neglected cars, cars in barns, and car graveyards... gallery

Lamborghini Muira SV, chassis number 5062. Last known to be owned by HRH Sheikh Al-Thani, Quatar.

Baghdad



http://www.supercarforums.co.uk/chatforum/viewtopic.php?t=30&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 is the original source of these photos... .29 pages full.

http://www.widelec.org/czekaja_na_lepsze_czasy,id,1735.html

For an ongoing blog about sleeping beauties and neglected cars: http://velocesleepingbeauties.blogspot.com/

Barn find of 109 old cars

Pictures are all here, and it's quite a variety of early 20's and 30's Fords, and some Stangs, lots of trucks, some early John Deere tractors too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=360013755820&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=023

Via Winding Road
http://news.windingroad.com/online-auctions/ebay-auction-of-the-day-kansas-barn-find/

Here is the only unrestored '57 Jag XKSS

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/automobiles/collectibles/19RESTO.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=slogin

The car, which was displayed at the 1957 Chicago Motor Show, had been all but given up for lost. In fact, it was hiding in plain sight, still in a garage, still in Chicago and in the hands of the second owner who had bought it in 1960.
Sloppy handwriting had resulted in the misreading of the owner’s last name and sent searchers on wild goose chases over the years.

A farmer in 1974 bought 2 VW vans, the second to use when the 1st broke down. It never did get used

So this 1973 VW panel van never had more than just 33 kilometers put on it. Now it's going up for auction at Coy's in London.

http://www.classicaldrives.com/50226711/time_warp_1973_vw_van_with_only_33_kilometers_offered_in_auction.php

Remember the hoard of dusty cars collected and forgotten, then found by the new purchaser of the farm and barn?

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/The-Cars-in-the-Barn-20070222 gives a lot of the cars by name, in English for good mearsure, instead of the first word the internet had which was all in Portugese.

Cars in Barns

http://www.hesselmann-foto.de/frame1.htm On the left menu, click on sleeping beauties

I found the name of the photographer from getting the book, "Cars in Barns"... some of the pics are in that book, along with the story of how the photographer found this storage barn with millions of dollars of rare / priceless unknown cars like the Cord 812, Bugatti's, etc