Barn Finds
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If you’re looking for an all-original 1958 Porsche Speedster with less than 100,000 miles on the clock, where would you even start looking? A high-end auction, like RM Auctions or Gooding and Company? A retailer of collectible cars, like Canepa Design? Chances are good you wouldn’t begin your search on Craigslist, but that’s exactly where Barn Finds located this 1958 Porsche Speedster. According to the seller's Craigslist ad, the car was parked in 1982 with only 93,500 miles on it, including 3,500 that were put on after a body restoration. There are plenty of pics that show...
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1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing barn findProof you can still find some of the rarest of rare automobiles rotting away in a damp garage or barn somewhere is this original 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘gullwing’ coupe found during an estate sale in the UK recently. The original 300SL, both in its coupe and roadster bodystyles, is...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Time Capsule 1978 Corvette Indy Pace Car Sells For $50,000
A "barn find" 1978 Corvette, with just 13 miles on the odometer, has sold to a Sheik from Abu Dhabi for $50,000.
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2013 Nissan GT-R, Subaru At Tokyo, Leno’s New Mustang: Today’s Car News
This month plays host to both the Los Angeles and Tokyo auto shows and understandably the news is coming out hard and fast. Today we have the first details about a more powerful Nissan GT-R being introduced for the 2013 model year update, as well as a preview of Subaru’s upcoming hybrid and...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Shelby Cobra Mustang Barn Find Nets $230K, Was Leno The Buyer?
It generated buzz, controversy and even threats on a Shelby forum. By early Saturday afternoon, it generated $230,000 at auction. We're referring to the 1968 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT500-KR we posted about a few days earlier. Curiosity prompted a six-hour road trip to the Indianapolis suburb of...
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Controversial 1968 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT500-KR Barn Find At Auction
A highlight of this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas was the original Shelby Cobra prototype on display. Unrestored and unpretentious, its presentation was in stark contrast to the event's requisite highly polished, no-holds-barred rides surrounding it. Patina be damned, its provenance commanded due...
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A Santa Monica, California barn find may be the last of the truly great missing classic car discoveries: the only one of the 29 alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing coupes not already accounted for. Chassis number 21 was discovered at the original owner's garage through Rudi Koniczek, owner of restoration shop Rudi and Company and restorer of six other alloy-bodied 1955 300 SLs. It was stored behind huge stacks of ancient computer equipment, collecting a healthy sheath of dust, after its transmission went out in the early 1970s. The owner, Tom Wellmer, had intended to repair the...
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The World's Most Original AMC Pacer: Barn Find
A face only a mother could love. Had to tie a steak around its neck so the dog would play with it. Just plain ugly. All of these are fitting descriptors of the AMC Pacer, but this particular example is interesting anyway. Why? Because it's very likely the most original Pacer in the world. Having...
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Rare Bugatti Garage Find Sells For $4.4 Million
Bugatti's cars are today one of the most cherished in existence, whether old, like the Type 57S Atalante left by a British physician in his will this week, or new, like the Veyron Sang Noir, which is dedicated to that very classic. The incredible 1937 Bugatti left to the doctor's nieces and nephews...
Kenneth Hall
