best damn car story you'll read for a while, the GTO Judge that Brad's brother in law had, and Brad has been infatuated with, for about 40 years

Russ bought the GTO, a Judge with a RA-III 400 and a four-speed transmission, brand new and put on 72 thousand miles until the clutch blew. Into the barn it went, and Russ visited it every year when he spent the summer helping out with the wheat harvest. Haven't we all been crazy over a car, and just went to look at it? Just staring and hoping.

20 years went by as mice and cats took over the interior.

Brad tried to buy, offered to restore it, and his brother in law steadfastly refused to let him do anything with it.

Brad didn't give up, but it was clear his brother in law couldn't bear to part with the Ram Air III Judge. Then, their family connection, his sister died.

You'd figure that would be the end of Brad's tenuous thread to the goat, but it was his sister's dying wish that her husband give up the car to her brother who has been patient and passionate about it for 20 years while it deteriorated.

So Russ finally gave up. But Brad wouldn't take the car. He would only buy it, restore it, leave it with Russ for the summer, and then - take over care of it after Russ had a full summer of car shows and cruises that he's been wanting to do for 2 decades while his goat slumbered in the barn.

Ain't that the coolest? I wanna buy both of them a beer.

http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/1503-1970-pontiac-gto-judge-rare-find/

barnfind bug

Found on https://www.facebook.com/anibal134

barnfind Excelsior/Henderson in Poland (Henderson's were the 4 cylinder, Excelsior's were the 2 cylinder)

Found on http://allegro.pl/henderson-1919r-indian-harley-sokol-i5095943350.html  via  https://www.facebook.com/groups/654324954604252/?fref=nf

the GT 350H found in Compton... then bought, and used as bait on a trailer to hook a GT 500

Rich Barnes has a Mustang restoration business in Golden Colorado, and was in Compton looking for this GT 350, bought it, was on the way home when getting gas in San Jose, and the guy at the next gas pump over spoke up about having a GT 500 in a shipping container that he'd blown up the motor while running Pike's Peak

and that is why you connect on facebook to magazines like Hot Rod. You learn of stories like this on their websites http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/1108-1968-ford-mustang-shelby-g-t-350-bait-hooks-a-bigger-fish/  from barn find story collector Jerry Heasley  

People are strange, and must have hated their Shelby AC Cobras... why else would they put them in barns and never take them out for 40 years? CSX 2436 comes out after 40 years, CSX 2034 had only 4700 miles

The car was purchased new in Connecticut, who would pass it on to White Plains, New York. Its second owner did not keep it long, and in 1971 the car was sold to Ed Jurist’s Vintage Car Store of Nyack, New York. In September of that year the car would change hands again, showing 30,000 miles on the odometer.

 A gentleman named Peter DeSilva of Great Barrington, Mass., acquired the car from the Vintage Car Store, and in 1974 he traded it to his friend Sy Allen. He soon placed the car delicately on stands and locked it up in his barn, where it has slept – out of sight – for 40 years.

http://autoweek.com/article/scottsdale-auctions/1964-shelby-289-cobra-emerges-vermont-barn

Originally sold through Tasca Ford, after Tasca apparently lent it to Car and Driver for the Cobra road test in the magazine’s March 1963 issue, then sold to James Hall of Concord, New Hampshire.

Hall installed a tri-power intake that he bought through Grappone Ford, also in Concord.

According to the World Registry of Cobras and GT40s, Hall then proceeded to lose his license driving the Cobra and sold CSX 2034 the next year to Hallinan, at the time working as a salesman at Grappone, with about 1,000 miles on it. Hallinan only drove it a couple of summers afterward and then put it in storage; at the time Bonhams removed it from storage for last weekend’s Quail Lodge auction, it displayed just 4,700 miles and still wore its Tasca badging, its early AC-Shelby-Cobra badge, and the tri-power intake atop its original 260.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/08/20/unrestored-shelby-cobra-sells-for-2-07-million/