This Guy Found 40 Amazing American Cars Hidden On A Canadian Farm

Three Ford GTs, six Corvettes, a plethora of Mustangs and Thunderbirds and more hidden gems were just uncovered by one very lucky individual in a place doesn't exactly spring to mind right away when we think of American muscle: Canada.

Canada's Driving reports that 40 fairly recent American performance cars were just located in a hut on an Alberta dairy farm. They were purchased by homebuilder, Shelby collector and one-time lottery winner named Lawayne Musselwhite, the website reports. (Some people have all the luck.)

Musselwhite's discovery is being described as Canada's ultimate barn find, a collection of performance machines left to collect dust but with barely any miles on their odometers. They were purchased several years ago by a farmer who expected them all to go up in value.

There are some strange folks out there. Anyway, the farmer apparently sold the lot due to some unfortunate health issues, but he hung onto 10 of them. Musselwhite said he doesn't know what the missing cars are.

As Musselwhite explains it, the wealthy owner of the dairy farm had years ago gone to his local Ford dealer with $1 million to spend, and asked a salesman to buy cars that would go up in value starting in 1999. Left inside the dirt-floor storage were rows of exotic sports cars, low production factory muscle cars and Harley Davidson Special Edition Ford pickups. The vehicles were new or had hardly any miles on them. Some still wore window stickers.

"It was disgusting the way they were left, covered in dust, overrun with mice and parked on dirt," Musselwhite says. "It was unbelievable what the farmhands were doing to these vehicles — running new special edition pickups through the mud and across fields."

Musselwhite and a friend paid just $1.1 million for the lot sight unseen, which is a steal for everything they got. The lot includes the Ford GTs (Awesome!), a Thunderbird Turbo Coupe (Sweet!), a 1979 Mustang GT Pace Car (Hell yeah!) and four Plymouth Prowlers (Um, okay.) Not bad at all.

Check out Driving for loads of pictures. The full list of cars is below. Which would you take home if you could?

Ford

1979 Mustang GT Pace Car, grey1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, silver1990 Mustang GT Convertible, green on white1990 Thunderbird, black on grey1990 Thunderbird S, 1994 Thunderbird S Coupe, white

1996 Lincoln Mark 8, silver1997 F-150 Flairside1998 Lincoln Mark 8 LSC, black2000 F-150, Harley-Davidson, black2000 Lincoln LS, white2001 Mustang GT Bullitt, black2005 Mustang, yellow2006 Ford GT, red2006 Ford GT, blue2006 Ford GT Heritage Edition2007 Shelby GT500 Convertible, red2008 Ford F-150, Harley-Davidson, black2008 Ford F-150, Harley-Davidson, black2008 Ford F-350, Harley-Davidson, black2010 Ford F-150, Harley-Davidson, purple2010 Ford Raptor, orange2012 Mustang GT/CS, yellow

Chrysler

1999 Plymouth Prowler, purple2000 Plymouth Prowler, yellow2001 Plymouth Prowler, black on silver2001 Plymouth Prowler, blue2006 Chrysler 300 SRT-8, silver2008 Dodge Charger SRT-8, orange2010 Dodge Ram 1500

GM

2001 Chevrolet Corvette, silver2002 Chevrolet Corvette Targa, silver2002 Camaro Z/28 SS, red2003 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, black2006 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, silver on black2007 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, silver on black2007 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, orange on tan2008 Pontiac Solstice Convertible, red

Hat tip to thebigbossyboss in Oppo!

Update: Reader Luc Allain has photos of some of the cars here.