Uncovering $1,000,000 Barn Find | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 16

Inside this garage is a car that only a few of you have probably heard of. 85 built and this is the 35th to be manufactured. I'm told there are only a hundred of them, I don't know them, or 100 of them are still like this. it's pretty rare so Sprint Mustangs were a special edition if you're the type of person who watches fast and furious, this would be in Fast and Furious 8, this tow truck again. Hi, I'm Tom Cotter, chasing cars for as long as I've been around. I'm 12 years old and I still do it today and follow me in this series.

We hold hidden classes throughout the United States. You, one of the viewers who watches Bar and Fine Hunter episodes, contacted us because you know if that's the kind of thing you are. Looking for those types of cars that are somewhat forgotten and neglected. I have one in my garage that you should come take a look at, which is why we are here in California to see a car that is very, very rare. I made this one. This is the owner Karl and Cindy Carl and Sidney originally it's still my mother's because she's alive at 92 years old, but you're nervous, right, right, hmm, well, I see a headlight, do you want to move this truck out of the way and put it?

The trailer here, yes, yes, inside this garage is a car that only a few of you have probably heard of. A very rare car. It was manufactured in Spain and has a French body. It is called Pegaso te g ASO en Z 102 1952 85 built and This is number 35 made and has been in this garage since 1972. The Packard dealer worked on this. A Packard dealership in Madrid, Spain. There is a bumper, isn't it there? Wow, sorry, nice car, look at this, yes, we are this. it's original here in the original color really yeah look here Wow yeah that's the original color that's cool this is a transaxle for the car silly the car had a v8 any engine in the front and then a driveshaft that's out there somewhere. and then we had a transmission, so the car still has the outer hubs and axles in place, but for some reason the transmission was removed, so this is an aluminum case.

I think he said there's a march they need to put up. Yeah, this is kind of broken right here. You know, what would you do if you needed a charge? You'd be in big trouble. You would have to order it and someone could do it, probably someone in California or Italy could do it for you, but. boy you'd seriously pay for it here's an intake manifold there's a small displacement v8 I think he said it was 2.8 liters it probably had a Weber downdraft for the barrel this is humble the entire engine the entire drivetrain is from Aluminum block head is an egg collector transaxle.

This is a pretty heavy piece of equipment. This is the right front suspension piece. Hub backing plate. You can see the brakes were vented. It looks like a woven basket like macrame or something, but it's actually made of lightweight, lightweight aluminum, probably. but all of this is not light, we sure saw the first step today, which was to dig up a car that has been in a garage in a suburban neighborhood since 1972, that is step one, the second step will be to do a complete inventory of parts and then continue. in restoration Carl is going to restore this car himself in the garage of his house.

He already made a Picasso. This is the second. We will soon see this car being restored. Then we will see the magazines we are in. I'll be going to see it at the Pebble Beach Concours for a long time, this is great, amazing looking car we were driving this morning from Santa Barbara. Oh, it's at home, sure where I came in handy. Thank you. Hi Duane, oh great, well we were traveling all over the country looking. old cars and I hear you have some nice ones, well I'll see you probably in half an hour to 45 minutes with my dad.

It was an interesting phone call I just had with the gentleman who we were told was a few miles away. Here he has quite a few old cars in his yard, so we'll go see him after visiting this place. We're in Miners Oaks, California, just outside of Santa Barbara and we're really close to the town of Ojai, which is a really cool place and I mean, it looks like a place you would have seen, you know, in the '50s, so this guy was named after a car, tell us your name, Shelly, my dad named me after the Shelby Cobra because we had a collection of cars. and he wanted one but he couldn't afford it so he just said he gave me my name and finally he got a shield.

Oh, he pulled one out. Hello my Legion, great, this is your business. Now you just bought this business. Okay, yes. I'm in the process of that and what it's going to be called Shelby's Classic, so everyone will think I probably like Mustangs until they figure out the name, but if you buy this business you inherit all the cars that are a part of it. no, not all things belong to George, okay, and then he bought this car new in 1961. This suburban I bought new, you think it's a local car that came from a nearby dealership. I guess I'd say it depends on the Ventura family.

Wow, these are the cars, this is a 1950 Plymouth Suburban that is for sale for fifteen thousand dollars, a two-door station wagon, not many companies made Tudor station wagons in the '50s and they did it with their station wagons, well , it's a good car, so you have a good chance. back and yeah I would love to tell us what we're looking at here this is a 1941 Lincoln Taunton L which I'm told there's only a hundred of them that I don't know of or a hundred of them that were made so it's pretty rare and it's the complete car.

I have the fender skirts and stuff in storage because they are hard to get, oh boy what a beauty. Wow, does it work right now? Well, all the wiring is disconnected. It's fine, and when I was at his house it worked, no joke. If you look at this engine, it's a flathead engine, but instead of a flathead V8, it has a couple more cylinders added in the front, so it's a Lincoln V12, so basically it's the same as a Ford flat head extended for more cylinders Henry Ford was the type of businessman who never wanted to change anything he wanted his cars to always be similar he was happy with the Model T forever but the rest of the world wants to change and Henry Ford's son Edsel , he was completely on the other side of the scale from his father, he wanted to bring European flair and flair to American cars to his father's products, so you can see this is the 1940 Lincoln Continental, it's a beautiful car, I don't know It looked nothing like any car of the time, narrow hood. beautiful swept grille a pretty low top this might have looked like a custom car back in the day, you know, like me, something like a George Barris car or a Darren that was built back in the day as a one-off, but he didn't. they produced mass production, they were hand built and were probably the most fabulous American automobile of that era and really a benchmark for automotive design in American automobile history.

We were visiting Shelby's store in Miner's Oak, California, now we were heading to Ojai, the town right next door. Let's see about a guy who apparently has a lot of cars in his yard, so again, you know what we just met, a guy who told us about another guy. I can't stress it enough that this is the way to keep up with old cars: communicate the name of it. it's Dwayne Dwayne flower Bo wer Bower there was your picture so we found out coming here we would never have run into this but we found out about this somewhere else Shelby's house in a town away Miners Oaks yeah yeah so what Business Type? or what do you do with all this?

It's just a hobby, really a hobby and I don't really collect cards, but I've never sold any. How many vehicles do you have? Probably about 75 or something like that. Yeah, I want to make history too, so it's a lot of Ojai history. I don't collect old stuff, but I do collect a lot of history, I feel like you know that's your school truck and this bigger truck of George's is a 40 45 max. Well, if we could walk here, that would be great. We can do that now, what do we have here? We have a big old fondness in the 1958 Pontiac Pontiac, now that's an El Dorado or beer and El Dorado menace convertible 58 57 57 57 yes, do you restore cars?

No, right here, yes, aha, yes. REO, a 440 Roadrunner, yeah, for fighter rotor or 40 Road, it runs for a while and it's the GTX, so it's a 74 GTX that's a roadrunner, they kind of mix the two, yeah, it is, yeah , this is their last year of actually owning a 440. visitor for the speed no, it's just an automatic because never in the seven days they made them did they get rid of all the standard gears and they had to be automatic and you know, it had like 175 horsepower or something, I mean, they contaminated it so much that they wouldn't have any power, isn't that said?

Yeah, so it's real, it's a real 17, so how do you

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these cars like that? Look me up, a friend of mine, Bakersfield says, hey, I just ran into this old Roadrunner Isis. you know, send me a picture, you know, that was a few years ago when you could buy them for two and a half thousand dollars, yeah, yeah, this is what I like, boy, yeah, xk150 or 140 120 120, okay, eske 120, on Actually, it is a wonderful car, it is discovered. and it's gathering dust right now because my friend Bob Sheridan just built another one, a white one like this one, so he's been putting it together when he's been using this for comparison, so wow, it's a wonderful car and it runs well .

Oh, one time, all right, yeah, it's been all over California and at the old races in Monterey and many times up and down the coast, no joke, and there you have a Pontiac 421 and a wooden table, then you will try the four-speed electric Pontiac, yes, the 2+2, yes too. close whoa, so here's some kind of mature, grown person's GTO, usually what it is, yeah, so this is a 421 Cube versus a Pontiac with eight bolt aluminum wheel and four speed tripower, very close to a Pontiac four and five, yes, that's wonderful, yes, it is. to all these heavens now this scene here is like this is like a fantasy a scene like this okay thank you you got there no really that's amazing yeah it's Wow okay and that's a 12 Jag cylinders and there is a 4 speed v12 purchased. at most it was delivered to me as a wrecked car, it was wrecked quite a bit so I restored it years and years ago, we worked hard to get to San Francisco and San Diego and it's a really nice car, so a V12 with four speeds that's a little strange, yes, mostly. of everything, with me, well, you had a lot of projects, okay, so this is a movie car that if you are the type of person who watches Fast and Furious, this would be in Fast and Furious 8, this tow truck yes, interesting and Me felt filmed in Cuba.

This was sent to Cuba. This was sent to Cuba. They transported it by flatbed across the United States. They put him on a boat and took him to Cuba. You know, the marks are still on the cold wind day, so mark Atlanta I I. I guess I don't want your land. I guess so. I mean, I've been to Cuba and you can

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things there. Oh yeah, they couldn't find any old cranes. Nothing. You know, they've all been used for partying. Need. parts for all your old cars that's all I have are old cars that amazed me how long this was out of your hands Oh, six weeks and it runs like a top, it brakes everything, so it's really enough, it was this is the tow truck from Ojai, you know?

Late 40s Hank is a 46 47 oh that's kind of amazing. I got another

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with something else, indicate what down here, young man, close I'm a tractor with a radiator problem, another one works with your tractor, that's the Archer Drive guy, who's sweet, so Mustangs Sprint, that was a special edition, yes that was a sprint, it was all red, white and blue from the factory. I was like a 72 72. I thank you now, what's up with this jag here? Okay, that's a mark 10 and the mark 10 was only in a video filmed just a couple of months ago, you know Big Sean is a rap singer, you've heard a big shot if you listen to rap music and in every song he was in love and they sang the song in the back seat, they wanted a luxury leather back seat. and a big black car, I said, I bought one of those for Hollywood, wow, oh man, we started this morning without knowing a single car, not a single car, and we drove from Santa Barbara up the mountain to Ojai.

Now I've been to Ojai. before it was a cool, funky town, I say well, maybe this maybe there's something interesting in this town and we met Shelby and Shelby just mentioned oh you feel like you're looking for old cars you gotta meet my friend Dwayne he's just a couple miles from here we had no idea, we would have never come across something like this in normal driving, it's on a dirt road, it's on a dead end, so we would never have found this place unless we We would have gotten some advice from Shelby, well, we got that advice. and you know, we've spent the last few hours looking at amazing cars.

Dewayne buys his cars because he loves them, he's made a business out of them, renting them out for movies and rap videos and stuff like that, it's an amazing place and I'm so happy we stumbled upon it, what an amazing, happy hunt.