This funny Fiat 850 Spider is said to be a barn find, actually it seems everything but a barn find. Indeed these cars, quite rare in the US and especially the US model like this one, are deeply prone to rust even if they have been well cared during their life: the poor quality of… Read More Yellow fun: 1969 Fiat 850 Spider
Generally you think at a Bel Air convertible cruising along a road near the sea and adorned by palms; this car however had a different life. Like every typical CL advert, on this one the seller wrote only that the car has a 283 c.i. engine and that’s complete: we can see that there is a huge… Read More New York rust: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
It was a long time ago since we didn’t see a barn find E-Type belonging to the first series: this means that some cars are still floating “out there”. This Coupé is painted in red and many could think that it’s the typical “resale red” used in the past on many sports cars, but the… Read More Enclosed cat: 1962 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 Coupé
Once again the seller of this car didn’t talk about the build year of this european Ford, but the front grille looks like the one installed on The Monte Carlo model so this car should have been produced between 1953 and 1955. As reader Lagunatich says, this is not a Monte Carlo but an early… Read More Uncertain birth: 1952 Ford Cométe
There are few things of this had that we don’t understand: first, what does the “Mercury Monarch conversion” matter with this microcar, second: we haven’t ever seen this model. This is a Lloyd roadster from 1958, stored in a proper barn: a fascinating place if it were not for the giant spiders that usually are… Read More Proper barn find: 1958 Lloyd 600 Roadster
The car posted here is a rare bird, unfortunately, like many CL ads, there is one only photo to discuss about: the one above. At least we can publish a photo (of a coupé) where you can have an idea of what this car could be once restored. It’s a very pretty little car with a… Read More Rough but rare: 1957 Moretti 750 Tour Du Monde
We didn’t ever think to see an Aston Martin still in a barn and, most of all, in a barn situated in France. This DB2/4 is said to be a 1957 car, so it has been made during the last year of this model and it’s called MKII, ore second series. Unfortunately this ad features… Read More Still in the barn: 1957 Aston Martin DB2/4
It’s not the first time we see a car (or more than one) which is leaved in a garage soon after having been restored: this time the protagonist is a 1947 MG TC. The seller says that this car is stored in his mom’s house which is going to be sold: of course this is… Read More Restored then forgotten: 1947 MG TC “Twin spare”
This Bahama Yellow 912 was parked somewere in the late ’80s, just be brought back to light just after the classic car week. The seller says that such color is “super rare”: we don’t have numbers in hand but we’ve seen a lot of early 911/12 painted in such color. However, we find that, when… Read More Yellow little bird: 1967 Porsche 912 Coupé
We have seen many Corvette Stingray for sale so far but few of them were Split Window. But most of all, we have never seen so far a Stingray made in 1962 like this one. Indeed the seller says that this car was built in 1962: neither we knew that the early cars of this model… Read More Never this old: 1962/63 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray “Split Window”
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