Barn Finds - 56 Classic Mustangs Discovered in Woods in Louisiana

Al Suggs Jr saved these 1964 1/2 - 1973 Mustangs that I call a dreamscape in the woods.

[@thewriter2549]

Go deeper into the woods to see more - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZizq2emhLKZa5I

[@juancontre5858]

We're any of those cars for sale

[@17JEdmundoHH]

Gift me 1

[@josephtravers777]

Back in the 80's I restored Mustangs in Louisiana and knew of several of these type graveyards. Not surprised to see this one still left. I'm sure there are still some around but hidden, like this.

[@quentinwitt1827]

Let's find them

[@mkex731]

This dude has a therapeutic voice and watching all these cars while listening was really calming

[@robgrant9583]

It just breaks my heart to see all those cars go to waste like that.

[@Greivous429]

@Peter Burnett funny considering that was a junk yard lot

[@earthbarnes6694]

That was a junk yard!!!! thats what people did with broken down junk...The problem and whats sad is all the thousands of brand new cars that are sitting out in huge fields all over the world that governments will not put to good use because of greed and power z

[@justinraystyles3537]

Thank god this guy had a classic heart and didn't just scrap them but decided to share them with classic lovers so parts of them can live on!

[@armandopatane5343]

What a relic gold mine

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

I love seeing these wild Mustangs running free in the woods.

[@JU-wn1jm]

They should be running free in the roads!

[@timdean7472]

I remember walking through this junkyard as a kid, when the yard was still open. Good days.

[@MrTheHillfolk]

Awesome

[@jamesmcclure4743]

Hi Tim. I can remember one time that I bought complete bucket seat-console interior for an old Monte Carlo that I had. Got the seats,console, shifter assembly, tilt steering column and the instrument panel with the tachometer and gauges instead of the idiot light one that was in my car. I bought several parts from there over the 80s and 90s. But those Mustangs were off limits.

[@timdean7472]

@@jamesmcclure4743 , I was just a teenager, but, I would go out there and just dream of what it would've been like to have owned one of them. I would be there for hours just walking and dreaming. That place is truly a part of history that I hate to see go...

[@taunteratwill1787]

Time to give back the parts you 'found' in those days. :-))

[@KubotaManDan]

A Mustang sanctuary ...thanks for the look

[@julemandenudengaver4580]

i love those places, that's a piece of history

[@jeffschiller8899]

Judging by your picture you are too.

[@dman615]

Just a really cool thing to find! I could mess around with those cars for days if not weeks and months on end! Anyways , my dad worked at Ford starting in Indianapolis in July of 1957. I was maybe three to 4 years old, when he bought home a brand new 65 Mustang. Cost $2,200 cash plus a Falcon, and it had the hi-po 289, at least that's what my dad told me he gave for it. I still remember the car and I was so little then, I wish he would have kept it! But that wasn't the only Mustang he ever brought home, how about a 1971 Mach 1 it was deep green looked black at night that one I remember him saying he gave 4600 or so for it. It had the stripe package and the window louvers. Both cars today probably worth near six figures if they were perfect. I didn't mention that the first one was a convertible! My dad worked a long hard career out there at Ford in the heat treat division. he had a lot of beautiful cars over the years, too many to talk about here. I have had several old and newer Mustangs, but ain't none like my dad had! But I would give all of them for just one more day with my Dad!

[@thewriter2549]

That one got to me, same here with my dad. He loved cars. He would drive around to used car lots when I was a kid. We loved looking at the older models in the back. My dad pulled a Mercedes roadster out of a barn in Berlin at the end of WW II. I have that picture somewhere.

[@V_e_z_u_V]

Hart is crying watching this amazing cars rust away :(

[@carry7474]

Totally amazing thanks for the video I love old cars. I went with a friend to this junk yard about 35 miles away from Yakima Washington and boy did my mouth drop never seen so many old cars all I could do was look at each one and imagine who all the people who owned them and all the places they have been and yes old mustang so beautiful. The owner of the junk yard hasn't crushed a car in so many years because his machine broke thank goodness. Can't wait to take my daughters there.

[@unicornwolfteam718]

I used to live in Yakima. Bought a lot of cars and parts from T Pee auto wrecking. Wonder if they are still open.

[@davidbruin4381]

In 1979, I bought a '67 Fastback GT350, for $250.00. The thing was a mess, no floorboards, trunk rotted out, but after putting in a new battery and rebuilding the carb., it started up and after a little adjustment, purred like a kitten. (289cid, 4 barrel ) Unfortunately, my father had the title in his name, and after months of working my ass off getting the body, and frame and everything else road worthy, (spending around $650., and countless hours) my father sold it while I was at school for $250. Every time I see a '67 Mustang, I think about losing that car. It only needed brake rotors and a new left front fender, and a good paint job, and I could have probably sold it, without the paint job, for $8000.00, to maybe $10,000. Seeing this makes my stomach hurt!!!

[@wyattdorough13]

Walker is my home town. U love here. And my dad has told me about the stories of him and his buddies going through the junk yard and looking at the cars. We drive by the junk yard everyday and see the new cars that they haul out of the place. I love the place and I wish I could walk back there and see everything. But this probably one of the last remaining junk yards like this.

[@roymielke5162]

Holy Crap! That guy knows his Stangs!

[@Uncletoast52]

Southern boys are a hoot. Thanks for posting!!

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

Parts upon parts!! It's a shame most of these are rusted out but such is life! I sure hope my old 69 fast back never met a fate like this!!

[@turbo6598]

Wow when they say taking the horses out to the pasture they really meant it

[@danielizdepski1775]

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[@earthbarnes6694]

Laughing😄!!!

[@chrisfegan3475]

Painful.....67 is my dream. Hope to teach my 4yr old to build a 67 stang

[@harveymushman8209]

Those 65-66 FB quarters are gold!

[@dufus2273]

that 68 cougar's sequential tail light setup while bring 3oo dollars . plus or minus. The cast chrome lens covers alone are 85-100 dollars. If you can find them. Lotta rare pieces in that pile. mine's a 70 coupe with a 351w stroker. my bro has 3 running cougars. shows one.

[@antneeshoopdeegarage92]

I grew up passing this old scrap yard and always wondered what was back there.

[@macaroofor]

I did also cutting across to NO

[@calinperucho5458]

O'Neill you should be reach man now .

[@ronstewart9792]

What an awesome video!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@zchoniemiller1412]

56 mustang. Dam that is really rare. So rare it’s non existence.

[@leahcimthgirw3163]

I'm not a Ford guy of today's cars but I love these old ones, so glad these are not being crushed

[@fraidykat]

That Chevelle may be rebuildable if you have the money to replace the frame damage. It's the perfect car for a restomod seeing how far gone it is.

[@zacharywatters1843]

That's amazing! Wish I could get my hands on a few of them

[@detroitcustom]

I feel excited watching this video,but as we go along you just feel sad knowing that they are all rooted beyond repair...sad

[@MAsonTRIX]

Thank you Jerry!!!

[@mrmomjoe8019]

I'm still looking for my jem like the ones you are showing..love a good challenge

[@leonardgilbreath9004]

Being in the High Desert and seeing Mustang's and all the other cars that could be saved is heartbreaking hopefully some can be I'm restoring a 73 gran torino and could use some parts of it thanks for sharing this.

[@kip_knomore]

Totally could have charged people to go see that!! 🥰💯

[@dannywilsher4165]

Thanks for another good video Jerry!!!

[@ExilefromCrownHill]

Well written, and well presented!

[@timhuggins7069]

What a treat to see them going through the group of stangs decoding them.

[@armandopatane5343]

This is the best video I ever seen sooo cool and thank u/ and I watch videos all day

[@chrisnajda2092]

I remember back in the early 1990s when I was reading the Mustang & Ford magazines that there was a classic Mustang auto wrecker that used to advertise mail order parts (Remember this was pre-internet days). I wonder if this was the place?

[@tommyd.743]

Not many can quote Robert Frost when looking at this carnage. My hats off to you.

[@j_freed]

His narration reminds me of the sheriff in "no country for old men."

[@Kevscancave]

That’s crazy!!!!! 👍👀👍 Wow!

[@giovannicentino9609]

poor ponys! thanks for saving what you could!

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

The place looks like Mustang Hell!

[@VictorMorales-hd2yd]

Mustang purgatory

[@autofanaticcars]

This video brought back high school memories, back 30 years ago there was a Mustang Farm way out on Long Island we found him through Hemmings and drove our 67 out there to see what this was all about, there had to be 50+ cars scattered acres on this guys land and he allowed us to pick any parts we needed off the cars and he would give us a group deal when were were done. He also sold new repop parts and did resto work it was quite a day il never forget. Crazy to see your discovery in this video youd figure these cars would have been snatched up once the internet caught on.

[@damxgopak457]

Should have made an outdoor museum.really cool but really sad.

[@CarswithNash]

This is beyond cool! I’m glad they are being pulled out while there are still some good parts and even a few saveable cars.

[@dufus2273]

could easily splice a few together. a fender from here a top from there

[@johnydoe7065]

I’m really not a Mustang fan but I love all old cars and this mad me sick to my stomach to see such beauty in that State.

[@richardcoram1562]

Those cars, and those days were the most exciting times of my life. Got my drivers license in 1964. Drafted in 'December of 1967, had to give up my 56 Fairlane Victoria 2 door hardtop. Crazy thing happened 2 years ago 2018. I could see a melon/white car at a old abandoned junk yard in a weed patch among other vehicles, and one sunday I was just kicking around and happened to go by that junk yard...I said you need to go check that out, so I did. It was my victoria, didn't appear to have seen any changes except it had been wrecked frontend mostly gone but still had paint and the important clue that guaranteed it was my old Ford was a gash in the roof. The hood had popped on me one night at about 70 mph, and it had left the car (thank God) but the hood ornament had pierced through the roof and the roof caved . Most of the dent had popped back out. When I walked through the weeds and approached the car my heart raced, because it was a Fairlane Vicky with a gash in the roof! It was missing all glass and trim etc; it had been stripped of salvageable parts. Just the body left but still had the frame and few parts around engine compartment. When I owned it it had the 312 Y block thunderbird special and ford-o-matic. That was a trip down memory lane for sure finding my old ride after 51 years. All those Mustangs in those woods....if they could only tell their owners stories!! Very sad to see the waste of such beautiful machines.

[@Derek8888]

You narration is awesome thanks

[@Mike-pu3ot]

Awesome find hope they can be restored

[@grape4760]

Wow! I am in tears.😭😭😭

[@mommasfamily1]

Beautiful!

[@lorenzomaximo1818]

Most of those Mustangs are pretty well roached.

[@monarch1957]

To the looks of them none are restorable but will yield lots of good parts to keep other Mustangs running.

[@whodoxedyou441]

I got one that is

[@catzdollz9810]

even the worst case is fully restorable . I'd like to have my pick of the litter on these cars!

[@JackHowell68]

Anythings restorable

[@scottdunn2178]

This is surreal. If those Mustangs could talk...

[@vivianbond7449]

Unreal in it who would park there cars in the woods like that to wow 🤩

[@5jr.racing982]

Mustangs in the wild!

[@craigcaggiano431]

Wow what a discovery this old junkyard is. I remember several years ago, there was a junkyard that used to host a car show once a year Flemmings Pumkin Run .. in NJ that there were old cars and trucks on the property.

[@hunterkelley8688]

The way he talked over this video made me feel like I was watching forest gump.

[@purplekush5640]

Yeah lol

[@stude1953]

Nice video Jerry. Amazing how many cars of just one brand there were in those woods!

[@shackman9566]

Maybe the owner hated mustangs. He sure did them dirt.

[@A7ty34g]

Hopefully, someone will step in and be able to restore some of these beautiful cars. If nothing else, they are a treasure trove of parts for Mustang enthusiast's.

[@rockettcustoms6266]

Restore what? This stuff is all junk, nothing left to restore. Watch the video.

[@kutamsterdam]

Once upon a time each one of those wrecks was somebody's pride and joy, getting old sucks.

[@vernonfindlay1314]

Just must say, Wow,just heaven like to walk around there.God bless,take care of that flu bug from Nova Scotia.

[@rexcars1835]

They haven't died in vain though. They've all been picked clean so other Mustangs would live by the looks of it. Funny how car go to junkyards and get used for parts and 30 years later we wanna find parts to rebuild them.

[@louisedwards6681]

Frankenstangs,Rex!

[@justinraystyles3537]

This is very true

[@wobbles47]

@@justinraystyles3537 Back the no one gave a F**K. they were just wrecks good for salvabge only..Dime a dozen.

[@j_freed]

Sort of yes. These cars when abandoned still had huge intact sections that could have been used for extensive restorations.

[@jamesmcclure4743]

I live in Baton Rouge and knew all about this place as did many others. Owner wouldn't sell any of these cars, believe me cause I tried. Offered good money for cars or parts but no sale. The original owner went to the big junkyard in the sky. Now his family will get pennies on the dollar for something that they could have got good money on. Oh well, hoarders gonna hoard.

[@bilbobaggins4710]

Sad

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Ask any collector,money is nowhere as important as just owning something,good on him for not selling off his treasures.

[@jamesmcclure4743]

@@DomingoDeSantaClaraI agree with you, but a "collector" doesn't let their "treasure" turn into trash. A "hoarder" does. The good news is that they are finally cleaning up that eyesore. Just hope that it doesn't turn into another waste recycling center or sand and gravel pit.

[@johnboy3377]

James McClure funny that you say he wouldnt sell any cars or parts but most of the cars are stripped!!

[@jamesmcclure4743]

@@johnboy3377 Not funny at all. I didn't say that I went by there last month. It was in the early nineties if I remember correctly. I had a good friend who lived not more than a mile or so from there and had a shop on his land where I was restoring a 68 Mustang and he told me about the place. I passed by it everytime I went to his house and had no idea about those cars being there until my buddy told me. Those cars had a LOT of usable parts on them when I seen them back then and I mean a LOT.

[@armandopatane5343]

What a gold mine

[@terryfrazier6794]

Missed out on 16 1960 thru 70s Mustang's in western iowa. One day they where there and that following weekend gone. What a shame probably scrapped.

[@fred306801]

Sad to see those cars in that shape. People who know how to work on them and bring them back to life make the world a better place, they create eye candy. And someone has a nice car.

[@robertsole9970]

VIN plate donors for Dynacorn bodies...also a perfect place for Copperheads and wasp nests. add in a possum or two.

[@79tazman]

You can't take a VIN off a car and put it on a Dynacorn body That's illegal

[@robertsole9970]

79tazman, look we know it happens and a good metal guy can cut the vin from a shell and weld it in a new body. I see no harm in it.

[@79tazman]

@@robertsole9970 No harm in it LOL!! you're kidding me right you must not be much of a car guy because car people want a real car not reproduction junk that's made to look like a factory car. Imagine you buy what you think is a low production #'s muscle car and then you find out the car is not original but a repo body with the VIN tag of a low production car put on it

[@robertsole9970]

79tazman, look I’m 56 and had lots of cars, including a few from the 60’s. Fact is cars back then had thin steel and had designs that trapped dirt and moisture that caused rot. That’s why Mustangs from that era have known areas of rot, including right behind the front and rear wheels and the shock towers. And what’s an ok amount of restoration? Is it only floor pans or rocker panels? Do you allow new fenders and quarter panels? Who gets that decision? How much has to be left of the original shell after you form and fold new metal for it? Just buy a new body that’s made from galvanized steel that’s thicker and better welded than what came off the line in 1967.

[@autorefocused8036]

79tazman it’s not illegal to rebuild a car. You’re assuming I’d flip it. You’d be wrong.

[@fordfairlane662dr]

Wow amazing mustangs

[@richardlandis793]

It would be great to see them restored if possible.

[@pineapplethedutchangeldrag9596]

Damn dude that's a lot of freaking cars

[@aaronsauer6628]

Thats insane wow

[@Wannagobackto1980]

I'll take them 71-73's!!!! Love those models!!!

[@crazycracker289]

I'm from Walker La and I didn't know about this place. How many times I drove by on 190 never knowing what was back in the woods!

[@markfinch2711]

I grew up there. I live right around the corner. That was my family. I had a lot of fun there riding the fort lift with my dad and probably with my pawpaw and riding in the wrecker with my dad. I have a ton of memories there. From taking uncle woody (Robert) diner and him giving me two dollar bills. My grandmother bowling peanuts up there. Many people probably don’t even remember that. I hate to see this place go. Me and my dad went up there and asked if we could have the bar stools that my pawpaw, my dad and myself sat on years ago and we got told no. Ridiculous.

[@thewriter2549]

junkyards disappearing - sad to see - thanks for adding those memories to this

[@tyronebateslibra9435]

That's good they rescued alot of the cars, I'm sure some of them can be restored.

[@whodoxedyou441]

Glad I was able to get my hands on that 1953 buick. already sent off the body panels for work :) 2:23

[@thewriter2549]

You bought that two door Buick?

[@arniesatacruz3998]

Wow some of this cars are beautiful classic why they left this cars like this thank God you guys safe this gorgeous cars.

[@big_a8448]

I would love to have one to build in Australia!! I love mustang!!

[@linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725]

Crazy man!

[@mabs503]

Nice to see Forest Finds :). Would be interesting to hear what can be salvaged if any. VIN-plates to use for new bodys would probably be interesting. Most of them are not rare, but registering a "new" Mustang is not possible in some areas. The rare XR7G would surely be interesting to someone.

[@saabtech3510]

That XR7G has a rare power sun roof too. If the original engine is still in it, it would be worth combining a donor Cougar with this one....rare car.

[@dano9421]

Try to save as many as you can, too many hot cars

[@genaroaviles8555]

I Love all this cars

[@scottm.franklinnc7942]

Total shame to be so stubborn to let these rust away...Dad and I restored cars until cancer took him. We took 3 & 4 donors at times to make a daily driver .... Dad would be saying " hitch the trailer.. we're gonna save some stangs" lol

[@sew04ss]

Scott M. Franklin NC dang sorry to hear about your dad

[@bradwhite5884]

I hate to see good cars go to get scraped or crushed as well as be left in the woods or somewhere just to get forgotten, so yeah Hope one day you will continue where your father left off and get your kids help and learn how to build cars like what your father thought you to do, what you think?

[@ImStokze]

God bless your father, may he be looking down upon you and think man im so proud of you, God bless you

[@T0YCHEST]

Ur dad didn’t die in vain he rescued mustangs we won’t forget

[@michaelsciberras5288]

Scott M. Franklin NC God bless you

[@premiumaccount4166]

Most beautiful car ever made and they left these mustangs to die. No mustang deserves to be treated like that.

[@boss290bafalcon]

Wow, a real mustang orchid, imagine that

[@petergoettler8680]

Cool,Thxs.,Merci.

[@marvinhagler4721]

Enough to save and build SEVERAL

[@davidpriest8882]

Breaks my heart

[@ReactionASMR]

There is a place in Utah like this with tons of classics sitting out rotting

[@btuhey]

Damn, thats heart breaking to see all of those cars like that.

[@stevejeffries1603]

Amazing

[@oneeyedjack8525]

One man's trash is another man's treasure

[@brentmenier3442]

Years ago I saw .in 80;s and 90;s These cars as such in denham springs area at hwy 190 auto salvage owned by mr Bass... I left that area 8 years ago... ... I always wondered what was to happen w them... .. thank God they will see new life

[@whyey]

These car's have soul's as people do!!!!

[@tomsigler6575]

I’m at a total loss for words; at least they weren’t sent to the crusher 40 years ago.

[@paulbaker5085]

But now thats where most are headed.Shame

[@SladesVWBeetle]

Tom Sigler Sadly they’ll be on there way to be crushed now. ☹️

[@MrTheHillfolk]

Man the moisture damage and rust down there is as bad as new england salted road winters up here. Southern cars yes, just not near the coast !!

[@bradwhite5884]

I hate seeing good looking cars go to the crushers even if their are a chance to be restored, some people aren't into cars or are car people and buy it for the sake of it or just crush them for profit, it is such ashame though

[@styldsteel1]

Hate to say it but that might have been better than this.

[@Kid_July]

I passed by these all the time on 190

[@MT-tu8dt]

Like finding treasures on a ship.

[@setito_mx6192]

One silence minute for the Mustangs D': I was looking for a 1967 Mustang GT fastback, this is the sadness thing that My eyes have ever seen.

[@rb67mustang]

Wow! So many fastbacks, what a shame as many have already said. My favorites are 65 to 69 Fastbacks. I had a 69 Mach 1 and a 67 Shelby GT-350. I wish I still had the Shelby.

[@zoso1980]

5:58 - that 71/72 Pewter Metallic car. Would've loved to see the front end.

[@wreckerjonny6144]

I had one same color .1971 Pewter silver and black. Cleveland sold 90%of the parts at Carlisle Ford Nationals

[@MartyTate76]

That is awesome. I wonder if any old 68/69 Fairlanes were out there.