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Overview

If half-open garage doors, canvas-covered cars buried in bushes, or bits of fender tucked behind an old gas station entice you to stop and see if the car of your dreams is rusting away, abandoned, this book for you. Since The Cobra in the Barn first appeared on bookshelves in 2005, author Tom Cotter has been uncovering four-wheeled fairy tales in which collectors find dream cars tucked away in barns, bedrooms, and foreign countries. In The Cobra in the Barn, the third in Tom Cotter's automotive barn-find series, the author brings 40 incredible discoveries to light, including a one-of-a-kind stolen Corvette Z06 convertible with only 7,500 miles on the clock stashed in warehouse in Detroit and a man reconnecting with the Hemi Cuda he drove as teenager, complete with the package of Rolaids he left on the dash 30 years earlier. A hog farmer hordes a Corvette racer, an English car lover tracks down a prototype built by a priest determined to create the world's safest car, and several sleuthing enthusiasts uncover the stranger-than-fiction true story behind the infamous Portuguese barn-find hoax. Turn the pages and enter a place where the old lady next door really does have a split-window 'Vette tucked away in the shed. And, yes, Virginia, it's for sale.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780760337974
  • Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 9/12/2010
  • Edition description: First
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 183,211
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Cotter writes regularly for Road & Track and has a deep-seated love for automotive rescue. He is the author of the best-selling titles Cobra in the Barn, Hemi in the Barn, and Vincent in the Barn. He is also the co-author of an award-winning history of Holman-Moody, a legendary racing team that enjoyed its greatest success in stock-car racing. Cotter lives in Davidson, North Carolina, with his family and a garage full of collector cars. Featuring stories about such famed cars as Dean Jeffries' customized Porsche Four-Cam Carrera, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, and Jay Leno's Gullwing Mercedes.

Keith Martin has been involved with the collector car hobby for more than thirty years, as a writer, television commentator and enthusiast. Martin\u2019s monthly magazine, Sports Car Market, began life as the Alfa Romeo Market Letter, and over the past 18 years, has evolved into the ultimate car-collector reference. His book Keith Martin on Collecting Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph is also published by Motorbooks.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Foreword Keith Martin 11

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 Dream Cars 15

The Silver Dollar in the Barn 16

The Twisted Tale of the Jeffries' Porsche 20

Sniping a Mustang Prototype 26

The Enterprising Priest and His Bubble-Screened Boondoggle 30

Chapter 2 Hibernating Hot Rods 41

The Belly Tank Tribute Daniel Strohl 42

The Penny Saver Deuce Coupe Ken Gross 46

The Swindler in the Alley 52

Chapter 3 Hollywood Machines 57

The Green Hornet Strikes Again 58

A Gullwing for Big Dog Garage 63

The Producer's Imperial 66

Chapter 4 International Intrigue 69

The Price of War 70

San Juan's Secrets 74

The Truth Behind the Barn-Find Hoax of the Century Wolfgang Blaube 76

The Fate of the Sleeping Beauties Kay Hottendorff 83

Chapter 5 Prospectors and Fanatics 93

The Corvette Sleuth 94

The Snipe Hunter Harold Pace 109

The Road to Preservation Steve Katzman 116

The Lost Motor Trend Victress S1A Special Guy Dirkin 122

A Healey in the Shadows 127

The Luckiest Guy in the Room 131

The Dynamic Duo 140

The Father & Son Hunting Team 150

Chapter 6 Veterans of the Tarmac Wars 157

Coming to Grips with a Slippery Question Randy Leffingwell 158

The Sebring Alfa in the Chicken Coop 167

The Hog Farmers' Fuel-Injected Mouse Den Bill Connell 171

Uncle Eddie's Backyard Gasser Ford 177

The Twin-Engine Beer-Find Dragster 182

40-Year Itch Trans-Am Mustang 186

The Junkyard Ferrari Rob Cotter 190

Chapter 7 Reunited 195

The Snake and the Satellite 196

The Cornfield Hemi 'Cuda 201

The Back-to-School Roadster John Lee 209

Honest Mike's Lucky Day 214

Striking Carerra Gold 218

The Topless Reunion Cobra 221

Chapter 8 The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky 231

The Good Samaritan El Camino Alan Sangiacomo 232

Bad Luck Blues 235

Pikeville Purgatory 239

The Ratso Rizzo Giulietta 245

Appendix: Eleven More Barn-Finding Tips 249

Index 253

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  • Anonymous

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    When I bought this book I was very excited to get home and start reading it. Being a huge classic and antique care fan, I could not wait to read the various stories about automotive archeology.
    About twenty pages into the book I realized that this book is less about automotive archeology and more concerning flipping cars for a profit. These stories all have a similar theme, research or chance upon someone's old car, do anything you can to acquire it, and then resell it for a profit. Some of these guys make ambulance chasing attorneys sound like respectable professions.
    My point is these old automobiles were owned and stored by guys who loved their cars. They linked romance with their cars. When these owners getup in their years, and the medical bills start piling up, so-called automotive archeologists hound them until they either die or sell them their cars. What kind of premise for a book is that? It certainly is not about the love of old cars, or archeology, it is about greed. The self-indulgent need to acquire something others have and make money from it.
    Perhaps the romance of aged auto hunting is old school, but those are the kind of folks that stored the cars in the first place.
    Save your money.

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