Of all the classic cars that end up as barn finds, muscle cars perhaps get a lot of press due to their collectability. However, just about anything goes on the second-hand car market.
Here, we have an interesting trio, rusting away in a field full of icons and waiting for the day they will either get picked up or finish partly buried in overgrowth.
Hopefully, it will be the former. The host of the YouTube channel Shade Tree Vintage Auto’s latest video sure hopes they will get bought soon too. It’s all in the name of good fun for classic gear heads.
The Barn-Find Dodge Coronet Is A Great Project Car
Shade Tree’s classics are all more or less complete but in need of renovation. Today they are getting advertised cheaply in order for people to purchase them, get them working, and head down to MATS.
The ‘Muscle Car At the Strip’ event is in Las Vegas and features drag racing, autocross, and much more. If the project cars get bought to attend the show, they will go for cheap.
First up is a 1973 Dodge Coronet. This one is a 4-door, 5.2-liter car with an abundance of rust over its blue exterior metal.
Our host says that it hasn’t run for a while. This is a recurring theme, as we will see. Yet with some new brakes, fluids, and general work done, it should make a runner. The price is set at $1,500.
Next up, Shade Tree Vintage Auto has a nice and slightly-less-rusty muscle car coupe: a 1973 Plymouth Satellite with a 5.2-liter engine again. This time it’s an automatic though.
Either way, it looks great. However, it has a seized engine and rust “down low”. The interior is “nice” despite the car being a runner already and the previous owner leaving it parked for the next 20 years. It is getting offered for the princely sum of $1,750 with a title. It could be a steal for someone who knows their way around a toolbox and a soldering iron.
More Project Cars For Our Delight
Finally, a Dodge Dart, also a 1973 model, features a Chrysler Slant-6 engine and automatic transmission. The host calls it a “complete” and “solid car with not much rust” but the interior needs a lot of work.
This car will go for $2,500 for someone wanting to take it on down to the MATS meeting – it would be a great car if it got sorted to a reasonable standard.
All in all, these are iconic cars with varying levels of desirability and potential. Additionally, at the end of the video, there’s an old classic Plymouth 2-door from 1953 for $1,750. This example gets made all the more memorable due to the “PRIVATE PROPERTY” sign inside its cabin
