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A 1968 Pontiac Catalina, 52 years in the desert, keeps Pole Barn Garage busy

The abandoned car showed only 66,000 miles when it was pulled from a used car lot closed since the late 1970s.

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Will This ABANDONED LOW MILEAGE Pontiac Run And Drive After 52 Years?

Eleven days ago, Pole Barn Garage went looking for a 1968 Pontiac Catalina that had sat on the lot of an abandoned used car dealership since the late 1970s. By the description's count, it spent more than half a century roasting in the desert sun and has only 66,000 miles on the clock. The question in the title is the one that drives the whole channel: will it run and drive?

No new uploads went up this week, and the Catalina is the video people are opening most right now. It has passed 300,000 views. Close behind it are two older projects that fit the channel's motto, "regular builds for regular folks." One is a $500 small block Chevy bought from a Facebook Marketplace seller who was really trying to sell something else. It came with Dart Iron Eagle heads and a Comp camshaft, which raises the title's question of whether it was too good to be true. The other is a $200 1985 Ford LTD LX pulled out of the desert. Under that four-door body sits a Fox Body Mustang, and it is being built cheap and fast ahead of Blue Collar Drags 2026.

Even without anything new, the channel had a busy stretch. Daily views ran at about twice their usual pace, and around 800,000 views came in over the week, the third most among the car channels nearest its size. Pico Automotive Diagnostics had the big week, and Tom Coolen led the group in views gained. The subscriber count barely moved, so the extra attention came mostly from people watching older videos, not from new subscribers.

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The facts

Channel: Pole Barn Garage
Subscribers: 340,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 794,938
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Pole Barn Garage's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Tom Coolen

1,851,274

Pico Automotive Diagnosti…

810,319

794,938

744,919

710,685

655,888

545,747

379,712

332,118

subscribers

340,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

89,723,489

views per day

222,800

typical day: 105,348

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

367,000

365,000

356,000

340,000

339,000

331,000

327,000

327,000

Pico Automotive Diagnosti…

318,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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