@@spider2077 Can't know everything, if you watch the series he has great knowledge in cars, trucks not so much. The Suburban had the 71-72 grill , very cool truck.
I completely restored a Pantera back in the 90s, and I mean all the metal that was rusted. What people dont realize is that these bodies were assembled and before paint and primer they were stored in the yard unprotected. Some cars new at the Ford dealers already had serious rust problems. So you have a triple sandwiched unibody (in places) and a serious pain to restore. I probably spent 600+ hours in metal work alone and had to hand fabricate a lot of parts. It was a learning experience - LOL. I should have restored an old Ferrari.
Yes, they were complicated cars to restore, but a Ferrari from the same period can be far worse and the price of parts for them is just ridiculous. A lot of Pantera parts, because, mechanically, they were parts bin specials, are still available for sensible money. And, well, they're not a Ferrari. A thoroughly well-sorted Pantera is easily the car that Ferrari wished it could build back then...
Troy Ammons That's a shame. Always Loved Panteras. An older gentleman has 2 in his garage here , and told me the very same story about their rust issues and history. He worked offshore and bought 2 when they were new. He loved them and keeps them indoors, and they still have rust issues. Sad
@@b.c.gamingss Depends on condition. First start telling us what's wrong. I to am restoring a 69 Tbird. A lot of work ahead of you my friend. On my Tbird alone it took me 4 months of hard work to just get the car road worthy again. That's replacing all the suspension, brake system (including power booster and master cylinder and lines too), sanding and painting the underside. Also rebuilding the transmission and rear axle and new tires. Finally rebuilding the steering system. I haven't even started on the body. the trunk needs to be stripped and resealed and painted. Inside I need to pull the carpet out and check the condition of the floor pans. Doors need a little bit of work (no rot thankfully). My biggest problem is the rear quarters. Both sides have rot and need to be replaced as well as the dogleg behind the door. Now I don't know the extent of what you need to do, but looking at what I went through can give you an idea of what you are possibly getting yourself into. Good luck and don't give up on her!
Seriously! Theres a guy a couple minutes drive from my sisters farm, who has a 68-72 Corvette, thats been sitting rotting away in the weeds for at least 20yrs, and flat refuses to sell it. ARGH!!!
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.
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.
Interested in Pantera! I can ix it, rebuild it! I have a rotisserie. lift, access to body men. I worked in a paint shop as painters helper for years and can paint. That's a dream car of mine.
I got ahead of myself. My 20 year forlorned cutlass has a new/ olds motor, thanks to "Terry's Machine Shop", my wife and, honestly "Barn Finds". Thank you for all the great videos and inspiration.
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.
Oboy, I think that Pantera has a Gale Banks twin turbo kit from the '80s. I remember seeing one at a car show when I was a kid on a Camaro. With one turbo missing and one hanging by a thread, I'd guess the motor is grenaded.
Videos Like This Makes Us Wish We Had Back Half the Fast Cars We Had From Mid 50' s- Mid 2000 s. Miss My 66 Merc.Cyclone GT, 71 JAVELIN AMX ,67 Firebird SPRINT ,W/ Str.6 ,4 Barr.,76+78 Datsun 280 Z' s & My Last Hot Rod, 03 Mustang Cobra TERMINATOR,Prob.Still One of BEST BANGS for the BUCK Today!!!
To restore that DeTomaso, you have to do it the Jay Leno way: you buy the car for 4 grand, pun another 40k in restoring it and BAM you can sell it for 12k the next day! Just like that!
In 1971 I went to our local Mercury dealer determined to buy the Yellow detomaso Pantera that was displayed on the showroom floor.When I saw the $9999 sticker price I realized I would be driving my 442 a bit longer! I would love to know how twin turbos ended up on the p;articular Pantera!
Gale banks did twin turbo kit's for them back in the 80's but most of them probably got driven to destruction because they're boost control method's were still rather primitive back then
Would you rather have one car, in cherry condition, that you drive and tinker on regularly, or a hundred wreaks wasting away in a field? I don't understand hoarders.
For hoarder the actual value of an item is not what it is worth now. It is what it could be someday. That's why they can't sell anything or get rid of anything. They are so emotionally attached to this dream of "some day". I'm sure you have something like that too. For example a special watch your father gave you that you would not sell. Imagine if you felt like that about everything sitting on your yerd.
@@erwinlommer197 o yes that's for sure. These guys are not true car hobbyists. They actually are a disgrace to my hobby. They also Do major league damage to what was good farm land. Most are baby boomers at the end of life. I am into 427 fords. I know a guy that has 10 engine's. Won't sell one. Why ? His wife and children Will have to clean up his mess When he KICKS off. If you want to Hord hord hot wheels
My uncle owns one of those fords, he took care of that so much, i was a kid and say why keep putting money into that ,its old junk.(still a good looking car)He still has it. No rust or anything always covered it. I was surprised by how much it can be worth, i gotta tell em i think even he will be surprised. He likes to work on his cars but really isn’t a car guy. It’s just what he can buy when he moved to the states. But man thats why i love these vids you guys put out, 🙏
This episode is about as inspirational as it gets. It makes me want to look a little harder and a little longer to find and save these gems. Unfortunately I write this as I look at my 64 cutlass, 20 years forlorned.
With today's costs nothing is worth restoring if it is not numbers matching. That is if you use the term "restoring" as to what it actually means. 'Building' a non matching numbers car is a whole different ball of wax.
Also any '66 Impala with a factory installed matching numbers 427 is a COPO car since it was not an RPO yet. We had one and could not keep a starter in it, nor could we buy one for it either. We had to fabricate one utilizing half of the housing from a truck starter and that didn't even last long. That was in 1974 and was one of my favorite cars, out of hundreds, that we have had in my lifetime. 2 brothers bought the car from us and went racing with it at Suffolk Raceway. Like everyone else....if we had only known back then what we know now.
First time I ever saw a Pantera was in H.S. back in the early 90s. A kid that I went to school with and his parents at the time were well off. His brother drove one around town every day.
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). 🏆
The mobile phone in the Pantera is actually just an old 23 channel citizens band radio (CB). Back in the day CB's were made in a lot of different configurations and this one was made to resemble a telephone. Looks cool but it's just a CB.
The first motor i ever rebuilt with my father was our 1964 ford galaxy 2 door convertible w/ 390 big block . I grew up with that car with my family r.i.p. and I miss every minute ....
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.
Great video as always. And yes sad also. Wonder if Tom knows the folks in Rowan County that had hot rods and other cars where there was a fire that burned the garage where the cars were kept. Happened about a week ago. Apparently they got most of the cars (something like 15) out of the garage with just some water damage. It was sad about the fire but good news that most cars were saved. I think Tom will continue to find great barn finds in the Carolinas and all across the country.
Thought it might be hiding under the floormat laying on the seat, but after looking at interior pictures of a 4wd 72 Blazer transfer case shifter, I think you are correct. The steering wheel looked to be off a Camaro as well.
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.
Wow, I saw one of those parked in a guys driveway when I was 11 years old, back in 1975. I was helping my Dad put on a roof for the guy that owned it. Same color, looked just like it.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@Hagerty I am a big fan! I think it would be cool for Tom to come to the Jersey Shore sometime! My neighbor just down the road has a shop full of gems. I think I am kind of a collector now...my husband has his 66 Ford Bronco in back (he was going to restore it, has a lot of the things needed) my 69 Ford Falcon Futura....then up in the shop my 1988 Ford Mustang 5.0 Notchback. I learn a lot from these videos so thank you!
Interesting collection of Fords and Chevys..!! I hope he sells lots of these that can be enjoyed and restored by someone else. I owned a 1967 427 Impala 4spd car in San Jose CA. Purchased from a local family for $1500. after the husband passed away. It was fun and FAST....!! Just the hood with the grills on top was worth $$$$
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 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
I worked with a guy that had a 68 427 4sp convertible impala that was red with white interior and top. It got stolen but they found it years later in a police compound yard missing the drive train. His insurance company didn't want to pay (this was years ago) to have it fixed so he took them to court and won. He had a new drive train installed and started driving it again. He passed years ago but his son still owns the car. I loved the shark gills the fenders had.
We had to get our family car worked on in Kansas City at the Ford dealer, I was wandering around while waiting, and I was looking at a Pantera in the showroom, of course I was also looking at the new Cougars. Of course our car was a 69 Colony Park Mercury.
You just gave the main reason Nascar is on the decline... You CAN'T go to Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, purchase a car, do a few safety mods to it and go racing. It's gotten way to expensive and way to restrictive for the up and coming Richard Petty's of the world to be able to compete!!! Side note: My grandmother and aunt were on their way back to Charlotte from Columbia SC (visiting my gmom's sister) and her car broke down. A very nice young man and a couple of his friends stopped to see if they could help, my aunt being single and sort of a feminist b4 there were feminists said no but if he was going to Charlotte could he give my grandmother a ride... Of course he did, and when my aunt finally got home my grandmother was all grins and asked her if she knew who that man was who gave her a ride??? It was the King himself.. Mr Richard Petty and family on their way home from a race... She smiled for weeks after that ride, and my aunt, who didn't need a man, changed her tune cause he certainly would have noticed that the coil wire had popped off ;-) Really enjoy your show sir!!!
People looking at sportsmen's level racing have other options. Drag racing, SCCA, trans Am, sprint cars. ARCA. And a "few safety mods? " The things were death traps then and stil are.
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.
My uncle had and sold a yellow pantera back in the early 90s the young couple that bought it had a 2.3 hr drive home where to where they lived. In the end the never made it home cause they wrecked it on the highway due to high speeds both were killed in the single car accident I believe they were in their mid 20s
Not surprising,especially if it was an early one. The predecessors, the mangusta etc were evil handling bitches and the first Panteras were right on the edge of dangerous.
As I get older, my feelings regarding people who hoard and let cars rot like this are less and less positive. God bless you guys for digging them up, I almost can’t bear to watch them in this condition anymore.
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.
Nothing wrong with a 289. Because they are lighter the car handles better than any of the big blocks. The small blocks can be breathed on with bolt on parts if not already a high output model, so they make a nice cruiser. Also decent gas mileage and reliable with maintenance.
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.
Thanks, everyone: interesting video... Anyways, I did have a School Mate two Classes (1963)ahead of me buy the 427/R,1963 .5 ( or and Half) SCATBACK in GALAXIE 500/BLACK/ Black/4Speed/no options/Bench seats.... blew engine & used tires up & insurance : was setting outside in late 60’s south of Wolf Lake IND( Noble County)......Anyways, that sound and performance started a lot of my Car Interests at the local Hang out Service Station((**a full service place: Pinochle ,cards,tires, gas,tobacco, repairs, three service Bays etc...) ...a hang out place not available in today’s towns, etc.....
.....and as the video progresses, I think I learned here who the guy was that took those parts off that OTHER R-Code , it was thie guy that owned " the other R-Code " sitting in the garage .Mystery solved, he only owned 1 R code and it was rusted beyond repair ......the other one he owned "Became" and r-code after he robbed the O.G. car out rusting in the lot .
The pantra was Canada's answer for the Corvette. The pantra was the poor's ever built. If you look close none of the body lines line up and the gaps are off. The gulf wing door are very bad they have a real hinge problem. There's nothing good about the car.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
72-74 what a fkn idiot they only made that body style 67-72 big time car hunter
@@spider2077 Can't know everything, if you watch the series he has great knowledge in cars, trucks not so much. The Suburban had the 71-72 grill , very cool truck.
that's a shame....all those old cars are going to waste!.........
such a shame
Looks like you need to brush up on your suburban history. LoL👍😂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Get that pantera running good then leave it as is. An original ratty rod pantera driver. How cool would that be?
I completely restored a Pantera back in the 90s, and I mean all the metal that was rusted. What people dont realize is that these bodies were assembled and before paint and primer they were stored in the yard unprotected. Some cars new at the Ford dealers already had serious rust problems. So you have a triple sandwiched unibody (in places) and a serious pain to restore. I probably spent 600+ hours in metal work alone and had to hand fabricate a lot of parts. It was a learning experience - LOL. I should have restored an old Ferrari.
I plan on restoring '67 Chevrolet Impala. Any advice?
Yes, they were complicated cars to restore, but a Ferrari from the same period can be far worse and the price of parts for them is just ridiculous. A lot of Pantera parts, because, mechanically, they were parts bin specials, are still available for sensible money. And, well, they're not a Ferrari. A thoroughly well-sorted Pantera is easily the car that Ferrari wished it could build back then...
Did it run hot , heard they had overheating issues ?
Troy Ammons That's a shame. Always Loved Panteras. An older gentleman has 2 in his garage here , and told me the very same story about their rust issues and history. He worked offshore and bought 2 when they were new. He loved them and keeps them indoors, and they still have rust issues. Sad
@@b.c.gamingss Depends on condition. First start telling us what's wrong. I to am restoring a 69 Tbird. A lot of work ahead of you my friend. On my Tbird alone it took me 4 months of hard work to just get the car road worthy again. That's replacing all the suspension, brake system (including power booster and master cylinder and lines too), sanding and painting the underside. Also rebuilding the transmission and rear axle and new tires. Finally rebuilding the steering system. I haven't even started on the body. the trunk needs to be stripped and resealed and painted. Inside I need to pull the carpet out and check the condition of the floor pans. Doors need a little bit of work (no rot thankfully). My biggest problem is the rear quarters. Both sides have rot and need to be replaced as well as the dogleg behind the door. Now I don't know the extent of what you need to do, but looking at what I went through can give you an idea of what you are possibly getting yourself into. Good luck and don't give up on her!
The turbos are Rajay "E" flow. This car made some serious power back in the day the gale banks setup is no joke.
looks like they were running a twin turbo set up.
I love Pantera's. Too bad some hoarders have a sickness of letting things rot.
John Milner it's a passive hostility against society.
If those original Campagnolos have not been resting on totally flat tires its a really nice rolling car with potential value
Seriously! Theres a guy a couple minutes drive from my sisters farm, who has a 68-72 Corvette, thats been sitting rotting away in the weeds for at least 20yrs, and flat refuses to sell it. ARGH!!!
@@omartinoco9930 The flat tires looked like the original Goodyear Arriva tires, too. Such a shame.
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.
Awesome old suburban with some clean looking Weld Stonecrushers!
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.
11:18. Best part of the Pantera hands down!!
8 tracks in cars are AWESOME
Interested in Pantera! I can ix it, rebuild it! I have a rotisserie. lift, access to body men. I worked in a paint shop as painters helper for years and can paint. That's a dream car of mine.
I hope you get it
You gotta love all the old rusty car in that field! The hunt is the best part!
I got ahead of myself. My 20 year forlorned cutlass has a new/ olds motor, thanks to "Terry's Machine Shop", my wife and, honestly "Barn Finds". Thank you for all the great videos and inspiration.
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.
Oboy, I think that Pantera has a Gale Banks twin turbo kit from the '80s. I remember seeing one at a car show when I was a kid on a Camaro. With one turbo missing and one hanging by a thread, I'd guess the motor is grenaded.
N Ferraro would’ve been a great handling car with those small turbos and mid engine it’s too bad they didn’t fix it
So you just swap it with a Windsor V8
That was my first guess
Cleveland fast without forced induction
Videos Like This Makes Us Wish We Had Back Half the Fast Cars We Had From Mid 50' s- Mid 2000 s. Miss My 66 Merc.Cyclone GT, 71 JAVELIN AMX ,67 Firebird SPRINT ,W/ Str.6 ,4 Barr.,76+78 Datsun 280 Z' s & My Last Hot Rod, 03 Mustang Cobra TERMINATOR,Prob.Still One of BEST BANGS for the BUCK Today!!!
Those Corvairs being left to rot is really sad, they are tragically undervalued
They really are i love those things i bought 3 for 100$ cant restore them to far gone just love looking at them
i AGREE WE NEED TO SAVE THEM!
“Unsafe at any speed”
With that swing-axle suspension prepare to roll over and die
Corvairs are junk
No not really
Damn, that Pantera is awesome. It needs to be put back on the road with twin turbos
To restore that DeTomaso, you have to do it the Jay Leno way: you buy the car for 4 grand, pun another 40k in restoring it and BAM you can sell it for 12k the next day! Just like that!
In 1971 I went to our local Mercury dealer determined to buy the Yellow detomaso Pantera that was displayed on the showroom floor.When I saw the $9999 sticker price I realized I would be driving my 442 a bit longer! I would love to know how twin turbos ended up on the p;articular Pantera!
Gale banks did twin turbo kit's for them back in the 80's but most of them probably got driven to destruction because they're boost control method's were still rather primitive back then
troy davies thanks for info,,, I had forgotten lot of Pantera stuff...
A lo of Panteras had twin turbos!.
Would you rather have one car, in cherry condition, that you drive and tinker on regularly, or a hundred wreaks wasting away in a field? I don't understand hoarders.
To a hoarder, each one of those wrecks has a story.
@@bnkwupt dont church it up. Story or not, there wont be one after it becomes one with the earth. Disease of the brain lol
For hoarder the actual value of an item is not what it is worth now. It is what it could be someday. That's why they can't sell anything or get rid of anything. They are so emotionally attached to this dream of "some day". I'm sure you have something like that too. For example a special watch your father gave you that you would not sell. Imagine if you felt like that about everything sitting on your yerd.
@@erwinlommer197 o yes that's for sure. These guys are not true car hobbyists. They actually are a disgrace to my hobby. They also
Do major league damage to what was good farm land. Most are baby boomers at the end of life.
I am into 427 fords. I know a guy that has 10 engine's. Won't sell one. Why ? His wife and children
Will have to clean up his mess When he KICKS off. If you want to
Hord hord hot wheels
@@superbeeblaze don't church it up. ? That's you tube gold ?
Cool pantera! They may not have been extremely refined from the factory but they can be made into really cool reliable cars!
holes on that pantera look to me like some sort of wing or something was once mounted up there?
I hope there's a part 2 to this location. Lots of cool stuff out there.
My uncle owns one of those fords, he took care of that so much, i was a kid and say why keep putting money into that ,its old junk.(still a good looking car)He still has it. No rust or anything always covered it. I was surprised by how much it can be worth, i gotta tell em i think even he will be surprised. He likes to work on his cars but really isn’t a car guy. It’s just what he can buy when he moved to the states. But man thats why i love these vids you guys put out, 🙏
This episode is about as inspirational as it gets. It makes me want to look a little harder and a little longer to find and save these gems. Unfortunately I write this as I look at my 64 cutlass, 20 years forlorned.
Thank you for watching!
im not a chevy guy, but a factory 4 speed 427 Impala is TOTALLY worth restoring
Yeah.. A big block car is worth it..
They put very few 427s in a 66 but they did have it. And theyre rare as hens teeth
@@myassizitchy who"s teeth..?? chuckle
With today's costs nothing is worth restoring if it is not numbers matching. That is if you use the term "restoring" as to what it actually means. 'Building' a non matching numbers car is a whole different ball of wax.
Also any '66 Impala with a factory installed matching numbers 427 is a COPO car since it was not an RPO yet. We had one and could not keep a starter in it, nor could we buy one for it either. We had to fabricate one utilizing half of the housing from a truck starter and that didn't even last long. That was in 1974 and was one of my favorite cars, out of hundreds, that we have had in my lifetime. 2 brothers bought the car from us and went racing with it at Suffolk Raceway. Like everyone else....if we had only known back then what we know now.
First time I ever saw a Pantera was in H.S. back in the early 90s. A kid that I went to school with and his parents at the time were well off. His brother drove one around town every day.
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). 🏆
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The mobile phone in the Pantera is actually just an old 23 channel citizens band radio (CB). Back in the day CB's were made in a lot of different configurations and this one was made to resemble a telephone. Looks cool but it's just a CB.
1976 Midland
that was a CB radio, NOT a mobile phone. Vtg 1976 Midland Phone Base Station CB Radio Model 13-884
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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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The first motor i ever rebuilt with my father was our 1964 ford galaxy 2 door convertible w/ 390 big block . I grew up with that car with my family r.i.p. and I miss every minute ....
That De Tamaso pantera looks awesome! Really cool cars and place! Love the video like always!
This week on barnfind hunters... a bunch of cars that have been left in a field to rot. AND NO THEY ARE NOT FOR SALE!
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.
As Tom said,,,, *What a waste*
Love that Suburban, and of course the Pantera
Great video as always. And yes sad also. Wonder if Tom knows the folks in Rowan County that had hot rods and other cars where there was a fire that burned the garage where the cars were kept. Happened about a week ago. Apparently they got most of the cars (something like 15) out of the garage with just some water damage. It was sad about the fire but good news that most cars were saved. I think Tom will continue to find great barn finds in the Carolinas and all across the country.
Pantera is better looking car than most of ferraris.
@Rob Trubiano Nope..That's preference. One may say they are overrated.
Love it Tom. Many thanks. Keep em comin.
Interesting. The K5 blazer was a 4 whl drive. The C Blazer was 2 whl drive.. May have been fenders off another truck or it was actually a 4wd Blazer
Didn't see a 4WD shift lever in the Blazer or the Suburban.
Thought it might be hiding under the floormat laying on the seat, but after looking at interior pictures of a 4wd 72 Blazer transfer case shifter, I think you are correct. The steering wheel looked to be off a Camaro as well.
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.
I suspect that the remains of the white Galaxie out back missing it's r-code, is/was the doner to create the burgundy one
robert bolan yes I bet that you are right!!!!!!
It's all in the hunt, and thanks for sharing this cool VID!!
Wow, I saw one of those parked in a guys driveway when I was 11 years old, back in 1975. I was helping my Dad put on a roof for the guy that owned it. Same color, looked just like it.
nothing says " i like to party" like a turbo'd pantera
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.
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.
Passenger side is the curb side.. hence the 3 doors...
Ambulance emergency vehicles three doors wonder if the rear doors or swing open
@@radiorick4975
Tailgate..
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
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.
The phone in the Panthers is actually a CB radio designed to look like a phone, popular around 1974-76
NAh, it's a radio phone... there were operators you'd ring up and they'd connect you to landlines
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Sorry it's a 1976 Midland 23 channel cb radio Model 13-884
Love these videos!! Thank you, Hagerty!
Thanks for being a fan!
@@Hagerty I am a big fan! I think it would be cool for Tom to come to the Jersey Shore sometime! My neighbor just down the road has a shop full of gems. I think I am kind of a collector now...my husband has his 66 Ford Bronco in back (he was going to restore it, has a lot of the things needed) my 69 Ford Falcon Futura....then up in the shop my 1988 Ford Mustang 5.0 Notchback. I learn a lot from these videos so thank you!
Our pleasure! Great car collection by the way.
Interesting collection of Fords and Chevys..!! I hope he sells lots of these that can be enjoyed and restored by someone else. I owned a 1967 427 Impala 4spd car in San Jose CA. Purchased from a local family for $1500. after the husband passed away. It was fun and FAST....!! Just the hood with the grills on top was worth $$$$
A Pantera has always been a dream car of mine. I should have bought one when they were still affordable.
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.
That Pantera needs a restoration seriously, it really does.
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
Was tough to tell, but looked like there were 2 first gen Camaro's in this yard, really wish you would have given them a quick look
Everything old is new again. If only I had kept some of the cars in my earlier years, I'd not have to work.
Corvettes and 427 impala outside and Grande Mustang inside.NOoooooooo!
427 Impala with 4 on the floor. Horribly sad. . .
I worked with a guy that had a 68 427 4sp convertible impala that was red with white interior and top. It got stolen but they found it years later in a police compound yard missing the drive train. His insurance company didn't want to pay (this was years ago) to have it fixed so he took them to court and won. He had a new drive train installed and started driving it again. He passed years ago but his son still owns the car. I loved the shark gills the fenders had.
Random808 ....I know right? Those chevy piles of junk should be parted out or sent to the crusher, they're absolute GM trash....
Random808 - I don’t see the problem
We had to get our family car worked on in Kansas City at the Ford dealer, I was wandering around while waiting, and I was looking at a Pantera in the showroom, of course I was also looking at the new Cougars. Of course our car was a 69 Colony Park Mercury.
You just gave the main reason Nascar is on the decline... You CAN'T go to Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, purchase a car, do a few safety mods to it and go racing. It's gotten way to expensive and way to restrictive for the up and coming Richard Petty's of the world to be able to compete!!! Side note: My grandmother and aunt were on their way back to Charlotte from Columbia SC (visiting my gmom's sister) and her car broke down. A very nice young man and a couple of his friends stopped to see if they could help, my aunt being single and sort of a feminist b4 there were feminists said no but if he was going to Charlotte could he give my grandmother a ride... Of course he did, and when my aunt finally got home my grandmother was all grins and asked her if she knew who that man was who gave her a ride??? It was the King himself.. Mr Richard Petty and family on their way home from a race... She smiled for weeks after that ride, and my aunt, who didn't need a man, changed her tune cause he certainly would have noticed that the coil wire had popped off ;-) Really enjoy your show sir!!!
Brian W don’t forget Toyota😂
another sad reason .
People looking at sportsmen's level racing have other options. Drag racing, SCCA, trans Am, sprint cars. ARCA. And a "few safety mods? " The things were death traps then and stil are.
I love how the Fords are inside the garage
Minute 7:30 thanks 👍
I just got 6 running pre 77 vehicles for 5500$...I'm still picking them up
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.
My uncle had and sold a yellow pantera back in the early 90s the young couple that bought it had a 2.3 hr drive home where to where they lived. In the end the never made it home cause they wrecked it on the highway due to high speeds both were killed in the single car accident I believe they were in their mid 20s
They won’t do it again....
Well that's fucking cheery,thanks for sharing.
Not surprising,especially if it was an early one. The predecessors, the mangusta etc were evil handling bitches and the first Panteras were right on the edge of dangerous.
Mercmad it was a 1971
shane8911 any autopsy photos?( In color please)
As I get older, my feelings regarding people who hoard and let cars rot like this are less and less positive. God bless you guys for digging them up, I almost can’t bear to watch them in this condition anymore.
Love that Pantera!
imagine that pantera running! boosted v8 in a sleek body...daaaamn! 😍
That's a 1966 427 Impala Tom... not a '67 which was a totally different bodystyle... Keep up the great videos!
that was a dam TWIN TURBO pantera.....WOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
That's sad for that de tamaso pantera, this is my favorite car ever.
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.
Transaxle in the pantera is worth 6 grand alone. Car is worth 25 k at least.
carbo19 cars are almost always worth more in parts than as a whole
You've just bought yourself a car!.
Another great video Tom ! Thanks again !
Thank you for watching!
It always saddens me when I see so many rare cars rotting away due to a hoarder that refuses to sell
Love the galaxies, got one in my garage. It's just a little 289 i've had it since 1990 .
Nothing wrong with a 289. Because they are lighter the car handles better than any of the big blocks. The small blocks can be breathed on with bolt on parts if not already a high output model, so they make a nice cruiser. Also decent gas mileage and reliable with maintenance.
Love the burgundy R code Galaxie!
Should be called "Hoarders" Car edition instead of Barn Finds
I love watching these videos
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.
Good lord, who has all these cars. This is a gold mine
That would be great if some of these cars could be brought back on the road.
That Cherokee tho... 😍
the beige one by the pantera right?!
@@mikewright84 Plus a red one out in the field...
so sorry for all those abandoned cars...
Thanks, everyone: interesting video... Anyways, I did have a School Mate two Classes (1963)ahead of me buy the 427/R,1963 .5 ( or and Half) SCATBACK in GALAXIE 500/BLACK/ Black/4Speed/no options/Bench seats.... blew engine & used tires up & insurance : was setting outside in late 60’s south of Wolf Lake IND( Noble County)......Anyways, that sound and performance started a lot of my Car Interests at the local Hang out Service Station((**a full service place: Pinochle ,cards,tires, gas,tobacco, repairs, three service Bays etc...) ...a hang out place not available in today’s towns, etc.....
.....and as the video progresses, I think I learned here who the guy was that took those parts off that OTHER R-Code , it was thie guy that owned " the other R-Code " sitting in the garage .Mystery solved, he only owned 1 R code and it was rusted beyond repair ......the other one he owned "Became" and r-code after he robbed the O.G. car out rusting in the lot .
shhhhhh......
i wonder what that was under the cover nexto the black blazer. Has bbs wheels on it
Possibly a C4 Corvette
The pantra was Canada's answer for the Corvette. The pantra was the poor's ever built. If you look close none of the body lines line up and the gaps are off. The gulf wing door are very bad they have a real hinge problem. There's nothing good about the car.
Gotta save the 427 66 Impala. Great collection. Thanks for bringing for our 'motor eye feast'.
Id rather restore the Pantera. It's more interesting than a car that was also made as a station wagon.
I would enjoy that K5 or old 3 door Suburban!
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 pantera's
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.
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.
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.
Oh yeah, I forgot where I left it (the 63 Galaxie 500 XL) 427 . LOVE THEM , Remind me again where I left it , PLEASE
I also would like a few comments on the others nearby - the 57? T-Bird next to the Galaxie - the 60 Impala, the Corvairs ...
Did i see a 1969 mustang mach 1 red sitting back there? I call dibs.