What a waste. Horders collecting gems and letting the dust and rust destroy them. Open a freaken museum, clean them up and charge $10 a head!
There are some great videos/articles about finding a couple of 52 Vincent Black Lightnings in barns in the UK & restoring to function and the live sound track testing. At that time the fastest in the world.
And... the subject of a song structured around a modern day “highwayman” who romances a young lady, and in dying gives her the keys... it is a modern classic written by Richard Thompson (a real leftie sufi muzzie, but the version done here- by bluegrass legend Del McCrory OWNS the Americanized version. “Red hair and black leather my favourite colour scheme” Del nails the story and the delivery):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7uyG6RrBDE