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Rare Shelby Mustang Found While Cleaning Garage
POSTED: 3:16 pm CDT April 5, 2011
UPDATED: 8:48 am CDT April 6, 2011
facebookdel.icio.usbuzzdiggreddit›› Email›› PrintLECOMPTON, Kan. -- Imagine cleaning out a garage and finding something so amazing that it was like winning the lottery.
It happened to a Lecompton businessman.
Working as an auctioneer for the last 40 years, Bill Fair said he has come across some weird stuff.
"A skull ... body parts," he said.
But Fair said even he wasn't prepared for what he found recently.
What Fair found was a classic 66 Shelby Mustang -- one of only 1,100 made, and sold from Carroll Shelby's personal car lot.
The fastback was sitting in the middle of a huge pile of junk in a storage unit. It has been there 26 years and was in near perfect condition.
"In the middle of all the trash was a car," he said.
Fair didn't really know what his company had just found. A little research showed that similar cars have sold for upwards of $2 million.
Fair had been hired by the Texas attorney general's office to take over and clean out the building. When he told them about the car, they had it shipped to an auction in San Antonio.
And while Fair may never see the classic Mustang again, he will never forget it.
Fair said they've already had an offer of $60,000 for the car. The Texas attorney general's office is expecting to get around $200,000
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