Mustang owner discovers secret about 1973 model in the rain

This Colorado man bought a 1973 Mustang hoping to restore it, only for the rain to reveal a secret.

There’s nothing worse than feeling like you got the short straw in a situation.

One eBay seller was left feeling like he’d been dealt a bad hand after he left his new purchase parked outside.

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How the rain ruined this Mustang owner’s day

eBay seller, Antiques on Main LLC, said they purchased the car but didn’t check the roof.

Given that the previous owner had not mentioned anything about potential damage, he parked it outside.

This would prove to be a mistake.

While he was at work, it began to rain and the car was damaged.

By the time he returned home, the headliner had been wrecked due to holes in the floor – even though the interior looked better than expected.

It needed a thorough cleaning, but it wasn’t a hopeless cause.

Much like this North Carolina man who was reunited with his 1967 Mustang twenty years after it was stolen, the story could have ended worse than it did.

Owing to the fact that it needs a lot of work to make it ready for the road, the car is going for the relatively cheap price of $4,000.

The car is parked in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and a trailer is required to haul it home even though it has a running engine under the hood.

The 1973 car in more detail

1973 was a year of growing sales for Mustang, who ditched the convertible that year.

Because buyers still wanted a convertible and knew the next model wouldn’t have that feature, they snatched up convertibles where they could.

In 1973, Mustang sold 12,000 convertibles, almost double the amount sold in 1972.

Mustangs have been in continuous production since March 1964, becoming Ford’s fifth best-selling nameplate.

Their old cars are a big hit with car collectors, even if they have to do a lot of work on them, as was the case with this 1967 model.