Wherein our columnist recalls his never ending hunt… by Wallace Wyss - I have for some years now refrained from advertising myself as a barn finder. There's a reason for that. In the old days I was married to a lady who worked for a … [Read more...]
How To Treat A Barn Find – A Jaguar XK140 FHC-SE
December 9, 2024 By 9 Comments
Now this is a real Jaguar... by Mike Gulett - Geoffrey Horton has had a lot of experience around some serious cars. As the nephew of George Tilp he had access to Ferrari race cars and the people who worked on them and drove them. It is no … [Read more...]
Are We Running Out Of Barn Finds?
February 12, 2022 By 4 Comments
by Mike Gulett - There is a limited supply of barn find collector cars - there were only so many cars ever made, a small subset of those cars are classic collector cars, a very small subset of those are in a position to be a real barn find and … [Read more...]
A Barn Find Discussion and Cartoon
April 19, 2021 By 16 Comments
by Mike Gulett - This Ferrari 275 GTB was at the Gooding auction in Monterey in August 2011. The estimate was $900,000 - $1,300,000 and the car sold for $1,540,000! Gooding's description: Desirable Alloy-Bodied 275 … [Read more...]
A Holy Grail of Porsche Specials: Found, Yes, in a Barn
April 10, 2020 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - When you start tracing the history of Porsche’s mid-engined cars, you come across, of course, the 550 and the RSK. And the very first Porsche ever made was mid-engined, though they decided to go rear engine for production. So … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Former Barn Finder
April 8, 2020 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I know there's still the AutoTrader but my short lived career as a barn finder was built on the original newspaper-style Auto Trader that you could get at any liquor store. My method was to not look like a slickster from The … [Read more...]
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