Rare muscle car stored for three decades needed to be craned 30 feet up in the air to be saved

This rare muscle car was stored for three decades and needed to be craned 30 feet up into the air to be saved.

Youtuber Glenn Everitt was delighted to find a Red Pepper XA GT Falcon sedan, which had been sitting in storage for years.

The car’s owner bought it back in 1987 for $5,000, and not driven it much in the years since.

It was meant to be going on display, and a crane needed to be brought in to get it out.

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Weirdly, cars and cranes have more overlap than you might initially think.

In one instance, we saw a Porsche being lifted onto the roof of a mansion for the purposes of a party.

In another, a Utah family used a crane to lower a Cybertruck onto their pool to test the pool cover.

Then there’s the super-rich owners who have used cranes to take cars up to high-rise apartments. Which is what happened with this Rolls-Royce Ghost and this 1975 Porsche Speedster.

And that’s just without even going into bizarre marketing stunts, like the time Honda hung three Passport TrailSports from a crane.

Well, the muscle car being craned in Glenn Everitt’s video wasn’t for show or to flex.

It was a matter of necessity.

He’d paid a visit to a Red Pepper XA GT Falcon sedan, which had spent over 30 years inside a shed.

The car was due to be going on display. But there was a big problem – this Falcon was totally blocked in.

A pool, fences, and vegetation had made moving the car a logistical nightmare.

So there was only one thing for it.

It was time to bring in a crane.

In order to open things up, a shed wall was removed so the Falcon could be pulled out into the open air.

Once it was out… Well, let’s just say ‘mothball’ was a fitting nickname.

“I never expected to see it [out in the daylight again],” Pat, the owner said.

When a crane arrived, a palette was lowered into the backyard, where the car was rolled onto it.

It was quite remarkable to see this car rising into the air – almost like a falcon, you might say.

The classic car carried the dust and dirt of 30 years of being entombed, and now it was back out in the open air again.

The only thing left to do now would be to get it all cleaned up in time for public display.

To see this muscle car being craned for yourself, head over to Glenn Everitt’s YouTube channel.