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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on January 01, 2009, 22:38:40

Title: Barn find
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on January 01, 2009, 22:38:40: It isn't a 4x4, but what a find!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7807210.stm
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: robert francis on January 01, 2009, 23:12:55: thats a find alright, not only that car there was 2 more, what a happy new year
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 02, 2009, 03:28:46: Sorry but if that was miine I'd have to take it for a spin before I sold it. Love to keep it but imagine the cost of insurance. I guess the Â£millions will help resore the Aston and E-Type though :)

Funny, the auctioneer knew about the car for a couple of years :-k so it was hardly forgotten about
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: JumboBeef on January 02, 2009, 09:42:00: I know of a Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer which has been parked up (inside) since the late 1970's. There is a (very) remote chance I might one day be able to get my hands on it, but could I afford to restore/run it?
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: V8MoneyPit on January 02, 2009, 17:21:06: Quote from: JumboBeef on January 02, 2009, 09:42:00
I know of a Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer which has been parked up (inside) since the late 1970's. There is a (very) remote chance I might one day be able to get my hands on it, but could I afford to restore/run it?

A 512? The engine alone would cost 5 figures to have professionally rebuilt!
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: JumboBeef on January 02, 2009, 20:07:28: Quote from: V8MoneyPit on January 02, 2009, 17:21:06
A 512? The engine alone would cost 5 figures to have professionally rebuilt!

...so....

Quote from: JumboBeef on January 02, 2009, 09:42:00
.....could I afford to restore/run it?

...the answer would be no then :lol:

I don't think there is anything wrong with it as such, it was just parked up one day when it was just a year or two old and then never used again, so the engine might be OK. Who am I kidding, even if it did come to me (and the chance it would is very remote), I bet even doing simple repairs would be painfully expensive and so beyond me.
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: bilge rat on January 03, 2009, 00:39:39: why dont we ever find anything like that. i do some work for an old lady , she has something in her garage . but from what i can see its an old clio .. not good ..
Title: Re: Barn find
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 03, 2009, 01:04:42: I suspect the Bug was owned by a family that was 'above average wealth' to start with, given the company that Grandad kept ;)