Dodge Power Wagons, factory 428ci Cobra Jet and a Mercury Cougar XR7 | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 67

chat. - So if you come across one, do you buy another one? - It depends because they have reached the point where they are now very expensive. Everybody and their brother knows them and they look for them and they see them and, you know. - Well, listen man, thanks. - You're very welcome. - This has been more educational for me than almost any stop. I've been going in the last four years because I know Fords, Chevys, Porsches and Corvettes. I do not know anything about this. Thanks, that was great. - Yes you're welcome. - In the conversation we had, I asked Matt: "Which of these races, any race?" He said, "Well, yeah, this black, I think he could start no problem," so he made the ultimate sacrifice and took the battery out of his late model truck and it had been converted to 12 volts.

So he is putting a 12 volt battery in there. Let's see if we can light this mother. So it was originally a red van? Red, yes, like Henry Ford did, all fenders were black until you got somewhere. In the 60s they began to change them and paint them the color of the body. - So, they were always black? - Always black for the first 10 or 15 years of production and then they started painting the body color and me personally. I don't care what the body color looks like. I need to go to that side (metal noise) (metal noise drowns out speech) - Yes, I'll take that - Okay, we'll put this first. and see what. - When was the last time it worked? - Four years ago - If there's fuel in the tank, it's probably all turned to jelly (car engine complaining) (car engine revving) Well, we get the idea. - Do you understand the essence? - That's great. - You have to be a little ignorant to put gas in it and turn it on. (laughing) I was thinking he was going to show up. - Well, I (mumbles) how gently he turned around.

Is it really low compression or something? - Sincerely I dont know. - Or it's the starter motor or something. - Well, no. What they are, is the 12 volts in the six volt starter. - Ah, that's what it is. Okay, because it was like shooting. Nice. Damn, that was a blast. (laughs) Wow! (upbeat country music) Now, we're on our way to a gentleman who has opened the door to many collectors in this area to show us his cars, and we're going to see what he has in his garage. (upbeat country music) I connected through a friend with Lyle.

And Lyle sent me emails and text messages listing these cars, name, phone number, cars, name, phone number. And he kept us busy for a couple of days, so I really appreciated that. - Yeah. - So we thought, well, we had to go and see what makes Lyle the guy who's in the know. He has a reputation for knowing all the vintage cars in the area and apparently he has some interesting ones too. What do you have to show us? - Well, I have a car that I'm working on for my son. '66 GT, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, rally package, pony interior, vinyl roof. - White Wimbleton. - White Wimbleton.

And we got to the point of having to do the interior. I found this car behind some guy's store. And he was building a new garage. Well, for $1200 I bought the car unpainted and had it painted, with a vinyl roof, but a GT car, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, deluxe interior with rally package. - Is it a coded car? - A code 2000. - That's a new vinyl cover too, right? - Yes, we put it in about 5 months ago, but nothing has been restored here. - So, for $1200 you bought this? - $1200 - And it had an engine and transmission? - Oh yeah.

All I did was I had a little bit of a busted front grill and I just replaced it. And I made a little patch panel on the back corner of that, and that was it. So it was just the original car. - Oh, that's a nice car, man. - My wife's '69 convertible. - Very pretty. - That's one of the '59 special order paint Mustangs that were built in '69 with a deluxe interior. Then you know Marty from Marty Report. - Oh yes yes. -So I sent a Marty Report and he said, "Well, Lyle, there are also luxury cars with special paint for the '59 interior," but he says, "50 of them were pink." So only nine other cars were special order paint (garage door clang) - Oh, now you're speaking my language - Yes, sir - What number is this? 1145, has about 108,000 original miles, carpets replaced, but seats.

They are original door panels. It was repainted almost 30 years ago. - Since 2000? - What a sweetheart! Man! I haven't restored the steering wheel or anything like that. I put a Hurst shifter in it, instead of the Ford shifter, but here's something unique about this car: Stock part? It's not that, but it's probably a repository. But take a look. Oh, look at that, yeah. So, Carroll Shelby, Phil Remington, Bob Bondurant and Don Gurney. We weren't here to look at pretty cars. (laughs) We're here to see unpretty cars. - Here's a '68 Cougar XR7 with 68,000 original miles. - Wow!

See, there is a car 302? - Car 302, leather interior with courtesy light group. You need a vinyl roof. - Wow, that thing is pretty. Oh, 8-track tape. Let me see what you have on the 8 track tape player. (laughs) 20 monster hits. Okay, whatever it is. - Tilt wheel, luxury wooden interior dashboard, lights. - Courtesy lights on the roof. It's a good optional car. It's a 2 barrel car, right? - 2 barrels, yes. Actually, this is a friend of mine. He used to be called the town

cougar

boy. And he had four different

cougar

s 67, eight, nine over the years. This is the last one he has left and I'm keeping it for him. - You don't want to sell this or anything, right? - He could, you know, but he's thinking if he could seven, 7,500 dollars.

I don't know if that's even fair. - That sounds great. - Ah OK. - The way it works is they call Hagerty and Hagerty calls you and says, "Do you mind if we give you your phone number?" So this is your car? - Yes, this is mine. - Is it 428? - Yes, it is a

factory

Cobra Jet 428. They made 63 automatics, without hoods. - It had a hood. If you notice that the paint is different. - Oh, the hood, okay. - It's okay, it has small taxis. - Yes, a luxury interior, tilt-and-fold steering wheel, select air, but a Q-code car without Ram Air. - That's the craziest combination. 428 Cobra Jet, with air conditioning, there can't be that many of those cars that were built. - Well, also, with a folding inclination. - Wow. - And this is a luxury interior, but it's called EA luxury interior.

It has the deluxe door panels and the low-rim steering wheel, but it has the black dashboard, and there's like an EB deluxe interior, a deluxe trim that has the wood grain dashboard and the wood grain door panels. of wood. - So where is the original hood? - It had a carburetor fire in 1973, and the people who had it said, "Yeah, replace the hood, "but don't put the hood back on." - I'm looking here that P, what does it mean? What does P mean? - Is the paint okay, the original sticker paint is okay? - So, does this car still have the sticker here from the paint inspectors at the Ford plant, the carpet, I mean, all the black carpet from? my Ford turned brown from the sun.

This is black. When I found this car, they had put aluminum foil and cardboard against all the windows, so the car was outside and got sunburnt, but the inside didn't get any. - Isn't that something interesting? - Something interesting under the engine compartment, the spark plug wires, the positive and negative battery cables and the upper radiator hose, the lower radiator hose is still original, the whole system. of smog, all the snorkeling, everything is completely original under the hood. Well, listen, thank you, thank you for organizing all those people that we've met over the last two days, and thank you for. showing us your stuff.

That's a special car and this is a deal. This cougar is a deal. Wow! (upbeat county music) Well, it looks like it's coming from this side. That was it. (mumbling) This is crazy. It sounds like it's coming from under your seat, Jordan. - I think it's somewhere in the hood. Do you hear that? It's right there. - Looks like he's back there. - I feel it right here. Put your hand on the bottom. - Put your hand on the frame, you will feel it there. - Not so pronounced. It is felt at the bottom of the socket area. - Yes Yes Yes. - You feel it? - Yes Yes Yes.

Wow! Okay, well, I don't think it's a life or death situation. (country music)