More Incredible Barn Finds: Another 50 Entertaining Tales of Collector Car Seach and Rescue - Couverture souple

Wyss, Wallace A.

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ISBN 10 : 1583883126 ISBN 13 : 9781583883129

Editeur : Enthusiast Books, 2014

Synopsis

BARN FIND! There are no two more exciting words for car collectors the world over! And there's an incredible hunt going on for valuable cars that were at one time forgotten, abandoned, or cast aside, but which are now regarded as valuable and historical treasures. Author Wallace Wyss, a Motor Trend veteran, recounts stories that are almost beyond belief.

Here are  a few examples:

- a pre-war Mercedes 540K that was simply abandoned by a German baroness at a Connecticut resort and later sold for over $11 million

- the rubber-bodied Cobra that Ford built to assuage the ego of their top design exec

- the jet-powered Fiat prototype that an American fell in love with and spent almost $1 million to make into a running driving car

- and the Corvette that Carroll Shelby and pals had bodied in Italy as part of a plan to create Italian-bodied Corvettes, a plan that failed after three cars were made.

 

One thing's certain—once you've poured through these inspiring stories, and absorbed the tips in the final chapter, you will know more about how barn finds are unearthed and how you yourself can become a successful barn finder!

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wallace Wyss is a veteran motoring journalist and fine artist, who has written three books on Shelby's cars, two on Ferrari, three on Corvette as well as books on other marques. He is currently writing a series of fiction novels in his Ferrari Hunters series and reports that one of his non-fiction books is under consideration by Hollywood as a TV series. Among the barn-find sagas detailed in this book is his own tale of finding a 12-cylinder Ferrari, fulfilling the dream he had of owning one ever since he first saw a picture of a Ferrari in the Fuller Brush catalog way back in the '50s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enthusiast Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583883126
• ISBN 13: 9781583883129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible