Rare Chevy Sedan Delivery, Boss 302, and a Mercury 1 ton pickup | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 51

car, right here. - It's a 1914 Model T Town Car. And the Town Car was the most expensive Model T built at that time. And they, so they didn't sell many of them. It was a coach built by a company other than Ford, to build the actual bodywork. - MMM. - But it was intended for taxis or drivers, so people sat in the back with glass partitions and the driver sat in front. But very

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. Town Car Club says there are two left. This is number three. So there are three of this model left. - Oh really? - What is your intention with this? - Rebuild it to stock. - Rebuild it to stock. - I'm working that way, I have the mechanical parts.

I have everything I need. It's just a matter of getting to it and having the money to pay someone to restore it. - Sure. - So. - Yeah, wow. - It would look like that promotional photo on the wall. That's... - Oh, look at that. Ford promotional photo from 1914, like this. That is the exact model. -And how did you come to acquire this? - My dad bought it in 1954. - Wow. - And that's why it's always been a Fairbanks car. The original owner bought it new. I took him to Fairbanks. He opened a taxi company. He supposedly made it for a year and a half, two years, wrecked it, damaged the front end, and sold it for scrap.

He's been in Fairbanks his whole life. - Well, now we are going to see another Ford, from a slightly newer era. As we drive past Peter's other cool cars. So a friend of mine, David Carpick, lent me his GT350 to use on our trip here to Fairbanks, as our vehicle. As a substitute for Woodie. This is another one of his cars. He and his wife, Katie, have a great little collection of Fords. And this is a Boss 302 that he owns, that he found and told me a little bit about it. That's the original painting there. So it's a 1970 Boss 302 car with original paint.

It has, it looks like it has an eight-track deck. So this was a model, the Boss 302, that was built around the time the Z28 Camero was being built. And it was in response to the Trans Am series. Automobile companies had to homologate their racing cars, manufacturing a certain number of street versions. And the cubic inch limit on the Trans Am series was five liters. So they had to build these cars for the street, so they could compete with them. Guys like Bud Moore would build cars for Parnelli Jones and Dan Gurney, people like that. Swede Savage and Sam Posey drove cars like this in the Trans Am series.

This is one of those cars, it's a 70, and it might be for sale. I mean, David said to me, “I think we might consider selling that.” So this will make someone a happy owner one day, potentially. A

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car, a desirable car, a high performance car, a fun car to own. So if this car was in good condition, condition number four, it would be a $44,700 car. In good condition 68,200. In excellent condition 97 nine. And if it were contests, 128 grand. So, you know, what is this one? Original painting. It's probably a car in good condition. I guess sometime in the '60s.

I think this trip to Fairbanks has been particularly fruitful because we haven't found many cars, but since we went to a vintage car event a week and a half ago and did all kinds of tracks, we were able to meet people who knew about cars or who had cars. So we came back here this week and we called that number and we called that number. How to receive orders. This has been a great time in Fairbanks. We're not done yet. We're going to keep driving around, looking for cars. But if you have the opportunity to come to Fairbanks, visit the Automobile Museum.

Fountainhead Automobile Museum. And ride some of the back roads. And maybe you'll

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some cars like this. Happy hunting. - This is the last known midget race car to have raced in Alaska. And they used to have a race track where Seekins Ford is now, called Rendezvous Race Track. A gentleman named John Goss, who brought nine midget race cars from the Seattle area to Alaska to compete. He was marking a motorcycle race around here, he marked the winner and the second bike hit him and killed him. And that was really the demise of midget racing cars.