You bring memories. Fond thoughts of a time in life a person appreciates more now than then. Thanks for bringing that to me. Just wonder what it'll be for people 50 years from now if anything be worth a memory.
There are probably more of these types of forgotten yards than we know. I found one in Indiana about five years ago that had no less than 10 '69 and '70 Stangs just rotting away. I have the back glass, cowl panels and taillight assemblies from about four of them, and an entire roof from one of the '70's. That yard-in-the-woods has many other mustangs and a ton of other treasures in it as well. Perhaps I'll head that way again in the spring and make a video of it.
That 69 Grande at 4:37 looks so much like my first car...down to the horn blowing strip built into steering wheel rim.(took me a while to determine why my horn was randomly blowing). I bought it from the second owner who was a close relative of the first owner. I noticed this one has no vinyl top. I eventually had my top removed when I had the car painted with metallic emerald green Imron(remarkably close to the hue of this car). Looking back it was probably kinda tacky, but In the sun, that thing sparkled like a diamond. ..but hey, that was 40 years ago and I was 17. Wish I still had it.
Ironically being left out there like that might have saved them. Others wrecked like them back in the day weren't worth much except scrap and ended up as such.
I bought a couple of Heads for my 289 engine last year from Joe Hebert. Joe lost hundreds of Mustangs in floods of 2016 near Praireville/Baton Rouge, when they all went underwater for a week or so. Very nice guy. A pleasure to meet him..
As rough as these cars are, this place will be a gold mine for people restoring old Mustangs. Even if they've aready been scavenged for parts, there's still a lot of useable parts in these old wrecks!
Pretty well picked clean...understatement of the year! Those unfortunate wrecks were all parted out for useable stuff over 20 years ago and left to Rust In Peace! Sad but true...Marti Report on a fraction left of a cut up car? Well it was his money...
Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure how I feel about seeing it though. Obviously many were in serious crashes before being left outside like this so the saddest part happened a long time ago. You had just the right guy with ya, he didn’t even need a cheat sheet lol. Good job on the video.
Early 90’s I had the opportunity to buy a complete minus original wheels 67 Mustang Fastback red with red Pony interior 289 2 barrel automatic for $700. They had the title but it didn’t run. The body looked really good and from what I could see the floors were fairly good but had tiny holes. I was delivering pizza and I would have needed to skip paying a few bills to buy it. My brother even offered to store it in his old Quonset shed. I wish I could have bought it.
Thought I saw a '69 or '70 Mercury Marauder in the background near the end of this video.... now that's a very rare car.... only 20702 total produced in 2 years.... should be saved....
Ive seen this a few times in my life and there just aint nuthin left !!! The woods around here used to be littered with old cars of every type... Coupes never got much attention until the last few years... Ive tossed many myself over the years...
These cars will be up for auction May 3rd at Henderson Auctions. The website is taking longer to post details of all the cars. Please keep checking back. Spanky Assiter of Barrett-Jackson fame will be the lead auctioneer. Quite a few other classics so tell your non Ford friends might be worth a look. Afraid most of those "Have seen better days too".
I'm just curious what my old cars would be worth today. A two door hard top, candy apple red with a black venal top. Mickey Thompson valve covers, Hooker headers, Edlebrock intake , and a holly 750 double pumper, sitting on a 289 ho po motor. It was beautiful car and could out run my 67 Gta fastback The fastback with the 390 and positive trac . It had the full close down back end that made it a 2 seater or you could fold it up and have a couple molded seats in the back. It also had a roller decks in front of the the shifter and a compartment that you could lift up to store stuff in or use as a armrest in the middle. Ohh I think I lost my fortune when I was younger. Along with my 71 GTO convertible. A couple of Dodge Cornett 440's and a 1961 Falcon Rancharo.
I see a lot of usable parts. Some glass, rear quarters, possibly some bumpers to rechrome and some trim pieces. Possibly some of those old seats could be recovered depending on how frames are.
I have been to local junkyards looking for a 14 inch rim I need for a spare tire. Can’t find one locally seeing all those rims just going to waste breaks my heart . I need a rim, the hook that attaches to Trunk floor to attach spare a sizzor jack and the lug wrench that came in a 73 Mach 1. Had a 73 in my early 20s and replaced it now at 62 years old. I know the parts I need but local junkyards are only going back to 2000 nothing earlier
Yeah these are too far gone man. I'd only focus on motor salvage at this point. The cars are scrap!! It just sucks . not like they still making these. So to see one die is one more not out there!
Looks more like a chop shop dumping yard. Those that weren’t severely wrecked are rotted beyond any salvage. Most of the vin tags that are missing are probably riding around on faked and pieces together cars.
I played and pilfered that place in the 80’s. We called it the Mustang Ranch. It was outside Denim Springs in Louisiana. Can’t remember what the mans name was that let me walk around. He taught me how to read vins. What happened to the school busses full of parts ?
@@thewriter2549 Closest I've come to that find is an abandoned junkyard of 18 cars including a 70-73 Camaro. Bt it was a former private dump which had been abandoned since the 80s bt had cars all that dated way back to the 30s.
Looks like a lot of “secretary” cars. They were everywhere back in the 70’s. Speaking of broads... hey Jerry, did you hear Dua Lipa is recording the main theme song for the 25th James Bond film? It will be Daniel Craig’s last.
Looking at some of the damage.. I cannot get out of my mind that people decades ago.. were happily going about their business and then ended their lives in some of these vehicles.... brings back a lot of memories... many people have no understanding of what life was like before airbags.. side impact etc.... it was a different planet back then.. you weighed the odds and you took your chances... nowadays no almost one wants to take responsibility for anything..
Interesting; red 68 coupe at 23.50 mark said it was an F code 302 2V. According to the Marti Book Mustang by the numbers there were only two F code coupes produced. 68 was a strange year where the C code for the 289 was used interchangeably for 289s or 302s.
There is/was a place outside of Brandenburg Ky that has/had a lot of old mustangs.... and muscle cars. They sit on a farm and aren’t for sale. If memory serves, there were probably 30, 1971 and older. And a wicked looking ‘63 Chevy II that was a former drag car...
sad but there are 100,000s of mustangs out there Texas/Louisiana think there would be more cars with a/c . all so the dso is on the marti report l@18:16 like the 67 blue fb 6 3spd a/c dlx white int
I hate seeing the waste and destruction... they had to know when they hit there that it was the end of the road and free for the bone pickers. I'm going to check for part three
Not saying it would be worth it now but if you have a decent frame ,a title and a boatload of money it may be worth it as the years go by and these cars get harder and harder to get but I have a feeling the guy who got 16 of those cars probably got the ones that can be rebuilt from the ground up and left the ones that have frames rotted beyond repair
It's overwhelming to me. I see the Mustangs and I think about what it would take to restore them. I hope they can be restored or parted out. They look very picked over
Well, all these cars had an accident and godd parts as engine, wheels, bumpers... were sold. it is sad that the interiors are still in place, and useless now (but don't forget that you need a lot of place for storage, and you don't know how long time you need to sell these parts) So to see all these cars in the wood is sad in 2020, but for 20 or 30 years back nobody wanted to restore them... Greatings from a french Cougar 70 XR7 driver
It's a shame that the land is being cleared. This is art, and a fascinating sight to behold. I would leave them all in place as a lasting monument to what Man and Mother Nature can create.
So! Now that you have found these relics, what are you going to about it??? Are you going to cut a check and buy these vehicles,or look and talk about it?🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
by ontario canada standards these cars are rust free LOL, that 67 blue fastback 6cyl totally savable, i guess southern boys dont take too kindly to rotten floors trunks and torque boxes, here thats standard
Yikes. Not much left there but some rear ends, some engine blocks maybe, and a vin or two worth something....a few pieces of window trim....wow these cars are shot. Although some people post cars almost this bad on ebay, and say "needs TLC."
Not a lot of good to be had here... wonder if there is a database of known cars like these, so that folks could check to see if one they are buying is a phony ?
be cool to have a wood carver do something w the stump and motor, like somehow making it look like a man is bending down to lift up the moto😁 hope that makes sense , be a cool video
They sent me a little video, and when I says a little, that's what I mean, not enough to see much of anything, but some of the fastbacks were for good money.
His favorite words was: ITS SEEN ITS BETTER DAYS... hahahahaha Lmao 😂 What the heck is he talking about, every car on this find has seen its better days. All those wrecks are good for is parts! I only seen maybe 5 mustangs in all the mustangs you showed that are fixable without having to spend $100 Grand on them.
You bring memories. Fond thoughts of a time in life a person appreciates more now than then. Thanks for bringing that to me. Just wonder what it'll be for people 50 years from now if anything be worth a memory.
You should do an update in 6 months on what has been salvaged for parts and how much money was made.
There are probably more of these types of forgotten yards than we know. I found one in Indiana about five years ago that had no less than 10 '69 and '70 Stangs just rotting away. I have the back glass, cowl panels and taillight assemblies from about four of them, and an entire roof from one of the '70's.
That yard-in-the-woods has many other mustangs and a ton of other treasures in it as well. Perhaps I'll head that way again in the spring and make a video of it.
That 69 Grande at 4:37 looks so much like my first car...down to the horn blowing strip built into steering wheel rim.(took me a while to determine why my horn was randomly blowing).
I bought it from the second owner who was a close relative of the first owner.
I noticed this one has no vinyl top. I eventually had my top removed when I had the car painted with metallic emerald green Imron(remarkably close to the hue of this car). Looking back it was probably kinda tacky, but In the sun, that thing sparkled like a diamond. ..but hey, that was 40 years ago and I was 17.
Wish I still had it.
Wow! What a huge collection of Mustangs! So sad to see them like that!
Ironically being left out there like that might have saved them. Others wrecked like them back in the day weren't worth much except scrap and ended up as such.
The tree trunk that surrounded the motor is a great piece I would love to have that
I thought that was something, too.
I bought a couple of Heads for my 289 engine last year from Joe Hebert. Joe lost hundreds of Mustangs in floods of 2016 near Praireville/Baton Rouge, when they all went underwater for a week or so. Very nice guy. A pleasure to meet him..
Yes, Joe was very helpful when I did that video. A real car guy and knowledgeable on classic Mustangs.
I love my mustang's Jerry, but I didn't see much to go after out there, cool to see them though .
@1930shappyfeet you do know that "new old stock" means they are literally new and never used right? Smh
Steve Hall with all the humidity in La. too much work to be done on them then the guy said little on the rough side
@@theman9907 very true , lot of moisture down there .
I would say probably the only one that’s worth saving is that XR7 because it’s so rare
As rough as these cars are, this place will be a gold mine for people restoring old Mustangs. Even if they've aready been scavenged for parts, there's still a lot of useable parts in these old wrecks!
Pretty well picked clean...understatement of the year! Those unfortunate wrecks were all parted out for useable stuff over 20 years ago and left to Rust In Peace! Sad but true...Marti Report on a fraction left of a cut up car? Well it was his money...
Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure how I feel about seeing it though. Obviously many were in serious crashes before being left outside like this so the saddest part happened a long time ago. You had just the right guy with ya, he didn’t even need a cheat sheet lol. Good job on the video.
Early 90’s I had the opportunity to buy a complete minus original wheels 67 Mustang Fastback red with red Pony interior 289 2 barrel automatic for $700. They had the title but it didn’t run. The body looked really good and from what I could see the floors were fairly good but had tiny holes. I was delivering pizza and I would have needed to skip paying a few bills to buy it. My brother even offered to store it in his old Quonset shed. I wish I could have bought it.
Thought I saw a '69 or '70 Mercury Marauder in the background near the end of this video.... now that's a very rare car.... only 20702 total produced in 2 years.... should be saved....
Interesting video to see all these old Mustangs. But it is sad to see them rotting like that.
Ive seen this a few times in my life and there just aint nuthin left !!! The woods around here used to be littered with old cars of every type... Coupes never got much attention until the last few years... Ive tossed many myself over the years...
This is both sad and cool at the same time.
It was a sight that I wanted to record so people could see before it went away.
These cars will be up for auction May 3rd at Henderson Auctions. The website is taking longer to post details of all the cars. Please keep checking back. Spanky Assiter of Barrett-Jackson fame will be the lead auctioneer. Quite a few other classics so tell your non Ford friends might be worth a look. Afraid most of those "Have seen better days too".
Mustang people seeing a lot of good parts.
I'm just curious what my old cars would be worth today. A two door hard top, candy apple red with a black venal top. Mickey Thompson valve covers, Hooker headers, Edlebrock intake , and a holly 750 double pumper, sitting on a 289 ho po motor. It was beautiful car and could out run my 67 Gta fastback The fastback with the 390 and positive trac . It had the full close down back end that made it a 2 seater or you could fold it up and have a couple molded seats in the back. It also had a roller decks in front of the the shifter and a compartment that you could lift up to store stuff in or use as a armrest in the middle. Ohh I think I lost my fortune when I was younger. Along with my 71 GTO convertible. A couple of Dodge Cornett 440's and a 1961 Falcon Rancharo.
What are you talking about? You ask what your car is worth but don't bother to mention what kind of car it is or even the year?
What a cool find. It’s like seeing kids in a penny candy store with five bucks and no adult in sight watching these guys roam the woods.
That’s a supper well organized and inventoried auto recycler.
Good gravy. Joe knows his stuff. I don't even know if he's right on what he said. But man that's the guy you want with you when you find old Fords.
Over the years I've probably passed this place many times an never figured all these cars were there.
How could you they are camoflouged.
Some guy 40 years ago, "I'm just going to store these in the woods, and have some crazy enthusiast deal with them."
I see a lot of usable parts. Some glass, rear quarters, possibly some bumpers to rechrome and some trim pieces. Possibly some of those old seats could be recovered depending on how frames are.
I’m sure a few of those motors are rebuildable
I have been to local junkyards looking for a 14 inch rim I need for a spare tire. Can’t find one locally seeing all those rims just going to waste breaks my heart . I need a rim, the hook that attaches to
Trunk floor to attach spare a sizzor jack and the lug wrench that came in a 73 Mach 1. Had a 73 in my early 20s and replaced it now at 62 years old. I know the parts I need but local junkyards are only going back to 2000 nothing earlier
So sad seeing all those mustang's rotting. I'm glad they're being restored back to life.
What made you think that?? They are too far gone
But there are some parts. And glass to still sell.
I've seen bad. And people will still and try and restore them.
@@EyesOnlyxx The two fastbacks are worth restoring, not the 6 cylinder though.
Yeah these are too far gone man. I'd only focus on motor salvage at this point. The cars are scrap!! It just sucks . not like they still making these. So to see one die is one more not out there!
Looks more like a chop shop dumping yard. Those that weren’t severely wrecked are rotted beyond any salvage. Most of the vin tags that are missing are probably riding around on faked and pieces together cars.
What an interesting story, sad to see those cars in such bad shape, but plenty of body parts to be had, quite a haul, would like to see an update.
I played and pilfered that place in the 80’s. We called it the Mustang Ranch. It was outside Denim Springs in Louisiana. Can’t remember what the mans name was that let me walk around. He taught me how to read vins. What happened to the school busses full of parts ?
Great job
" seen better days" and " pretty rough" is that guys favorite words...
FANTASTIC FIND
This is horrible seeing these cars left out like this. 😲. Why !
It’s a junkyard
I think you found heaven.
Yes, I thought the same here walking through this dreamscape. I thought why not leave this as Mustang Heaven?
@@thewriter2549 Closest I've come to that find is an abandoned junkyard of 18 cars including a 70-73 Camaro. Bt it was a former private dump which had been abandoned since the 80s bt had cars all that dated way back to the 30s.
Looks like a lot of “secretary” cars.
They were everywhere back in the 70’s.
Speaking of broads... hey Jerry, did you hear Dua Lipa is recording the main theme song for the 25th James Bond film? It will be Daniel Craig’s last.
Love the slimer (lime gold) ‘awful popular’ joke. Lots of Cougars in that color too.
Looking at some of the damage.. I cannot get out of my mind that people decades ago.. were happily going about their business and then ended their lives in some of these vehicles.... brings back a lot of memories... many people have no understanding of what life was like before airbags.. side impact etc.... it was a different planet back then.. you weighed the odds and you took your chances... nowadays no almost one wants to take responsibility for anything..
Interesting; red 68 coupe at 23.50 mark said it was an F code 302 2V. According to the Marti Book Mustang by the numbers there were only two F code coupes produced. 68 was a strange year where the C code for the 289 was used interchangeably for 289s or 302s.
Yes, I believe that is correct, a good observation, thanks.
Is there any other kinds of classic memories in there, i come from gm family but appreciate what you showed.
You can’t help most of those cars / but lots of good parts I can tell
There is/was a place outside of Brandenburg Ky that has/had a lot of old mustangs.... and muscle cars. They sit on a farm and aren’t for sale. If memory serves, there were probably 30, 1971 and older. And a wicked looking ‘63 Chevy II that was a former drag car...
half od this cars are now in Poland in one guys place. he is restoring some of them and parting out the rest
A monarch ,or Granada caught my eye.
sad but there are 100,000s of mustangs out there Texas/Louisiana think there would be more cars with a/c . all so the dso is on the marti report l@18:16 like the 67 blue fb 6 3spd a/c dlx white int
Cool video to see but I don't see one worth saving
I hate seeing the waste and destruction... they had to know when they hit there that it was the end of the road and free for the bone pickers. I'm going to check for part three
Right off the bat I have an inquiry, you mention barn finds, excuse me they were all in the bush, an auto salvage... What part of a barn did I miss??
You did not see the barn? It is virtual. Barn Find is in the dictionary. It is a general term.
What? No pristine Boss 429's under them pine needles?
Hardly any of them look ‘parked’. Most all were wrecked bad. Some real hellraisers driving round the bayous!
RIP 😢 could it be possible that the pine needles insulated the frames from rotting out
possibly so.
Not saying it would be worth it now but if you have a decent frame ,a title and a boatload of money it may be worth it as the years go by and these cars get harder and harder to get but I have a feeling the guy who got 16 of those cars probably got the ones that can be rebuilt from the ground up and left the ones that have frames rotted beyond repair
There is, or used to be a mustang "junk yard" in Longville, LA. I used to go and get parts from over 30 years ago.
Came standard with the Tree Eighty Nine
gives a new meaning to 3 on the tree
What happened to the GTA that was very quickly shown in part 1? Would have been nice to know about that one.
Sad to think how many people must have been killed in whatever accidents caused these cars to be so badly damaged!
anyone else feel like we're going through a cemetery of open graves? Hard to see so many dead mustangs.
Out of all the cars out there you might be able to get half a car. Let the poor things Rest In Peace!
I wonder
How many of these wrecks were fatal
Why do I keep watching?
Because you never know what is in the woods, that's where Big Foot lives.
I am looking for 1968 fastback do you have one for sale. Nice cars
It's overwhelming to me. I see the Mustangs and I think about what it would take to restore them. I hope they can be restored or parted out. They look very picked over
You can restore them
Well, all these cars had an accident and godd parts as engine, wheels, bumpers... were sold.
it is sad that the interiors are still in place, and useless now (but don't forget that you need a lot of place for storage, and you don't know how long time you need to sell these parts)
So to see all these cars in the wood is sad in 2020, but for 20 or 30 years back nobody wanted to restore them...
Greatings from a french Cougar 70 XR7 driver
Mustang V8's were still fitted with front drum brakes in 1972?
I can't find any action results, that you had a link to., the place is a fire hazard, I'm surprised no maniac had torched it....
I wonder if anyone watching this OWNED one of these and was in the accident that led it here... that would be a story to tell!
This is surreal. If these cars could talk...
It's a shame that the land is being cleared. This is art, and a fascinating sight to behold. I would leave them all in place as a lasting monument to what Man and Mother Nature can create.
You have to have your camo on if you are going to hunt these.
Classic mustangs gotta 💘 it
Rescue that Lincoln Versailles, it’s worth some money, they are super rare. (I own one)
Are they all gone
Yes
So! Now that you have found these relics, what are you going to about it??? Are you going to cut a check and buy these vehicles,or look and talk about it?🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Man, these horses have been thrashed. Seems like only the 9in rears have any value...maybe some trim pieces here and there?
Tree thru the motor might sell good at the art show lol
Just amazing, that's all.
Nothing left on them.
Like to buy a 68 fast back, any left
MUSTANGS FOREST !!!
wow ,,amazing
Parts parts parts $$$
What about the Olds 442
by ontario canada standards these cars are rust free LOL, that 67 blue fastback 6cyl totally savable, i guess southern boys dont take too kindly to rotten floors trunks and torque boxes, here thats standard
We're looking for a 69 or 70 coupe or fastback for restoration are these still available.
Auctioned off, so gone.
The ONLY thing those are good for are the vin's. I'm surprised someone would take the time to mess with moving them.
6:03 that Burnt Amber Metallic don't look too bad ;)
Yikes. Not much left there but some rear ends, some engine blocks maybe, and a vin or two worth something....a few pieces of window trim....wow these cars are shot. Although some people post cars almost this bad on ebay, and say "needs TLC."
There’s gotta be a few rebuildable cars in there, for someone with the right passion to see the right tag on the fender it might be worth the effort
56 Mustangs rode hard and put away wet.
Going with the tree theory, looks like most of them were placed there at the same time
Looks like a job for Auto Metal Direct.
Not a lot of good to be had here... wonder if there is a database of known cars like these, so that folks could check to see if one they are buying is a phony ?
I have a 65 mustang
brush off the pine needles. The rust will buff out...
be cool to have a wood carver do something w the stump and motor, like somehow making it look like a man is bending down to lift up the moto😁 hope that makes sense , be a cool video
Is there an auction video??
They sent me a little video, and when I says a little, that's what I mean, not enough to see much of anything, but some of the fastbacks were for good money.
They might look like junk today, but in 20 years, will they be extremely desired? It isn’t 1985 anymore...
Where's part 3 where we see the cars that aren't Mustangs?
i can put that together, but have not had good luck with part 2 and 3 - such as the part 2 to this story
Man, so so sad !
So do they sell whole cars?..
So what happened to em'?
got auctioned off
This is particularly painful to look at -- those beautiful fastbacks....
His favorite words was: ITS SEEN ITS BETTER DAYS... hahahahaha Lmao 😂
What the heck is he talking about, every car on this find has seen its better days. All those wrecks are good for is parts! I only seen maybe 5 mustangs in all the mustangs you showed that are fixable without having to spend $100 Grand on them.