1995 and hered the story of it. The car had then only 20000 km the odometer and were not restore and were in good shape and it is it still when i seen it in 2008.
there was a great story a year or two ago about a guy that was the son of a tractor dealership owner somewhere near fondulac, wi or something. story goes he inherited the tractor dealership and comenced to collecting chevys of the time ('60s). he would aquire the cars, pull the motors and load them up into old semi trailers then weld the trailers shut, leaving trailers on random pieces of property all over the area, literel gold mines when found. all the while driving old beaters around like rusty el caminos etc, and living in squallor. well he died a couple years ago and people started prying these trailers open finding yenkos, split windows, big block cars, and all the parts were accounted for. they just needed to be found in other car's trunks, other trailers, etc. in the end it was absolutely amazing. he had also collected in the '60s many fuelie motors by swapping them out for carburated versions when the owner got fed up with the maintenence, or in the '70 with the fuel crisis by swapping out many rare big blocks for small blocks. definitely worth looking the story up. i recal many high end collectors bidding on the collection, leno, etc... here's a link; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985029/posts
The legend in my neighborhood is that there is a kookie old guy that has an unrestored hot rod '27 Model T sedan that has been there for years in his garage. A neighborhood youngster reports having seen it there as recently as a year ago. I can personally attest that this is all true. I'm the kookie old guy.
Actually my one friend picked up a car a couple years ago he'd known about forever. It's a '24 Studebaker roadster. Complete, original, it needs some tinkering to run. I'd have to ask him again how he knew about it exactly. Wasn't for sale, but the old guy who had it decided he'd rather have a Model A. Well, my friend had a '31 coupe tucked away that had last been registered in '61, in if anything better shape than the Stude... so he traded even. So that car is still out there, and I've seen the Stude in person. He tells me where there is a complete A coupe in the woods that he could have had free but you'd have to build a trail to pull it out of there. Would like to go find that one.
Back in the early 60's, when 32's were then 32 yrs. old, heard of a guy that bought a new 32 brand new, drove it home to show his wife, & upon backing out the driveway, ran over their young toddler son killing him, later put the 32 in garage up on wood blocks with 12 miles on odometer, where it stayed!! I can't tell you the outcome, but the story was, in the 60's confirmed by more than 10 people!!--------Don
the local story about the 427 ac cobra is untrue it was a small block car that burned in a housefire. the owner hurt his back real bad when he broke a drivshaft. so after the fire he pushed it into his pond. and years later 76-78 someone tracked the vin # thru dmv. the new owner sent the car to england to have it rebodied and i understand its a car again. actuallythe guy that owned it when it burned was the second owner. this car originally was ownedby a buffalo bills player. al maroone ford ordered it for him and he was too cramped in the car. they then took it to the dealers collision shop where they cut the floorpan to move the seat down and back. i have the 3x2 setup that the second owner bought for this car. he had all the ratio gearsets and every inductionfor had available right around 65-68. he raced the car here in buffalo in the summer and in the winter he took it to arizona and raced it at bee-line strip. he beat bill hellschier on ocasion. back in the same time frame he hauled that car in anenclosed trailer . at the time for that type of car that was unheard of. mike
I understand that some people like to post disgusting pics, but what has me concerned is the number of people feeling the need to copy it in every 3rd post in the thread.
Funny you say that because she used to drive a "67" Super Sport around here in the mid 70's. Everyone talked about her but never saw her.
I can see how it could happen. When my brother passed away about 6 years ago. he left in his barn a 1960 numbers matching, fuel injected, corvette, with both tops. It needs to be restored. And I am now storing it for my nephew. Until I think he will take care of it. But without other gear heads in the family it could be a legend that we could talk about...ghost
17 split windows huh? Why? Thats a pretty nice retirement for sure. I wonder if he has any of the 63's that people thought were ugly because of the split and made look like the 64's with the full window. Read a story about a bunch of 63's that guys did that to when they were still new. I think it was in a Hot Rod Magazine yearbook I have from back in the 60's.
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