BARN FINDS

OK GUYS AND GURILES, LETS GET THIS FORUM ROLLIN' WITH SOME BARN FINDS "WAR STORIES"!  EVERYONE HAS SOME AND THEY ARE ALL FASCINATING. WELL...SINCE I'M HERE AND SUGGESTED THIS...I'LL TELL THE STORY OF MY 59 FORD RAG TOP.
IT ALL STARTED WITH A BUNCH OF GUYS SITTING AROUND THE SEWING TABLE AT THE LOCAL TRIM SHOP. WE WERE BENCH RACIN' AND SWAPPING INSULTS WHEN OUR BUDDY, ROY, ROLLED UP IN HIS BLUE AND WHITE 56 FORD CONVERT.  I HAPPENED TO
MENTION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BUILD A RAGGEDY TOP SOMEDAY.
WELL, ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS BULL SESSION SPOKE UP AND SAID "I'VE GOT ONE I'LL GIVE YOU IF YOU'LL COME GET IT".  THEN HE TOLD ME THAT THE CAR WAS A 59 FORD AND HAD BEEN SITTING BEHIND HIS DAD'S GARAGE FOR 17 YEARS WITH THE HOOD UP AND THE TOP DOWN AND THAT CHAINSAWS WOULD BE REQUIRED.  HE ALSO SAID THAT HE'D GIVEN THE CAR TO 7 OTHER PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS AND NO ONE EVER MOVED IT, THEREFORE THE ONLY REQUIREMENT WAS TO BRING IT BY HIS SHOP ON THE WRECKER.  THEN, AND ONLY THEN WOULD HE SIGN THE TITLE OVER TO ME.
THAT VERY AFTERNOON, I ENLISTED THE HELP OF MY PAL, ROBERT EARL, WHO HAD ACCESS TO SAID CHAINSAWS AND A WRECKER.  WE SAWED DOWN THE SMALL TREES AS REQUIRED AND DRAGED MY NEW TREASURE UP ON THE FLATBED AND TOOK OFF FOR THE OWNER'S SHOP.  WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE GUY'S PLACE OF BUSINESS, HE SIGNED THE TITLE AND HANDED IT TO ME AND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS A GOOD THING THAT I ACTED PROMPTLY BECAUSE HIS DAD HAD SOLD THE PROPERTY WHERE THE CAR WAS SITTING AND THE OLD CONVERT. WAS CRUSHER BOUND.
I THOUGHT THAT , FOR ONCE, I WAS AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME...MOST EVERYONE ELSE THOUGHT I WAS NUTS! I MEAN, THIS THING WAS SUPER EXTRA ROUGH...IT ALL WORKED OUT THOUGH, AND 22YEARS LATER I'M STILL DRIVING MY "BARN FIND".  

Here I was thinking that the story would lead to a '59 T-Bird that had been customized by George and Sam Barris,  like the stories of reading the classifieds and finding a '54 Chevrolet for $400.00 that turns out to be a Vette when you got there, or the kids car that was killed in Vietnam that the parents kept in the garage and it turned out to be a 3 window duece coupe with a full race Merc flathead for $500., but if you've been driving a '59 Ford Rag for 22 years it's still a pretty good story. All I got outa barns is a '63 Nova Wagon and my '45 Ford PU.  

NAH, JALOPY, COULDN'T BE THAT LUCKY...JUST JUNK THAT HAPPENED TO END UP AS A KEEPER.  HOW 'BOUT THE STORIES ON THE NOVA AND THE PICKUP?  REALLY LIKE THAT SERIES FORD TRUCK...GUESS IT'S THE 40 STYLE CAB AND THAT GREAT OBNOXIOUS GRILLE...WAY COOL.  WAGONS ARE NEAT TOO...WISH I HAD ONE!  LATER...