"Barn-Find" Stockers?

[jmantle]

Originally Posted by Bruce Fulper

The Stocker 1974 Matador wagon "Like A Rock" is now in "a barn" and you can "find it" and buy it turnkey for only $5000

304 2 barrel?

Jim Mantle

[Alex Polewik]

If anyone wants to "legitimize" their race car as a true "barn find", your free to bring you car to my barn for a photo shoot. We can put it in the barn with some hay/chickens or pose it just outside the barn for effect. We can also put a tractor beside it for some reality. Adding cattle/pigs would be a cost item unfortunately. I can also loan you some overalls and a pitchfork if you need it.

Great thread by the way.

[Jim Caughlin]

I watched a 'barn find' being staged for filming a couple of years ago, been pretty skeptical of all of them ever since. Every time that I have seen a car that has truly been sitting untouched for 10+ years, the brakes are seized and the tires are cracked to the extent that they won't hold air for even the amount of time that it takes to move it out of the 'barn'. How come they always roll right out the door on television? Not to say that the occasional hidden treasures doesn't exist, just thinking that most of the stories are pretty embellished.

[Spyphish]

How about a 66 street hemi Coronet meat hauler, and it was found in a NH barn. Pictured with original owner who comes here and drives it annually. Scratches from antlers still on it. Grade point getter....

[Bruce Fulper]

Originally Posted by jmantle

304 2 barrel?

Jim Mantle

Yes

[Adger Smith]

Mike,
It was a Gen 1 Car that Howard raced here in Texas back in the 70's.
Not sure where it came from. If I remember right it had a SBC and ran in J/SA.
Car was pretty unique. It had leaf springs and a Stahl traction device.
The family still had the original title on the car and matched the #'s

[Coleydog]

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Originally Posted by Adger Smith

Mike,
It was a Gen 1 Car that Howard raced here in Texas back in the 70's.
Not sure where it came from. If I remember right it had a SBC and ran in J/SA.
Car was pretty unique. It had leaf springs and a Stahl traction device.
The family still had the original title on the car and matched the #'s

More than likely a different car, Allen traded the 427 engine for another guys Z28 302 straight up, both happy with the deal. Then raced a few years before getting a 64 Corvette, not sure where the Camero went after that.
Might add, I only remember a Nova wagon Howard raced, Allen drove it one time and after the launch he said there was nothing to do but check the radio and look around, felt he would never get to the finish line, LOL. Camaro was a black 68 4 speed. Interesting racing family.

[Kenney Kelley]

My Brother found a 67 Chevy II SS in a orange grove. it didn't have a motor or seats the body was fairly straight but it had one unique item. Someone had put a straight axle under it. we put 4 tires on and pulled it out to the road paid the guy and loaded it on the trailer and headed home with it. On the way home we were hoping nobody seen us it was a real jewel LOL. I had another front end we put it on and bought another chevy II that was completely rusted out. The girl used it for her Beach Car. The interior was perfect. The car then set in my brothers barn for another 20 years he then told me to put it together to race it. In the mean time my son bought a Chevy II body from a gentleman from NC and wanted me to help him so my brother sold the Grove find. And I am at the present time putting together my son's car. I would show some pictures but don't know how.
Kenney Kelley