Secret Antique Car Collection - Auction Of A Lifetime - 1954 Corvette, 1965 Mustang, 1932 Ford!!

Hey guys, Matt Iron Trap Garage and today we're going to show you one of the most amazing indoor vintage car garage or barn finds we've ever seen. This is Larry Sroa's estate and throughout his life he collected some of the most incredible cars. he put them in buildings and cared for them throughout his life and now we're going to share that entire

collection

with you in this video. We will basically show you a brief overview of all the cars found across multiple properties. multiple buildings and spanning several years, there will be several property

auction

s until 2020 and today we will talk in this video about the number of cars that will be

auction

ed in that first auction.

I hope you guys enjoy it so this. it's the first car that's going to be auctioned in the first auction that we're going to show you in this first building, so this is a '65 Mustang that's basically loaded with all the options, it's got the 289, obviously, which is which. it's cool and you can see hanging off the front those little options they are a big deal so having factory power steering with AC as well as factory disc brakes it even has the original factory ac fan inside the car with Lola Ford. logo as an amazing intact car that is basically how it was driven and then parked here now.

Larry owned this car since about 1982 and this car has been sitting since about 1982, so this car hasn't really been moved since Larry bought the car he typed. After getting the car, we have more great photos that you guys will see throughout this video that he kept track of and the history of these cars, which is really amazing. This car is ready to go. You could clean it. I feel like you. You could put some belts on it, put some gas in it, get the thing started and running, but you can't make up stuff like this with all the dust on the rear quarter panels, all that, this car is the real deal, and Yes you are. a Mustang guy, this will drive you crazy because I know it drove me crazy when I first saw it, so this car is going up for sale and the first auction, as I mentioned, is the first of the cars that we are showing. on this property, so we'll show you a few more interesting cars.

I'm going to show you the next one, so this is definitely the coolest car of all the cars that they were showing you, definitely this

1954

Corvette. Some weird jock read that reportedly only a hundred of these were made and we have one right here in front of us. This car was purchased by Larry in 1969. Imagine that in 1969 you could buy one of these cars even at that time, even though the car was still fairly new, it was still a desirable car, not many of them were made in overall and then having one in red is very impressive so this car actually has a 1968 inspection sticker on it we don't know the full history on the car and I like how much it was driven we have some really cool old photos of it sitting in Larry's driveway where the car you know was sitting all that time so this car was actually pretty nice from what I can tell when I bought the car with the top obviously after sitting for a while, this thing has been lowered a bit, it was outside for a small period of time in your driveway, but the car has been inside for a long time.

Since moving here, the car is very complete overall, for the most part, there are some details and things are missing. One important thing to mention is that these cars only came with a straight six engine originally, now it currently has one of the first small block Chevy v8s. in it, so we don't know exactly when it was changed, that's something there's a little bit of history, there's a little bit of fog in this car, but the amazing thing about this car is that how complete it is, it's pretty much everything that There is, other than some trim, and it's not trashed, it's not beat up, it's not treated or anything like that, this car is extremely solid, extremely rare and as far as Corvettes go, Corvettes c1, a garage bottom or barn like this one is now available. of this world, but you guys will definitely want to come check out the preview and if you are interested in this car we invite you to come check it out and even if you just want to come out and check it out and all cars just to see one in this condition is once in a

lifetime

opportunity and you know it's crazy and I'm so excited that we get to show this car and talk about it so this is the 54th Corvette that's out of this world so welcome to building number two.

I know you probably thought there couldn't be more amazing finds in one building. We are in building number two and this building is actually most of the Vehicles that are almost drivable are probably the best vehicles as far as interior paint and anything goes and the vehicles are probably stationary for the shortest time possible, so many of the vehicles in this video have been sitting since the early 90's when Larry built this one. pole barn, so a lot of these cars you'll be surprised as we walk around here, you'll see a lot of these cars have shiny paint, like they've just been driven in a park and other than the flat tires, you can get them by turning the key. and drive it again, so let's show you what we found.

Well, the first car in the second building here that we have shown you is this 55 t-bird. This car is probably my favorite car on the entire property here at the. second building because this is such an elegant style of car as the car has a red and white interior, its exterior is red and what we were discussing is difficult to say in low lighting, this car has all the original prostitutions restored very, very good You notice the labels are there, all the Ford verification labels and everything inside the engine compartment and the interior is extremely clean.

This car is actually very nice. Larry bought this car in 1986 and has owned it since we have owned it. some of the photos actually the day he brought it home with notes of who he bought it from and I think it was a local car that was bought in Pennsylvania and he has all the photos from when he bought it home and this thing. It looks as good, other than the dust and dirt, as the day you brought it home, so with this car on less than 80,000 miles, it is extremely clean and as a car, I think it will require very little work to get. on the road and having fun, so the next car we're talking about is a 1973 Corvette.

Now it's an interesting transition year because it has the plastic bumper on the front, it has the metal bumper on the back and then there's very good. The cool thing about this car and how meticulous Larry was with everything is that he has a sheet here where he was actually labeling everything over the years and the fills of every fill that he did while you were in the car, so he bought the car in 1977 and he fueled it all the way until he basically stopped driving the car in 1978, then you look at the inspection sticker on the car, it has a 79 80 inspection sticker, so at the time he stopped driving it again and Larry was so meticulous with all the cars he owned to keep the history going and he loved the background and the history and documenting everything.

We have a lot of photos when he bought the car, where he found it also when he first built it. In this building there is a photo of the car with fresh concrete in the newly installed pole barn here which is super cool and is dated 1990 so this car was brought here in 1990 it has basically never been driven since then so What this car overall is super clean. like some accessory or optional unless you want to call it optional but aftermarket accessories or wheels it has and other than that it's pretty much all original car as found and this car has super clean tires on the inside even some of them They still have air in them and Basically, other than the center console being a little bit disassembled where he was touching up this thing, you know, you could probably get it out of here, put some fuel in it, get it running with this paint, you know, you could see the pictures.

In 1990, this thing was cool. shiny, so I guarantee you a good wash and wax and this car will shine again, so this car here is incredibly clean now. Normally you wouldn't think a '79 Ranchero would be something people would jump up and down in a classic car. hobby, but this car is extraordinarily clean, has less than fifty thousand miles. I think we looked at it as having about forty-eight thousand and change, but it has less than fifty thousand miles on it and the car literally smells like a new car when you get in. I remember when I was a kid, my mom had a car, a Mustang from the same era that had almost the same interior, it smelled the same and it smells like a new car, which is really cool and with the mileage it obviously makes sense, so overall the car is really clean you know ranchero usually the guys used them as trucks this car was minimally used we looked in the bed of the Ranchero and there is almost no room in the bed which is really amazing the paint it's really very pretty, the interior with the red interior is a nice contrast to the silver also very very nice and the fact that it's the GT edition really makes it a little bit better and under the hood there's even another car, this one is just an original, honest and beautiful car, in which practically everything is there, the stickers and the hoses.

Basically, everything is as it came off the Ford assembly line. This car looks like it basically has it. The other thing that's really cool with all of these cars, but especially this Ranchero Larry kept great records of these cars, so it has records going back to that era. Back in the early 80's when this car was only maybe two years old you have records of when every little hose clip, every detail was replaced and most of it was done on the boat or at a reputable shop where they got the parts from . having all those records I had the photos from 1990 when this thing was just put here is really impressive and the car looks basically as good as it does in the photos, this car until we discovered it was all covered with blankets keeping it the paint is Pretty well preserved and I think this car wouldn't take much to put on the road and while possibly not as desirable as some of the previous models, I think this is a winner if you like Ford muscle. era of the car, of course, this car because of how remarkably clean it is, it's a very good buy, guys, this is probably one of the most interesting cars in this building, if you like muscle cars, this car here is quite a special car.

It's a bit of a strange option, I shouldn't say strange, it's an unusual option that you don't see very often, so this is a '69 Mustang Grande, so the Grande was basically like an upgraded interior, it was like the sleek Mustang. , so the hardtop. Mustang with the interior that was upgraded has hardwood or wood style inserts on the dash and this particular car, which is really nice, has the 351, so this one has the v8, which is really cool and all over again. . A lot of these cars here look like cars that could be put in some fresh gas and driven.

Now these cars were often overbooked over the years because they weren't as desirable, but the fact that there weren't many of them. fact and they were not popular for many years, this is a really great car to complete a Mustang collector's

collection

because the car was so clean and so original now that Larry bought the car in the 90's, but he has all the documentation from the original purchase, it even has the original bill of sale from when the original owner traded a 1957 Oldsmobile for this car, so he got all that documentation that we have with the car and when this comes up for auction, the new owner will have the lineage of the whole history of this car, which will be really cool and we also have pictures of the car from 1993 when Larry bought the car, he was washing it and also when he was towing it home with his Ford truck.

I mean if you're a Ford lover, it's like an iconic photo of your F150 pulling the classic Mustang right behind it, it's just amazing and this car, when we pull it out, I can't wait to see how clean it is because far from what we can say here, this thing will shine and the inside will be cleaned and everything will be fine guys, so that's a broad overview, there's a lot to take in. I know about Larry's incredible role in a state. of all these amazing cars, so for you guys, we're following this video and you may have missed it or he may have skipped it because he wanted to see the cars that you were really interested in.

We, the family, are going to have multiple estate auctions because there is a lot of stuff to disperse all the cars, parts,

antique

s, all the cars that we specifically talk about in this video are going to be auctioned in mid to late April 2020, so If you are watching this video, make sure you check out the auctioneers website below,we will provide details there via the auctioneers website. In fact, you can preview some of these cars and see them in person if you're interested in purchasing them. Some of these cars is once. There's a once in a

lifetime

opportunity to get a car like this, so definitely don't sleep on it if someone is watching this from all over the country or something.

If you want additional detailed photos, please feel free to contact us, we will be happy to help you because I want to see these cars, most importantly, reach new owners and get back on the road. Thank you all for watching, as always we make videos on Tuesdays, Fridays, Sundays. Be sure to subscribe because we will be making a ton of videos throughout the year. all summer getting these cars out and details on more auctions to give you more inside information, thanks guys, see you later.