When I got back to this area from the service in '78, I started hearing stories of an all original, low mile 70 Superbird that a guy had wrecked back in '70, crushed the nose, and just parked it. The story never changed, it was just that no one ever knew where the car was. I looked for years till one day in '85 at a junk yard a guy I was talking to said "Yea, I know where it is" and asked if I wanted to see it.
When we got there, I saw a lime green wing sticking up out of a pile of briars. I had spent 8 years in Infantry or related MOS's, and it STILL was almost impossible to get to the VIN. U code car, still looked original from what I could see past all the household trash bags piled inside it, and when I looked thru the hood rust holes, underhood looked all complete. You couldn't open the hood due to the vines, but the holes were at least football size. Vines were even growning THRU the quarters.
The owner wasn't home, so I didn't get a chance to talk to him, but I could see then that at most, you MAY save the numbers off the car, and some parts.
Finally, about 1991, I talked to a guy who had purchased the car for $10K, with the intentions of restoring it (yea, right...). Car was never again seen or heard from in this area, and has slowly passed from the bench racing talk, except for a few of us old guys.
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