Best barn find ever? 45 sports cars hidden in Virginia | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 70

(exhaust bellow) (engine revving) (upbeat music) - We're driving through rural coastal Virginia to a little town called Reedville, which I've n

ever

heard of. But there is a warehouse full of

cars

, interesting

cars

, I'm told. It was a tip that a friend gave me, and if he said it was worth going to see them, I told him I had to go look at those cars. This time we will not drive a wooden car. This is a pretty solid '67 Ford Country Squire. It drives like a dream and if this car looks familiar it's because it appeared on episode 13 of Barn Finders.

Go back, check it. This is the car. I ended up buying it and here we are four years later. I do 1,000 miles a week with this baby. ♪ I can see you with anyone else ♪ Three trailers, I know what they're going to do. They have to remove the cars that are here before the weekend. You can't go much further in Virginia than we are here. There is the water and the ocean. I guess it's the Outer Banks beyond that. We're in rural Virginia, a little town called Reedville, really at the end of the road. The pavement is gone, the gravel is gone and now we are on dirt.

Mike invited us here. Mike, thank you very much for having us. - I'm waiting excited. - Mike has apparently become the owner of a stash of cars. So tell me what's here. I haven't been here yet. - Good. - How many buildings, why are they here, who was the owner? -What happened was that a gentleman in Virginia had the opportunity to buy cars throughout his life and he began buying and maintaining cars here. He also had a place in Richmond, Virginia, downtown Richmond, Virginia and some at his house. Unfortunately, illness took over and the family needs to move into the property and cars, and essentially what I did was I was lucky enough to purchase the entire cache.

My responsibility is to clean it up and get the cars out. I'm a car nut. I've been a car nut for

ever

. I'm in the car business and will never get the chance to touch or feel these cars, but I want to make sure they get to the next owner who can finish them. No one can make 44 cars that I bought, so I'll be able to break them down and take them to new homes and make sure they're restored and back on the road, because as a car historian, you can't let them go to waste. - Well, thank you for receiving us and guiding us. - Come on.

And that's the most interesting part. - Okay, should I turn on the lights? Oh man. So you haven't touched anything here? - I haven't touched anything. Most of it hasn't been touched in 15 or 20 years. -Are they cars that you have collected throughout your life? Oh man. - That's what I did, oh man. I think something got in the way of a straight line. Fortunately, it's just a fiberglass car. - So here is a Porsche Speedster with a Volkswagen engine and a fiberglass body, which may be an Intermeccanica, but there were several companies that made them. Some were really good and some are themselves collector's items these days.

I'm guessing it has 2900 miles on it since it was built. He left Hartsville, South Carolina. He paid $650 to have it shipped from San Francisco to Richmond, Virginia. Isn't that something? There is no date here. Hmm, no date. It's pretty cheap, because now I pay a lot more than that. - I know, look at this. - Oh, it has a built-in VW engine, a hot rod, two carbs and an alternator. - We know it was at least 2010. - Oh, black plate car. He had to buy it because it is not a car with a black license plate.

Does it have a lid, I wonder? - It has a cover. -So when Speedsters became too expensive to be original, going from $50,000 to $75,000 and then to $100,000, $150,000, $200,000, $250,000, it made sense to create, like the Cobras, a fiberglass version that people could enjoy your appearance. of the real car for a small fraction of the price. So we have a diesel Rabbit truck. These are the cat's meows. - There are two more down there. - I have a friend in Maine who would like to buy this right now. It has Scirocco wheels. - Actually, GTI wheels. - And so they are all complete. - We hope complete. - A lot of people take them apart, and then they take another car part and another car part, and then you have parts everywhere. - Look towards the middle.

Where did all the engines come from? - So it was a 280 SL? - 280 Four Speeds. That one is so original. The brake booster appears to have been removed, but everything else, down to the last hydraulic line, is still connected. - It's probably original paint. - We think it is. - Wow, it seems like 55,000 miles. I'm not sure I read correctly. This car should never be restored. Holy Mackerel. Very good, next to us we have a Porsche. - It's a 1960 Porsche 356 Cabriolet. - People are going to go crazy with this episode. This is exactly what Hagerty's customers love.

So, a 1960 Porsche 1600 has a hardtop. Whether it's factory or not, I'm not sure. Obviously the soft top and the luggage rack. This is not a sprinter. The Speedster's windshield would have been lower and a Speedster would not have had roll-up windows. The Speedster had side curtains. Look how complete it is. - Do you know what's amazing? The four hubcaps are on the top. Finding that would take a lifetime. - There's an oil change sticker here, so I'll see, I know everyone criticizes Tom Cotter for not having a flashlight. - Do you want to take my flashlight?

I have one. - Here is an oil change sticker. It says 6/28, the date, but does not give the year. Warrington, Pennsylvania is the city where service was provided, at Mobil Oil. This says 4800 miles, so it's probably 104,000, something like that. And here are the lunar hubcaps. Now I think the problem area with these cars was at the front, here in the battery, and it seems to be really solid. I'm going to take this wheel off, if that's okay with you. - Yes, sure. You break it, you buy it. - You got it. Look at that floor, there's no rust.

It's under the battery, under the spare tire, where rust would form. Pretty solid car. It looks like it has 104,000 miles. I wonder if this painting original. Let's see if we can

find

any remains. Yes, this has been painted. Look, there's the black, but there's a red blob there, so this has been painted. It appears to be a metallic red. So you can tell this is an early 356, not the later ones like a C. C would have had a small bolt pattern. This one has the largest bolt pattern, like a Volkswagen Beetle. Nice. Well, this is a Volkswagen Rabbit convertible.

Cabriolet is what they called them. He loved rabbits. - Yes, well, me too. - There are rabbits everywhere, they multiply. - I guess we'll go down one side. Oh my god, look at that, wow. - It is not surprising? - God, here we have an MG TD. It could be, I guess, from '49 to '53. - '53, but this is a '52, according to the title. - Here was a 1250 cc four-cylinder engine. This is the toolbox. You put your jack in there and keys and stuff, because obviously you needed them when they broke down, but this one has a Chevy V8, distributor in the back, Rochester four-barrel generator.

Look how close that generator plate is to the original radiator. You couldn't fit two dimes in there. The original exhaust manifold is falling off. They had to use some flexible tube. What type of transmission does it have? - I do not know yet. - It's a manual gearbox, it looks like maybe a three-speed Chevy box. - Look at the steering wheel. - Yes, paddle wheel. It has original five bolt wheels in the front and four bolts in the rear, so it's probably like the rear of a Chevy Nova. The four-bolt six-cylinder Chevy Nova would have had four lugs.

Double exhaust? No, single exhaust. - Actually? - What kind of hot rod is this? Yeah, unique exhaust, wow. And it has a brake booster in the back, way back here. Crossbows, wow, you're right. How wonderful it would have been to play with Cobras. Look at the gear lever. - Yes, I'm looking at that. Isn't that wild? - It's a kind of side-scroller, like one of the first Healys. - Look at the curve it has. - So it's probably one of the first JC Whitney floor changers. - Well. - The problem was that it was a good idea until you got on it and then the chassis flexed.

It was just a tiny little chassis. - And here there is still wood under the chassis. - Yes man. That's a clean truck. - With a shell, which is never found, but they put a sliding roof on it. - So this is not diesel, it is gasoline. Volkswagen Rabbit pickup truck, manual transmission, clean seats. Cleaned this fool up good. Now look at this, a body that looks like a factory colored top. Very nice vehicle. So this is probably... '81, '82. - Yes, early 80s. Clean collection box. You see, the original paint is still there, so they didn't drag the brake drums or anything with that.

I have friends who really like these vehicles and look how clean the body is. I imagine the floor is just as clean. It has 108,000 miles. - That it's a baby. - Yes, it's a baby, and who knows how long it's been sitting here? Is there a sticker? - Not in this one. - That is a good one. I think a lot of people know, Barn Find Hunter, we

find

Cobras and Ferraris, and I get excited about that stuff, but we find Volkswagen vans and I get excited about that stuff too, and I think the vintage hobby movement is going in this direction for young hobbyists. who get involved in this sport. - This one is so original that it still has the plastic shelf to cover tires. - So that's a four-door? - That's a four-door.

It's a diesel. - Diesel without engine. - Well, the engine is around here somewhere, and that's a Rabbit GTI. - Do you mind if I step on that bumper? - I don't mind. - Now you people in the chamber might have a problem with this. So it's just a four-door Rabbit, not that there's anything wrong with it. I used to race against a guy who was racing a four-door Rabbit at Bridgehampton. Nice car, but of course, this is a first generation GTI, so there's no engine in this one, but it's probably here somewhere. - It's here somewhere.

It's an '84 model. - It appears to be original paint. - It's very, very original. - Wow, so this was cinnamon, a kind of cinnamon red. Only three colors were available, as I remember. It was red, black, white. - And then they turned silver. - Yes you're right. So this has the GTI seats in there. It has the golf ball shift knob. Let's see what the mileage is on this. 85,000 miles. It has the seats, front and rear, all original. Sliding roof. You can see there is mold on the doors, but it cleans up easily. It has drums in the back and discs in the front.

This was the car that changed American opinion about what a muscle car could be. This was one of the first pocket rockets. After the Mini Cooper S, 1275 S, back in the 60s, this was the next car. Front-wheel drive, a car that anyone could afford, good gas mileage, but handled very well, had a lot of power, and this led to a whole new generation of muscle cars in America, if you want to call that a powerful car. It was an econobox. Car and Driver, Road and Track magazine loved these cars. When I went out to buy my second new car, my wife and I didn't buy the Rabbit.

We bought the Golf version in 1985, which we still have. We still have a GTI that we bought new 35 years ago. Alright, another Volkswagen truck, another one with a cap. Factory color, standard and diesel transmission. - Yes, which is even more desirable for some. - Absolutely, yes, because these things easily run a quarter of a million miles. 102,000 miles. Nice tan interior, very period correct color. Saddle type interior, tan exterior, very nice. Alright, here you have one of the most unusual

sports

cars ever built. People said it looked like a guppy. Look at this thing's nose. He had a controversial style.

It was manufactured by Daimler, D-A-I-M-L-E-R. It's an SP250 or a 250SP. I see there is a factory workshop manual here. Daimler was a company in England that made large cars, limousines, and large sedans. - It was the queen's car. - The queen's car, and they weren't known for making

sports

cars, but back in the '60s, that's where the market was headed. They developed a fiberglass sports car. It was a two and a half liter V8. Here I'll show you what that V8 looks like. It's a Hemi V8, and if it looks like a miniature Chrysler 331, 392, it is.

It is a miniature version of a Chrysler Hemi engine. It has two SU carburetors and they sounded great. I mean, the cars didn't perform particularly well on the track, but man, they sounded great. It had a dual exhaust and actually if you were racing this or racing a Healy or an MGB or an MGA this would wipe the floor with it. Fiberglass body, this has a rigid fiberglass roof. Now think about that. Think about this for a minute. A small V8 today is five liters. It is a 2.5-liter engine, half the size of a Mustang GT. - It was used for several years as a police car. - Wind guard, accessory hardtop, has four-speed gearbox.

It appears to be a complete car. The seat is a little broken. This is a red car, black interior, red trim. The keys are there, all the indicators are there,Smiths gauges, padded dash. Again, this should never be restored. This car simply has to be enjoyed. You know, the problem with restoring these cars is that it could be upside down by the time you start touching it, so you can enjoy this car as is. It also has a bit of a strange styling on the back here. - It took 50's and 60's styling and took fiberglass from the Corvette world and the V8 Hemis, it was crazy. - Kind of a weird 60's American style with these little fins here.

Think of a Cadillac fin, a '59 or so model, a scaled-down version of that. What year is this? - This one is from '60. - '60, okay. Look at all this, now you'll realize this guy was a foodie. He saved his Hemmings Motor Newses, 1990, 1991. Just idiots like me and he does that kind of stuff. This must be his literature closet. Here is the Mercedes-Benz owner's manual for any vehicle. - Probably because of the car that is right behind you. - 250 SL, 280 SL. These are all factory service bulletins. Very interesting things. So this car, originally from Rhode Island, last registered in 1980, is a Mercedes Ponton, a 220 Ponton, which was the style of car at the time.

It was a car, a sedan version of a 190 SL sports car. Kind of a wispy, very round style, and then they moved on to the tail fin, which is a little bit sharper and sharper. It probably has four speeds on the column, it's a standard transmission, four on the shaft. Nice meters. It says 33,000 miles. I guess it could be. It has been painted. People who didn't remove the windows during a paint job were never able to get the masking right, so you could tell whether some of them have been painted or not if there is rubber that has a little bit of the color on it.

Then another Daimler. Now, look at this here in the trunk. Here is a car cover from California. Oh, it's Hemmings Motor News that hasn't even been unwrapped, winter 2001. An atlas, I guess it's a boat map for navigation. Mirror, probably from this car. Here we have another Daimler 250 SP. Did that one have wire wheels? - The other one did it, this one too. The one we have as a spare parts car has solid wheels. - Small footprints of a raccoon that visited this car. I hope it's not there. Red car, red interior, all gauges, dash intact. Four-speed gearbox.

I guess this is a two plus two, but you had to have short legs. Maybe the kids could fit in the back seat. - This one was unusual, because it has a roll bar. - This one has a roll bar, I saw it. So radiator, okay, the radiator is here. I thought they had eliminated it. You can see it has a logo on the generator, again, another miniature Chrysler V8. In fact, I've seen some American hot rods, Model T type track roadsters with this engine, and people freak out. Oh my god, a Hemi, a baby Hemi.

Well, that's what it is, a 2.2 liter Hemi baby. - They called it trout-mouth forehead. - Well, you can see that the grill is the look that only a mother would love. - The surprising and intelligent thing about you is that everything is inside. The weather hasn't touched any of these in years. Look at the chrome. While it's still there, it's a great opportunity to start over. - You're a lucky guy, because if these were outside, it would be a cemetery. Another MG TD, that one has chrome headlights. This one with the V8 has chrome headlights, but they actually came with painted headlights and chrome was an option.

It was called the 1250 CC XPAG engine. I know because I have one of these. This is probably the original color of this car, which was a kind of greenish gray, but on top of that it was painted British racing green. Here there has been another toolbox and a mouse. Two and a quarter inch SU carburetors. This was a car that turned America into sports vehicles. It was one that many soldiers returned from England and brought with them or purchased when they came to the United States. You could take it to a race track, race it, and then hopefully drive it home again.

This is a Jaguar Mark 2, perhaps. - It's a 3.8 S. I don't know if the designation was Mark, I think it was Mark 2. I thought the Mark 2 was a little smaller. - I don't know, maybe it's in the back. - It says 3.8 S. - It was a sports car, from '66. You can see the porcelain of the exhaust manifold, double overhead camshaft. Did you say 3.8 liters? Look at that wooden board. - Look how clean it is, look in what condition. - Amazing. - This car will clean phenomenally well. - I'll sit here. I just have to soak it up.

So it has big, luxurious leather bucket seats. Look at that board. It has 45,000 miles. - Depending on the condition, maybe. - Could be. Look at that script. All gauges, load switches, has a Blaupunkt. It has that appropriate musty smell. And here's a key, says Jaguar. Now, what year is this Porsche? - '68. - '68 Targa, is it a 911? - It's a 912. - 912, okay. You know, until about six months ago, nobody cared about 912s. Now they're the hottest thing in the world. Is it a Sportomatic or something? - You are opening the door for the first time, as I have not done so yet. - No, it's a four-speed gearbox.

Look at the interior, look at the seats, the dashboard. He had an amazing eye for cars. So this is, oh look, here's another badge. Automobile Club of Milan. I wonder if he got these cars from Europe, wow. - No, most of them had titles from the Virginia area, two were in California and most of them were in this area of ​​the east coast. - So this is probably missing, yeah, it's missing a little logo. I can see the pushbacks here, so it's obviously been painted at some point in its life. It's silver and right here it would be a 912, probably a 912.

It's not fuel injected, so it wouldn't have been E, but 912. It was a four-cylinder version of a 911. They say it was the ultimate 356, right? ? be a 912. It took the 356 technology one step further, more sophisticated and with a new body. It seems to be a good, solid car, and these cars, you know, nobody wanted them just a few years ago, and now, people really appreciate these cars. Look inside. Those seats could be cleaned beautifully. - It's a five gauge board, which is quite unusual. - 80,000 miles? Let me see that. 30,000, so I guess it's 130,000, and this car is painted.

There is evidence of that all the time here. The silver targa, which means the roof panel comes out, could be stored under the hood. Disc brakes at the rear, disc brakes at the front. This was probably the most sophisticated air-cooled four-cylinder engine that Porsche made, before putting all its emphasis on six-cylinder engines. The Porsche hubcaps, one, two, three, four. Let's see if he turns around. Let me see if I can spin the crankshaft here. No, I can't, but I bet unless it's seized, there's no reason for that thing not to spin and probably start up pretty easily.

Look, it has sides, I guess two downdraft ones, probably Solex, and they look like an aftermarket air filter. You know what the horsepower was, I can't really tell. Well, it's a pretty surprising find, and you know what? We're still in the smaller building. There is still a larger building to be built. Okay, so we don't have electricity in this building. Oh, an F150 and a Jimmy. Are these yours too? - Everything is mine. (slow music) - That's a nice truck. - Oh, yes, I'm a Ford dealer. This will be easy for me. - A four-wheel drive with a short wheelbase? - This is the only one I recognized and knew how to value. - Sure, wow.

Is it low mileage? - I don't know, I didn't look, I didn't care. - I have to turn on the board. - Yes, I didn't care. - So it's a manual gearbox. - Yes, this is 100% original. - This will clean very well, beautiful. I bet it doesn't have 30,000 miles on it. Four wheel drive, manual gearbox and we can't see the mileage because the odometer is digital so you have to start the truck and obviously the battery is dead but it has the trim, factory chrome wheels, is it a V8 five? liter? - Yes, five oh. - I guess it's like a five-liter Mustang engine.

Fuel injection. I bet it's low mileage. I'm not a truck guy. - This is a short bed. - God, you should make this your company truck. I spend time on this and this because there are Hagerty customers who love these vehicles. Here's one, a racing driver friend of mine, who you know, Elliot Forbes-Robinson, a couple of years ago he was looking for one of these for his son, because the thing is getting them and getting them down. You can hit them. - This is a Jimmy. - Has automatic transmission, 86,000 miles. This was a big problem in the past.

Let's see, how is this released? Look at that, you could list the commonly called numbers there. This was a big problem. These days you had to walk around with a battery. And is that for sale too? - Yes, everything is for sale. - It has a V6, so it's a little hot rod. - Yes, 2.8. - Air conditioning, very nice. Okay, now let's get to the things that interest us most. We'll start with the Volvo. Nice Volvo truck, automatic, obviously its original paint. I don't see any repaint marks. It's not turbo or is it? I can't say that for sure.

It doesn't appear to be a turbo. Several people will probably despise me. It has factory alloy wheels. 17,000, so I guess it's 117,000 miles. The leather seats need a little improvement. Here's a car I know something about, a VW Beetle, and don't tell me the year, I think I can guess. Let's see, big taillights, which means it's newer than the '61 or newer. Wheel cupped, so it had some rust repair or probably damage repair on the front. It's got a new hood, so I'd say it's probably a '63 or '64. With that door handle, I'd say it's a '65, '66. - '67. - '67, okay.

New fenders, new fenders there, all the fender and hood trim, so it looks like a lot of the parts you would need to fix are already here. That one has 15,000 miles. From the looks of it, the wear on the pedals, I'd say it's definitely 115,000. The area of ​​concern with these cars is the battery, and as you can see here, there is indeed some cancer. There is a small hole, but it is common and really acceptable on a Volkswagen Beetle of this era. So this car could be revived very easily. You can buy all of these carpeted panels here from aftermarket companies.

The new seat covers you need. By the way, there's the mane. Door panels can be purchased, so even a home mechanic can glue these parts together, fit the seat covers, fit the door panels in a weekend, and revitalize the entire interior. It is a hardtop, it does not have a sunroof. Everyone who owned a Beetle tried to fix it with these steering wheel covers. - He has great bones. - If it does. Okay, well, now we've gone from baby to big brother. Is this a 930? - 911, '84 model. - A 911 with big things welded on here. - We don't know if it is factory or not.

I have to get the codes yet, but I haven't been able to see it. - Maybe I can let you know right now. It has large flares and there is not much evidence that they have been added. Was there a wide body car without a turbo? - Yes. - That could be it. 16 inch wheels. It appears to be metal, and the base coat is consistent from the lip to the end, so it doesn't look like there were any additions. - And it's a car with air conditioning. - What liter is this, do you know? - I'm thinking of a 2.8 from '84, but it could be a three too, I'm not sure. - It has large flares in front and behind.

It has this whale tail, which was the iconic Porsche, and the reason it was put there was that the air, instead of sliding down and eventually slowing the car down, there was a clean break, and it was a clean break. for the air. So it went off and the car was not slowed down by aerodynamics. In the end, he turned a diving car into a sharp tail. A guy named Kamm, K-A-M-M, invented the Kammtail around World War II, and this is an extension of that. This is all rubber. I think the US required it to be rubber in case pedestrians got hit.

I guess a factory black car? - Yes, we think it is. - And if it was painted, they removed the windshield. - The miles on this one are 87,000. No, 67,000. - 67,000, there are some chips here, so either those light chips are a lighter primer like a gray primer, or this car was maybe silver at some point and they just took the windshield off. He has cigarette butts in the ashtray. Everything seems complete to me. Wow, it has a five-speed gearbox. The seats are moldy but could be brought back to life and the carpets look great. You'll have this sold before you know what you're doing.

So this was last on the road in 2000. Virginia, December 2000. Has a tool kit, which I assume is original, including a touch up bar. Schwartz means black, so if this is the original touch up bar from the tool kit, then this car was originally a black car. These are West Germany, so this is all original material. It just seems strange to me. Those wheels don't look big enoughto fill the fenders. Well, here we have an early 911. Is it 911? - 912. - It's an early 912, okay. 912, look, this is the logo that was missing on the other one and the old Porsche lettering on the back.

The early 911s had a little Porsche writing here, and it said 911 almost in a script, not in block type. I think it would have been '65 and '66. So this is an original body, original wheels, five boat handles, with a steel rim and hubcaps. There's one, two, three, there's three or four hubcaps back here. The mileage is 16,000, so we'll say it's 116,000. I see there are pieces missing from the board. All the meters are there. Probably what's missing is an ashtray. - You can go to the front and see the rest. - Oh, this is a crunch-piss. - Little boo. -Understood, what year is this? - '68.

I could be wrong, it could be a 67. We're not sure yet. This is one that we don't have a title that exactly matches the number. - If I had all these cars, I would be inclined, which one will I keep? Which two, which nine will I keep? -Which 10 am I going to keep? Which 12 am I going to keep? I won't get rid of any of them. -How many did you buy? - 44. - Okay, so this is what I would do. I would tell my wife that I bought 24. (Both laugh) And then when all 24 were sold, okay, the project is finished.

So we have a 356 C. How do I know it's a C? Well, this is a Porsche 356 C because, first of all, there is a C back here, but the C was kind of a transitional model. As if that 912 was the definitive 356, this 356 has many of the beginnings of a 911 You can tell it's a 356 C, one of the reasons it had two air vents in the rear. It had five bolts, but it didn't have the large bolt pattern that we saw on the early 356s. They were close together, so not like a Volkswagen wheel where the bolts were far apart, they're closer together.

And the C is the first to have disc brakes, front and rear. It has disc brakes front and rear. I actually had one of these for a while and it's a great car. Why did I sell it, why? Beautiful board, look at that. That could be cleaned and never repaired, never taken apart. This was the tachometer, so you can see where the yellow line and the red line would be, so it had a red line at 5000 RPM. Porsche made a name for itself outperforming larger, more powerful cars because they could maintain consistently high RPMs on a race track and not have to accelerate and decelerate as much, so they weren't as fast on the straight, but they were much faster on the road. corners, and that's when you saw Corvettes and Porches compete against each other. 14,000 miles, so I'm guessing 114,000.

It has a Blaupunkt AM/FM radio. Once again, the hubcaps are scattered here. There is the body company that made Porsche bodies called Karmann Karosserie, which was a body company. That was in Austria or Germany. Here are the

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356s you can buy. It was old style, but had four wheel disc brakes and a big engine. I think it was maybe 65 horsepower. Here we have a car that is from '65. - No, this is a '64. - '64, okay, but it's a C. '64 was the last year of the C, and it's 55 years old. So here you can see the first fuses that Volkswagens and Porsches had, the little ceramic fuses, and if that little wire melted, blow the fuse.

You had a short somewhere. Here is the missing tachometer, although not from this car. I guess from one of the other Porsches. Tool box, a jack, spare inner tube and this is where they rusted again. The battery is still there, right there, so I don't know if the bottom floor is solid or not. This car was obviously painted. - Has evidence of repainting. -But I would say it was probably a silver car to begin with, because where it's peeling off, you can see silver paint. That's a good one, man. Okay, 635 CSL? - No, a 633 CSI. - CSI, okay.

It was such a nice car, and these cars are just starting to be appreciated now. Started with a 2800 and moved up to a 30CS, then the racing version was a CSL, the L standing for lightweight. A big six-cylinder, fuel-injected overhead cam engine. They were great race cars, they were great street cars. They were so amazing looking. The body, look how thin it is. That's the A-pillar, the B-pillar, and the C-pillar. They were as thin as you could make them, so the visibility was great, but you still had this outdoor greenhouse, perfect. This has a five-speed manual gearbox.

It is white with a navy blue interior and a sunroof. What year is this? - '84. - Then you have the shock-absorbing bumpers. - Which are

hidden

. - Yes, they are

hidden

, but the German versions of these cars were much nicer, because it's like a big six-by-six piece of wood in the front, which is what you had to have for American specs, but European cars It just had a thin bumper which was actually much nicer, but wouldn't have met US specs. Now you can bring those cars, because those cars are older. - They are 35 years old. - Yes, they are more than 25 years old.

You can bring the European versions now. This was in January 2000 and he was the last to travel. And that's when cassette tapes were popular, because there's a ton of them on the dash here. What eclectic taste this guy had, man. Alright, so that's the end? - That's the end. - Man, what tomorrow. - Oh, we have a Mercedes 250, two doors. - It's in that garage in the back. - I've only seen that car once. - So who takes care of the store? - I have a GM. - How long have you been a trader? - This year it will be 25 years.

I worked for Ford for 12 years. I think that's the window we're going to look through. I think he said right behind the tree. - Is there only one car here? - Yes thank God. - Ah, there it is, yes. It will be difficult to see. It looks like a Mercedes 250. - It's a '71 250. - Yes, manual gearbox? - No, automatic. - Those cars just don't rust. It's probably a pretty solid car. - Did you see the four-cam Porsche engine here? - Be quiet. Let me think, if you said Tom, you can buy one of these cars. - Okay, let me show you the pictures so you can really think. - Only today's cars.

Today's cars, mmm. That was nice. It would probably be a Porsche. - Then it has to be the silver one from '64. - Yes, but there was that other one. - The targa? Or not the kit car. - No, weren't there another 356 in the building? - The convertible, the one from '60. - Yes, that would be all. - It's okay, I'm not a convertible guy. - Okay, now the other cars, Griffiths, they are intriguing cars. - 1966, V8. - Made on Long Island, from a TVR. Tigers, another Daimler. - Another Daimler, the two GT 6s, is a 219, so it was the Mercedes Ponton with the smaller engine.

He was in absolutely spectacular shape. The Lotus, the '68 Lotus SE. - You know, that's good for a roadster. Probably the Lotus, yes. I have a soft spot for those. - Then there's the Alpine with the Chevy 350. - Well Mike, thank you very much for spending the morning with us. - Oh God, it was a pleasure. - And good luck moving these cars. What a surprising find. Are you going to advertise these cars? - We will put it on our website. - What is what? - AsheboroFord.com. - AsheboroFord.com, so don't call us. Now you know how to locate it. - Call me, AsheboroFord.com.

We're in North Carolina, we deliver. We will sell them all. I just want to get them to good homes so they can get back on the road. That's the most important part, because that was the former owner's dream. - Well, you are a good caregiver. Man, thanks. Thanks for sharing these things. Have a good. Happy hunting. Here is another Ponton Mercedes. This is what I told you before, body-color hubcaps, full hubcaps, and these were always body-colored. Here was the baby's hubcap. It's probably more appropriate for a diesel. The diesel probably had the mini hubcap. The larger hubcap I showed you on the back is probably for a gas or luxury car.

You'll see that this has no embellishments or anything like that. Automobile Und Touring Club Tirol, so I guess it would have been a German group of drivers.