Barn finds have been known since forever but I was wondering what you call it when you the cars into the barns in the first place.
One fine day back in '72 or '73 my buddy and I dragged all of the cars, tractors, motorcycles, and stuff out of their respective garages in Little Gap, PA, for a photo shoot. Then we put them back onto the garages or whatever(1) for someone else to discover in a barn find.
So, what do you call that process: putting the cars into the barns to be found some other time?
(1) The 1958 Renault Dauphine we took into the woods and rolled it onto its roof with the front end loader Ford 2000 tractor. The 1948 Chevy was too heavy to drag across the upper field. The tractor bogged down in the soft shale soil and it was a no-go. Man, what a day!
Nobody I know purposely puts them in barns for someone else to find later. They are put there with good intentions of getting to them later but age and life in general catches up with everyone.
While I’m sure there were some truly forgotten/rediscovered “barn finds” in the past… I tend to think a lot of the “barn finds” today are a little jazzed up before the film crews arrive. Most likely to be filmed for a “reality” TV show.
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Even if they aren’t stashed in a barn, some people accumulate a bunch of vehicles with the intention of fixing/restoring them… some day.
About 1/2 mile from my home, there is a house that had been occupied for a very long time by an elderly man. Whenever I passed his home, I could see a '70s era Volvo peeking-out from a grove of trees next to his home.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago, when he died and his house was put on the market by his relatives. The woman who bought his house did a complete renovation of the house, and in the process of clearing the grove of trees next to the house, she discovered several (4, I think…) '70s-era Volvos, plus a GM van from the same era. They were all badly deteriorated, and she had them all sent to the wrecking yard.
I think that, over the space of a few decades, that grove of trees grew-up around all of the vehicles that the former owner was sure that he would fix-up/restore… some day.
I found m6 corvair in a field. The barn was being converted to a basketball court attached to the house. I’ve been in a lot of houses, big and small but never saw a regulation basketball court with oak floors before. You’d never know the farm house from the outside but must have had a good crop that year.
