by Jerry Heasley as republished from SuperChevy.com, Photos Vette Magazine Staff Rare Finds: Mid-Year Driveway Discovery Dateline 2.7.16: Do people park vintage Corvettes in their...
by John Gilbert as republished from Super Chevy The Green Weenie: How Much Will this Barn Find 1965 Corvette Bring on eBay? Dateline 12.18.15: On...
by Jerry Heasley as republished from Super Chevy. photos courtesy of Super Chevy. Rare Finds: Three Vettes Stored Since 1969 & Mako Shark II Mystery...
by Scotty Lachenauer as republished from Super Chevy Silver Mined: Digging out a barn find Gen One Dateline 12.2.15: Gary Clairmont needed to sell his...
by Sarah Shelton as republished from corvettes.about.com Worthy Investment for a Corvette Collector or Money Pit? Dateline November 2015: The clandestine barn find: many classic...
Chance Barn Find Yields Two C1 Corvettes on Corvette Report
Here we have a 1954 Corvette C1 that was recently discovered and then sold in May 2015 by Cabin Fever Auctions in Douglassville, PA, where a buyer picked it up for a cool $52,000.
Rare Barn Find 1959 Factory Fuelie Corvette Discovered After 44 Years of Hiding
While sitting in the showroom, I saw a car that I’d never noticed on the streets before and really didn’t know what I was looking at. As I walked around the car, it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen! It was low and sleek, and had the most interesting pointed rear window area. And where are the headlights?! Yes, it was a ‘65 Corvette Sting Ray Coupe. I must have looked like Jethro Bodine, all open mouthed and bucolic, gauking at the car, because I got the attention of a salesman. “You like that car, huh, kid?” “Oh yea!” I replied. There were racks with car brochures close by and the salesman took one of the Corvette brochures, scribbled his name on the front (as car salesmen are won’t to do!), handed it to me and said, “Here ya go kid!”
Every year the Corvettes at Carlisle show has a theme. The theme for the 2011 Chip’s Choice Display was “Barn Finds.” Who doesn’t love an old barn find story? It’s a topic that cuts across all car interests. Today, barn finds have become a special interest category of its own. It seems that barn finds have sifted out into two groups. First there are the cars that look like they were just taken out of the barn – dirt and everything. What was once decades of dirt, blistered paint, animal droppings, sticks, and twigs has now become “patina.” And second are the cars that a normal human would have let rot back into the earth, only to have been beautifully and lovingly restored back to running and sometimes show car condition. For these cars, the “before and after” photos are a lot of fun. “You started with THAT?” Is a common comment.
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