Ping!.................
From a better, vanished time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukZgfHZIoc
My uncle has a country place, that no-one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
Sundays I elude the ‘Eyes’, and hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine –
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time
Fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar!
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime…
Wind in my hair –
Shifting and drifting –
Mechanical music
Adrenalin surge –
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside…
It's cool to see these and I have no doubt they were legit barn cars but I have to admit that I am always skeptical of how "random" is is when shows like American Picker go to a random house and a stranger shows them all these amazing antiques he has. Seems like a pre-arranged "surprise".
Taking something old like this and then putting in the time to restore it is quite fun. There is a lot of value in both the restoration process and what’s being put in to be restored.
If I walked into an old barn and found these I would STILL be going “OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD” probably with a massive erection
Expect the FBI to arrest the guy for an environmental hate crime and destroy his cars.
What are these “L”s you speak of?
A nice story, though it seems he found somebody who found them, that he wasn’t aware of.
Maybe the excerpt should include *’No barns were disturbed in the filming of this video’.
Buddy of mine was driving to the University to join my room mate and I to celebrate the start of our Sophomore year driving his Hurst Olds. He was killed in a wreck enroute.
about 20 yrs ago now, I happen to be making a shortcut in wealth S.E. Michigan burb neighborhood to beat the trains (Hint: "You'll shoot your eye out kid) and out of the corner of my eye, not one but two Gull Wing Mercedes just out of the garage.
A departed friend of my dad who ran a business in a rough end of a formerly industrial great city on the East Coast who had his own MG collection told me of a fellow business he visited up the street for mechanical services on his equipment and chatting with the owner noted the silhouettes of 3 Cobra's under covers. Note this gent was not a bs artist, and again a 20+ year old story.
This stuff if out their on the down-lo. They keep it quiet to keep thieves away. That I learned from another collector hinting of his and how it's hidden, (and no I won't show you) and how it is a disease aka the number of them he has (rumors are street rods and muscle) and how he had lost via theft.
Sweet cars... Buddy of mine had a 69 Super Bee with the 440 6-pack and I had a 69 GTO... We went through a lot of tires a tickets.
When style was in a gold mine found.
My buddy in high school (class of 1967) inherited a 1950 Ford Fairlane convertible with 2400 miles on it. His great aunt died and the car was found under a tarp in a barn. Hoses, belts and tires all needed to be replaced but the top was great and the car was absolutely cherry.
I had a 1970 SuperBee when I was in high school. Sold it when I left for basic training.
One of the dumbest things I ever did.....