R-Code Ford Galaxie 500, De Tomaso Pantera and MORE! | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 49

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That Pantera is a 74 or newer. Those are the larger bumpers. 73 and older had chrome bumpers.

Tom, for peets sakes, get a light for the camera man. Thank you.

looked like he had a "Christine" 57 plymouth belvedere in the back ground too. 5:35 sweet find, thanks for sharing.

More than likely that impala was a 396 not a 427. But u could get it in one tho

that R code 63 is worth more than 10.00 still had a rear bumber and other parts im sure .

Stingy owners like this hoarding stuff they will never part with, or when they do offer to part with want prices thru the roof for junk. Yet what starts as junk for one could be treasure for a lifetime for another. So why not part with these cars to people who want ot live the dream and not scalpers who just want to fix and flip. Let the dreams live to more people.

Why do people sit on these cars watching them deteriorate instead of selling them to people that care?

That would be kinda rad to adapt the old phone to modern electrics so that it worked.

It always saddens me when I see so many rare cars rotting away due to a hoarder that refuses to sell

That De Tamaso pantera looks awesome! Really cool cars and place! Love the video like always!

The holes in the roof of that Panthera are obviously the mounting holes of a roof spoiler don't you think?

Why do people buy this cars and then let sit just turn to rust such a waste

Why keep the cars and let them rot in a field ? sell them and save them.

Put a Voodoo in it

My friend has a 72 Pantera rusting in his backyard for the last 15 years

If the cars aren't worth restoring then this video is a waste of time ! Next time call it what it is scrap iron.

Around 1985 when I was in HS, my friend had one of those Galaxy cars, but I don't think it was the giant engine, but it was fast as all hell. Maybe it was the 427?
But the 80s was a terrible time to be a teenager. We were basically driving the very first cars with the emissions crap on them at the end of their lives. My first car was a Chevy with an oxygen pump a million vacuum lines and a very restrictive cat and a small 2 barrel. Those V8 engines were putting out about what a decent 4 cylinder could do by the mid 80s... around 150hp.

I have seen videos of the Ford plant in the 1960s using an electric (using charged particles for coating, very similar to how a laser printer works) rust prevention coating. The coating was on both the inside and the outside. They basically put a negative charge on the body and then submerged the body in a bath which is positively charged. Whatever they were using didn't work.

This guy is pissing me off saying not worth fixing...

There is no such thing as an unrepairable car. If nothing else, you have a VIN number and that alone is worth the cost of admission.

man this just hurts to watch this program at times, Why do some people hold these so much and let them just rod away? Oh well...

What a waste...

This is massacre!! This is a mass murder!!! Whoever owns this should be imprisoned!!!

Tom , you need to brush up your 62-72 C10/ C20 recognition... Seriously. I cant believe you guessed that Carry-All (Suburban) might have been a '74....and wasnt sure what C20 meant. SMH.

That phone in the Pantera looks like it is from the early to mid-ish 1970's (1972-1976) . Pretty rare and uncommon for that time. I had a neighbor who was a lawyer in the 1970's that had one like it in his 1970's Cadillac. It was set up in and to be used from his trunk when the car was parked.

When you said that 67 pala big block not worth restoring 🤔

The woody needs three coasts, of Thomson water seal lol.

just Amazing lots of Cars,just around the corner,true 4 britain ,in fact i saw an abandonned morris traveler.and a rotten rolls royce,yes rolls royce.unbelieveable.kindly Erik

It amazes me how little this guy knows about is profession.

Every time I see a yard like that I think, I want to take a lot of those cars home to save them! Then I also realize that they'd sit in my yard and rot away there too.

Your videos always make my heart hurt for these old cars. I’m in Washington and you can’t find places like this anymore I want a 63 fairlane to fix up.

It would be nice to “restore “ the Pantera with the era correct aftermarket turbos....a rocket ship for sure;)

the 'owner got it next to nothing'..well..now it is nothing...shame

The pantera could have been a gumball rally special or even a drug runner, anythings possible!

Whats the bet that the "R code" at 14 minutes has the engine and plates off the junker dumped in the field.

Older guys want to restore, but guys my age want yank the old motors out swap in an LS and keep the body rusty and hot rod them haha.

Another great video from you Tom with a lot of sad stories
Being a ford person I love the 63 galaxies
At least he keeps the good one inside
👍👍👍🇦🇺🇺🇸

Where can I find places like these?

Gotta save the 427 66 Impala. Great collection. Thanks for bringing for our 'motor eye feast'.

I'm looking for a 1955/1956 buick special, comment below if you know one that needs restored. My grandfather had a tritone 1950's buick and from pictures i belive it is a 55. He has passed and the car is long gone (50+ years).. i'd like to restore one my way and i believe this car is beautiful Thanks!

What a waste to leave cars to rot AND LEAK chemicals into the ground. These are people witH OCD AND HOARDING ISSUES. THEY SHOULD HAVE been sold many years ago for whatever so they could have been something today. Mental illness and environmental madness. Collecting these is cool if you could have stacked them in a big outbuilding and protecting them in some way. No just crap boxes. Waste of time money , effort and land space.

Love the galaxies, got one in my garage. It's just a little 289 i've had it since 1990 .

$750.00

That pantera makes me sad

I jizzed in my pants when he opened that r-code hood

I would trade that guy my '87 Corvette, for that Pantera.

What was the name of the song in beginning ???

I can tell Tom is Ford guy. He got the years wrong on the '66 Impala and the '72 Suburban, then shows us a Pantera and two R Code Galaxies. Awesome man.

R code galaxies aren't really worth a lot anymore.
That R code in the garage might sell for 20k.

Da freut sich Maria Josè de Thomaso wohl das ein Pathera weiter lebt . Wünsch euch noch ne Mangusta zu finden :) ggghhhaaarrr ;)

all due respect to the land owner , and i truly do mean that ......... but , parking it all on wet grass and dirt , , , what a bummer ! that is a gold mine in my eye`s : )

I really need the 69 impala grille

flex tape the roof, no more leaks

Well, at least the owner has the cars that're worth savin (the galaxy, thunderbird, and mustang) in the garage, so he's not a complete douchebag I guess...

cb radio not a phone

wasnt a mobile phone was an old 23 channel cb

4:39 what a joke standing next to a 69 camaro looking at a junk boat impala with a 427 thinking hmmm that motor would be killer in a nova. And news flash that 2wd 72 blazer has been valuable for 20 years and very desirable lol FORD guys what can you do?

3:57. Make and model? looks like an european shooting brake

He should part that Pantera out and sell me the transmission. I'm in NC too

I bothers me when people have yards not unlike this one and refuse to sell anything because they'll "fix 'em up one day", sure it's their property but that doesn't make it right.

Why buy the vehicles if your not going to sell or fix them ?!? seems "SELFISH"... Just to let them ROT !!

Let’s all chip in and buy Tom a flashlight.

The Impala is a '66

So sad about that pantera.

That's not a mobile phone. It's a 23 channel CB with a phone handset.

I know a fellow English guy who whilst filling his Beautiful white Pantera with petrol at Northampton BMW England in 1985, one of the BMW salesman ran out and offered him a straight-swap for the new BMW 325i. He said yes... I would say I bet he regrets that now, but as he inherited an oil company at 18 I bet it meant nothing. But I still remember the sound of that thing... a total beast. I have been in love with them ever since.... I still dream of whipping one through the Swiss Alps. Nice video mate, Subscribed. (I though I was over cars, but obviously not... the thrill of the chase... Thats why I currently have 4 girlfriends). 🏆

When you say "not worth restoring", I mean, I have been viewing some car restoration/building of cars in England,...they are stuck there with what they got locally and what they can rebuild and what was popular, Ford Cortinas for instance, and when you say non restorable, I see less rust on that 427 Impala than what some of the vehicles that are getting rebuilt, sometimes with insertions of pieces of replacement metal even in the door posts, just everywhere and donor metal and replacment panels, and panels remade, etc etc. In America, so called restorers really have it good, where the best of the best junked cars are chosen to rebuild, due to minimal restoration work, like door skins, floor pans and quarter panels, fenders too, but imagine rusted out damaged firwalls and extremely damaged roofs, yeah, roofs, I mean, it changed my idea on what a goner car is, and I have minimally repaired hot rods and other cars in the past, so all I am saying is that maybe, just maybe, if a vehicle is around fifty percent rebuildable, then a person could in theory just put in a little more work, especially the costs of so called restoreable hulkks are reaching some rather crazy heights, I guess cause folks flip a restored vehicle as a business. Thirty years ago I had a 1970's firebird with a big block engine, and rust around the rear window, quarter panels, lower door skins, but strangely the floor pans were good as far as I ever knew, and I bought a lincoln sp100, I was fresh out of the army as a mechanic, and taking mechanic courses, and I kept on cutting out rot and rewelding in patch panels, even did some brazing to smooth things over, I mean, folks told me my car was not restoreable, and I hear its still in existence to this day, my repairs were solid and not noticeable, especially how I prepped the panels inside after I was done welding the repairs.

Nice work here! I wonder why you didn't comment on the Mustangs?

So is this getting restored?

It's so sad to see all those cars wasting away n rotting. Too bad this old guy won't part with any of them..

smh.....what a waste.

3:15 is that an F600 in the back? I had a 71 Ford 600 around 2001 with a 300-6 and 4 speed. The single speed rear axle limited it to 50 mph on a flat road. It was my daily driver for about a month. A 4 wheel drive F700 would be a fun ride.

I love how the Fords are inside the garage

You really scolded these fellas!

I hope there's a part 2 to this location. Lots of cool stuff out there.

awesome cell phone lighting again......

im not a chevy guy, but a factory 4 speed 427 Impala is TOTALLY worth restoring

I know exactly where that place is at w/ all those cars. 😎

Rust never sleeps..and in 2019 no one dreams of rust..thanks for the night mare tour.

$10k? That is being generous...

The only way any of those cars will ever be rescued is when the owner dies.
No respect for automotive history. Just wants to take everything to the grave with him.
How greedy!

Like Tom, I am 61 years old. I saw my first Pantera around 1974 when I was a teenager and instantly fell in love with them. It has been my life long dream to own a Pantera. I have never been able to afford one, but if I could, I would treat it like it was one of my kids with tender loving care. It grinds me to see people fortunate enough to own one and just let it sit outside and rot away or park it in a shed and forget about it for 30 years. What a fricking waste.

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Its sad people like this end up with these cars!!

Heck, I'd take that Pantera AND the sleigh in front of it. ;-)

The Suburban is a '71-'72, and all '67-'72 Subs were 3-doors (previous ones were 2-doors).

The world would be a better place, if these cars were restored or least parted out to good homes.
Or as i always say give them to local schools as even as a training platform worth more than the scrap in bag yard.
Love hoarding but learnt its better to do one car at a time, unless u really have the ability to hold onto and actually do something.
Thanks again for another great but depressing video

Pizza planet in this video

How can I get in touch with the Pantera owner. I would love to restore it.

So sad

metal can be fixed anything fixing just how much u want to drop into they all man made

At around the 7 minute mark Tom's standing in front of two (?!) Jensen CV8's....or are they something else? I'm not sure..

Hmmm, $50-$75 an hour labor rate??? To be realistic, a competent resto shop would charge $150+ an hour in labor to restore a Pantera...

What happened with Woody? These series are not the same without the woody....

Oh man, another Pantera just sitting and rotting...:(

I want that Pantera. Send it my way.

That field is just sad.

imagine that pantera running! boosted v8 in a sleek body...daaaamn! 😍

I can’t help but be frustrated with guys that just hoard these cars and let them rot out. Pretty soon they will all be gone..
Tom I love what you do and your show. Always waiting for the next one.