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Greatest barn find collection known to man | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 46

Feb 27, 2020
a 1980 Corvette that Billy bought new. He had to order it, it took a long time to arrive. It had angled port heads. It had a four-bolt main, so even though it didn't have a lot of horsepower, because in the '80s, you know, cars didn't have a lot of horsepower back then, this was a pretty special car. It still has plastic on the seats. Man, look at that. It's automatic, let's see what the mileage is on it. Wow, is that the actual mileage? Nine point two miles. (laughs) Wow, man. So how does it work? (Laughter) You know, think about that car next to us, which was before the pollution standards were implemented, 435 horsepower probably underestimated, probably 500 horsepower, okay, for insurance reasons, 435 Those 67 in 1980, 220 horsepower.
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I drive a Mini Cooper that has 210 horsepower, so it doesn't seem fair that a Corvette only has that much horsepower, but, you know, it was a nice comfortable car to drive and it just didn't have a lot of horsepower. at at the time, but it was the best car you could get in America at the time. And now we come to probably the last car. Pantera was built by De Tomaso with a Ford engine and was a car that could be purchased at a Lincoln dealership. Ford at that time had many high performance cars. Boss 429 and Boss 302 and they had just gone through the Cobra era.
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This was an opportunity for Mercury to get into the high-performance sports car business like Bueno. The Pantera was sold through Lincoln dealers that day. It had a 351 Cleveland engine, but this was the original Pantera that had small fenders, not those big trims and wings. This was a purely sports car. I wonder how many miles this has? Probably not much, huh? 14,532 miles, wow. Very well, we have seen building on top of building, car on top of car. I thought I'd see all the cars. I have found my favorite car in the entire

collection

. It's a Jaguary What a beautiful, beautiful car.
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We saw an XK140 before, which had a longer roof and, for a guy like me, better legroom, but this is the purest design with the short roof and long bonnet. So if Billy said take one home, I'd be here. (energetic blues music) Follow this man. Oh, we haven't seen all the buildings yet. Very good, this will be the most gigantic and impressive car you have ever seen. 59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, my goodness. Factory bucket seats. I didn't know there were bucket seats in '59, man. And triple power. Is it a 472 or something? - I don't remember what it is. - What a gigantic car, my God.
greatest barn find collection known to man barn find hunter   ep 46
We looked up this car in the Hagerty price guide and it is amazing. In good condition, which is condition number four, $101,000. In good condition, which is the majority, it costs $133,000. In excellent condition, $180,000 and in contest condition, $260,000. So here we are looking at a car that has a higher value than the Superbirds we saw in the other buildings. You know what, clean, I'd say this is probably a concours car, so we're looking at a car worth a quarter of a million dollars, just incredible. We've been here for hours and hours and hours looking at what I think is probably the best

collection

of un

known

cars I've ever seen.
And just when we thought there were no more buildings to see, Billy invites us in to see, oh, there's another building here, and there's a '59 Cadillac Biarritz convertible that's like a piece of sculpture. Bright red, something Elvis Presley or Lucile Ball or someone like that would have driven. It's been an amazing day here in the woods. I'm glad I was able to share it with you because it's a very private collection and not many people know about it, but the owner gave us permission to respectfully come here and tour it. There's nothing for sale so don't even bother asking.
He is simply a special man who has collected a number of special cars throughout his life. He bought them when they were cheap and he kept them because he loved them, not because they were worth a lot of money. And now they are worth a lot of money. Happy hunting. (confusing conversation) So, 59 Ford convertible, 58 Chevy Impala two-door hardtop. A Studebaker, oh a custom Studebaker, look at that, ha. A couple of Eldorados.

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