Well, so how much did he have to pay for the GT500?

Great story, but basically the bench racing of a car find story.  Years back I knew a great guy, now deceased, who restored Corvettes for a living.  I was a teenager at the time, but I had my '67 fastback and knew a lot about Mustangs.  He told me he could buy a GT500 that was sitting in a barn since the owner was killed in Vietnam.  The car still had everything original down to the plugs, wires, etc.  His questions was what I thought it was worth and should he buy it.  Back then really nice ones were going for $85k, so I said worst case it was worth $85k, probably more becaused it was a legit survivor, and he should definitely buy it.

All that's true, buy that's also the end of that story.  I don't know if he ever bought it, or for how much, or what he sold it for if he did buy it.  Had I more of a flair for the dramatic I could fabricate all those details and have an amazing, nigh unbelieveable story.  That ain't me though.  But, you can see how someone else caught up in a game of oneupmanship would.  That's where a lot of these stories come from. 

Are there still barn finds out there?  Sure, but they are fewer and farther between every year, and the condition of them is getting worse and worse.  Inside or not, leaks in the building and lack of humidity control take their toll on a 40-50 year old car.