![]() 12/05/2014 at 10:50 • Filed to: barn find, frenchfriday | ![]() | ![]() |
French Barn find unearths 60 cars. And they are spectacular.
Back in the 1950s, a successful French transport entrepreneur dreams of having car museum and starts buying mostly obscure French cars of design. Times get tough in the 70s and has to sell off 50 of them. Since then, the remaining 60 have not been touched.
Never again, anywhere in the world, will such a treasure be unearthed," says Pierre Novikoff, motor car specialist at Artcurial auction house. He's describing a staggering collection of 60 barn-find cars that have been discovered after lying hidden for 50 years.
And if you think he's exaggerating, then let me quote our photographer, Rémi Dargegen, who reported back to us right after the photo-shoot, saying, "It's amazing, just amazing. The place is incredible… the most impressive thing is the sheer quantity of cars hidden in the barns."
Dat list.
Amilcar C6 berline
Amilcar CGS
Ariès coach
Auto Union cabriolet
Avions Voisin C15
Avions Voisin limousine C15
Avions Voisin C7 par Gallé
Ballot 8 Cyl limousine
Barré torpédo
Berliet coupé chauffeur
Berliet Type VIGB 10HP Taxi Landaulet
Bugatti 57 Ventoux
Citroën Trèfle
Delage D6
Delage D8 coach
Delahaye 135 cabriolet Faget Varnet
Delahaye 135 coach Chapron
Delahaye 235 coach Chapron
Delahaye 235 coach Chapron
Delahaye 235 coupé Chapron
Delahaye Type 43 coupé chauffeur
Delahaye GFA 148 L
Delahaye Type 43 camionnette
Delaunay Belleville limousine VL8
Facel Vega Excellence
Ferrari 250 GT California SWB
Ferrari 308 GTS i
Ferrari 400
Ferrari Mondial 3.2L cabriolet
Hispano Suiza H6B cabriolet Millon-Guiet
Hotchkiss cabriolet
Innocenti S cabriolet
Jaguar type S 3.4 L
La Buire 12 A
Lagonda LG45 cabriolet
Lancia Thema 8.32
Lorraine Dietrich B3/6 plateau
Lorraine Dietrich B3/6 torpédo par Grumman
Lorraine-Dietrich torpédo
Maserati A6G 2000 berlinetta Grand Sport Frua
Mathis cabriolet
Mathis FOH
Packard cabriolet Super Eight
Panhard-Levassor Dynamic berline X77
Panhard-Levassor Dynamic coupé X76
Panhard-Levassor limousine X72
Porsche 356 SC ex-Sonauto
Renault AX torpédo
Renault Vivastella cabriolet
Sandford cyclecar 3 roues
Singer Cabriolet
Talbot Lago 11/6 cabriolet
Talbot Lago Baby cabriolet
Talbot Lago Baby cabriolet
Talbot Lago Cadette 11
Talbot Lago coach
Talbot Lago T26 coach
Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport coupé Saoutchik
Talbot Lago T26 Record coupé Saoutchik
Talbot Lago T26 cabriolet Saoutchik ex-Roi Farouk
http://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/car…
![]() 12/05/2014 at 08:12 |
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all those magazines going to waste!
![]() 12/05/2014 at 08:30 |
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So carefully bound.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 08:40 |
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Jesus fucking christ DAT LIST (LUST?) indeed
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:04 |
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Three (3!!) Voisins!
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:05 |
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Looks like a lot of rust on some great cars, sad really.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:07 |
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I just can't even. Even in really tough shape I don't see a single one that shouldn't
A. Get fixed up enough to start and drive and driven just cuz
or
B. Restored (less preferable option)
Lots of history there
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:26 |
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HAPPY FRENCH FRIDAY!
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:34 |
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No shit. #FRENCHFRIDAY
![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:43 |
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![]() 12/05/2014 at 09:53 |
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There's little left of most of those cars. While the find is spectacular, it saddens me someone capable of buying such special vehicles isn't able to store them in a better (as in: dry) building.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 10:53 |
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I don't know if they're that bad. Certainly the more exposed ones will be in a sorry state but many of those we can see don't look bad once you allow for the dirt and grotty imteriors. Many of these cars - the Delages and Chapron Delahayes - are worth a fortune if there's enough there to restore and the Ferrari 250 looks pretty good.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 10:55 |
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Eight Delahayes, four bodied by Chapron!
![]() 12/05/2014 at 10:59 |
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Fuck, I missed that there were two Panhard Dynamics too.
Oh hey, my new wallpaper.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:07 |
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NOM DE DIEU ! That's a great collection of cars.
I read Lancia Thema 8.32 on the list (Lancia with FWD Ferrari V8), it was unveiled in 1984 or 1985 so it was probably the last time someone open the barn to store a car in it.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:17 |
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Even if the Delages and Delahayes are badly damaged, someone will find a way to restore them. In good condition they're worth hundreds of thousands.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:36 |
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That gallery in the actual article just made me really sad. There is nothing left of most of those cars. All you can do now is take lots and lots of pictures to document them but there is no restoring possible.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:47 |
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I'll take the Mondial for $200!
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:47 |
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The one thing I can't comprehend is why those two gentlemen occasionally photographed are not weeping.
![]() 12/05/2014 at 11:48 |
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You beat me to it! Also, where'd you find the list?
![]() 12/05/2014 at 13:36 |
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![]() 12/05/2014 at 14:01 |
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Pretty interesting stash. Not very well preserved but at least they still exist. Most were probably quite bad when they were stashed.
Thema 8.32 is pretty new compared to the others (3/4 of the Ferraris were also quite new). How did that end up there?
![]() 12/05/2014 at 14:05 |
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Where'd you find the list?
In the article I linked.
![]() 12/06/2014 at 00:17 |
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Huh. I read the same article... guess I missed the list though. Regardless - I wish I had millions in a swiss bank right now. But not for the Ferrari. Give me the Maerati A6. And all of the T-26s.
![]() 12/08/2014 at 12:14 |
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Take's the hoarder mentality of "I'm going to restore it some day" to a whole new level. This makes me sick to my stomach. I wish I had the money to save just one. Hopefully they get restored or used to keep others running.