Barnfind 1927 Rolls Royce of Mrs Anheuser Busch

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/05/27/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1927-rolls-royce-phantom-i where the 2nd owner want to part with it for $94,000

45 years parked in a garage, and finally the 1939 Studebaker gets towed out into the light for the first time since LBJ was president

read about it at http://bernalwood.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/studebaker-time-capsule-emerges-from-bernal-garage/ somehwere in San Francisco

via http://blog.hemmings.com/ where Dan posts great stuff all the time!

This is not verifiable, but a Shelby GT 350 #6s966 may have been pulled out of a Kansas garage after 30+ years

This story has issues, but notice the photo of the GT 350 doesn't have the H after the GT 350 on the rocker panel decal, and the story claims it is a GT 350 H rent a racer Hertz car with original paint.

the original story http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/apr/02/rare-1966-shelby-gt350-fastback-found-garage-lawre but Jalopnik has the story http://jalopnik.com/#!5787316/how-a-66-shelby-gt350-was-hidden-in-trash-for-26-years as March 30th 2011 and writes that it's a Hertz rent a racer GT 350 H, and the Leake Auction website has no story to go with the photo gallery of the GT 350 that does not have an H after the GT 350.

The CNN video news clip never mentions Hertz. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/04/06/dnt.rare.nustang.found.kctv?hpt=T2

Shelby Forums says that this will be written up in the Spring 2011 issue of the Shelby American http://www.shelbyforums.com/forums/1965-1970-shelby-mustang-gt350-gt500/13464-6s966-found-shed.html

Images from http://www.leakecarauction.com/index.cfm?id=209&auc_code=SA11&year=1966&make=Shelby&model=&keyword=&color=&search=1&lot=474
I learned about this story from Robert L and his link was to the Kansas City Star article: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/09/2789114/rare-car-found-hidden-beneath.html

The SAAC forum addresses this story http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=12348.0 and in the thread they state it was orignally a GT 350 H red and gold, but now has a replacement engine as well as a repaint

If anyone knows more about this, or has read the spring 2011 Shelby American, please drop me an email and add anything you can to this story

Thanks to Chad Lawhorn the story writer from the Lawrence Journal for sending me the link to the original article!

barn and field finds

GTX

GSX, yup, real one

Z code 63 1/2 Galaxie , that means high performance, and highly desireable

They're still out there, and some are never going to part ways with the nimrod that owns it, and tells every possible buyer "Someday I'll restore it" but will die before he ever touches that car again, meanwhile it rusts so much no one can do anything with it.

But every now and then, the owner has forgotten the car was even hanging around because it faded into the background of the family farm

See a new find or two every week at http://www.carsinbarns.com/

barnfind 1970 396 SS Chevelle and 1970 Mach 1 Mustang

from http://www.junkyardlife.com/

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/

Corvettes in Barns, fields, and other places that they decay in

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

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.

Buried treasure, a worse preservation technique than attic storage

Original story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/372041 and http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/569337
Via: http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-you-find-them-14.html

In a nutshell, Karen was gardening and found this 1929 BSA in her New Zealand backyard. She put it on Ebay in 2008

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

5 Barn find Corvettes (in one barn in California) and a Yenko Duece (unrelated find)

Corvette barn finds via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/tesouros-bem-guardados/

Yenko barn find via: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/06/01/musclepalooza-ix-barn-find-yenko-deuce/

A stray spark or something, took out a garage of 3 classics

The blaze seriously damaged a 1923 Alvis, a 1930's Sunbeam and this Daimler with Suicide doors. Via: http://trawler-rider.blogspot.com/2008/10/daimler-and-destroy.html

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.

http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/features/octane_features/233224/alfa_romeo_aerodinamica_spider.html

Via: http://www.motor-klassik.de/medien/foto-shows/auto/mpsfshw_show_505743_14700.hbs?ext_index=0

For another gallery of this car: http://lord-k.livejournal.com/619800.html#cutid1

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

Barnfind 64 Corvette... for sale

http://all-corvettes.ebizautos.com/detail-1964-chevrolet-corvette-3693875.html

Via the incredible website of Mish and Peter in Budapest, http://stipistop.com/

For another barnfind Corvette, a 1954: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/barnfind-1954-corvette.html

Similar to the "Sleeping Beauties" the look of these junkyard cars in Switzerland is so amazing they were left alone to be a tourist attraction

The yard was started as a auto recycler/junkyard by Walter Messerli in 1933. Fast forward to 1975, Franz Messerli (his son) took over. The son tried to carry on the business selling parts. Then tried to make money as a museum. Basically the business went under and now the grounds are to be emptied and cleaned up.

The above is a turn signal semaphore

http://foto.blick.ch/album/CID-u0003196-147/ Best website I've found... use the slideshow function.

A similar European junkyard gallery http://www.cb-globe-image.ch/bild-Autofriedhof%20%20Genf%201988/3/53

I learned about these on http://stipistop.com/ and from http://jalopnik.com/394712/swiss-junkyard-actually-a-museum