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Past Gas

S1 Ep78: MORE of the Greatest Barn Finds of All Time

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today on Past Gas, it’s Barn Finds, PART TWO! How did a pair of Citroen prototypes wind up on the roof of a French barn? How does an ultra-rare Shelby Daytona vanish for decades after breaking a slew records? What does it take for an entire car dealership to vanish into history? What happens when one of the most famous Mustangs of all time turns up in a Mexican junkyard? All that and more on today’s episode!

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? My name is Nolan. I'm from PastGas by Donut Media. We're an automotive history show.

0:04.8

This week, it's Santa's cold bag. We took all of our listener submissions that we've gotten over the years here

0:10.5

and we put them all into one episode. Little ideas that weren't long enough for a normal one.

0:15.0

We put seven ideas into one hour episode. This is super fun. A real grab bag of different

0:22.0

stories and letters from our listeners, maybe even you. So check out PastGas wherever you get your

0:29.1

podcast today, PastGas.

0:40.0

To this day, you can still find hidden gold in the hills of California, or you can uncover an

0:46.7

unknown fossil in the middle of a busy city. Those unclaimed, incredible discoveries are just waiting

0:53.0

for the right person, the right explorer to make their way to the right spot at the right time.

0:59.4

For Nolan Sykes, that day came on May 25, 2020. The fateful day when he finally struck gold.

1:06.8

He'd spent weeks smashing a digital pickaxe into the rocky crags of Craigslist with nothing to show

1:12.5

for it. Then suddenly, a glint of something kind of shiny and inconspicuous listing posted from

1:19.8

Ventura, California that included the word, Hemi. There's nothing shiny on that card. Not even the

1:26.8

glass. There's no shine. It'll get there. It'll get there. It may have only had 180 theoretical

1:34.7

horsepower in a theoretical top speed of 80 miles per hour and maybe it also weighed 5,000 pounds,

1:40.7

but it had history. It had patina. It had power windows and was over seven years old.

1:47.2

It was a 1952 Chrysler Imperial. That thing belongs in a junkyard. James Pumphrey said as Nolan

1:55.6

rolled it off a trailer into James's side yard. You take that back. Replied Nolan defiantly.

2:04.1

Never, but you should take that back. James said pointing to the aged Chrysler shaking his head.

2:10.7

Nolan was quiet. When he finally spoke, the words seemed to come from a place deep within him.

2:17.6

Haven't you ever had a time where you just needed someone to believe in your potential?

2:24.0

Where if the right person saw you? In the right way? A beautiful future might be possible.

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