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Title: French Barn Find!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 14 December 2014, 10:08:44
Nice little collection here, but don't think there is an Omega though.....  8)

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/%c2%a312m-french-collection-is-a-proper-barn-find/ss-BBgA7GU#image=26
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: minifreek on 14 December 2014, 10:19:39
Link doesn't work properly, not for me anyway :(
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Post by: henryd on 14 December 2014, 10:21:49
That's some collection :y
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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 14 December 2014, 10:34:14
Now how much is scrap per ton? ??? ??? ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 14 December 2014, 10:39:00
Link doesn't work properly, not for me anyway :(

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/%c2%a312m-french-collection-is-a-proper-barn-find/ss-BBgA7GU
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: powerslinky on 14 December 2014, 10:44:23
Bit of valeting required there I thinks    ;D ;D    nice Ferrari though  . . . 5 mil  ..  :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 14 December 2014, 11:09:00
Facel Vega.......sixties 'S' Type Jaguar.......Mk3 Cortina.
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 14 December 2014, 15:41:53
Wish i had a barn let alone a car collection  :'( Nice all the same though  :)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 14 December 2014, 16:41:46
Wish i had a barn let alone a car collection  :'( Nice all the same though  :)

We have a barn. Nothing in it apart from rats the size of cats. :'(
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 14 December 2014, 18:50:36
I bet someone has a barn full of Omega's right now , to be discovered in 50 years in mint condition  ???
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Post by: Steve B on 14 December 2014, 19:02:38
I bet someone living in bristol has a barn full of Omega's right now , to be discovered in 50 years in mint condition  ???
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 14 December 2014, 19:20:33
I bet someone living in bristol has a barn full of Omega's right now , to be discovered in 50 years in mint condition  ???

In bits  ;D
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: dbug on 14 December 2014, 23:25:32
I bet someone has a barn full of Omega's right now , to be discovered in 50 years in mint condition  ???

Doubt it ;)
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Post by: biggriffin on 15 December 2014, 08:00:46
Mmm. All those old bangers,left in barns,and only the Ferrari is in a show room condition. :P
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: dbug on 16 December 2014, 01:10:37
Mmm. All those old bangers,left in barns,and only the Ferrari is in a show room condition. :P

Quite right & understandable too ;)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 16 December 2014, 15:28:53
Reading the article, Id like to think that if I found my relative who died 10 years ago had such a collection, I'd sell off some, in order to fund the car museum that was his dream which never came to fruition. Or, vice-versa, as it is my dream to one day have a small car museum, be great to think when I'm dead and gone, that dream would live on with someone else, not just carved up and flogged off. 

Sale of the Ferrari at 5mill would surely fund a pretty decent sized shed, air con, little shop and a restoration section. I know it's great to think of the money - estimated £12million, but he collected them his whole life; would be great to see them viewed and loved by thousands of us ordinary people, not restored then locked away by the very wealthy as 'investments'.
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 16 December 2014, 15:44:12
I would build a 30 car museum and fill it with the likes of Lc's and omega's , maybe one or two senators . Have all vauxhall related memorabilia on the walls . And of course a huge barn full of spares to wheel and deal in  :)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 16 December 2014, 16:59:14
Ok, so it's a deal we start one up together!  :y :y :y


Actually, I do know a guy whose garage is like that. White painted floor and walls, cleaner than an operating theatre, flags, memorabilia, posters, old wheel trims on the walls, boxes full of brochures. Amazing place. And because he loves his Vauxhalls/Opels, not Ferraris/Porsches etc, the entire collection (including 3 cars, 2 of which mint) has probably cost less than the price of a single battered MoT failure 80s Maserati or whatever.  :)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 16 December 2014, 17:13:40
Ideally i would like a big farm area in the states and go hunting for old classic cars , tow them back and restore a couple , then sling them in a bunker fully a/c'd ... sell a few cars a year and live the dream ... EMD's rod shop  ;D
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 16 December 2014, 18:29:14
Ideally i would like a big farm area in the states and go hunting for old classic cars , tow them back and restore a couple , then sling them in a bunker fully a/c'd ... sell a few cars a year and live the dream ... EMD's rod shop  ;D

Daisy Duke could be your apprentice. ;D
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: aaronjb on 16 December 2014, 22:11:08
Ideally i would like a big farm area in the states and go hunting for old classic cars , tow them back and restore a couple , then sling them in a bunker fully a/c'd ... sell a few cars a year and live the dream ... EMD's rod shop  ;D

That's my business plan, dammit! ;D

See if you can find "Graveyard Carz" if you like watching yank tanks being restored (very nicely, too, although the 'characters' on the show are a bit hard to stomach for the first two seasons!).


I was half tempted by this recently: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131365128251

I don't think there's any scope to make money off it, though.. I could be wrong - I'm not entirely sure what a nicely restored MGB GT goes for these days as the prices seem to vary from sub £1k to £14k for what looks outwardly the same!


Or this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181608181741 ;D
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 16 December 2014, 23:43:48
Ideally i would like a big farm area in the states and go hunting for old classic cars , tow them back and restore a couple , then sling them in a bunker fully a/c'd ... sell a few cars a year and live the dream ... EMD's rod shop  ;D

That's my business plan, dammit! ;D

See if you can find "Graveyard Carz" if you like watching yank tanks being restored (very nicely, too, although the 'characters' on the show are a bit hard to stomach for the first two seasons!).


I was half tempted by this recently: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131365128251

I don't think there's any scope to make money off it, though.. I could be wrong - I'm not entirely sure what a nicely restored MGB GT goes for these days as the prices seem to vary from sub £1k to £14k for what looks outwardly the same!


Or this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181608181741 ;D

Im sure there are many with a similar dream/business plan , most wouldnt move to the states but i would  ;) Not keen on the Graveyard guys , more into Fast N Loud & Misfit Garage  :) Like this one :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dodge-Coronet-PETROL-MANUAL-2010-E-/311031506908?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item486aec27dc

Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 December 2014, 09:39:57
Ideally i would like a big farm area in the states and go hunting for old classic cars , tow them back and restore a couple , then sling them in a bunker fully a/c'd ... sell a few cars a year and live the dream ... EMD's rod shop  ;D

Daisy Duke could be your apprentice. ;D

I don't know.. She hasn't aged well, sadly. :'(
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: aaronjb on 17 December 2014, 10:17:25
Not keen on the Graveyard guys , more into Fast N Loud & Misfit Garage  :)

I watch those two as well  :y And .. just about every other car related program it's possible to find on TV ;D
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: omega3000 on 17 December 2014, 16:25:22
Not keen on the Graveyard guys , more into Fast N Loud & Misfit Garage  :)

I watch those two as well  :y And .. just about every other car related program it's possible to find on TV ;D

Really liked the Boyd Coddington American Hot Rod series , although there was a lot of monkeying about at least they went into detail of chassis design ect and showed how it was done start to finish  :)
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 08 February 2015, 00:17:12
I came across this article about the French barn Find with some great pictures of a selection of the cars as prepared for auction.  :y

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/artcurials-retromobile-salon-auction/#slide-id-1726045
Title: Re: French Barn Find!
Post by: EMD on 08 February 2015, 09:58:38
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One of the most valuable cars in the massive barn find, the 1949 Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport is among the most beautiful cars of its era. Expected auction price: $453,000 to $680,000.

Thats a big hole in the wallet for a pile of rust  :(