Thread: They're still out there. Garage/Barn Finds

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My Uncle has been calling me for about 3 weeks yammering about how he found a 68 Corvette big block car for a steal down some where in Texas. I figured it was just another story. He's always "finding" something. Nope, he really did. He is going to flip it he says. I had half a notion to try to buy it and let him make a couple thou off me but I think he has big dollar signs in his eyes and I'm out of luck.

1968 Auto L23 427

WOW, that's the last of the "real" corvettes.... That's cool!

My boss has a 1966 F-250 with under 1000 miles and has never been registered or titled. Still has transfer paperwork for it from 1966, what the dealers got.

Nice Ryan, I did see a superbird in a barn once, the owner bought it as a repo from the bank (stupid banker) as a super bee for 28k, he ended up flipping it and pocketing somwhere near a hundred grand!

Besides Ryan.. You'd only stuff a cummins in it!!!

No, no, not again.

I still have bad thoughts of buying this from hom and just getting it to a nice driver. But I'm guessing it would need a lot since it has been setting so long. So I just quit thinking about it. Like I need another project. Haha

The engine compartment picture kind of reminds me of a 69 Bonneville convertible we had come into the shop I worked at 20 years ago. Our customer had inherited it from an Uncle who had passed. He was really excited about it and came by the shop to tell us about it. He told us his uncle had bought it new and it had less than 30K on it and had been in storage for years. The car had been in Texas all its life so it should be almost perfect. He hadn’t seen the car yet but was having it shipped to our shop to so we could check it out prior to starting to drive it.

Well the car finally arrived and the rust and corrosion was as bad or worse than it is on the Vette…..and it was everywhere. Seems that all its life in Texas was in the Corpus Christi area on the coast (all that salt air). To make the car presentable would have taken a complete restoration. Long story short, the car was parted and the 455 and TH400 are now living happily in a Firebird body.

The Corvette is still a neat find and worth restoring but I’d have to think long and hard about whether I’d want to take on that much work. (OK if I was in love with Corvettes I'd do it god knows we've all started with less).


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Nice find but with that much rust showing I'd have to do a frame off. People don't think about how much steel there is in a Vett. OH yes I would do it I've done them before.

that is a south texas car for sure. possible the frame is toast. saw a split window years ago that looked great until it went on the lift. was scary dangerous .

where is Richard Rawlings when you need him ? ... never mind ,,, he`d give you $900 for it and sell it for 30 grand and laugh at you on TV ...

still healing his butt after big chief spanked his ass.

Yeah, I'm betting it will need a full resto not just rebuild the brakes and install new suspension bushings, clean the gas tank etc and drive it. If it was a 4 speed car, I'd be all over it. The next car I build is going to have to have a manual trans for sure. I am having with drawls.

68 is such a bastard year and is of relatively low value, it isn't viable to buy a car in this bad of shape. EGAY currently has a similar car with a starting bid of $6K that has no takers.....because cars of this low quality are maybe worth $2K....if that. This is not a project car, it is a money pit.

I'd buy it at $2k no problem. If you find one let me know.

Yeah for 2K I could make some money