Discovery of the Bud Moore Thunderbird

This thing's grown up a bit since I was over here a couple years ago. Hey, you didn't prepare me for this. I would have brought long pants. Well, I figured you'd clean this one up. You said you wanted to see it where it was at. Yeah. I would rather cut it out and hang it in the shop. Yeah, that's what we needed. Was that an old Bud Moore car? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It was a Motorcraft 37 car. They changed it to 11 for the movie. Yeah, because the the Budweiser car wasn't supposed to be damaged. Oh. Didn't you say you came to look at this car in the same spot a long time ago? 2001. Come here and looked at it. I was working for Bill Elliot at that time and we was getting into restoring vintage cars. Was looking for cars and Bill knew knew these guys and he said they got car sitting up there in trailer. Why don't you go up there and look at that car? And I come up here and looked at it and seen it and seen that it was an old banjo car. And at that time we was hunting Hopkins cars. Bunny Hopkins cars said we don't want an old banjo rear steer car. left it sitting here for another 20 23 years. Yeah. Jeez. Did it look just like it looks right now? It doesn't The condition doesn't look any more no more dirt. The tires were flapped in. Uh probably didn't have as much stuff piled on it then. The headers are right there in the pasture. Okay. See, they're piled up in there. I wonder what the inside of that engine looks like. Uh about like the outside of this car looks like. Yeah. Okay. Hey, come on now. So, nobody was prepared for this? No, I think he kept it to himself. Was he said there was work involved? Nobody would want to go, right? We're the hillbilly pickers. How many times you actually have to get a skid steer out to clear way to drag a car out? [Music] No spray. Don't spray. Not good anymore. Hey, it's not even good anymore. I'm going to take it to the engine builder and I want it disassembled, clean, maybe rings, bearings, but leave all the internals that's in it. Clean them, refurbish them if possible, put them back together. That would be a cool video. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want it I don't want it changed. as as much parts that can be reused, reusable. Um, but it, you know, this trailer seems to be pretty dry inside. I mean, you know, floor doesn't seem to have rot. Normally, when these things start leaking, you know, they they literally come apart. You hope the block didn't have water in it when they placed it in here. Yeah. I said, it had water in it, you…