Barn Finds Are Still Out There.... - Page 6

stang777 · 18-01-2011, 03:16 PM

This one may hurt a bit.... Now i don't know exactly where Ute is just that its in the adelaide hills somewhere. I guy i was working with found out i had a mustang and we got talking a bit about Fords. Then he told me that he was walking out the back of a mates place and tripped over something. He thought nothing of it until his mate said thats genuine you know and looked back at it. It was a shaker. Then his mate pointed at a shed with a car in it. It was piled with paint tins and planks of wood and just junk he went over and looked at it and it was a genuine phase 3 Gt ho. He went to his mates dad and said ill give you 10grand for it and he turned around and says try 200. How sad is that???

**Whoosha** · 18-01-2011, 06:47 PM

This is lurking in a shed I know if the owner doesn"t get with the program soon (been 10 years) I may have to pinch it

Genuine matching numbers L J XU1 No rust just a few shopping trolly dents

stang777 · 18-01-2011, 07:18 PM

Another bloke i was working with picked up a black Xc coupe someone just didn't care about real cheap. took it to a friend and started working on it and realised it was in fact an Xc cobra someone had painted and taken all the good cobra bits off

disco · 18-01-2011, 08:18 PM

Okay here's a barn find story.

This is an original unrestored 1969 XW GT-HO Falcon. This car was actually owned by an elderly couple who bought it new and had it delivered on Christmas Day in 1969. It's starlight blue with a black vinyl roof (Grandpa/Grandma option Lol!).

Anyway the second owner tracked down this car (it was in a little town in Tasmania) after hearing of it many years earlier. He courted and visited the original owners for years till he finally bought it. It had 65800 original miles on it with the books.

Here are some pics of when he first found it in the mid 90's, and when they took it for a quick drive around the town after many, many years of slumber.

Hope you like the pics.

cheers,
Dave.

RedHotGT · 19-01-2011, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by disco

Okay here's a barn find story.

This is an original unrestored 1969 XW GT-HO Falcon. This car was actually owned by an elderly couple who bought it new and had it delivered on Christmas Day in 1969. It's starlight blue with a black vinyl roof (Grandpa/Grandma option Lol!).

Anyway the second owner tracked down this car (it was in a little town in Tasmania) after hearing of it many years earlier. He courted and visited the original owners for years till he finally bought it. It had 65800 original miles on it with the books.

Here are some pics of when he first found it in the mid 90's, and when they took it for a quick drive around the town after many, many years of slumber.

Hope you like the pics.

cheers,
Dave.

Great story - but not the correct story.... ;)

gcg2503 · 19-01-2011, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by loftie

Great story - but not the correct story.... ;)

let me guess - its just a rebodied XW GS 221 six in grecian gold with a bench seat?

Sorry boys - couldnt help myself!

Do tell Loftie.....

stang777 · 18-01-2011, 09:10 PM

This is what's sitting in our barn/shed yes me and my mum are guilty. Its a genuine xb GS fairmont with a 351 and 4 speed toploader that has been stroked and bored to i don't know what it started with a 4 that's all i know. It has 4v heads from a xy Gt. The original grill was a black fairmont grill but it broke a long time ago. Here's the story behind it. My popa bought it second hand in the 80s after selling his yellow ochre xy Gt ho for 4k and drove it as his every day car till he was driving to work one day in a big storm. A bolt of lightening hit a giant forked gum tree the tree fell and cut the car into three pieces the front end and boot where cut from the cabin where my popa sat un harmed. It was then completely rebuild and he then drove it again as his every day car. Then in 1995 or 6 it was sealed in his shed for 12 years along with his faker. He started it atleast once a week till he died at 56 of asbestos cancer. My mother then inherited it. It was moved to a friends yard for about a year without a cover and rusted horribly. We then brought it to our house next to the ocean which didn't help the rust. We moved again and stored it in a shed till we got it running and drove it till the diff went it then sat for a further year near an ocean again for over a year. We got it going again and then the brakes went so now it sits in our shed till we have the money to have a complete resto done on it. We can never sell it as it was my poppas favourite car.

stang777 · 18-01-2011, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by stang777

This is what's sitting in our barn/shed yes me and my mum are guilty. Its a genuine xb GS fairmont with a 351 and 4 speed toploader that has been stroked and bored to i don't know what it started with a 4 that's all i know. It has 4v heads from a xy Gt. The original grill was a black fairmont grill but it broke a long time ago. Here's the story behind it. My popa bought it second hand in the 80s after selling his yellow ochre xy Gt ho for 4k and drove it as his every day car till he was driving to work one day in a big storm. A bolt of lightening hit a giant forked gum tree the tree fell and cut the car into three pieces the front end and boot where cut from the cabin where my popa sat un harmed. It was then completely rebuild and he then drove it again as his every day car. Then in 1995 or 6 it was sealed in his shed for 12 years along with his faker. He started it atleast once a week till he died at 56 of asbestos cancer. My mother then inherited it. It was moved to a friends yard for about a year without a cover and rusted horribly. We then brought it to our house next to the ocean which didn't help the rust. We moved again and stored it in a shed till we got it running and drove it till the diff went it then sat for a further year near an ocean again for over a year. We got it going again and then the brakes went so now it sits in our shed till we have the money to have a complete resto done on it. We can never sell it as it was my poppas favourite car.

here's the pics sorry about that it wouldn't work

gcg2503 · 19-01-2011, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by stang777

here's the pics sorry about that it wouldn't work

What colour is that?

Looks like Antique Beige!

Surely not Sandstone Beige is it? Looks a little darker than Sandstone. Either way I love it!

stang777 · 19-01-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by gcg2503

What colour is that?

Looks like Antique Beige!

Surely not Sandstone Beige is it? Looks a little darker than Sandstone. Either way I love it!

the colour code is c if that helps. Also the interior is saddle.

gcg2503 · 19-01-2011, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by stang777

the colour code is c if that helps. Also the interior is saddle.

Must have had a colour change at some stage

C = Skyview Blue for XB/ZG range

TC200six · 19-01-2011, 11:32 AM

Looks like I have a similar 'barn find' story. There's a TC Cortina (my avatar photo) that's been sitting a shed for almost as long as I've been around. It is on my father's property and was parked there by a former neighbour.

The car has tarps over it, so it looks like the owner planned to keep it, but the car has deteriorated over the years and wasn't in the best condition in the first place, so I doubt that he would be bothered to pay so much money into restoring the car just so it can be roadworthy again. I'm guessing that since the owner has moved out, he's forgotten about the car or no worried about it anymore and hopefully I've got a possible restoration project.

When I discovered the open, I touched a dead spider while trying to find the lever

galaxy xr8 · 18-01-2011, 10:11 PM

Disco..
Now that is a barn find I would like to come across one day, nice pic's.

te250 · 18-01-2011, 10:49 PM

along the warrego highway just outside of gatton, qld there is an xa gt which is apparently an rpo83, sitting in a shed

**SSD-85** · 18-01-2011, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by te250

along the warrego highway just outside of gatton, qld there is an xa gt which is apparently an rpo83, sitting in a shed

Must be a recent one. I wouldve spotted something like that by now

dogfish · 06-02-2011, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Scotty85

Must be a recent one. I wouldve spotted something like that by now

I actually Have seen the said car as well but it was moved over a year ago now as I always have a look when heading that way On left from Brissie to Toowoomba you used to see the nose poking out of the shed in winter as the weeds would die off that covered the shed.

te250 · 06-02-2011, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dogfish

I actually Have seen the said car as well but it was moved over a year ago now as I always have a look when heading that way On left from Brissie to Toowoomba you used to see the nose poking out of the shed in winter as the weeds would die off that covered the shed.

yeah that would be it

stang777 · 19-01-2011, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by te250

along the warrego highway just outside of gatton, qld there is an xa gt which is apparently an rpo83, sitting in a shed

is it visible from the hwy?

te250 · 04-02-2011, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by stang777

is it visible from the hwy?

it was, but the grass in front of the shed has got too high so you cant see it no more

66GT · 19-01-2011, 08:15 AM

I was thinking about the old guy near Gatton & how he went with the floods recently - hopefully all ok. He is the 1'st & only owner of an red XA GT Coupe. He got married in it & it was used as the famlies only transport for many years. The car is now retired to the shed where it has been for 15 or more years. I've asked he a couple of times about purchasing it - he knows its worth. He was saying that he would like to fix it up & start driving again. One of his mates up around the corner has a Phase 3 sitting in a shed also, he purchased either new or near new.

te250 · 04-02-2011, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 66GT

I was thinking about the old guy near Gatton & how he went with the floods recently - hopefully all ok. He is the 1'st & only owner of an red XA GT Coupe. He got married in it & it was used as the famlies only transport for many years. The car is now retired to the shed where it has been for 15 or more years. I've asked he a couple of times about purchasing it - he knows its worth. He was saying that he would like to fix it up & start driving again. One of his mates up around the corner has a Phase 3 sitting in a shed also, he purchased either new or near new.

that sounds like the car im on about. yeah it would have been right the floods didnt reach where the car is

RedHotGT · 19-01-2011, 10:57 AM

The car was owned by the local butcher in Derby TAS....
Was sold to someone on the Mainland of OZ...
Now resides in NZ...

Thats the shortened correct anonymous version...

gcg2503 · 19-01-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by loftie

The car was owned by the local butcher in Derby TAS....
Was sold to someone on the Mainland of OZ...
Now resides in NZ...

Thats the shortened correct anonymous version...

?

Now resides in Sydney I would have said

disco · 19-01-2011, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by loftie

The car was owned by the local butcher in Derby TAS....
Was sold to someone on the Mainland of OZ...
Now resides in NZ...

Thats the shortened correct anonymous version...

Loftie,

Nice one, but you have it confused mate.

You are right that the car was originally owned by a Butcher in Derby. It was then sold to the second owner (who took those pics) who also lives in Tassie (Launceston). It now resides on mainland Aust since 2009.

The second owner of this car (who took those pics) happened to also own another starlight blue Phase 1. This car was modded, had a shaker and cobra badges on the guards. This one was sold to a person in NZ.

Maybe that is the one you are thinking of?

Cheers,
Dave.

RedHotGT · 19-01-2011, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by disco

Loftie,

Nice one, but you have it confused mate.

You are right that the car was originally owned by a Butcher in Derby. It was then sold to the second owner (who took those pics) who also lives in Tassie (Launceston). It now resides on mainland Aust since 2009.

The second owner of this car (who took those pics) happened to also own another starlight blue Phase 1. This car was modded, had a shaker and cobra badges on the guards. This one was sold to a person in NZ.

Maybe that is the one you are thinking of?

Cheers,
Dave.

Fair nuff...
Might be the other car...
But I do remember a different version of the story of the Derby Butcher car - as told by the 'second owner'...

Great photos all the same... ;)

gcg2503 · 19-01-2011, 11:30 AM

A lot of nudging and winking going on there Loftie.

Please don't try and create an air of intrigue/doubt around the provenance of another forum members car......i find it quiet disconcerting. Especially when it is one of fair value

Hopefully I am just reading too much into your posts

b2tf · 20-01-2011, 10:06 PM

No barn finds for me as such, well none that I can keep anyway, however my job lets me find some pretty amazing things in people's garages:

Just today - genuine MINT 1968 Mustang GT
few weeks back - 6x BRAND NEW XE falcon sedans ordered by Dept of Defence and never used, sitting in a warehouse on a base collecting dust

E49 charger a few months back
I have a client who has a genuine XU1 and also a brand new never driven VT SS (first of the LS1's)

Still waiting to do the job for the old granny who has an XA coupe in the back shed, or a HK GTS Monaro........

calais · 20-01-2011, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by b2tf

No barn finds for me as such, well none that I can keep anyway, however my job lets me find some pretty amazing things in people's garages:

Just today - genuine MINT 1968 Mustang GT
few weeks back - 6x BRAND NEW XE falcon sedans ordered by Dept of Defence and never used, sitting in a warehouse on a base collecting dust

E49 charger a few months back
I have a client who has a genuine XU1 and also a brand new never driven VT SS (first of the LS1's)

Still waiting to do the job for the old granny who has an XA coupe in the back shed, or a HK GTS Monaro........

I'd love to know which base these XE's are on!

Ive been to nearly every Defence establishment in Australia and come across some sweet finds but never brand new unused fleet cars!

RedHotGT · 21-01-2011, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by b2tf

few weeks back - 6x BRAND NEW XE falcon sedans ordered by Dept of Defence and never used, sitting in a warehouse on a base collecting dust

Now this is something that I am VERY intersted in...

If you can share any more info on this B2TF - please PM me...

disco · 19-01-2011, 11:33 AM

Hey George,

All good mate ; ). Loftie has confused my car for another that Ellis owned at the time

Hey Loftie,

Can you share that story mate?

I actually own this GT-HO, I bought it back in 2009 off of the second owner.

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...1312296&page=3

Cheers,
Dave.