Persistence pays off. One of the great mysteries I'll never solve is how people are attached enough to a car to refuse to sell for whatever reason, but not willing to take 2 minutes to move the hood back over the engine. Weird.
That's what's so infuriating about American Pickers. The owners are really nothing but hoarders that are fine with watching the car rot away and won't accept a reasonable offer from someone willing to restore it.
Hoarding is a devastating mental illness. Dealing with someone letting a million dollars worth of automotive Americana errode into the ground is far more often the rule than the exception.It can creep into an otherwise stable persons life with such ease.But by the grace of a loving God go I....
Life happens and sometimes the car represents better times to the owner. He may not seem to care for it but has a deep connection with it. I have a 67 Firebird that was my first car. It sat neglected for 20 years during some dark times in our lives. Eventually my sons took an interest and we’re enjoying the car once more.
@@junkorbust9498 Fair point. But, I see a difference between motivation to put something on the road again and a simple, single effort to cover the engine. Almost as easy as rolling up the windows.
The wife and I just piled a 79 that was sitting for 20 years and 109 thousand miles. Igor that thing fired up but the carb was crap put a new one and had just the left front brake and was doing burn outs in the driveway. 😎 Thanks
The poor cow came over to say goodbye. I'd like to know how many loose marbles have to be rattling around in a persons head to let any Corvette sit in a field and rot like this one. Luckily you spotted it and never gave up on trying to buy it. These are beautiful cars and I know you'll do a great job reviving it. I hope you got it for a good price. I hope you'll share future videos as you bring it back to life. I'm a Corvette nut myself and hate to see people let them get to this point.
Well done bringing it home! It looks pretty much original, no rot etc. Would be a great rebuild project for your channel, even with an engine rebuild, it looks like a fighter to driven again!
Texas cars parked in a field do rust, I bought a 77 Chevelle sedan for parts a few years ago out of Mineral Wells, and it had sat in a field for 10 years with the windows down, nothing survived that was inside and the floors were completely gone, but the exterior sheet metal was great!
Found my 81 under a tree at a chicken farm. Been there for a few years to a decade. Working on it now for awhile, but soon.. I'll have it on the road again. Keep doing what you do, hope to see the finished project.
Man, you must be really excited to get her home. Good for you. I just hope the rest of the car doesn't fight you the way the breather did. Thanks for sharing.🍁👍👍
Hi Ben, it's just me n I've been following you a long time now. I like this car I think you should do with it what you did with your 56 caddie. If the motor cannot be rebuilt then buy a crate motor , this is a classic you should save it , if you can.
My younger brother rescued a '68 in just about the same situation. The convertible hardtop was being used as a chicken coop. Anyway, it took him a few years but he reassembled/rebuilt it and drives it on nice days around Portland. Therefore, not very often.
Just to help you out. When the car drags on the trailer. Put the jack under the ramp and jack the ramp up. Then you can just keep winching the car and don't have to worry about the jack slipping off and hurting the car.
I have one like this where I live, looks like an 80's model, sits in the yard never moves and doesn't look like it's getting worked on at all, but it's not for sale! LMAO
Hope to see more of this car in the future, nice deal finally making it happen, I’ve had a few deals that took some persistence to get get the owner to finally let go.
Man, what a beautiful car, I hope you bring it back to its deserved glory. It is going to be a hell of a job, one I couldn’t even attempt, but I wish you the best of luck and keep us posted!
Some people, especially farmers, like to hang on to everything and never let go until they die or the family puts them away. In my younger days I would work part time helping setup estate auctions and farms would have everything the owner ever bought squirreled away or if they no longer thought it was any good left in junk piles somewhere on the property. I remember on farmer had every car or truck he ever bought tucked somewhere on the farm. The story was if the vehicle broke down he would go buy another and let the old one sit and use it to store stuff in. Opened the trunk on a 1955 Oldsmobile and found blasting cord and blasting caps. After that we went a little more slowly digging the stuff out of the old cars.
@@trentdawg2832 _okay it may be a darn good candidate for a resto-mod as well. One thing for certain, if this was a drop top it may not have sitting so long, alone in the cow pasture?_
awesome 72, love the chrome on these cars. hope you can find a good motor for it, cuase that one is shot. body work is rough but repairable. what blows me away is it was close to home. hope all goes well for this one , when do you think you will work on this one as a project knowing customer cars come first.
Hey Doc you drove by it (5) years so you knew it was what it was.You knew what you were getting and did you realy think the engine would be good. also you brobably got a good deal on it. So it is what it is now get to work and bring it back or resell it or what ever.I am a fellow Texas Boy Born and Raised Y'All. God Bless
What a shame it was neglected for so long. My brother had a 72 big block convertible. It was this 17 year old's dream. His wife blew the motor and he swapped the short block and sold/traded it for $6,500 & a Dodge Dart. I wish I could find it now.
Looks like a parts car. Even if the frame and BC are good that car will take so much work. The fiberglass will be dried up. Man what a nightmare to restore.
Why restore it at all? Not every car needs to be restored to original. Put the interior back together, put a motor in and do the brakes and just drive it! It will get more attention than if you spend $30g’s on it.
Water displaces oil therefore, the oil could be raised up and the crank is sitting in oil.. You may be surprised. The rings etc will still have moisture rust, but might be fun to tear down and video.
Congrats on finally getting that 72👍🙂 She looks like she's got a good foundation to start with minus the motor if only they hadn't removed the hood. ☹️☹️
I hope that you do decide to work on this 72 Corvette. It will be very interesting to see how it goes, how long it goes, in the process of getting a car back on the road, it hasn’t had a hood on it for five years. Looking forward to watching the process of you getting it back on the road.
It looks like it has a nice intake. Take it apart. Salvage the best of it. A 72 Vette is a breathtakingly car back in my younger days with the hooker sidepipes added. Hopefully not too much rot. Also a plus - doesn't look like it has been drilled on back deck li for the luggage rack.
“I know it’s going to a better home” “one day when you get it all fixed up we go for a ride?” Ben in his head This will will donate so many good part s to other cars gonna start stripping it as soon as I get home!!! Lol some people are delusional to the value and condition of their car
Man! I just bought a rough '72 to restore... now I feel like mine should be under a vacuum sealed glass dome surrounded by red velvet ropes and a Swiss Guard in the Smithsonian!!!
That should be a crime leaving cars like that out abandoned....lucky find...or is it??? There was a 1980 vette near me left out like that for 6 years, until they sold the property then it disappeared to a salvage yard probably...
Good to see some 68-72 chrome bumper C3s on your channel. Would be cool to see you do something with both of them, but if I had to choose one I would say do the 72 as the body looks untouched - looks like someone flared the wheel arches on the 70.
