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

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Hoarders are disgustingly wasteful🤬
Really a shame.

You are wrong the yellow car is a l model as can be verified by he one piece rear bumper

Please go on the hunt for some International Scouts which predated blazers and broncos.

Looks like small town junkyards that aren't in business anymore thank goodness they didn't own a crusher

Nothing wrong with the yellow Pantera body here since it was stored on concrete without salt or snow. Interior looks good and body panel fit is perfect. Original Campagnolo rims but needs tires to roll it out properly.

Imagine the value if they were all stored properly

On the yellow pantera, the line of rust holes is where the roof panel welded. Seen it where a guy had on in resto.

Okay the Pantera was never built to replace the cobra. It was sold through Lincoln Mercury dealers. The car before it was the Mangusta, which styling wise was amazing. The engine was a 302, but the frame wasn’t built for an American v8. But when one went by you took notice.

was that a cockroach scurrying away 11:54

I hear a bit of disgust in Toms voice. I love it. Because it IS sad those cars are all rotting away. We all KNOW they wont be fixed or rescued. I mean how hard would it have been to spend a couple days throwing blocks under the cars back in the day, not like people didnt know metal rusted back then.

A lot of Treasure

I’d buy that Pantera for 10k

How do these car hoarders always have so much money to waste?

It's 2wd 3/4 ton Suburban and yes they're rare

A guy out here in CA is was asking 9k for his black drivable pantera

Walks past a Pontiac judge

I truly believe me 1980 cutlass Calais will be worth quite a bit. Came with all the good options that you could get. It's worth more than the average cutlass but still not too much. Give it a while longer and itll get there

Suburbans were ridiculous back then. They were ALL 3 doors from '67 - '72. It made absolutely no sense. Finally, the Chevy and GMC Suburban and 4 doors in 1973 with the new body style.

Unreal....

I think that the PHONE there was actually a C.B. radio possibly. Looks a lot like one my dad had around that time with that type of handset. Hard to believe it- I know.....

To let a Pantera just sit and rot should be a felony lol. I don't get it. Chevy big blocks rotting away. Wtf is that all about? But love this show.

I miss my 59 El Comino, 327(replaced) with a turbo 400 (also replaced) worked great till the rug rats started to happen. Sometimes LIFE SUX! 😁 But wouldn't change a thing.

Kid I went to High school with had a twin turbo Pantera. I got drive it for buying him beer. It ended up catching fire if memory. serves me.

Isnt that illegal to do take the r or k codeplate and put on another car

Here I've been in Alaska for around forty + years and I have friends who live in north pole and you find them and I have never even heard of them. I don't think my health would let me travel to Fairbanks anymore. I live in Wasilla and I do know a guy they call mr International because he has the largest collection of the international trucks including a diamond t that was almost a mirror image of the international. He also has some rolls royces and there twin the bentley I believe. I do know its made in england and in the rolls factory so I might have the name wrong plus a harley sportster with like twenty miles on it. H e drove it from the show room to his house. I used to work for John L. as he may not want his name on her but he is a spirited near eighty year old man who can sing like elvis his voice is that good and he loves to sing.

I love the K5 Blazer. They don't make them like that anymore, I grew up loving them and the new "Blazer" is horrible. I would love to
own a K5.

Please do not refer to rust as(cancer) that is such a terrible ugly word. Enjoy your segments

so sorry for all those abandoned cars...

I have met so many stupid people like that over the years. They rather see it rust into the ground than sell the cars for a cheap price just to move them out to someone who would be glad to restore the car.

That 3 door suburban is cool..

looks like Morrisons junk yard .

When I was two my dad bought a 63 Galaxy 500 XL convertible with the R code 427 4 speed two 4 barrels. Of course I don't remember it, but love the stories.

That Pantera needs a restoration seriously, it really does.

3 door custom chev possibly ambulance

The Pantera is a 73-74 model.

Walk on home boooy.

The phone in the Panthers is actually a CB radio designed to look like a phone, popular around 1974-76

OMG when you was looking at that 427 impala all i could see was that 59 Caddy what a shame really really for some reason LOVE those cars!

What a shame

Ah! Tom. Graveyards are good! Regards Stephen.

I want that 427 out of that 65 impala for my 67 impala!!

Just a shame

Ashes to ashes dust to dust.This is what happens when you let them rust.

When I was a kid I got a bit of mail that said I could win one of 5 prizes. One of them was a used pantera. I won it and crashed it= just kidding. But they were honest enough to send me a pen.

i love pantera's

Good for you. The Woody does not get driven in the rain whenever avoidable. The stupidest thing about the automobile? Most are made out of metal.
For something to be used outdoors that is dumb. But hey, no one perfect.

The rear end in that thumbnail!!!! 😍

Problem with classic cars is STORAGE.
You may want to save it, keep it or repair it but with poor or little to no storage, the constant weathering effects may claim a car before the owner can get to fixing it or is the last cost that breaks the camels back (or budget).

I LOVE PANTERA'S

An honest shame.. all these beauties just rotting away...

All that rot that could easily be removed.. :/

Panthera for $10,000??? He is a dreamer! The yellow car will go for $20=30 thousand dollars.

Almost every episode has hoarders putting wonderful cars in a field to rot. Not my business obviously, but it really has me shaking my head. "NOT FOR SALE" ugh.

A Pantera has always been a dream car of mine. I should have bought one when they were still affordable.

LOL that is not a mobile phone, it's a CB radio which made to LOOK LIKE a mobile phone.

Yellow Pantera brings back memories. Drove it from San Jose to San Francisco on the 280 had to take my Frye boots off to work the pedals. 1973 and the car belonged to Nick Dallis.

Nice ones are stupid expensive now...

"I just met em' 10 or 12 years ago"

I am not sure what my Pantera was, but I bought it from a dealer in 1975, but the title said it was a 1973, and a new title. The dealer was known to do some strange things to cars, but still it had a new title. The engine was a SCJ 428. I've had some people tell me that they never put 428's in this car, and I have had Ford guys tell me they made very few of them. Does anyone know for sure? I am thinking the dealer did it just to see if it could be done, but just not sure.
I bought it in 1975 for $13,000.00 and sold it in 1976 for $14,000.00 (USD). I thought I was pretty smart, driving the car a year, and selling it for more than I bought it for.
Out of all the cars I have had over the years, I miss my 1970 Olds 442 W-30 the most. I was an automatic, but it was a lot of fun.
Smiles!