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Barn Finds in France
« on: February 08, 2015, 05:19:45 PM »

Some 3,500 people crowded Friday into the room at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles where Artcurial Motorcars was staging its annual sale as part of Salon Retromobile, the huge classic car celebration held each winter in Paris. What attracted so many people, including 1,600 registered bidders, was not just an outstanding assortment of collector vehicles but the offering of some 60 barn-found cars from the Baillon Collection. Moe...
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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2015, 09:09:46 AM »
What's weird to me: why would you buy a rusted wreck like that?  Wouldn't it be better to build a replica - seeing as you'll have to re-do the whole car anyway? 

I don't mean the very one on the photo; it actually looks in a fairly decent state.  But click the "moe" link...

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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2015, 11:56:49 AM »
one way to explain it, this is from a very wealthy racer at Lime Rock in an interview...

to paraphrase:
"yes you smash your $50K car and it costs ~$50k to fix and it is still worth $50K, I smash my $500K car and it costs me $150K to repair... and it is worth $500K still and rising :)"



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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2015, 04:03:53 PM »
hm...ok so it's purely business, no passion.  Bugger.

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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2015, 05:09:26 PM »
The way I understand it is if the only piece of original steel is the bit with the manufacturing plate on it, then it'll be considered an original car.
People will pay an order of magnitude more for an original over a replica.

It doesn't make sense to me. :-\

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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2015, 06:27:49 PM »
hm...ok so it's purely business, no passion.  Bugger.
No it is passion but those are super desirable I was making the point it is worth fixing those rusty cars.
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Re: Barn Finds in France
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2015, 01:36:12 PM »
Original is better, it is real history. The more of the car that is salvageable the better. Not that I have ever done a full bare metal rotisserie restoration I could imagine that bringing a car back to life would be extremely satisfying. I would love to one day do that.

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