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

More details on Tom's finds: www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/02/06/barn-find-hunter-time-capsule-pantera-r-code-galaxie-500

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!

O American meda um carro dese brasil

I can't tell you, how many valuable classic cars that were good and restorable, that owners left outside to rot refusing to sell them. Shame.

I want that Pantera.

All these WASTES. Shame man. So much top tier ass laying around

Oh my god that pantera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A factory manual 427 Impala!! thinking we should have been praising this one more than the others

Love that Pantera!

Tom that Pantera, has the big bumpers, so a 1974.

My dad had A four door Galaxie 500 with the 390 in it. He raced A neighbor who thought he had A fast car. At the end of race my dad looked back and saw the neighbor was half A block behind him.

I once found a 1936 Ford convertible (I think they were called Phaeton?) in a farmer's field just rusting away along with a rusting 32 roadster hotrod. This was before the area became a suburb. The farmer didn't want to sell them. What a shame.

I guess I never will understand why someone is buying cars and then left them to rot away...
The trick is to get your priorities and allow other to buy your cars and use that money to rebuild some cars.
*such a shame*

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Great video. Would love to know where in NC this is. Been looking for a 3 door Suburban to restore. Grandfather had one when I was young. I live in Mooresville area

Anyone know how to get ahold of Tom?

11:25 2 duffle bags, one with coke and the other with dollar bills.

There are probably a list of buyers waiting for the owner to die off so they can finally buy cars and parts.

god they shoulda kept that blazer color ha

The amount of knowledge Tom has is so impressive. His brain is a museum of automotive history. The car industry for most of the last 100 years has been the largest sector of the US economy, so a lot of US history surrounds the amazing history of the automobile.

The Pantera waS TERRIBLY HOT! I think it was the worst thing about it. It didn't take long for the heat off that engine to make it miserable.

the blazer was my first car i bought

A Restorers Gold Mine!!!! Wtf? _ There Needs To a Group Of People Who Buy The Restorables Up ' Move Them to Weather Safe Place' Inventory What They Actually Are ? Then Open a Web Page To Auction Them To 'Saver Homes'!_ To Save The Very Last Of The Heritage of 'The USA Muscle Memory'🇺🇸 Remember Gone Is Gone' Save Them Before The Heritage Hermits and Nature Allows The Rustification To Create Random Piles of Dustification Remnance Shadows!_

What part of N.C. do you live in sir ? I live in North Wilkesboro N.C. Love all your videos I always learn something I didn't know before . thanks

That Pantera ZF transaxle is the same unit that was used in the GT-40 race cars. They were sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealers whose sales departments weren't familiar with marketing and selling premium high performance cars and Ford wasn't keen on having competition for Mustang sales either so they didn't get the attention they deserved unfortunately.

theres a repair/garage some where in. u.s,i was looking for panteras,very rare,but i swear,this garage had them on lifts,must of been 20 +,easy.

To small junk it.

I knew a fella north of sturgeon bay Wisconsin that had 80 acres of old convertibles....I asked to buy one from him..." Naw, I'm gonna restore that one"
He passed on and his son sold all them one at a time

Seems a shame to just leave cars uncovered out in the weather to turn to rust.

i dunno man, try go fast in an old car.... sounds like a tesla is a better deal....

Intro song?

Tell the owner of this car thank you so much for destroying our earth with all the pollution and also thank him for all the murders and wars behind gasoline get yourself an electric car dumbass

It’s a shame, one person can destroy so many cars. I bet they cut the grass for the show otherwise it’s a scrap metal garden.

Pantera has campy wheels! Cool

One mans junk is another mans junk when the present owner of said junk dies and wills junk to the next guy who loves to look at junk.

lol in short, the woody isn't made to go in wet weather as i don't want to pay for the wood work or to get the thing wax/weather treated,

I love this channel and hate it at the same time, really enjoy watching Tom finding these gems but then we never see them getting restored. It's always like a good story cut in half.

Id be willing to take on the Pantera for restore if I ran across one In that condition. Metal can be replaced to a certain extent. As long as the main part of the car is there to get a template off of. It wouldn't be any issue just time.

I would enjoy that K5 or old 3 door Suburban!

And now i sit in a junkyard with my boiler full of rust.

You look like David Letterman!!!

I love this series, but it just pains me to see some of these cars. As it is with an accident, you just have to look and sometimes you see things that you wished you haven't.

You’ve forgotten more about cars than I’ll ever know but you miss little things like TWIN TURBOS on that Pantera
I have a turbo on my 73 THATSOON 240Z not quick out of the hole but hang on in 2nd above 50 3rd 4th & 5th will pucker you as well
Talk about the luggage space on an Opel GT lololololol

So where are they if I want some of his stuffs...its A dammm shame ..fucking hoarders...taking and then not doing a dammm thing with them ..SAD

That was a CB radio not a mobile phone.

nothing says " i like to party" like a turbo'd pantera

Would have liked to learn more about the 427 impala and why it was not considered worth restoring...was the frame totally rotted out? just curious because it was not obvious from the clip what might have been wrong with it other than the front end damage and of course the fact that it looks to have sitting outside for better than 30 or 40 years

It Amazes the F out of me how all these cars fall in the hands of people like this middle BFE Land. Wonder How Much they Paid for Pantera who owned it last? What the F is it doing there?

That is not a phone, but it does look like one. Johnson and Midland made a few base/mobile CB radios with phone style receivers in the 70s. They may have been built for government or business in mind and made it into the public domain.

What a mess...its a mix of parts, the bumpers are 73-74, the interior is 72. Its not worth restoring.

Couldn’t have said it better myself you have to take the emotion out of buying old cars and look at them as investment . Will you get a return ? Automobiles in general are a poor investment buy land their not making anymore of it .

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
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Where can I find places like these?