Backyard finds today

**hvychev** · #1 01-02-2005, 03:21 AM

This is one that I took near my previous house in Plainfield, IL. The guy has a $hit load of old signs and very cool stuff littered ALL OVER. I hear that he is a mean guy so I never dared to enter the property. Here are a couple of Mustangs that he had outside.

**hvychev** · #2 01-02-2005, 03:27 AM

This is a cool one. I bought this car from it's 30 year owner in January 2003. The car was sitting in this garage on the North Side of Chicago untouched and unstarted for 20 years prior to me buying it. The car was ALL original and unmodified. I was going to keep it as a muscle car "beater" to drive to cruise nights and such until I realized that I could not get my leg under the stearing wheel!

I bought the car for $3,900 and sold it on e-bay the next week for $11,100!

I NEVER even sat in or started the car at all. The guy that I sold it to e-mailed me a week later and said that the car started right up after a tune up and after a cleaning he sold it for $15,000 to another guy a week after that!!

These pics were taken by me of the car "as found".

**hvychev** · #3 01-02-2005, 03:29 AM

picture 2

**hvychev** · #4 01-02-2005, 03:30 AM

picture 3

**hvychev** · #5 01-02-2005, 03:31 AM

picture 4

**hvychev** · #6 01-02-2005, 03:32 AM

pic 5

The car was very rare in the sense that it was a 351 Shaker Hood car.

**hvychev** · #7 01-02-2005, 03:35 AM

These are funny pics......

This is the way the previous owner of my Deuce felf that it was best to store my & Joey Barr's Deuces.

I can just hear the Sanford & Son theme music playing in the background.

Belair62 · #8 01-02-2005, 03:35 AM

Looks like a Ford Jubilee tractor maybe ?? Olered...the owner/driver was Larry Swiatek out of River Grove/Chicago...it was one of the first all glas GTO Funny Cars....Don Gay and Arnie had them too...but this one was radically alteredwwheelbase..it ran an injected 421 to start with...some of the pioneers of funny car building were involved with the building of it...TJS44 has probably heard of Swiatek...he ran a Swiss cheese Catalina. the former Pete Seaton car as the Gray Ghost early on...some cool pics in MCCarthy's book too..he also owned 1 of 3 SD Grand Prix's built in 63...390 H.P. 4 bbl SD car with steel front end according to Petes book.

**hvychev** · #9 01-02-2005, 03:37 AM

another

**hvychev** · #10 01-02-2005, 03:37 AM

One more...

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