People who let rare cars rot.

That is an awesome story.....A happy ending would've been the car ending up with you.

I can see the barn find add now and the car price at around $25K when the car cost nothing to get if it was a family member. Keep your eyes open for a 71 RR barn find. What color was the car? Auto on the floor or column?
It has been many years ago, seems like it was a light color, seems like maybe a faded yellow, other than that I really don't remember. Many old Mopars have come and gone over the years. I had a 71 RR back in the late? 90's, the 383 was gone and the PO had put a good 400 in it. It was a col. auto, I as going to change it over to a 4 speed, I had all the parts, but let someone else have it before I got it changed. It made me think of my first Mopar I bought in '85, a "71 GTX the PO had just pulled the original 440, sold it off, and yep dropped in a 400! Both were the same color that light ish yellow. Maybe it was a faded something else!!???? Don't remember. They were great cars back in that time, but NOT many people were into the 71 up B bodies!