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Thunderbird Extraction

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Barn Find 1980s NASCAR Thunderbird & Buick Saved From Time! Abandoned After Days of Thunder Filming

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With the path cleared, the team uses a winch from a flatbed tow truck to slowly pull the Bud Moore Thunderbird out of the container. The car is heavily rusted and the tires are flat, requiring constant monitoring and adjustment to prevent damage as it scrapes against the container's sides and floor. The car is an original rear-steer chassis, meaning it's highly valuable as a piece of racing history.

Goal: Safely remove the Bud Moore Thunderbird from its storage container.

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  • Crowbar — Prying parts or adjusting clearance, Flatbed Tow Truck Jerr-Dan

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before. I think you got it. All right. Somebody start playing music or something. It's first time it's moved and getting something over on it. Yeah. I can I don't know if it'll be uh keep y'all got to start yelling. Is it coming straight? Hang on. Gear. Hang on. Let off the pressure. Let off the pressure a little bit. Take up. Oh, is it here? Yeah. Try that now. All right. Hey, [Music] roll. How many years? How many years? How many years? Early 90s. early 90. You think it'll drag up here? No, I just don't want it to come loose when we get down here and go back in the trailer. Yeah, I don't. That would be bad. It likes where it is. All [Music] right, let's do one thing. Hold up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. [Music] Hey, wait a minute. I know another op y'all. Watch me. Are we touching? Not quite. Okay, watch what we're doing. Oh, that didn't sound good. Yeah, that's why I wanted them to watch cuz I don't want to bust my spoiler. Um, if I can get it, if I can get the tire to the edge, I can pick it up with the tire and bring it out. So, regardless of what you do with it, at this point, it's not going to help. this was a Crisco car. We're We're too We're on the truck so far now. We're not changing We're not changing the size of the height of the car. She's so cute. She said she's hot and she wish y'all left her home. She said, "I didn't know this was going to happen." I didn't either. He sent me the location and it was the the hobby shop. I'm like, "Oh, that's fine. Yeah, we can bring the dog." They're like, "Oh, no. We got to drive 15 miles over and get something out of the woods." Oh, well, I have a lunch box with like ice and water in it for her and stuff. say the main thing is it don't matter about the rest of y'all as long as I'm took care of it. You know, this whole clearance issue really ruined the cinematic moment of pulling the car out of the [Music] container. We get like 3/4 of the way there. Then it's got to be like, wait a minute, we got to get the monkey and the football real quick. All right. Is the tire on the other side on the truck? Just

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