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Anybody have a barn find?

jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
I see these a lot on the net........all I ever find in an old barn is junk........

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/classic-cars/burnt-orange-1970-charger-still-a-stunner/ar-BBN15g5?li=BBnbfcL

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  • fordsixfordsix Member Posts: 8,554 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    got to look under the floor of barn[:D]
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  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Only things I ever find in a barn , I have to remove with a shovel.....[8D]
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My "barn" has a red ST1100 Honda that I haven't ridden in 10 or 12 years. It looks great and maybe one day I will push it out and start her up. We did a lot of miles together.
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Meh,...................the tires flat. [:0][B)][:D][}:)]
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get back in the kitchen!![:)]
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    This being a gun forum, I will attest to finding a very old percussion muzzle loader that came out of the rafters of a barn in northern Indiana. I bought the rifle from a fellow who had recently purchased the property and was doing some major renovating of the barn.

    It had been wrapped in greased burlap and just placed in the rafters many years ago. A curly maple full stock rifle with a 43" octagon barrel. The percussion lock had 2 side bolts and very well could have once been a flintlock that had been converted. It was about a 45 caliber barrel with good 7 groove rifling in fair bore condition.

    I assumed it was made fairly close to where it was found or possibly Ohio built, with no makers signature. The lock was stamped Golcher with partridge's engraved on the plate. I ended up trading it for another old rifle that had a fine patchbox a few years later. I had to include a few greenbacks to close the trade deal.[:)]
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have an 1883 German PFAFF sewing machine that was a barn find in California. It had over a hundred years of dirt and grime on it.

    With the help of a gal named Helen Howes in Norfolk, England who had the two parts I needed to make it run again, I restored it to working condition. It makes perfect stitches.

    PFAFF started making machines in 1866, so this machine is one of the oldest PFAFF's in America. When I saw it, I knew it was old by the fiddle shaped base, but I didn't know how old.




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  • Okie743Okie743 Member Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, found a double barrel black powder shotgun in a old barn/house not too long ago.

    I seen one just exactly like it in a confederate museum in Arkansas later. The norte on the displayed one said the shotguns were assigned to Confederate officers for personal protection. I ran a ad on {elsewhere} and it sold really fast to a guy that played North/South games.

    When I went to clean the gun, it was still loaded and the powder would burn when I dumped it into a pan.

    Appeared it had probably shot a few Yankees. It had a #3 stamped and etched on all the parts. So as to keep the parts matched to the gun when it was being made I suppose.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,042 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I found Marcia in a barn while putting up hay for her dad -I think she wasn't lost though .
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,461 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Grasshopper
    I found Marcia in a barn while putting up hay for her dad -I think she wasn't lost though .


    No but I bet you helped her loose her way.........
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found all the factory chrome ignition shrouding, chrome fan, and fan clutch still new in the box, for a 1963 Corvette. Gave it to my uncle for his '63 split window that came with it, but had all been removed before he got the car. Two months later, a big box showed up on my porch full of factory original parts for my 1957 HD Sportster that I needed.

    Helping a friend clean out a widow's barn "many" years ago. Her husband was a WWII vet in the South Pacific. Buried back in a corner wrapped in oil soaked rags, we pulled out a Japanese copy of a Lewis MG in .303 Brit, with a bullet hole through the cooling jacket. We got it working, and put two mags through it. He wrapped it up, took it home and buried it somewhere on his 100 acres. Passed away without telling anyone where it was. Probably a good thing, it kept me out of trouble.[:)]
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  • llamallama Member Posts: 2,637 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, one of the last Porsche 356C coupes made. But I don't have a barn to keep it in, so it is in the yard. Get a few folks per year asking about it, but they could never afford it.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,378 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    never found anything close as I have come
    a friend ( he was the biggest wheeler dealer I have ever met ) swore with in a few miles of my house was a old man had several old mopars one a hemi road runner superbird ,
    he would just say he was trying to work a deal with the old fellow for years and was getting close I think he did not want more people bothering or making offer's to the old guy ..
    but then my buddy crashed in a small plane ( he built ) and died so its all lost now [:(]

    there is at least one web site cars in barns with pages of such cars
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  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1965 Sears motorcycle made by Gilera of Italy.
    1968 Triumph Bonneville.
    Mossberg model 46a in OK shape.
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My latest project. 1970 Mercedes 300SEL 6.3. Sat in a garage for the last 20+ years. Engine spins but I think I have low compression on one cylinder. Think it is just a valve sticking. Currently cleaning the fuel system out. Body is straight and mostly rust free, but has been painted. Air shocks hold air but who knows for how long.. Interior is ok. Dash and door panels are good, seats, not so much. All the wood trim is savable.

    I am excited for this car. It is not my dream car, but close. I think it will be a keeper.[:D]

    https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/w505/Andrewm1984/s0/5c44c9a5-e381-4334-b406-886838a047cc-original.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

    https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/w505/Andrewm1984/s0/34338f1c-9f9a-473e-b875-542b1951cdc3-original.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds


    Edit. Here are links to the pics. I can't figure out how to not make them billboard size here.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Finished barn find. Was hard to sell this one.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,042 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mjrfd99
    Finished barn find. Was hard to sell this one.
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    SWEET, is that a 500-or 750 triple? I had a 350 triple as a teen. Awesome fast!
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    once many years ago i found a 1937 oldsmobile two door sedan ..no rust, got it running and sold it for 15 times what i paid for it..about 10 years neighbor at lake cleaned out his aunts place after she died and found 98% 1907 Roth Styer 8mm auto pistol and 2 magazines in the house and two immaculate old BMW motorcycles hidden in the garage ...one a military model with a sidecar...aunt was a hoarder and it took them about a years trips to wichita to go thru everything stacked to the rafters....i told him to go thru everything carefully to find the two RS magazines which were not with the pistol as the only only one i could find then was in Austria
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    With expansion chambers too. I had two 750 triples.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    With expansion chambers too. I had two 750 triples.

    I was a triple guy @ 17. That one is a '75 500. A nice one is worth more than a few bucks now. 750's bigger bucks. I held the 750 till deep pockets made me a offer I couldn't refuse.
    -- '72 H2:
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    Have a 1974 LOL.

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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,042 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mjrfd99
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    With expansion chambers too. I had two 750 triples.

    I was a triple guy @ 17. That one is a '75 500. A nice one is worth more than a few bucks now. 750's bigger bucks. I held the 750 till deep pockets made me a offer I couldn't refuse.
    -- '72 H2:
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    Have a 1974 LOL.

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    Those 750's are just flat out mean!
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i know where there is a 1965 Ford 3/4 ton 4x4 x cab pickup with 5000 miles on it...yep 5 thousand miles.. setting inside a steel shop building...he always drove a smaller one....hasn't moved since the owner quit driving ...ANY idea of the value of this so i could make an offer ???????
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a barn that is full on motorcycles, MC parts, outboard motors and parts. I often find what I'm looking for when I look. Often I don't.
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  • tazzertazzer Member Posts: 16,837
    edited November -1
    a old marlin model 60 in the loft of a barn some years back, ended up finding the owner a few months down the road. His son had taken it hunting and left without then forgot where he had been with it. [B)]

    Had a friend that bought a 90 ac track next to my place with a old barn on it, inside was a old 8n tractor in mint cond. a little work and it fired right up.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,378 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was thinking on this post, this memory was all but lost
    many years ago maybe 45 years ago a friend told me of his grandmother had a old car in the garage said he would play in as a kid and knew she would sell it .
    we went over sure enough there was a old late 1920's ford ? its been way too long ago to remember all the details ) any way he told me 500.00 would buy it at that time 500.00 was a lot of money to kid making 1.60 a hour but I got it together told him lest go this was a week or so later
    he said too late another fellow told her it was worth thousands of dollars and coming back to buy it ,[:(][xx(]
    so I just moved on a few weeks went by he said the other fellow came back give his grandmother 500.00 told her after doing some checking that was really the most it was worth .
    I was pissed but nothing I could have done . obvious the other fellow just hung a apple in front of her to have time to round up the money or find a buyer before he bought it .
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