barn find

[blackthree4me]

so you say there are no more barn finds hun
heres one that came across my desk today in portugal
http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListMess ... ID=2&pc=27

[GregR]

must have been Rick Leddon...that guy ends up with more finds than anyone else I've ever known....

[Patrick]

Their out there. I found a Corvair like that in TN. Then I had a friend buying old homes in Galveston, Texas. He went under the house to check out the foundation as they sit on blocks. Under the house in the mud was an early 1930's to 1940's Ford Sedan. He owned the house, but could not get the car out of the mud. Looked like the photos, but it was so badly rusted I could not move it. Each time I put a chain to yank it out the salt water around there made the metal really easy to come apart. Each time i pulled I would rip off more part of the car. It was stuck there. I hear he just left it under the house.

There are alot of cars in Galveston like that. A guy found a Rolls under one and it was restored and is nice now.

[Bill K]

What a Find !!!! Be still my heart.

[Yellermanx]

A friend and I found this a couple months ago.


Inside pic. Not a cherry, but good find none the less.

[Patrick]

I am also on a Mini Forum since we own a Mini Cooper.

They talked about this same article a few weeks back. It was called something else. Here's the thread.

The thread is called "Wow" and it starts on January 31st.

I'll try to summarise it:

A friend who frequents the Ferrari forums found a better place to
browse the photos:

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/

There are 180 cars in that barn! I believe I've found four Minis
in there: A Red Cooper'S, a Red Cooper, a British Racing
Green Cooper and White Mk II. It's hard to tell when there are
multiple photos of Red Minis - but looking at where other cars
are around them, there may be two more red Minis in there too.

There is one photo that shows how the doors to the barn had actually
been welded shut! They had to use an angle-grinder to get inside.

Very, very weird!

Here is an interesting photo:

http://www.sjbaker.org/tmp/barn0.jpg

More info gleaned from around the web: The barn was welded shut more
than 15 years ago. Here is a quote from (I believe) the guy who got
a hold of the photos:

"I phoned them to the web site contact, and they told me they
found this incredible place that belongs to someone they promised
not to reveal, nor even the location, and he just kept all those
cars for years, and he is not thinking to sell anything.

This place has been closed for the last 15 years, and certainly
he knows the value is always increasing… as he has some very,
very rare cars.

I know some people who did that, and he probably is someone we
know, I´ll try to find more.

This website has a section under “Perdidos e Achados” (Lost &
Found) where they show cars they find in scrap yards and lost
in garages, but most of them don´t belong to them and they just
put the photos."

[Patrick]

What you can find in the ground. Wish I could find this in my backyard.

http://www.mil.hiiumaa.ee/2000_09_14_kurtna_T-34-36/