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There's a barn in what is now the north part of San Antonio on undeveloped land that will make this one look like a garage sale. I know of 2 Auburn Supercharged straight 8s that where like new the last time I saw them. They were under canvas at the time. There's a Duesenberg sedan, 2 Chrysler Airflows, several REO trucks, and about 50 more cars around the early to mid 50's, some never licensed or driven. There's also a very strange looking Nash, a 1930's model complete with Kelvinator air conditioning. The A/C unit takes up the entire back baggage rack. I pass by the old place and wonder what ever happened to the old man that owned them. His family must know about the cars, maybe. You can still see the bottoms of the tires on some of them from the street. The building is rotting from the ground up. Hopefully I get to at least see these gems again. He had a 1956 Mercury Monterrey in a 2 door, yellow with a white top that was the most beautiful car I'd ever seen. Looked a lot like this one except this is a 4 door.
Not really a sad story......guy bought a bunch of old cars, parked them for 40 years hoping to get to restore/drive them but at age 86 he realized that that wasn't going to happen so he sold all 6 at an auction and probably netted 500-600K
What I hate about these articles is that if you watch them over a time and add up all the "barn finds" and then look at the cars they have named that have been found, you realize a few of these vehicles that have been found there are way more than were ever produced....
I believe some of them are true..I also believe others are false or rehashes of earlier finds just stated differently...
Just an old story. In the early 1940's I did have a chance to drive a 1934 V16 Cad Limo that was to be converted into a Pop Corn machine for a Carnival at the time. Wonder what ever happened to it over the years.....sad story but true.
My dad had a auto repair shop behind our house (Legal) and he did some work for a small used car dealer.
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......guy bought a bunch of old cars, parked them for 40 years hoping to get to restore/drive them but at age 86 he realized that that wasn't going to happen so he sold all 6 at an auction and probably netted 500-600K 
