Barnfind GTO story

Full story from Hagerty's weekly newsletter, http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/News/All-Articles/2013/03/04/64-GTO-owner?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Hagerty%20Weekly%20News%2003-06-2013

It was rumored that the Travel Channel would have a show about barn finds, but it seems like that didn't work out. Nothing on their website even results on a search function about it

this photo is all I can find on Corky Coker's blog about barn finds, and since it was his barn find show that the Travel Channel http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows was rumored to have last fall, I think this means it didn't work out

photo from http://blog.cokertire.com/the-art-and-poetry-of-the-barn-find/#more-3239

Yellow Bullet.com has a thread going about cars found in barns, fields, garages and backyards...

A Baldwin Motion

Just a reminder that critters and snakes all love the secret hiding spots in cars, and I've seen a couple photos of mean snakes that are hanging out under the hood waiting for you to pop it open.

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133431

10,000 mile 1960 VW Kombi bus pulled from 45 years of heated storage

Back in 1960 a guy thought a mobile donut selling operation would be a good business to bring to factories during break time. Things didn't work out well, and the van was put into storage for 45 years. One of about 40 made.


Full gallery and story at http://placc.stipistop.com/2012/02/21/40-eve-pihen-a-gurulo-samba-fankbolt/ 

Some people wait a lifetime to find a great car, some find it when they are a teen, and wait a lifetime to won it. Mark was a fortunate rarity, he got both the car he desired 30ish years ago, and it's a barnfind 1969 GT 500 Shelby Mustang

photos from http://www.teamshelby.com/forums/index.php/topic/71189-barn-find-gt500/

Mark's neighbor was an attorney that owned 3 Shelby Stangs, acquiring each as payment on cases, and this was the one he drove the most and damaged in the early 80's, and then parked it in the warehouse over his office. Once it went into the freight elevators and into that warehouse it was off the radar... til the attorney finally mentioned selling it to the single person that could reunite it with the once teenage neighbor kid

The original 428 was blown early, and replaced with a 390, but the sale went through at 25 thousand to Mark, because he'd known the seller since the 80's and the seller knew it was going to a good home finally

Info from Muscle Car Review dec 2012 issue

Barnfind L29 Cord... still has the WW2 gas rations sticker on the windshield

the story of the car, stored and not touched since 1952, all 60 years of sitting there were because some kids vandalized it and broke the heart of the guy who had just bought it, and galleries of photos at http://www.l-29cord.com/html/perry1.html

Did you like the posts about collections in barnfinds, the collections of cars that were found to have been neglected for decades? Well, here is another. In Belgium, and it's all Alfa Romeos

These are good photos, but there is another great set at http://timster1973.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/the-lost-alfas/ who says there are only 6 cars.

First it was the Sleeping Beauty collection of the Schlumpf bothers, then the welded shut collection of the variety of cars bought up by a collector when they were cheap, in Portugal. Now, this group of cars in a Belgian Castle. Cool world we live in, and interesting finds are still happening.

The original source website is dead. Well, it might just be having issues, but it doesn't seem to work. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/ and so I learned about this on http://sucksqueezebangblow-juice.blogspot.com.br who posted it a month ago

A couple photos are at http://www.wernerschijvenaars.nl/gallery/71988 but they aren't as good as these ones, and provide no info

still out there, waiting for a resurrection

found on http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=432101716839614&set=o.142234555873474&type=1&ref=nf via  http://32concepts.tumblr.com/

The Barnfind GT 350 that Galpin bought, wow.

1969 Hurst Olds 455 H/0 rotting away in a parking garage

found on http://www.carsinbarns.com/new179.html

A family stored a custom LeBaron lwb sedan '32 Stutz for 73 years, because WW2 limited supplies of tires meant the owner had to store it, and drive his Nash for commuting. So it got stored away, and never hit the road again, only 23,000 miles

thanks to Hagerty Ins Co www.hagerty.com for sending out weekly newsletters and news items like this. They also have a monthly magazine for customers, and the past issues are available online. This also is to thank the HVA  http://www.historicvehicle.org/ Historical Vehicles Association for going to car shows and finding "Cars That Matter" http://www.historicvehicle.org/This-Car-Matters/TCM  and recording the story, getting photos, and sharing such great stuff with all of us!