Cool Rides - Random Pictures Thread

[hillbilly les]

now who wouldn't like that

[Chauncey]

Hybrid Technology? Meet The Coroner

[Krandall]

Man..
It's so sweet. I've been looking at seats from a SRT8 Charger for the last couple months.
would LOVE a 6.1 in the coroner!!! A bit beyond me tho..

such a sweet concept!

[Chauncey]

SRT8 seats and a harness bar would be THE SH!T!

[hillbilly les]

got any under the hood pics??? insurance lot..... sweet

[Chauncey]

You rang?  PS, click that link (the yellow words) in the other post to read the full story (and see more pretty pics).  It's awesome.

[hillbilly les]

seriously,,,,,krazie kool

[Krandall]

Faucets in a bathroom. 

[Chauncey]

Sweet "barn find" '67 Shelby GT500.



What really caught my attention was the price, written with a finger in the dust on the windshield: $7,500, then crossed out and marked down to $6,000. The wooden steering wheel inside the '67 Shelby was probably worth that much.

The price in dust, however, was a joke to attract attention. I saw the fastback in the vendor area at the Mustang 50th anniversary show in Las Vegas. Later, somebody at the 50th put a "10" in front of the $6,000 so the price read $106,000.

Paul Kerner, who works for Scott Drake Enterprises, owned the muscle Mustang. He bought the car, as seen here in 1997, when he lived in California.

"A coworker found the car. He said it was coming out the next day in the local Recycler, so if I wanted the car, I had to buy it now."

Paul gave his friend a $1,000 finder's fee to purchase the '67 for a bargain price: $14,000.

A friend was selling it for the original owners, a Los Angeles school teacher and his wife. The Shelby was her daily driver. She had parked it in 1981.

Paul appreciated the G.T. 500—Dark Moss Green, very original (but repainted once), 124,000 miles, automatic, a driver that started being less reliable and not very economical and thus parked. He believes that in 1997 he could have made one phone call and more than doubled his money. However, he wanted to keep the Shelby to eventually restore.

The '67 had been sitting since 1981 in Camarillo, California, which explains the almost rust-free body—just a few bubbles in one door. Funny thing is today the car still sits. Paul doesn't recall if he even washed the car. It remains as he bought it 17 years ago. He said, "I wasn't trying to preserve a barn find. I just stuck it in a corner of a garage and never got around to it."

Two of the original Shelby 10-spoke wheels were not on the car, "so I threw them in the back corner of my property and buried them with my junk tires and wheels so nobody would junk them for scrap aluminum," said Paul.

I wondered why he didn't just put them up in his garage. Paul said he didn't intend to leave the wheels there for long. "I had my garage stuffed full of other valuable items that could not see weather," he said.

In 2003, Paul got a call from an agent for Kylie Minogue, the famous Australian pop singer. She wanted to purchase the '67 for her father as a project. Paul said, "They offered $100,000, and I said 110."

They would not give that much money, and Minogue found another deal. Word spread, and a "regular Joe" said he would pay Paul $110,000 for the car. Paul said, "Back then, I could restore the car fairly reasonably. A fully restored '67 Shelby G.T. 500 fastback would bring 250K, and I didn't need the money." (Paul's wife was upset he did not take the offer.)

Paul left the car in a garage on his rental property in California when he moved with Scott Drake to Las Vegas. He transported it to the 50th Mustang anniversary celebration at Las Vegas in April. The car ended up being one of the most popular in the entire show. The car needs a total restoration, but Paul could not believe the number of people who took pictures of his barn find, ourselves included.

Paul has no immediate plans to restore—or even wash—the dual-quad 428-powered G.T. 500. "It can just sit there and do the same things it's been doing."










http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/1967-ford-mustang-gt-500-rare-finds/ar-AA9R93l#page=1

[Krandall]

That's pretty sweet!

[Chauncey]

Like Cobra Jets? This 429 Super Cobra Jet four-speed 1970 Torino was just pulled from a shed.

[hillbilly les]

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Chauncey]

A few lil' things from this weekend.

















Those last two somewhat inside the ropes account for about $2 mil...

[Chauncey]

A few more.

[hillbilly les]

nice pics