where have all the finds come from lately???? seems like this year everybody has found a spectactular car that has been put up for 30 years nobody around here {east tenn} has found anything worth diging out is this for real or is these new hambers just trying to move up the traditional ladder ????
I think alot of these cars aren't necessarily "barn finds", but rather stored/forgotten about in garages, hangars, etc... and with the popularity of the hobby have gotten alot of attention and therefore people are bringing them out of the woodwork by offering them for sale and us hambers are looking harder than ever before trying to locate that next find...
I always thought a "barn find" was an old hot rod or custom, something significant, not just any random old car found in any random spot. This barn find shit is kind of getting old. If most of what I've seen on here lately is a "barn find", I know where a bunch of them are.
I hope the 'barn find shit' isn't getting too old, I'm busy building barns for my old cars! LOL I know where a '63 split window vette sat under a barn. That is until the tornado blew the barn down and the VETTE NOW SITS IN THE OPEN! I know where a slick black '64 Vette is, on jackstands, and the only good excuse for a custom vette I have seen since the Gran-Sports. '63 roadster vette and a '70and a1/2 z/28 , angle plug heads etc, in a steel storage container, in the middle of nowhere of all things. There is a whole generation of barn finds coming in the next 20 years guys, make yer popcorn and watch them roll out.
It's not a "find" if it was never lost. If the current owner knows what he's got (and where he's got it), its not lost. Just because its been in storage for 10 or 20 or 30 years doesn't mean its a "find".
What's wrong with the4 occasional barn find?? This one is just north ot Knoxville so I know there are some in tennessee.
In this age, that means there is no such thing as a barn find in 99% of these cases. The "Find" is in discovering something that is not advertised properly, or even at all. When it hits our radar for the first time, I consider it a find. jmo
Ive often wondered about te Barn finds , do you ask whats in the barn or just go in and take your chances..?.. as far as going up the ladder.. that would be a , I dont think it matters thing.. The cars are being found and being posted.. its something new to look at.. Every one gets lucky and is kind enough to share there finds..
I agree with you. Lookin' at old cars is just plain fun to me, and I hope folks keep posting their new finds. My car was found behind a barn, 'cause the owner told me it was there. I'd been in the barn with the guys father to look at his '40 Ford coupe and '31 Model A coupe, but had no idea a '59 Ford ragtop was around back. Does that count as a barn find...sort of?
I think a lot of the old guys are starting to die off or have finally realized that they are never going to do anything with the cars they have.
Here is my recent Barn find. My freinds grandfather bought this Chevy Coupe brand new in 1941, He passed away about a year ago and the family sold me the car for $1000. It has been sitting in the barn for about 20 years. I found it in Estacada Oregon (Just outside of Portland)
The barn find is in fact alive and well. I just scored an all original 47 Chevy Stylemaster 2 door 6 passenger. With just over 75000 on the clock, barely any rust and pulling the original thermostat out of the 216 ci engine, runs, drives, new gas tank all gauges work and good old 6 volt technology. Pretty sure the barn find thing is because people just need the cash. Not much choice. Let it go or starve and find a good corner to live on. To clarify for Crashnburns a barn find is a car that is not a complete rust bucket, has some collectability, or a good solid foundation to start your street rod build. It does not have to be an original 39 V-16 Caddy with 3000 miles on the clock, with perfect paint and interior.
Uhhh. That is exactly my point. the vast majority of so-called "barn finds", aren't finds. Stay outta my "barn". They aren't advertised because they're not for sale. And, they aren't lost. I know where I left most of them. (Dammit, where is that Buick?)
Lots of opinions on definition of "barn find". I believe it should mean a antique car-stock or rodded, that has been put up and either the owner is deceased or has basically 'forgotten' the car and no plans to ever bring it back into the light of day. Therefore, it is found when one of us happen upon it by pure chance and rescues it from it's state of isolation. I got to live that dream several years ago. This little stocker-1930 Pontiac coupe was parked in an old wooden barn in 1959 by the original owner's niece, basically forgotten and over time literally buried in all manner of boxes, junk, and enought 'stuff' that one could barely even make out a car in there. Discovered by chance thru a conversation with the 3rd generation nephew to the 'niece' of the original owner when I happened to mention I had a 1931 Pontiac I was building. Car is still as it was pulled from the barn, runs and drives with original flathead six, and no plans for now just enjoying it.
I was overjoyed at what I thought was a barn find until the guy down the road told me the barn had been there since before he was born. Frank
Sometimes it's just the thrill of the hunt. You never know if that one rotten building holds a hibernating Deuce or a bunch of old farm equipment. I found this low milage 53 Chevy 150 in a barn were the owners parked it in 1976 after buying a new Datsun. Is it a significant find? No, But I enjoyed the hunt and I am actively seeking more. I don't need more cars but I enjoy finding them just like I enjoy reading about other HAMBers finds. Significant or not.
Funny.. almost every time i've read an article about a barn find it turned out to be a car...... found in a barn...... but it's all hype, right? this was a literal barn find i got to check out when i bought my 47 truck cab (under the lean-to next to the barn).. the guy who owns it bought the property from his uncle and hadn't looked in the barn.. he moves there and lo and behold this beauty sits in there.. turns out it belonged to his grand-father who bought it brand new in 39.. then later down the road got a 360 shoe-horned into it..
I also enjoy seeing all you guys that seem to luck out and find these long forgotten cars. I only wish that I had some of that luck on my side.
Well, I'll admit that I used the term on this deal http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=371233&page=2, even though only part of it was in a building, and the stuff wasn't exactly lost. I actually think it's kind of a silly term, too. It has just become a catch-all for all sorts of things. But people seem to respond to it. I hate trying to share something that I think is cool and having no one look at it. You can't write the whole story in the headline (whether it's a blog story or a messageboard thread), so you just have to get people in and explain it better with the story. That's what I'm thinkin', anyway.
i just picked up this 48 chevy about a month ago, in a barn for the past 15 plus years , after a little work got it running and everything moves on jackstands. working on the brakes so i can take it for a drive .....not the safest but i wanna drive it a little before i really take it apart. $1200 and an hour away from home
My coupe was dug out of an old shed ,when asked where it came from I am guilty of saying "BARN" . My 50 chevy truck was found in a yard, yard find?I think its an over used term ,like the RR word that the general public calls my satin painted coupe.
WTF? What could possibly be BETTER than finding some cool, old car in a barn that has been hidden away from everyone for decades? SSKustoms find in the post above is a great example. Seems like there is always a cool story that goes along with it, too - at least that has been my experience. This thread is great. I don't see how it is "hype" if you find a great car to build a rod from in a barn or old garage. My 2 cents worth; keep the change.
this has to be the best barn find of the century! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=370586
A barn find is just a car that's been stored inside for a long period of time and maybe the owner is the only one who knows it's there. As someone else said above, a lot of these guys are getting old or dying off and that's why the cars are being found. You had a whole generation that grew up in the depression era that was real careful about what they threw away, that is well up there in the age department now. The catch is with today's throwaway society sometimes the people who inherit the stuff see no value in that old junk and that's how you get something like a '35 Willys panel bought from a salvage yard for $500, loaded on your trailer with the payloader. (see other thread someone else posted). A friend of mine just got a '23 Harley frame out of a junkpile on a farm where the woman's in her 80s and needs help taking care of herself, so has been selling off the junk. Just saw the tip of the fender sticking out and dug it out. I guess even in that shape those things are stupid money. Not a barn find, but it goes to show it's worth looking to see what people thought was junk to throw away.
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