"Barn-Find" Stockers?
 

I found my Gold Nova in a cow barn about 15 miles from the house. Are there any other "barn-finds" out there?

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Billy I found mine in a barn behind Bud Rowe's house about 2 miles from my house!

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would finding a nova abandoned at an apartment complex count?

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Here's mine, right after we rolled it out of the barn in Hudson, SD:

https://i.imgur.com/3AvZcOJ.jpg

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Geez Paul, with the Cragar Wheels & fancy front license plate, you
got the Hi-Perf barn find. J.R.

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Billy you remember the blue sundance found that in farmer field.but not the barn.

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I found my rust free Duster back under a lean to beside a small barn back in 2000. Maybe 15-20 miles from my house. Bought it from the original owner (lady) and drove it around a few years first. Never thought to take pictures, wish I had.
One thing I like about the stock class, the car can be put back on the road easily.
Mike

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Don't forget the white drums and big ol' shackles!

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Feb, 1993, on a farm in rural Alberta... unfortunately, was never in a barn !

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A while back I had heard that Aaron and Greg Stanfield were looking for the Camaro that Howard raced in East Texas at I-20, Hallsville and Whitehouse. I knew it had moved around to several people. I had heard that Greg Williams had owned it. I had a good idea where it was. The guy that owned it lived just a few miles from my house and his son had talked to me about the car. So I got with Aaron Stanfield and told him where I thought the car was. A few weeks he texted me to tell me he had bought his Grandfather's car & they were going to restore it back to like it was in the 1970's era. I was reading this thread and began to wonder about the restoration. I have misplaced his & Gregg's contact info.
Does anyone have any info about their progress. I'm interested because I watched Greg play (as a kid back in the 70's) in the pits when I ran Whitehouse Dragway and his Dad (Howard) raced the Camaro.

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We found Dad's 68 ram rod in northern Ohio. It has been restored to as raced and has been to Olds reunion where it got 1st place in show. Thanks to Tweed vorhees he had it restored.

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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

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304 2 barrel?

Jim Mantle

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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.

https://i.ibb.co/G2xYnJw/barn-snake.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/tM36KQM/barn-nova.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/C7QB2Mm/barn-tractor-Medium.jpg

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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.

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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....

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I think it does. Cars are left everywhere. Its lucky to find them in barns because they are usually in better shape...

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Not a barn find or a stocker but about in 1973 I bought a '66 Comet 2 dr sedan that was impounded for overtime parking for $10. Originally a 6 cyl, 3 spd with no options, not even a radio. Made it into a bracket car with a 390,C6 and 9in rear. Should have done a super stocker with it.

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Alex,
Is some farm girl in her Daisy Dukes an Extra Cost feature?
Asking for a friend...

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Too funny...not sure if we can do that , urban sprawl is taking away all our farm girls. Probably can find a hot momma behind us in the Cul De Sac that would like to pretend like she was back on the farm. Maybe instead of their mid morning/early afternoon jog they can help your friend with the photo.

Having fun,
Alex

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I live in a barn, building the stocker in said barn... does that count?? lol

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Are you talking about Allan's car, Howard's brother? If so I remember when it was new (black 68 copo car 427) before Allan and Bobby made it into a modified car. Good story with that car.
Mike

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Yes

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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

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IMore 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.

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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

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My 65, not too sure if it came out of a barn, I bought it on E-Bay, "Buy it Now" for a $1000 and had shipped to my house in NY from Deleware. The frame was full of sand, so wherever it was had to be close to a beach.

Will Lamprecht
65 Impala 396/325

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My car may been in a barn or sat outside for a long time, i should have kept the trailer hitch.

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One of my cars tried to get into the barn a lot. Does that count?

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I hear you on that, thought I was going to need a cot!!!


PS Here is a stocker "behind the barn" on Milwaukee craiglist. A Lemons 24 candidate as well.