Will It Run? 1972 Camaro Barn Find Sitting for 19 Years! Part 1

alright guys you know how they say there could be a barn find awesome rare car you know two or three miles from your house and you just no idea well as you can see from behind me I'm at my house and I'm walking in my backyard now this rare car barn fine is in two or three miles it's probably like 100 yards from my house and you know what it's actually in a bar so I've had to cut a hole in my fence there's my neighbor's property and no it's not the El Camino I promise you it's a lot cooler than that so I had to cut a tree down and get back here when I'm hoping I'm gonna move this piece of junk out Camino in order to find this car no just kidding it's not that one either it is this one you see yet can you see it it is it's a 1972 Camaro and it's been in here for forever so as you can see the integrity of this barn is not that great but you can't argue this is a legit 100% barn flying car whether that's a good thing or not I don't know but I'll tell you what it's stuck in the mud see that so right now the floor is still squishy and has rain for a little while you can kind of hear my feet squishing so I know this is gonna be a pain in the butt to get out but really it's one thing at a time I've got to clear that tree you got to move that out Camino and I gotta drag this out somehow so we'll see what happens when we get to that point let me show you guys inside so it smells a lot like mildew and honestly it's so dark in here and this car so close to the ground it's really hard to tell what kind of shape it's really in but it's a v8 I believe it's a 350 with a 2 barrel it's not a Z or anything really special but hey it's pretty sure it's factory paint with factory vinyl hardtop so can't beat that but first we gotta get this turd out of the way we'll see how that goes able to clear a path for a this pull kind of cut down that tree and then I pulled out the stake that was next to it then I was able to kind of peel back the fence so we can get through it I know I can get I could probably get through that hole my suburban but not my trailer if it comes to having a trailer so with this it should be good I made sure that all the barbed wire that was on the ground I got all the bad parts up so hopefully I won't pop a tire or four and yeah it should fit I mean lines like you close to this side and get rid of this limb we should be ready to go all right let's see how well we fit I'm fat all right I'll give you this crap about coming out of the way all right job number one give this crap out Camino out of the way in this trailer so it has all four flats and I'm pretty sure it hasn't moved in at least 20 years so I'm gonna get these bricks out of the way we're gonna jack up the front with my floor jack because I'm pretty sure that Jack no longer moves it's been here a long time and then we're gonna try to move it I know what you guys are thinking there's no way it's gonna work well I'm gonna give it a try and if not I have a buddy with a four-wheel drive pickup that uh he could help yeah trailer is up hopefully it's high enough that I can then lay it down on the suburban tow hitch you can see how long this car has been here look at this it's falling through the floor it's no he's getting that off I got one brick out I couldn't get this one out and I'm hoping lifting up the trailer will help let's go get a shovel for that one but we're gonna see we're gonna see what happens can you believe these tires actually had air in them they were just sunk so low you couldn't tell I mean that one's almost flat but not too bad this one's totally flat this one's got like three pounds in it but it looks better already the Camaro is gonna come out that wasn't too bad it's a little sketchy at first but it worked so you can see these huge ruts that these El Camino tires were in or the trailer tires this I wasn't so bad with the other side was bad you can get a better view of Camaro we're gonna try to do the same thing with this one I'm gonna try to fill the tires up with these air tanks obviously one holds air but little better than the other trying these back ones first it's really dark in here I can't see any of this trim rings in the way that's annoying dang it all right let's see if this beast hold air I doubt it just looking at the tire I mean it sounds ok pushing it up that's good I'm not gonna much air left in this tank that I'll not get the other way this tire on the front is probably the deepest one I mean there's no air in them at all the other ones like at least see that bottom edge of the trim ring this one we're just gonna have to probably dig it out cuz whoo yeah that one's deep I don't know if that one's gonna hold air [Music] who is moving you guys probably can't see [Applause] noting distance taking air here's the plan so far I'm gonna Jack up as many tires as I can stick a piece of wood under so that we want to let it down hopefully there's less of a rut and we have to deal with but here's the first view of underneath lots of surface rest really because it's been in this really damp nasty barn for so long but we'll get the other side done we have blocks under the wheels but honestly I've underestimated how muddy it really isn't here look at my jack that's just from going in and out once so my prediction is I'm gonna hook up my suburban and it's just gonna spin the tires cuz this is still stuck I don't even know if the brakes are free which I highly doubt but you never know so we'll just have to see I made sure it's in neutral so should be easier to pull and we'll give it a go if not we're gonna call my buddy well we made some progress but as you guys saw my my suburban is not a four-wheel drive I really wish it was the last thing I want to do is slip up a rock and break a back window or something along those lines and you see all this mud but I'll tell you what we got it moved some so we're out of the ruts which is good we're making our own new ruts the problem is I mean look how deep I thought these front wheels would kind of pop up out but it looks like they're getting dragged in making their own rut so that's never good I mean it's so squishy back here so I'm calling in reinforcements hopefully a four-wheel drive truck can do the trick and plus I can watch it in here while he pulls it so that you know it doesn't I didn't notice it was turning you know we had to turn the other way for the last thing I wanna do is drag a fender across the barn wall so we know when to give up and we will get a I guess some more hardcore truck and it's a Ford [Applause] that's my buddy Matt hey hey he drives a Ford I don't want to see any comments about oh you had a your Chevy failed and then to get the Chevy have the Barnea to have a Ford wants anything but he has an awesome four-wheel-drive truck we're gonna give us come out today all right I'm gonna go back here and kind of steer it says it's kind of sideways let's get the rope top first go ahead go forward that's it right there all right go slow whoa i'ma go slow all right tired okay I want you to reposition so you're kind of this way because it's kind of sliding that way even though I'm four wheels a-rollin all right lots of time all right all right go slow go ahead go ahead you're good all right it's out of its grave so we had a little issues with the the passenger side front tire came off his bead and it made the whole thing kind of jerked to the side but the other thing that didn't help was look how deep I mean I thought this tire was here and I thought it would kind of pop up and you know go on top but look it just dug down the whole way even though it was rolling I don't know this is really squishy and I'm glad it's out what do you think chop do you like it hi jasmine what'd you think about it have you seen the seat covers no are they really gross I was too busy steering it so here it is the first time it had sunlight since 2000 19 years in a barn the only casualties we lost the tire you

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Length: 15min 37sec (937 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 14 2019

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Way back then I ought a new 72 Camaro SS. Loved that car. Wish I had it now! I just subscribed so I can watch u work that car over!