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[Scotty]

Now here's something I could only dream about - a "pristine" barn find!



This is from an American based web site I visit where its new owner posted his album of photographs to share with the members. Its a 1931 Essex, untouched for 55 years, although another member has mentioned it looks like a 1930 grill that's on her. The other car nose you can just see is a 61 - 63 Lincoln and that has drawn a lot of interest as well.



I have never been in that fortunate position to find an unmolested "barn find", the closest I got was our 1952 Anglia, which had been "touched" everywhere and not sympathetically - for example the owner had painted her without the use of masking and that included the wheels - completely tan from top to bottom!

Any of you guys actually had an "open the door and there it was, original and complete" experience?

Scotty.

[Rick]

Wow what a great find!! a couple of years back I was tipped off about a 1934 Triumph 9 that had sat in a shed since being parked in 1956, and in the same family from new. Sadly the shed was open-fronted, and when I went to view it had suffered, especially in the body timbers. It was complete though, the aluminium 4 door six-light coachwork was ok, and the steel wings and bonnet definitely re-usable. The wooden frame though was the killer, and may render it beyond feasible restoration, although it'd be a shame for it to be lost after all this time. It was still on a current V5C amazingly. It even had an original tax disc from 1935 with it, old Castrol tins under the bonnet etc. I was tempted although with other things on the boil I wasnt sure if I'd ever get it sorted out. Accessibility to this remote house was also an issue, albeit one that could have been worked around.

I'll dig out some pics later and put them on here. It was featured in The Automobile (I think in the December issue).

I have recently been contacted about something else interesting, but that'll have to wait til I hear a little more about it.

RJ
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[peter scott]

Here's one I came across on the way back from Beaulieu. No not my find, but Dave Davenport's of Davenport Cars.

I suspect it will get restored but with this sort of car it is tempting just to tidy it up a little but resist all the spit and polish.

Peter

[Rick]

ooooooo all these pics of pre and post-war SS/Jaguars is doing me no good at all

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[Scotty]

Now that's what I'm talking about!

You couldn't hold me back if I found something like that, what a discovery. I can see it in my minds eye already - BGR, maybe red, perhaps silver, or how about black, with refurbished leather, gleaming wood and shining chrome.

Now, I wonder how much I have in my piggy-bank?

[47p2]

Well it is Christmas so we can all dream right enough.

These barn finds are not as rare as we are made to believe. I have heard that house clearances are the best way to find them.......

Wish I had the time and the money
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[peter scott]

[Scotty]

There's not many barns in Glasgow, maybe that's where I've been going wrong!

[buzzy bee]

Hi

There is a load in Cheshire, but they all seem to be being lived in! ggggrrrhhh Hence there being no where for storage!

Cheers

Dave

[Leadpipelouie]

I rent a barn from a friend of my wife's and a couple of years ago I had a call for help from the same woman.
She still had the old car from when she sat her driving test many years previously and had purchased an engine. Could I collect this engine and get it up to her old car in another barn?
Obviously, I was sympathetic and agreed to help.
Turns out it was an old (rotten) Herald estate and after dragging the unit through a dusty barn filled with ploughs and bits of tractor, I came upon her vehicle.
Parked next to it was a large car and another, much smaller one-both under tarpaulins.Lifting the rear of the larger tarp exposed a rather large bootlid with the evidence of a spare wheel contained within. Lifting along the side revealed very large wire wheels -I eventually uncovered a Bentley !! The other car looked like a low-light Singer Junior.
Both are still there now and apparently were left there many years earlier by a local man who had been made bankrupt !
No amount of cajoling or bribing has got me any closer !!
John

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Maybe if two of us tried the bribing???? he he

Cheers, great story and find! Ask her for some pics??

Dave