The Auto Archaeologist

The Auto Archaeologist Hunting old cars in a variety of neglected situations. Barn Finds, Junkyards, Garage Storage! I've been to them all.

My name is Ryan Brutt, I travel around the country (eh mostly mid-west) documenting cool cars in neglected situations. Be it a Barn Find, Junkyard Find or sitting in someones garage for 40 years, I hope to be there to document a piece of history that is few and far in between.

05/29/2026

This was a complete surprise last year on Hot Rod Power Tour. Just following the route and there was a farm fresh 1970 Challenger. The guy was super cool and let me check it out. Since the video he has fixed all the rusty sheet metal on the car!

05/29/2026

This 1968 HEMI SuperBee was rescued from a junkyard years ago, and just yesterday got dropped off for a full restoration! They were even able to find the original, numbers matching engine!

I'll keep everyone posted as it goes.

Dropped a follow up video, with some more in depth info on cars I hadn't notice before from my friend Steve's place. In...
05/28/2026

Dropped a follow up video, with some more in depth info on cars I hadn't notice before from my friend Steve's place. Including a rare 1970 Challenger R/T Convertible, 440 4-bbl, 4-speed car!

On this episode, we're in Missouri checking in on some cool barn find muscle cars. We uncovered several rare Mopar E-bodies stuffed away in the building, in...

05/27/2026

Hot Rod Power Tour is coming up fast. And I just dropped the full itinerary for our MoPowered Tour on the page. This is going to be an epic trip.

Who remembers this I think 50s Dodge Semi that was just sitting in the weeds in Indiana. Never seen one like that!

05/26/2026

This 1970 Challenger R/T convertible sat in a St. Louis for decades slowly being parted out. Until my friend "rescued" it to pilfer some of the rare convertible parts left on it. You can see a lot more of this car in the drop on Monday.

Remember those that have fought for our country and passed. They fought for our freedom.
05/25/2026

Remember those that have fought for our country and passed. They fought for our freedom.

05/25/2026

This was the last car in the row from the drop on Monday. This was a fairly ok 1966 Mustang Fastback. Was a 289 car, but no idea if it was a K-Code or anything. Looked like a good project.

05/23/2026

This poor 1967 Chevelle SS 396 was rescued from the scrapper. You can see it better in the full drop on Monday.

This Chevelle had a hard hit to the back. But the restoration shop that owns it plans to restore it. Hopefully that comes true!

05/21/2026

This was a neat one to uncover in the video Monday. A friend has the best twin to this car sitting in his yard. I thought it was the same until I got close to it.

05/20/2026

Another car from the drop on Monday.

This time it was a 1970 Plymouth GTX that needed a bit of work. It was either going to be restored, or turned into a Superbird tribute.

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