With all sorts of competition joining the pony car field beginning in 1967, Ford treated its hugely popular Mustang to a mild restyle. The changes would accommodate larger engines under the hood and sales would approach a half-million units, though off the peak of 1966. This 1967 (we think) Mustang is a convertible that’s buried alive in a garage in Evansville, Indiana. It looks like it’s been there a long time and whether it’s complete or not is anyone’s guess. Available here on HiBid, the current bid is just $202, but you’ll have to bring your own tools and people to dig it out. Thanks for the heads up on this one, Mark Sturgeon.
The 1967 model year would begin the slow evolution of the Mustang into a larger vehicle where it would hit weighing 800 pounds more in 1973 than the car that started a sensation in 1964. Out of 472,121 units produced in ’67, 44,808 would be drop-tops like the seller’s car. But the only thing we’re told about it is that it’s Lot # 73b in the online auction. It was probably wearing burgundy paint when new with a black vinyl bucket seat interior. But everything is a shambles now.
We don’t know what drivetrain this Mustang has or even if one still exists. It could be a 200 cubic inch inline-6, a 289 V8, or even the 390 big-block that was new to the automobile in 1967. Your best bet would be to think of this as a parts car and if you can get it for the current bid, maybe you’ll find some useful stuff for another project you have in mind.
The car is a 1967. It appears to have 5 lug wheels which would make it a V8 car.
Don’t know where you see 5 lugs other tan the rim not attached or near the wreckage, but in a separate pile.
Maybe I don’t know what I’m looking at, I see nothing to indicate the finding.
If you look at the photos as full screen there are 2 photos that show at least a part of the left rear wheel. In those photos you can sort of see the lug nuts and they appear to be at the proper spacing to be 5 lug. Now I could be wrong. It would not be the first time for that.
Sometimes when I read and look at pictures of a disarray barn finds I start wondering what kind of person lives or lived there. wow it’s mind boggling.
Just get a Dumpster to empty out that garage and throw the car in it also! Another bunch of trash!!!!
What was it again?
Oh, a Mustang, OK.
Not much of a mustang.
I think its a Mouse-Dang
It looks like the seller wasn’t the neatest of the breed but it also looks like the building collapsed. Going to be hard to determine what all this is without an in person look at it.
Looks to be the same auction that had the similarly buried Jaguar and Corvette convertibles that were featured earlier.
Shame really to see such classics rot
That’s to bad this could have been a nice car
The way this guy holds the ticket makes it look like he found his rental car.
He’s probably thinking……”I didn’t look like this when I parked it here”.