Tell your story about a rare find that you bought...

[Historybuff]

There is this entertaining book called COBRA IN THE BARN by Tom Cotter, a tar heel who used to be a NASCAR PR man.
The subtitle refers to automotive archeology.
When I met him a few weeks ago he asked me for stories of similar searches and I sent him a few but now ran out of the cars I personally found and bought, so now I am asking anyone who has a story of finding a rare sports car (need not be Cobra or Shelby) after a long, long search, tracing old records, looking in old barns, yadda yadda. Not something you bought at a dealer the easy way. Probably in the Shelby American world will have to limit it to CSX2000 or CSX3000 cars, or authentic Shelby Mustangs or any automaker manufactured car (no replicas) or a race car.

For example I sent him a story on the two Cobra prototypes that Jeff Burgy found when he was looking for cars for a SAAC convention. The cars weren't bought (I think they are not for sale) but I think they still qualify as a car-in-the-barn story.

What do you get out of it? Good question. He would pay me for the story if he buys it and I can pay you part of that, all of course dependent on whether he accepts it. Also it would help to have a picture of the car, preferably in rough condition it was found in.

I welcome this new category of car book because we all heard great stories of how old cars were tracked down but now someone's actually collecting the stories for all of us to enjoy.
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