Showing posts with label barnfind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barnfind. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Barnfind Shelby AC Cobra, and a one owner, less than 7.4 thou miles '62 Benz 300SL roadster getting auctioned by Gooding Jan 21st

Said to be the only unrestored Cobra in blue and red livery, the '64 AAC Cobra spent 33 years in "storage" yet comes off as surprisingly lustworthy in spite of that. It began life as Carroll Shelby's promo car at SoCal racing venues, was pulled from the deeep barn sleep to do the 2010 Pebble Beach

from http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/15/gooding-unloads-its-time-capsule-cars-for-its-2011-scottsdale/

Saturday, December 11, 2010

barnfind 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz



it sat in the garge 30 years, was found by http://www.vintagesportscars.com/vintage_car_barn_finds.html who saw it once and then 6 years later the old woman who bought it new finally sold it to him and he extracted it from the garage.
Stupidly, after all the trouble of getting it, he didn't keep it. Dumb ass traded it for construction work that was never completed.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Barnfresh



Photographed at Hershey's by Kit Foster: http://www.kitfoster.com/2009/10/all-roads-lead-to-hershey.html Kit's website has been one of my recommended for quite a while

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The stunning beauty of design, yes? Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Aerodinamica Spider





A lot has happened in between the car’s construction and its acquisition by the current owner, of course.
Jano was fired from Alfa in 1937 but fortunately the car was pretty much finished, although any prospect of slotting in the new V12 vanished along with Jano.
The Jankovits brothers retained the Aerospider and registered it for street use – the original Fiume licence plates are still with the car. They added a large and hideously inappropriate windscreen, bumpers and turn signals, which ruined the looks but did at least make it acceptable as a road car.
In 1941, however, it was stored away for the duration of the war.
After the war, the Jankovits found themselves under a new Communist regime, their town rechristened Rijeka in the newly formed state of Yugoslavia. Realizing that they were about to lose everything, the brothers dug the car out of storage on Christmas Day 1946 and the same night made a dash through the border and into Italy.
Caught by surprise, the border guards fired after the speeding Alfa – and the bullets left dents in the bodywork that would be rediscovered 60 years later during its restoration.
For another gallery of this car: http://lord-k.livejournal.com/619800.html#cutid1

Friday, December 26, 2008

Barnfind 1954 Corvette

The second owner of this early ‘54 Vette drove this car to a friend’s house to have the seats reupholstered and took them out, set an old wooden Pepsi pop bottle case in place of the driver’s seat and drove it home and parked it under a Ponderosa Pine tree. That was 1963 in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at an elevation of 9,000 feet.

43 years later... http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/10/31/hey-corvette-folks-what-would-you-do/

for a 1964 barnfind corvette http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/barnfind-64-corvette-for-sale.html