looks perfect how you did it, 💯

@@ItsaRomethingeveryday 👍

I know exactly where you got this south of Norwalk. My dad tried buying it multiple times in the 90’s the old man would not sell it! You couldn’t even get close to the barn because of a Dog he had! Watching this takes me back I can distinctly remember going there with him to try and get it

THANKS for sharing @JerryHeasley I LOVE this classic story or how did you find this classic 1967 SHELBY GT500 hiden in a bar????? My crazy cousin has been fliping reginal between 1960' to 1970's . Classic cars & trucks since he was in his 40's

you are so full of Barn Droppings .........

I hope you slipped him your card in the event he doesn't have any heirs. 😉

That's what I call a cargasm.

That's a great story

After hearing your story I started to believe again.

What a dude

Agreed.....

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😂🤣😅 u got that right!!!!!!

La-da-da-da-dah

That line made me tear up a little...😪

❤

@TimeWarped think these videos are a wee bit over your head, punky brewster

Thank you for the kind words

You're welcome. I learned hard work from my parents. They were born in Germany. I grew up in Chicago. I joined the Army at seventeen. Mom and dad moved to Rockford, IL. My first car was a 69 Dodge charger. Black vinyl top, midnite blue limited edition. I got it seventy four. Those were the good old days... Well for me, they were.

Maybe I'll see you folks down the road........take care!!!

@@John-wi4jc hitler loved dogs

I love my dog

And let the puppy ride in it like it’s a pinto!

That’s an expensive car, even though I’m young and everyone expects me to beat the shit out of my truck (which I won’t until it gets fully built for it) I wouldn’t beat on that old piece of history. I would put it in my garage with a cover over it and take it down the road every week or so if the weather is right lol

Brother

I think it feels like astronomical because we don't associate that kind of money for a car like this, or having all that money up front, and we sat down and poured over the labor that went into this project. On the other hand, if a guy pulled up in a 2021 Porsche 911 turbo, he spent two hours at a dealer, signed some papers, and has a monthly payment. It probably wouldn't seem like an astronomical expense, even though he'll sink more money into that than this entire Shelby project, and devalue the car with time, whereas this Shelby owner had to have added value with the restoration, which should only increase in time.

Yaaaaass 🙌🏿.

Your grammar is hurting my brain.

Your answer is right on!!

Loved that line!

nice

nice

Problem is that it’s not original

The issue is people lack foresight, some of them just want fancy cars and forget that it comes with very high maintenance costs and that is usually why cars end up tucked away in garages.

The same philosophy applies to our wives... 🤠

@@muckerwood The depreciating asset.

That's why 50% of restoration projects do not get completed and are never driven.... What was never mentioned was in Collage I worked for a restoration shop, the car was not bad enough to restore 100% and I did not want it tied up in restoration death row for 5 years.

@@muckerwood 🤣🤣🤣

How much did they pay?

@@ciegosanchez5289 65k

Knowing the internet the way it is, if he would have under bid that old lady he would have received so much hate. No lie, I said the car is a $70,000 car the first 10 minutes of the video.

There was second buyer who was ready to pay 64K 😉

@@ciegosanchez5289 65k

And thanks for sharing that memory! Wow, your neighbor won the car. I kind of feel like I won a 1967 GT-500. If you'll look on my channel at the one I bought out of a barn in Brock, Nebraska. It was also red and a 1967 GT-500. I wonder where the car he won is today. Does he know the Shelby number?

FYI, the car lives in Beaverdale... That's where I live.

Yea I have a 69 torino the same color .

Same here. I would have never chosen that color, yet it looks so good on that Shelby. 👌

@@Roadking556 nice, love the Torino's

My 74 Super Beetle is painted in either this color or one VERY similar to it. Matching custom interior too, it looks very good.

@@Roadking556 nice i like it but my grandfathers is periwinkle ill get it someday

And he talks nice to his dog

This. And it looks like original tires or same year

Thank you!

22:39 crazy he was talking to a dog too

GenDProd Worst thing you can do is let a car, truck or motorcycle, sit. This guy gets it. I love his attitude.

He gets it. Don't fret about scratching the thing. Drive it like you stole it 👍

@@norbzt he loves his dog 🐕

Hard to not want to make it look new. He made a good decision 👏

Bad decision

Can’t see leaving the rust. Rust is rust, it’s not originality, it’s lack of maintenance.

Total restoration kills the car, this is the way to do it. Nice and clever. The world is full of over renovations.

Hans Bjorkman, wrong. Restoration restores the car. Leaving rust is just stupid. Rust us not original to the car. If you argue that restoration ruins the originality, guess what? Rust ruins originality. I as well as most people would rather have a restored car than one that has rust. Take a car with rust to a car show and you will get laughed out of there. Good luck with a car that is falling apart.

Plot twist the car was a Doge charger the whole time.

Thanks for that comment, you've made my day lol!

soon as he shuts the door, i thought he shot the fucken dog

And talks too lol

HOW IN THE WORLD DID THAT DAWG DO THAT?!?!?! MYSTERY!!

a rusted out piece of shit, only worth that much to silly people with too much money and time on their hands.

@@ItsSerialBoX I think someone is jealous.

@@ItsSerialBoXIt's part of our nations history; So, that alone makes it worth saving...There was a limited amount of those GT Shelby's made, and at least 1 of them is virtually priceless (Jim Morrison's); IF someone could find it!

@@ItsSerialBoX lol the poors are out again, go get a job

This dude is car dumb. Bigtime. Go back to your Honda.

Unless you go full concourse, there will always be something for someone to bitch about. Make it the way you want it, and drive. Screw everybody else.

Drive the hell out of em. I wonder how many original miles were on it? Or did I miss that?

That was legendary!

Enough said!!!!

@@joshd.godfroy4761 oem motor was blown but never said original miles

@@jwalk1014 Agreed. That made it all the better seeing his dog jump out at the end.

In the mid '90s, one of these was in front of me on 19th Avenue. I used to commute to Corte Madera. First thought "What is this doing in commuter traffic ???" Then realized, Sunny Friday morning. Take the GT out for a spin :)

Honestly I get keeping it mostly original but those rear leaf springs look super scary

There's also no reason why you can't drive a restored car, that's also a personal choice.

@@3602go Driving the car's not a problem. Like they said back in the '60s, Watch Out For The Other Guy. Hell, i almost got creamed in a cross walk the other day (car stopped before going over my foot). Not the car, its the other jack asses that would scare me.

Right?! I was with him every step of the way until I saw he had that dog in the car. I about died. Those frigging claws on the leather seats! Omg what is he thinking??

Imagine how many hours went into that alone!

Totally good deal. Cost me 200+ to have my new truck paint detailed to remove water spots.

There is more to that story than $2000, Bob Perkins and me have known each other for 30+ years and he does all the other cars I have, it was winter in Iowa too so he was a little slow. My son and I helped him too.

@@creativewerksinc That makes sense! I was going to say, that’s a really solid deal! Car came out great.

@@creativewerksincdo you wanna buy a rare old corvette that'll eat snakes?

As much as I know, we only live once so... live then. So do he.

The guy spent $141K on a material item. What are you talking about?

No doubt great point. The money 💰 grabbers only care about the value. We love the history the creativeness the craftsmanship the privlige to own and drive. Keeping it real 💯

Trailer queens. smh

Collectors are fine. All of their cars will be future barn finds eventually, at a drastically reduced price.

I don't know how they drop crazy money on these cars and not drive them. Carol Shelby said before he died "if your Shelby never hit the redline before you're not using it right"

yes

Agree. Keeping some of its battle wounds makes it look more authentic.

was gonna comment this. couldn't have been said better

Thanks! I’m driving it tomorrow with my dog to work

@@creativewerksinc Full respect to you sir. The way you treated this survivor is inspiring

@@creativewerksinc do you have any plans to freshen the Traction-Lok?

@@k400f it is a refreshed one tire fryer just as it was new

yes if not they find themselves back in the barn.

From the USA, thanks for the comment from Portugal

It is just a car.. Drive it! Thanks for the comment

The way the camera changes shot after he says that makes it seem like he was talking to his dog the whole time loooool

Yeah. This is the point that helped me really make sense of all the parts he left "unrestored." The temptation to do it all, removing every millimetre of rust and every dent must be high, but then you couldn't drive it in traffic while being relaxed, and enjoy it. Great to see an old manual car driving on the road. Be great to drive something like this in the USA. Being from the UK I the first time I drove an automatic was when I had to rent from the airport on holiday in the US. Great for road trips, but it is riding, not driving. Must be nice to drive a manual on some of those big roads, and actually be in control.

Patina

wabi sabi

Agreed.

shame to see how much wear it's had. My car has done 70k miles and is absolutely spotless aside from a tiny little dent on a side panel you can only see in certain reflections. Crazy the shelby has only done 40k miles and pretty banged up.

100%. That car looks better as is than any resto job.

Thanks! I do drive them

tf you talking about they pulled the motor

@@joshduarte2018 LMAO @ "tf you talking about..."

@@joshduarte2018 original motor was blown up in the 60's they went with a more period/time date correct block

@@joshduarte2018 the motor was dead tf were they supposed to do. They got a motor that was made the same week so basically the same. He kept everything original that he could

Paid $10,000- $15,000 too much for it...Wouldn't see it breaking $300,000 at auction, so...I could see if all original, but, it wasn't...He's right about one thing; With those prices, it will cost twice as much as the car is worth to have it fully restored...

I believe you are right. I could tell you stories, after writing 700-800 barn find stories in magazines.

@@thewriter2549 please do tell those stories in future videos. Fantastic job on this Shelby. I hope it brings years of enjoyment.

This way, the history and unique identity is not lost.

It's beautiful no doubt but you've spent $ 140K .......it SHOULD be damn near as perfect as you can get imho anyway.

Kept the imperfections but uninstalled the dealer accessories? If he was going to do some he might as well have done it all.

it was ridiculously bad choice to leave on rust stains lmao. Restored but not for long until its in bad shape again

@@blopp6240 Thats what was going thru my mind, just cringing at the rust under the quarters, he was a good boy and saved his money and gets to do what he feels right, beautiful car

Thanks for the kind words!

Just an aside to this wonderful video... A Siberian Husky/ Pomeranian cross is one of the weirdest mixes I have ever heard of! :-p Beautiful dog tho!

@the captain kern Thank you for the kind words,,, I am the fat guy in the video with my dog

You can always save though. This man had to save at some point to get where he's at so let's not say don't save. It's great to save but I agree 100% enjoy it while you have it and while you can. I use to never use anything and save all the time. Then I got two cancers and one terminal. My sister in law stealing from me thinking I was going to die. She totaled my car. So many things but I was too sick to fight nor care. Now that I beat a terminal cancer I'm just happy to believe alive and she got to face me once I got better and let's just say our relationship will never be the same. I'm not going to see live in anger and she does have my nephew's but you better believe I updated my will and also had her removed from being able to talk to any Dr of mine just in case. I now drive like crazy and got me a jeep even though I ordered a bronco. Camping out at the beach and mountains every second I get.

Right u only live once

Great investment.

Saving benefits banks

I agree with ya. Pick something you like. Save enough for it. Spend it. Period. I like what ya said about letting it devalue. 30k today will not be 30k tomorrow. And those are facts you can not argue with.

Same thought here. I'd love to find a 69 Mach 1 with the 428 SCJ. Get it running, clean it up, add a couple safety features and go cruisin. Doesn't cost much if you do it yourself and enjoy the project.

I totally respect you guys doing this. It doesn't make sense to me, but I respect that you would semi restore it and drive it. I would prefer the quarter million dollar concourse version and display it some where for all who pass by to enjoy. That's just me. :)

Imagine being such a car guy you think a man respecting a car is his ticket to heaven lmfao🤣

yea it needs some vintage bumper stickers..Ass,Grass,Gas...and 'Keep on Truckin'.

So good to read / thanks

Thanks for the mention.

wow

wow

Yep exactly - "we left some of these pin holes here, cause they're original"... But, seriously great job.

My 3rd time watching

I used to be a perfectionist, till one I got tired of it and trained myself to let go of trying fix small imperfections.

Good point!