What's the rarest car you've found sitting?

[69bronzeT5]

Figured this would be an interesting topic. What is the rarest car you've found sitting? In a backyard, junkyard, field, barn etc. I have a few.....


-'68 Hemi Charger R/T. All original and all there. I think it's an actual survivor. Red, white top, black interior, stripe delete, red steelies w/ dog dishes. Sitting in a transmission shop on jack stands. The guy that owns the shop owns the car. It's been sitting there for a good amount of time under a car cover because he's had nothing but issues trying to find Hemi brake stuff for it that's not an arm and a leg. No pictures, he wouldn't let me. Great guy though! He said last time he let someone take a picture of it, the picture ended up all over the internet along with the location of the car He also had a '71 Challenger R/T 383 (customer car) in the shop beside it under a car cover. His wife owns a '69 Roadrunner and he just picked up two '70 Challenger R/T SE projects (one Sublime & the other Plum Crazy) which I have yet to check out.

-'69 Mach 1 Mustang. 428 Cobra Jet 4 speed. Originally Calypso Coral blue with white interior. Shaker, fog lights, rear window louvers, A/C and 49,000 original miles. My best friend owns it, her dad gave it to her years ago. It was his high school car. It just sits outside under a plastic cover however we are going to get it stored away properly soon. Somebody stole the Shaker setup and hood pin lanyards off of it one night


-'70 Hemi Roadrunner. EV2 Hemi Orange with black interior. A friend's dad owns it. He's had it for yeaaaars. Just sits on the bottom floor of his huge shop (yes, it's got 3 floors!!).


-'71 Duster 340 Wedge 4 speed. B5 blue with black interior and black stripes. Lower quarters are a little rusty but other wise it's all there. Sitting in the trailer park for years now.






These I'd say are the rarest ones I've found. I know of a lot of other cars such as small bock Dusters, Camaros, 1964-1965 Mustangs etc. Sooo, come on and share everyone!!

[maxwellwedge]

SE Daytona, 71 Hemi Charger, 71 Six-Pack Charger......All in BC. All outside. Same owner.

More - can't remember at the moment. I bought the SE Daytona years ago....passed on the other two.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

 
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(That is NOT a whistling smiley of condemnation of Cody.  That was a whistling smiley of sarcasm that I don't know of any rare cars, of which I may know of one or two...maybe)

[b5blue]

A mid sixty's Morgan 2+2, VERY Rare sports car, under a carport, covered, behind a repair shop. The second I saw the tarp I knew what I was looking at. It needed repairs (Wood repairs.) but was 90% complete. The shop wanted it gone badly, said owner will take 800.00.....I was very broke at the time! I'm still pissed about that one. By the time I had money a year later, even the shop was gone!    

[Brock Lee]

A 1970 Hemi Superbird in amongst 20 or so 2nd generation B bodies, all complete, all sitting. Most were Satellites. It had once had a fire in the engine bay, so the paint was all blistered on the hood and in the engine bay and was rusting. I have heard from a couple of people it was restored in recent years, so that is good.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Rusted out 69 Charger 500 sitting in a junkyard in Kingston NY around 1988 or so.     Was looking for parts for another 69 Charger I had at that time.
Nothing worth salvaging from that car.   No pix.
Junkyard was closed down after the owner died shortly after that and all the cars were scrapped.

[TheGhost]

70 coronet r/t convertible a few blocks from my parents house a few years back.  Half under a tarp.  Owner was gonna restore it someday, after he restored his 70something ranchero.  It dissapeared a couple years later.

[69 OUR/TEA]

If you are speaking rare as in "production number"not value or desirability,a 72 Road Runner GTX I found in a barn 2 years ago in PA just over the NY line.The total on those was just 672,this one a fact air grabber,#'s matching,BS,and orig window sticker,runs and drives.Still sitting today,except in my garage.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

This... 


1 of 58 factory twin turbo Corvettes from 1990 

[mauve66]

looks like the turbos got the best of the driver........................

i never find rare stuff, had a chance to buy a 74 RR-GTX complete with 440 back in 93 but rusty floor boards made me think twice, same color as my original RR but...........................

[RallyeMike]

RarEST to answer the question in a broad sense, would be my 1974 440 Charger Rallye, one of only 213 made, which was abandoned at an auto repair shop because the owner could not pay the bill. Sat for about 9 months before I was able to pry it loose.

RarEST in terms of a car being unique in it's form and options, is probably my 69 Charger 500, which is probably a 1 of 1 if you take it down to the option configuration. Found sitting? The owner was selling it which is how I found it, but it had not been drivable for quite some time.

[Mopar440+6]

1941 Plymouth Business Coupe at a local junkyard. To my knowledge it is still in the same place I found it...

[Todd Wilson]

340 4 speed Cuda and a 71 Charger rt 440 4 Speed Dana 60 car.
And a Dodge Bighorn..........

Todd

[C_stripes]

I have found a few.

One of nine 70 Charger 500 slant six three on the tree. One of One in Red with white interior and no vinyl top. Also was coded as an export car.
One of 56 70 4spd post HEMI Road Runners. FY1 with tan interior, no vinyl top
The 70 Road Runner Ad car

And many others.

[bull]

1970 lime green Superbird in a wrecking yard with a smashed nose.

[1969chargerrtse]

One of my close friends had this car under a tarp in his garage. One day he said to me, ok I've known you long enough. What do you think is under the tarp?  I never reall thought about it for some reason. I looked and said, I don't know?  A MG?  He says lift the cover. The first thing I saw on the body was a Ford emblem. An AC Cobra?  Yep. He got it in the 60's from someone that owed him money and found out it listed as stolen at the time. He still has the car today, covered. It even has a rare removal hard top. I sat in it a few times, pretty cool car. Just sitting for decades.

[hemi68charger]

A Daytona sitting in an apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, '69 Charger 500 in Austin, Texas behind a huge cedar tree, Petty Blue 6bbl Superbird sitting next to an old house in West Palm Beach, Florida and a B5 Hemi Superbird sitting next to a house in San Antonio, Texas. All of those were, "Oh Damn !!!" moments....  Of course, I'm old and digital cameras were around back then.. 

[C_stripes]

I forgot one. A red on white numbers matching 440 4spd Daytona sitting less than 100' from the railroad tracks in a quansit hut in Idaho.

We saved all the cars I have mentioned. Although the 70 Charger turned out to have been stollen in 1987 and had been sitting in plane site in the same town it had supposedly been stollen from till I got it in '02. Then when we went to title it, shit hit the the fan and the "owner" wanted it back. Last I knew it was doing the same thing it was, sitting in a field rotting to the ground.

[Dino]

Nothing mopar but saw the hand made aluminum Porsche 356 prototype in the museum in Germany, a few rare Morgan's, Aston Martin DB5 and DB6's, several rare and obscure cars including an Excalibur.  Actually saw three total in my lifetime, maybe they're not so rare afterall.....

I've seen a ton of really nice and rare cars when I still restored them , but the one that made my blood run cold was the personal Mercedes of one of Hitler's generals.  I got called by a friend of my dad's one day who was on the team that moves these rare beasts to and from the musea and he requested I came by their hangar to try and brace the body for transport without disturbing this historic artifact.  Weirdest experience ever! 

They also showed me the pictures of what they found in the car such as documents and the obligatory Ruger in the glove box.  Scary stuff.

[Charger_Dart]

How about rare, unusual, part of family, but not worth much?

My grandfather bought this car just after WWII and my mom learned to drive in it. I found it stashed away in the back of a barn.
I owned it for several years and now my cousin has it and is restoring it. It really starting to look good now.

1947 Crosley pickup -

[Dino]

How about rare, unusual, part of family, but not worth much?

My grandfather bought this car just after WWII and my mom learned to drive in it. I found it stashed away in the back of a barn.
I owned it for several years and now my cousin has it and is restoring it. It really starting to look good now.

1947 Crosley pickup -

That's pretty cool!  Looks like something Wallace and Gromet would drive though.   

[arrow]

this one has been in storage sense 1979 , has 41,000 miles on it

[arrow]

  interior shot

[Musicman]

(1) of (1) A12 Six Pack Super Bee cleverly disguised as a common 383 car with an unusual interior 

[XS29LA47V21]

A Daytona sitting in an apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, '69 Charger 500 in Austin, Texas behind a huge cedar tree, Petty Blue 6bbl Superbird sitting next to an old house in West Palm Beach, Florida and a B5 Hemi Superbird sitting next to a house in San Antonio, Texas. All of those were, "Oh Damn !!!" moments....  Of course, I'm old and digital cameras were around back then.. 

    after a all these years with age it become quite a list doesn't it.   Including plenty of "should have boughts".   I think my list is larger for the ones I have gone looking for the ghost/holly grail then the list I have actually found or seen

[69chargerrt440]

The rarest car I have ever seen is my grandfathers 1 of 1 numbers matching 1968 Hemi GTX with a 4-speed. And he is also the original owner of a 1967 Coronet R/T number matching 440 4-speed. Now those are two of the rarest cars I have seen. 

[Slowpoke]

was out driving in western Indiana and saw one of these. Not really rare but is in Indiana. 

Couldnt get a picture of the car but it was this model and color.

         

[nh_mopar_fan]

Was looking for a car in 1984. Guy working as a temp where I worked heard about it and asked if I'd be interested in a Mustang ragtop. I really wasn't but he said I should come take a look.

In his back yard under a tarp, rusting away....1968 Shelby Cobra GT 500

$1200

[Fred]

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was out driving in western Indiana and saw one of these. Not really rare but is in Indiana.  

Couldnt get a picture of the car but it was this model and color.

       

[/quote]

Gee, I never would have believed it! 
I wonder what the story behind that is.

[5wndwcpe]

I was at an estate auction a few years back in sticking out of one of the barns was a mid 80's Cadillac.  No biggy right ?  Behind the Caddy was what looked like a kit car covered in boxes and pigeon crap.  Upon closer inspection, I found it to be a '74 Pantera.  Sadly, the car was not part of the auction.

[gtx6970]

1970 Superbird - Hemi 4 spd
1970 Challenger RT-SE hemi 4 spd
1970 Chevelle SS454 ( I think it's an LS6 ) and I be it's still there
1970 Challenger 440 six pack car( rumer has it , I have the job to get this one running though) time will tell.
1970 Duster 340 - sitting in the same back yard since the early 80's

1968 GTX hemi - body only , it was in a small local junk yard and I think they crushed it ( early - mid 80's time frame )

[71charger_fan]

Probably the '39 Plymouth pickup truck. I've never seen another.

[69charger440]

BS23J0B!!!! Yes, its still there. I always check on it. NOT FOR SALE!!!-------------------yet-------------------

[69CoronetRT]

I was 17-18 years old living in a small town in Iowa. I heard a local guy had an original S/S car. One night I asked him about it and he took me to his house. Opened the garage...63 Dodge aluminum front end three speed MW. Said he was a racer at the time, had a connection to the factory and bought it for $1.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

BS23J0B!!!! Yes, its still there. I always check on it. NOT FOR SALE!!!-------------------yet-------------------

An AAR?  Does he know what he has?

[speedfreak68]

Probably the '39 Plymouth pickup truck. I've never seen another.

We've got one of those in the barn, A farmer down the road was going to cut it up to build a trailer. My mom and stepdad gave him an old pickup bed trailer that we had and a little cash for the truck (Just because my stepdad had never seen one before) 3 hours later we had it running, and somewhat stopping.... Turns out they only made them for three years.

[chrisII]

  I bought a pickup from a guy once back in the mid 90s who had a # matching 69 six pack gtx behind his garage. one of my X girlfriends dad wound up buying it (this was before i met her). he passed away a few years ago and his family sold off pretty much all of his collection.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

  I bought a pickup from a guy once back in the mid 90s who had a # matching 69 six pack gtx behind his garage. one of my X girlfriends dad wound up buying it (this was before i met her). he passed away a few years ago and his family sold off pretty much all of his collection.

You mean Road Runner?

[Ghoste]

I suppose a few but not sure which was rarest.  A 68 Hemi Road Runner or TA Challenger possibly?

[vancamp]

1970 hemi challenger convertible that had a 383 in it but was garage kept and very nice that sold while i was working out of state for $3600 this was around 1990
1969 hemi charger no motor t5 paint black stripe and interior i was about 10 minutes to late on this one the body sold for $250 in the late 80s
1971 six pack cuda

[mpdlawdog]

my friends 66 hertz mustang...4speed....red with gold stripes...still sports some of the origional paint...one of 50...probably less with the 4 speed....all origional parts were with the car....

[mpdlawdog]

41 new yorker....I call it Frankenstein....

[69 OUR/TEA]

BS23J0B!!!! Yes, its still there. I always check on it. NOT FOR SALE!!!-------------------yet-------------------

What are the first two letters of the vin ??

[TK73]

I keep having this recurring dream of a '69 500 sitting next to my '73...

[XS29LA47V21]

I keep having this recurring dream of a '69 500 sitting next to my '73...

yeahup good idea, I like the way you think. 

[TK73]

I keep having this recurring dream of a '69 500 sitting next to my '73...

yeahup good idea, I like the way you think. 

[Magnumcharger]

Oh geez...where to begin!
How about:
A 1970 GTO Judge, sitting for over 20 years.
A 1970 Sixpack Superbird
Several W30 and W31 Olds
A Cyclone Spoiler with CJ428
A 1968 Hemi GTX convertible
Two Sublime AARs, one was rolled
A Six Barrel 1970 Cuda in FC7
Several 427 Impalas, Biscaynes and the like
And a one of one 1970 Coronet Hemi R/T, the only one shipped to Canada
A Hemi Daytona, disguised as a regular Charger, but with a funny rear window!

Basically, enough to "own" around 40 pages of two "Cars in Barns" websites!

[Vainglory, Esq.]

I've heard that there were 4 '70 Coronet Hemis sent to Canada???

[jaak]

I don't have no pics, but I live about 15 minutes away from Stephens Performance. He used to have the remnants of a 69 Daytona sitting out front for years, but it is gone now.

Jason

[Magnumcharger]

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I've heard that there were 4 '70 Coronet Hemis sent to Canada???

Only one R/T with a four speed.

[b5blue]

Back in 1975 outside of Biloxi Ms. they were expanding the interstate. Looking for trails to use my FJ-40 4X4 on I found an entire junk yard, 2-3 acres just off the under construction service road for the interstate. It was hidden fairly well in brush and trees. The newest cars were late 40's and the oldest the frame and engine of a La France @ 1904 or something like that. Inquiring around the area, a local had said the surviving family members had been fighting over it for many years as the cars went to ruin.   

[Stretch]

I don't have any pictures but I found green superbird in a junk yard. All that was left was the shell. It did get rescued. It was rebuilt by a guy in Hurley WI. He owns a body shop. The other car was right next to it in the same Houghton Mi Junk yard. It was a 100% complete '67, '68, or '69 (I dont really know these cars) firebird with the inline overhead cam 6 cyl. it also had the pontiac version of the powerglide in it. It looked like it was driven there and parked. Hell it looked like you could drive it out of there if you wanted! I might have pics of these cars but I really have no idea where to look.

[Magnumcharger]

Just thought of a few more:
1970 Hemi Superbee (on the same day as the previous R/T...different location)
A 1967 Hemi Charger
A few Charger R/T's in Junkyards, all 440's...some fourspeeds, some automatics
A SixBarrel 1970 Roadrunner in a cattle paddock
A 1969 Camaro Z10 Indy Pacecar 396 Convertible in a barn (!) with a mother cat and kittens living on the front seat!

[FJMG]

70 mustang convertible, 428 scj, 4 SPD, drag pack, supposedly one of two built.

[Old Moparz]

I spotted a 1970 Challenger R/T Convertible that was sitting in a fenced yard at a transmission shop in northern NJ. (Waldwick maybe, across from a commuter train station.) It was in the early 90's when I was working with a land surveying crew & saw the ratty old ragtop roofline behind some other cars. I knew it was a Mopar but not sure which model until after work when I went to go look at it.

I saw the R/T badges, the collapsed roof, & the very crooked stance it had that wasn't from flat tires. I went to the office & asked about it & the shop owner said it was nice when it came in here, but the owner never had the money to fix it & said he'd be back for it. It sat there for many years & by the looks of it, probably 10 or more years. The guy said go look if you want & that he could get a title for it if I was interested.

The car sat crooked due to the fact the rear frame rail was rotted away & the leaf spring perch was resting against the underside of the rain gutter channel & quarter panel. The car looked complete, but anything metal was completely rotted. The trans shop was almost adjacent to a town highway yard that had huge piles of salt stored outside. I guess it was like leaving a car to be a victim of the salt air by the ocean.  

He wanted $1000 for it, but I passed on it & gave the name of the shop & location to a guy I knew that was into Mopars & owned a flatbed. I did write down the VIN & checked it, it was a 383 R/T car. Don't know whatever became of it.  

[Fred]

How sad   seeing all those beauties go to waste like that.

[C_stripes]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

[bobs66440]

Was looking for a car in 1984. Guy working as a temp where I worked heard about it and asked if I'd be interested in a Mustang ragtop. I really wasn't but he said I should come take a look.

In his back yard under a tarp, rusting away....1968 Shelby Cobra GT 500

$1200

Did you buy it??!!

[gtx6970]

approx 1980 or 1981 time frame.
Behind an old apartment building in Walton KY was this white 1969 Camaro convertible with this ugly pumpkin orange interior , on the ft fenders were 396 callouts.

About 2 weeks  later the light bulb came on and  I realized that it was a factory big block Pace car convertible, it was gone. and I was told the apartment bldgs owner junked it a couple days earlier. He'd finally grown tired of it sitting there never moving since the early 70's . The tenant had moved out in the late 70's and never came back for it.

Same town and same time frame. There was guy in town with several AMC Rebel Macines in his backyard rotting away. I was told several years later he sold off a couple of them and when the remaining few didn't sell, he sent them to the crusher.

Mid to late 80's time frame in Williamstown Ky, there was a 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst hardtop. I tried for several years to locate the owner to no avail, then one day it was gone and and never seen again. NO idea what ever happend to that one

[71charger_fan]

There was a 300Hurst in a garage behind the old General Tire dealership in Frederick, MD for years. One day it, and the garages, were gone. About a block away, I looked at, and passed on, a '71 fresh-air hood GTX because it was missing its engine and the entire interior.

[FC7 V code]

A white Superbird sitting alongside a body shop in Fibre, MI in about 1973, It sat for a couple years minus either its motor or transmission. My Cousin was looking for a hot Mopar at the time and I was about 15 and  tagged along on his searches. He passed on the bird and bought a blue 69 GTX 4 speed that we later spotted in St. Ignace, MI. It was owned by a Coast Guard sailor that was about to be transferred, only had about about 12,000 miles on it and was complete, well almost it was missing the starter. We soon learned that with the headers on the car you could count on replacing the starter about every 1000 miles or so. We removed the headers and went back to stock manifolds. Biggest regret was not buying the car for 3k in about 1982 when my Cousin decided to "settle down" and move on from high performance Mopars. I also remember that there was a gold 71 runner and a blue 70 Charger 500 in a small junkyard near Newberry, MI well into the 80's. The Roadrunner was nearly complete and the Charger was pretty picked over although it did contribute a few parts to My 1970 Charger RT/SE that I was restoring at the time. After I stripped the parts I needed off the Charger plus a few extras that may come in handy someday I never want back, until about four years ago. Junkyard is now totally gone and is a potato field...things change!

[nh_mopar_fan]

Was looking for a car in 1984. Guy working as a temp where I worked heard about it and asked if I'd be interested in a Mustang ragtop. I really wasn't but he said I should come take a look.

In his back yard under a tarp, rusting away....1968 Shelby Cobra GT 500

$1200

Did you buy it??!!

Nope. Honestly, back then I had no idea how special the car was and the fact that it was a total basketcase scared me off.

[71charger_fan]

There's was a forlorn GT-500 that sat alongside a metal barn somewhere around Blue Hill, Maine from '77 'til '80 when I left the area. Didn't seem all that special then.

My first car was a '59 Coronet. I've only ever seen three or four others, but I've seen scores of Daytonas and Superbirds.

[Fred]

Was looking for a car in 1984. Guy working as a temp where I worked heard about it and asked if I'd be interested in a Mustang ragtop. I really wasn't but he said I should come take a look.

In his back yard under a tarp, rusting away....1968 Shelby Cobra GT 500

$1200

Did you buy it??!!

Nope. Honestly, back then I had no idea how special the car was and the fact that it was a total basketcase scared me off.

If only we knew back then what we know now............wouldn't we all be a happy lot?

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

[moparstuart]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

you can say that again

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

you can say that again

Holy sh__t!!!


So what happened to this car!?

[C_stripes]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

you can say that again

Holy sh__t!!!


So what happened to this car!?

It's hidden away.

It also happened to play as the promo car in the clip enclosed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiURMjiDnTg&feature=related
Same car.

[C_stripes]

I'll just cut to the chase. There are a few threads about the car around.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3236651/1970-plymouth-roadrunner

[Davtona]

For me the rarest would be an F-6 440 Daytona. Tried to buy it finally gave up dealing with the guy. Also bought an original Hemi 68 Roadrunner out of a junk yard for $25.00. My buddies couldn't believe it at the time. Remember a 69 500 and a original 69 Hemi Charger I could never get bought either. The Daytona was the rarest by far though. Sitting by a farm house with rag weeds almost obscuring it from view as you drove by.

[moparstuart]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

you can say that again

Holy sh__t!!!


So what happened to this car!?

It's hidden away.

It also happened to play as the promo car in the clip enclosed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiURMjiDnTg&feature=related
Same car.

greatest mopar commercial ever ,  love the air grabber opening and shutting   

[Fred]

Somehow I forgot about this one;

Holy sh__t!!!

you can say that again

Holy sh__t!!!


So what happened to this car!?

It's hidden away.

It also happened to play as the promo car in the clip enclosed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiURMjiDnTg&feature=related
Same car.

greatest mopar commercial ever ,  love the air grabber opening and shutting   

I'm lucky enough to have that promo along with other greats featuring the Cuda and a great looking GTX. Not only are the clips great to watch, the music's pretty good to. Also plenty of Dodge and Plymouth commercials from back then.

[69DodgeCharger]

1970 FM3 "pink" 70 Roadrunner convertible sitting with some other derelicts in the woods near Tustin, MI At the time in 1989 it had already been sitting long enough for the blue tarp over it to rust holes right through the body where it was resting on it. it was fairly complete and could have been restored at that time. But after sitting there for another 12-15 years or so before it finally was put inside I'm not so sure. At the time it belonged to a guy named Todd in Newport, MI he offered it to me for $30,000 in 2002. This included a "dry" 70 Satellite body for donor parts. allegedly it is one of 3 in that color. Auto on the column, 383C.I. white top and interior, dust trail stripes down the side and large Plymouth decals on the quarter panels, Rallye guages. Rumour is that that some locals stopped by during it's outside hibernation and relieved it and some other Mopars there of basically everything they could cart off. I have always wondered if anybody rescued this poor thing.

The other car was a 70 Superbird, Lemon Twist Yellow, Auto on the column 6 Pak car, 70,000 miles. This car was found sitting on a car trailer next door to Don's  Adopt-A-Car in Cadillac Michigan. Also in the spring of 1989. It sat on the trailer there for about a year and then dissapeared to who knows where. Rumour is a guy in Traverse City, MI bought it and was having it restored.

[daveco]

Hemi RoadRunner (pretty well picked over) in a wrecking yard near Fort Hood TX, this was around around 1985.