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Good thing cash for clunkers ended! These cars will need some major mechanical work from sitting around all those decades.
1 posted on 06/28/2013 9:20:04 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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Oh, you're gonn'a LOVE this ... !!
2 posted on 06/28/2013 9:22:33 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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I know of a 69 Impala with less than 100 actual miles on it. Its even got the original tires (shrink wrapped and hanging on the wall for show days.)


4 posted on 06/28/2013 9:28:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rRFiSUH4gdQ

5 minute mark, 25th anniversary Corvette with 4 miles...


5 posted on 06/28/2013 9:30:29 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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I love states like Nebraska,Kansas and Missouri (among others).So many decent,respectable,down-to-earth people there.People so very unlike the worthless trash you find in states like...*my* home state.


6 posted on 06/28/2013 9:30:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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Ray and Mildred Lambrecht must have been loaded. 500 cars @2,500 USD 1968 = $1.2 million 1968 USD. Adjusting for inflation $8.4 million. Who can park 8.4 million bucks?


8 posted on 06/28/2013 9:34:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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What to do...? What to do?

Cameo PU or the Impala?

Engine specs would make the decision for me. if the Impala has a 327 or more...I’d love to grab it!

Cameo with a flathead straight-6? that makes it more difficult.


9 posted on 06/28/2013 9:34:28 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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Yes, they will. Belts, tires, gaskets, and more.


10 posted on 06/28/2013 9:35:33 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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Every break system, transmission and engine bearing is dried out and ruined. Having said that; I WANT ONE NOW!


11 posted on 06/28/2013 9:35:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Inventory list (PDF)...
12 posted on 06/28/2013 9:36:37 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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>> “These cars will need some major mechanical work from sitting around all those decades.” <<

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Do you believe in metal-eating bacteria?

Nothing wears when nothing moves, but they will need tires and paint anyway.


14 posted on 06/28/2013 9:38:49 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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They say they don’t make cars like they used to. Thank God.....


15 posted on 06/28/2013 9:39:48 AM PDT by varmintman
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Lambrecht Chevrolet auction is your chance to buy new (and we mean new) old cars

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130624/CARNEWS01/130629911

"We took a quick glance at the lot listing, and while there are far, far too many vehicles to list here, a few jumped out at us:

-- 1958 Chevrolet Cameo pickup, one mile on the odometer

-- 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan, one mile

-- 1965 Chevrolet Bel Air station wagon, five miles

-- 1975 Chevrolet Caprice, seven miles

-- 1978 Chevrolet Malibu, 11 miles

-- 1969 Chevrolet Cheyenne pickup, 4 miles"


20 posted on 06/28/2013 9:51:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Rubio's New Book: From Nobody To Senator, To Conservative savior, Then Back To Nobody")
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I bid $2.00 for the Vega.

I want to drag it out here and shoot full of holes.


21 posted on 06/28/2013 9:53:39 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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OMG, unbelievable! Everything in that place is probably a collector’s item of some kind. Wonder what kind of return on his investment he (or his family) is going to see, and how that compares to parking an equal amount in the stock market for 50 years? No expert, but I’ll bet it’s a pretty favorable comparison. But... it’s too bad he couldn’t have kept it all indoors... 500 cars... he would’ve needed an aircraft hanger.


22 posted on 06/28/2013 9:53:53 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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vega stationwagon photo: 1976 Vega Stationwagon SNOW084.jpg

A Vega stationwagon. Chicks will be powerless to resist the appeal of a guy driving a Vega stationwagon.

27 posted on 06/28/2013 10:02:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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I have played golf several times with my father in law at the golf course next to where many of these cars are stored in a field. It is incredible how many vehicles are sitting out there, let alone the other ones that were stored inside which I didn’t know about. I am sure all the classic car enthusiasts will consider this a real treasure trove.


33 posted on 06/28/2013 10:07:49 AM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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Someone needs to call Danny at Count’s Kustoms — he’d have a field day with all this!!


48 posted on 06/28/2013 10:22:38 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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I’d love a couple of old Chevy pickups with no GPS or computer chips that will fry in an EMP.


58 posted on 06/28/2013 11:05:09 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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The '78 Corvette is a lousy car and the interior will probably start coming apart in the restorer's hands once they get inside it, but that '64 Impala is going to go for a lot of money. I think I saw an even earlier Impala in there -- but not a '59 -- and a Biscayne back there. The Corvair might get some good money, but it's not a Corsa. That truck will hammer out for some good money I think.

From the pics and video, I hope there's more exciting cars in the trove that weren't filmed, but I didn't see any mind blowers that really stood out. Anyone crossing their fingers for one of the lost Camaro ZL-1s or the lost '65 Z16 Chevelle with the 'Evening Orchid' paint code to be revealed still has reason for hope, I guess. If those ever show up someday with five or six miles on the odometer, oh holy crap. The auction will end up in a duel to the death.

What this does prove is that there are still undriven zero mile cars hiding out there in barns and garages that are unaccounted by everyone but the few owners who know where they are. That's what makes this exciting.

60 posted on 06/28/2013 11:14:20 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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Cool story . . . this barn find was more like a warehouse find!


65 posted on 06/28/2013 11:41:08 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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