1967 Ford Mustang 390 GT Fastback Barn Find

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“You couldn’t see the ’67. It was probably 75 to 100 yards down a hill inside a pole barn behind her house,” Junior Deese said. As he walked down the rugged North Carolina countryside, Deese struggled not to get his hopes up too high, having been disappointed far too many times in the last five or six years—he once looked at a $7,500 fastback that turned out to be nothing more than a shell. Then, one day he got a call from a lady who lived in Erwin, North Carolina, about 35 minutes from his house in Smithfield. Nancy Snipes was her name and she had a Mustang and was thinking about selling. Her response didn’t even come from an ad—Nancy got Deese’s name and number from her son who had been talking to somebody at a local car repair shop. This somebody knew Deese was looking to buy a Mustang fastback.

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Deese was intrigued to find the original Ford dealer badge on the car. Phil Long Ford is still in business in Colorado Springs, Colorado. © Provided by Hotrod Deese was intrigued to find the original Ford dealer badge on the car. Phil Long Ford is still in business in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Nancy’s husband, who died several years ago, had put the 1967 Mustang (which he would never sell) in a pole barn 15 years earlier. Nancy knew the Mustang was bad on gas and that’s why she and her husband parked the car 15 years earlier. But she had no idea what engine was underhood. Understandably, Deese was expecting a good car this time and his anticipation built with every step he took with visions of a big-block ’67 Mustang fastback dancing through his head.

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[sufrommich]

1. It would have been nice if the article would have

mentioned what he paid for the car. The comment section is interesting,some are claiming he sold it on ebay for $32,000.

[John1956PA]

2. Back in 1969, my brother had a blue one with a 302 cid engine.

They are indeed nice cars.

I usually prefer convertibles, but this model is probably my favorite Mustang.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. My 67 Fastback had a 302.

I don't think it was the original motor.

[Mnpaul]

32. It wasn't the original motor

The 302 was first used in '68.

[taught_me_patience]

4. I'd love the nostalgia for old muscle cars to die

They were not that good. A Honda accord probably has more" performance" than these dinosaurs. Even worse, their styling is impacting modern car style for the worse. Sorry, I don't want a car resembling something made 45years ago.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Killjoy

I'll bet a microwave oven has more "performance" than a charcoal grill, but I'll take the latter. ( and embrace the carbon footprint )

[sufrommich]

6. So..people should stop liking things you don't like? nt

[taught_me_patience]

10. I guess message boards are not a place to voice an opinion?

[Throd]

11. No, you can voice your opinions all you want.

Other people get to voice their opinion that you sound like the enemy of fun.

[Blue_Tires]

13. I'd love for you to develop some automotive taste

Sorry, I don't want a car resembling something made 45years ago.

Better call the Porsche boys in Stuttgart and tell them to stop making the 911, then...And tell VW to stop making the Beetle, while you're at it...Hate cars looking like their relatively younger 25-year-old predecessor? You better start hatin' on the Mazda Miata...And the list goes on...

[Throd]

16. Yeah, whats up with Porsche?

They've been flogging that same rear engined upside down bathtub since the 50's. lame lame lame.

[Mnpaul]

33. and better tell Chevy, Ford and Chrysler as well

who are all building modern versions of 60's/70's muscle cars

Dodge Challenger
Chevy Camaro
Ford Mustang

The retro look of the Mustang was created by a immigrant from Vietnam who saw one brought there for the troops.

[uncle ray]

20. I'd love it if everybody who drives, could drive a car they love.

and that's an opinion i don't feel the need to be sorry for.

[ileus]

25. Exactly jellybean shaped cars are uber cool.

These so called car people don't know great styling like my 94 honda accord or 05 Sentra.

My BIL has a fastback 72 mustang, he doesn't even know it's ugly as sin compared to a 2012 Camry.

[Trajan]

31. Laughing at your screen name ...

Yeah ... Right ....

[kentauros]

7. Let me know if someone finds one of these in a barn:

[rusty fender]

8. What is this?

[kentauros]

9. The image is also a link.

[Blue_Tires]

15. Don't know a lot of "farmers" who could afford to roll in something like that...

[kentauros]

34. I used to know the guy that restored that,

and the other Lancia (1958 Lancia Aurelia Nardi Blue Ray 2.) I remember seeing the Blue Ray 1 (pictured) when it still needed restoration and was sitting in his home garage, covered in dust.

I don't recall what he paid for them, but it wasn't much. For some reason, I have the figure $20,000 stuck in my head, but I can't verify that at all. All I know is that the Blue Ray 2, after restoration, was worth $1.5 million. Possibly the same for the Blue Ray 1, or close to that figure.

And those aren't the only one-of-a-kind or rare vehicles I remember seeing in his shop or on his property. He seemed to have a knack for acquiring formerly priceless cars when they were almost wrecks (sometimes when they were) and turning them back into priceless cars. The man is an artist with cars

Jim Simpson

[Throd]

18. The hood scoop has a hood scoop. How cool is that?

[kentauros]

35. And there's a roof-scoop on the bubble top,

all with chrome finger-grills

[hifiguy]

12. If it's a factory 390 that is one RARE bird indeed.

And it appears to be bone stock.

That and the '66-67 396 Chevelle and Corvette with the "porcupine" heads are among the holy grails of muscle cars.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Cliche alert...

I thought all the "barnyard discoveries" were tapped out years ago?

[Throd]

19. How would we know?

[Blue_Tires]

23. I do remember a time 10-15 years ago

when the market was skyrocketing and quite a few serious car collectors/speculators with a lot of money and nothing better to do just went sleuthing in all the prime states for rare or highly desirable cars (iirc the South/Southeast was the 'preferred' region), tracking down paper records of sales histories, interviewing previous owners (or their descendants), etc...

I also remember a few of them got scammed hard in Alabama, since there was a silly loophole in the law that essentially made it laughably easy to fake car registrations, so 'common' classics could be sold as rare-optioned, all-original ones with some cosmetic changes, a fake VIN and some badge/part swaps...

I never hear about those guys anymore, especially since the market died down...

[hifiguy]

21. Alll the Duesenbergs, old Benzes and Stutz Bearcats are gone,

but the muscle cars and other rarities from the Sixties on will keep turning up. They weren't collectible back when they got put in the barns. Now they are.

Fifteen years or so ago someone found an entire 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO in the back room of a garage in England. It was in baskets, taken apart down to the last screw and body panel. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd bought the lot and had it restored - turned out it was complete in every way and all the numbers matched. Worth about $20 million now. Of course there were only about 30 of them ever made and it IS an especially desirable and historic Ferrari.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. In 1986, my father-in-law gave my husband a restored-to-factory '65 Fastback...

...for his first car (freaking spoiled).

He sold it 5 years later for (and I still get sick over it) $2,000 to help pay the mortgage. I wish like hell he had hung on to that car. I totally believe cars like that will continue to show up.

[hifiguy]

24. Sure they will. They're just ordinary cars

when they get put away. They're only special 40 years later. Somewhere there's probably a Hemi Road Runner Super Bird sitting in a pole barn gathering dust.

[Codeine]

17. I always thought the fastback looked awkward.

The notchback was far nicer.

[NBachers]

29. I have to agree with you on that- over-styling that came out looking bulky and clumsy.

[Zorra]

26. I had a '66 Mustang Fastback with Pony interior and a little 200ci 6 banger.

It was the best car ever!

[Historic NY]

27. I've spent the better part of the last 2 days driving my barn find Mopar...

it was sprung from a museum gig.

[upaloopa]

28. I owed a 1967 Mustang fastback with a 390

It won the D-stock national record in 1967.
10.8 seconds for a quarter mile. I did not own it then. I bought from a credit union that repoed it after the first owner lost his job due to illness
He showed me his trophy and gave me some bolt on traction bars because the welded ones broke. I broke the leaf springs with those traction bars. The car had so much torque that the drive shaft would hit the floor underneath

[hunter]

30. Having some experience with that generation of cars, I'd pass.

But I've never been a car guy. I hate them all.

I drive a mid 'eighties salvage title piece of shit. $800 dollars worth.

I was once part owner, with my brother, of a classic Mustang like that. We made some money.

But the highest ideals of transportation in my personal universe are good walking shoes, bicycles, electric rail, and sailboats.