We have a very long list of cars we would love to find stashed in an old barn, but sometimes you have to pass on the barn find of your dreams. Perhaps it is too rusty to be saved, maybe life just doesn’t currently permit it, or any number of other reasons. Sometimes you are able to get that dream find home only to have to let it go before finishing it. Well that’s what happened to the owner of this 1969 Mustang Mach 1. After finding it in this Maine barn and getting it home, they are now having to move and can’t take it with. It is partially disassembled and is going to need a massive amount of work, but does come with lots of extra parts. Have a look at it here on eBay.

After sitting in this barn for 30 years, this Mustang has lots of rust. Thankfully replacement parts are plentiful and the seller already has sheetmetal for the rear quarter panels and outer wheel wells. We are going to assume that it had some work done to it prior to being parked, but we can’t tell what all was done. It has obviously been repainted and it appears the rear deck lid was originally white. We would want to inspect it for any accident damage, especially around the trunk. Hopefully it isn’t anything serious, but with all this rust it probably doesn’t matter much.

There is nothing worse than not being able to finish a project, but we see this all the time. Buying one of these unfinished projects can be a nightmare, as you simply don’t know the quality of the work that has already been done. This one has had some of the metal work done, but there is still a lot left to do. While it’s scary to have it apart like this, having it open should make inspecting it much easier.

We would have loved to stumble across this Mustang, but with all that rust we don’t know if we would have brought it home. If you have been looking for a Mach 1 with the 351-4V V8, than perhaps it would be worth the work, but we think we would rather find something more solid to start with. That being said, we hope that someone will snatch this project up and finish it before it decays any further. So are you brave enough?