$4,000,000 Barn Find - Rare Ferrari AND 427 Cobra Hidden for Decades | Barn Find Hunter - Ep.24
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2018
- Searching in the heart of North Carolina’s NASCAR country, automotive author and Barn Find Hunter Tom Cotter ventures into a garage full of cars and is hit with a lightning bolt. Parked before him is a silver 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2, covered in decades of dust and spider webs. The Italian Sleeping Beauty has only 13,000 miles on the clock and, Tom soon realizes, is one of only a handful that were built with an alloy body. It just can’t get any better than this, Tom reasons, and then-miraculously-along comes a 1967 Shelby Cobra 427.
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Read Tom’s story here, which includes details on the Triumph and Morgan: www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/01/24/ferrari-and-cobra-barn-find
Send the TR6 back to uk even LHD with that mileage $20/25.000 all day
what is name song ??? in clip
Perhaps because people park cars in barns but they do not store gold in barns would be a good reason. Gold would typically be found in a safe, and for obvious reasons, these don't get forgotten about, or don't get published when somebody finds the abandoned gold.
I guess they don't teach common sense to Ferrari carbon fibre technicians but do implant tin foil into their brain cavities! The owner is still alive and knew they were there. He just neglected them for 25 years. What's so hard to understand about that? An affluent car enthusiast in the middle of his life buys a bunch of nice cars, drives them for 10 or 15 years by which time he's retired and barely using them anymore. Then his mechanic has his acccident and they are left collecting dust. The years fly by and before you know it he's an old man. Finally, when he's shipped off to a nursing home where he reminisces over his beloved collection. There he asks his trusted friend to sell up his home and contents and see that the cars in particular are taken care of and go to a good home. Barn finds are called in. Case closed.
You need to get medical assistance.
I’ve been checking my garage for a forgotten cobra for years. I’ll keep y’all updated.
🤣🤣🤣 My garage sucks. No cobra-just mice. 🤬
I found mine... It was in the basement. .. Is it suppose to have "Hot Wheels" printed on the bottom?
Find anything yet?
Anything yet?
Set a Cobra trap. Caught 3 last week
Even more of a pleasure to watch because there was no irrelevant background music, just the conversation and the imagination. Purrfect!
Yeah, the 'slow mo shot + heavy electronica' get a little old.
I definitely heard my imagination
Peter Jones I know. It’s like we are there in the garage listening to the conversation and the natural sounds of the vehicle being opened and viewed. I wish more channels would follow this example. Good comment.
@@joelalexander5338 Someone else with an appreciation of life!! Thank you :)
ok boomer.
Wow life came full circle for you from writing a book about a Cobra to finding a Cobra in such awesome shape. Awesome is really an understatement for such a find and the show.
My jaw never left the ground for the entire length of this video. When the garage door is opened, it's like a dream come true. All I can say is, "WOW"!
Tom i cant imagine how you must have reacted finding out that this has been sitting for so long in your home state. Truly the Barn Find of Barn Finds!!
Yet ANOTHER fantastic Barn Find Hunter episode! The ONLY problem is that the episodes are always too damn short! I could watch this program literally all damn day! MORE, please!
Wow ... mind blowing!! Omg ... you’ve said it man ... any Chevy , Ford or Dodge person would’ve dream to find a AC 427 Cobra in a neglected barn ... you blow my Australian brains out dude !!
Cannot top this one up !
“The ultimate found “
Oh my goodness, barn find of the century. Thanks for taking us with you to see this at the same time.
Wow! What a barn find, Tom. That's one hell of a story to go along with the find as well. Keep em' comin', thanks.
Congratulations to you for finally finding that dream Cobra. That's really cool.
A true once in a lifetime barn find. Excellent episode.
What a great video! I was an officer for the California Highway Patrol for 27 years, and from time to time I was dispatched to a residence to do a VIN verification for a car owner so they could register it after the vehicle had been out of DMV registration for a number of years. In my career I dreamed of going to a house with a garage like this one, but it never happened. The closest I ever came was doing a VIN verification for a 1958 or 59 Ford Sunliner in the '80's.
Congratulations on this magnificent discovery ! Hope that these fabulous automobiles are well cared for today.
They are most likely sitting stored in a collection never to be driven again. I think that’s a shame as these care are ment to be driven, but I understand their rarity and value may prohibit some driving them.
Love Tom's knowledge. I could listen to Tom all day long
While!!! You can tell the excitement in your voice.... UNBELIEVABLE!
I would have liked to see more of the other cars...
This right here keeps my blood pumping the fact that these awesome cars are still being found.
And as we learned from a previous episode, you need a Cat to guard your Custom Car Collection.
Was that the one with the mustang?
Great show!!! This is the mecca of finds. Great job Tom on presenting these fine automobiles.
Completely agree, this could be made into a full documentary. I would happily sit for hours and watch those beautiful cars come to life. Perhaps Hagerty could make some follow-up programs about the entire story of this amazing find... please.
Tom , love this keep up the great work it's always been a joy of mine to look for old cars under barns or in garages
Truly amazing. I'd love to see those cars cleaned up, running.
I think this is my favorite installment yet!
I loved that video, it put tears in my eyes and reminded me when I found a 1975 Porsche 911 turbo and a 1981 dmc delorean, again thank you tom
when i was a kid I rode in the serial no.1 427 cobra. it was at Carlisle ford car show and if you gave a donation the owner took you for a little ride. the car was only worth 1.5 million at the time, in sure it's worth much more now. best experience of my life and made me way more interested in cars as a kid.
*I wonder why the mice weren't living in the Ferrari? Maybe they couldn't afford to live in such a nice place 🤣*
Even mice don't want to live in something that's over priced and breaks down every chance it gets
The 1980s was the best period ever! Those mice knows cars lol
@TIGRES EQUIPO CHICO somebody got offended 😄
Omg rip
Probably because they put they car there the day before they "discovered' it
I found a 12k mile Alfa Romeo Milano Verde and also along with the cars was a '69 Spider originally blue the owner bought from the Harrison's.
The Alfa Romeo Milano (75 in Europe) is my favorite dream 4 door.
I really hope there is a follow up video with the clean up and restoration! Incredible find.
It's my favorite pastime, looking for old cars. I love your shows. My dad Bob Ormiston used to work for George Barris Custom Rods and helped build the Munster Machine and the Pink Panther Mobile and Sunny and Cher Mustangs and a few others I can remember the goofy names but I have pictures of my dad and George and these wacky cars from back in the day.
Yes! I love when Hagerty is in my notifications.
Dash-n-Cars me too
Surprising that the Goodyear Wingfoot radials on the Cobra still hold air, those were the tires to have before the Eagle VRs came out in the mid eighties for many American performance cars.
An amazing story of a gentleman with fantastic knowledge of automobiles and their history!
I love the way they open the garage door and the camera crew are already in there!!
Feeding them since '91 has been a chore.
1967 Ferrari with 13 205 miles? Amazing find. 427 Cobra, sweet.
New episode! this is what ive been waiting for
nothing like a survivor barn find (or in this case a garage find) be found and hopefully polished up to its former glory
love to see it
The silver/blue color combination along with the wood accents in the interior is gorgeous.
Again a quality show made by Hagerty, THANKS Hagerty
Really hope there is a part 2 to this video. There saw a few other beauties in that garage.
I am in my late 60's like all of these rich guys that want to buy back their memories, but I have pictures with all of these cars from 55 to 72 , that I owned, All I have left now are my 1959 and 60 Eldorado Biarritz convertables. Didn't know they were worth as much. Never sell them. Liked your videos...
I love ALL old vehicles and I see them peaking out of barns, garages or just setting out in the weather every day as I drive my Freightliner all over the country. I'd LOVE to be able to rescue all of them but there was one that I just HAD to save. I'm a truck guy and a GMC truck guy to the bone. I already had a 1975 Gentleman Jim that my grandpa bought new. My family and I have been working on for several years to bring it back to it's former glory (we're almost finished). I kept passing by this old farm in Georgia on my regular route seeing a blue/silver GMC beside the barn. I knew in my heart it was a Beau James but never had time to stop. Long story short...I had to deadhead back to Ohio a few years back. I stopped to ask about the old truck next to the barn and yes it was for sale. I took a good look and determined that it was in fact an original Beau James. I turned the crank to be sure then agreed on a price, dropped my step deck and went to the bank for cash. When I got back I aired up the tires, winched the truck onto my trailer. My Gentleman Jim is almost ready for paint and the Beau James is next on the list. Only 1500 of each ever built and I have both!
Awesome find. Love that Cobra.
"A 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB which raked in $2,530,000 including commission. The 275 was of the long-nose, torque-tube type and came from the same collection as the 1967 Shelby 427 Cobra also found in the auction, which sold for $1,045,000."
I really thought the Ferrari would go for much more than this as not only are they impossible to find, this one is almost like new with only 13k on the engine. Who ever bought it got a great deal.
One could argue that having a 2 cam instead of the normal 4 cam would hurt the price-I say that makes this version rarer and worth more money.
Wow, what a find! Just happened to see this in my YT recommendations, today.
In 1973, when right out of grad school and starting my first "real" job, I was offered an original small block Cobra for $2500. It was a roller. It was complete but had been in an accident and, as I recall, nearly all of the body panels were missing. I knew it was a great deal but it was out of reach for me, so I passed. Should have borrowed the money and put it away. Now, today, even as a complete "roller" it would be great to have on display.
I hope you filmed the rest of the cars and do another video about them. As well as try to get the owner to speak about them, he must have some interesting stories. This could have been a hour or 2 long video and I would have gladly watched.
Well,the thing about Tom is he would usually profile cars that are truly unusual.
Yes. I'm totally pumped about seeing these cars!
Rare. Valuable finds.
P Kuudsk d3$
Since you have some extra time, I have some swampland in Florida you may be interested in.
He left them for a reason. Maybe the "friend" is actually him, but he can't disclose that fact LMAO.
You completely walked away from that E30!!!!!!!
Because it doesn’t compare to a GTB or a Cobra
And from the triumph tr6
What's a E30?
@@walkerforsyth6221 I hope you are joking
@@Henriquecido No... no I am not.
It's good to see someone fired up so much aboit something they love. Great episode, thank you.
That is one amazing Cobra. You cannot top this.
Wish I could have been there when they opened the garage just to see it, that's an amazing find
Ross Johnson fake
Hardly a "find". The guy knew where these cars were all the time
Amazing! Greetings from Italy Sir!
Tom has the coolest books; thanks for the Vincent in a barn
This was a huge find.
Excellent video! What an amazing and rare find! Thank you for sharing.
I love seeing an e30 in such a high quality and respected collection. Long live the e30!
Boriiiiing
Amazed at the lack of security on that garage all those years and these gems just sitting there in plain view through the broken windows and rear door.
Incredible , it's a trip how many of these are around just waiting to be found.
Good find Tom....passed you 2weeks ago on hiway 150 ...close by the nascar park.look forward to up and coming shows
I love the 60s and 70s style bodywork
The 1955 BMW was one of the most attractive cars ever built. Much sleeker than what is put out today.
@@seriousviewer5528 no it wasn't
This is so cool, a Cobra in a barn...I love this series and we enjoy longer episodes.
Amazing, love to see them all cleaned up.
way back in 79 we got a 289 ac cobra in the body shop i was working in. Everyone was marveling at it and saying it was a 50k $ car. It was in for a new british racing green lacquer paint job. The thing looked old even back then LOL.
Sure loved this one find show! Haven't watched Hagerty in a while now, and this is the reward I get! The Triumph and the Morgan are the icing on the cake.
Wow!
Unreal best find yet,every one is worth all the money, love the selection.WOW👍👍👍👍👍👍
mind blown! I used to work for the auto hunter magazine back in the day...Ive seen a lot...but...that garage...OMFG! congrats & grateful to be able to watch it... would have liked to got as much of the cobra's life story as possible tho, but maybe thats too invasive for the owner. #Chills
Anyone else hate seeing this videos cuz it’s like “why would you just let something so beautiful sit in a garage to go into disrepair?”
hate to see it, but life goes on, tragedies occur, priorities arise, time flies, procrastination takes it toll.......
Nice! Heck, I'd be happy with the TR-6!
0228mustang you better hope that those mice didn't get ahold of any of the wiring in that Triumph. Oh what the heck, like they could do any more damage than Triumph did when they built it
All home market and global export TR6s with the exception of the US were equipped with the same Lucas mechanical fuel-injection that was installed on the TR-5, consequently they performed far better than the carburetted version imported into the States.
1966 275 GTB, several million
Original Cobra 427, several million
Triumph TR-6... $6000
@@Miatacrosser lucas wiring , the prince of darkness ! Lol
Just when you think it can’t get any better then you have this one
Truly amazing 👍😁
One of the greatest barn finds I've ever seen! Amazing! It's to bad UA-cam doesn't have smellovision lol!
4.43 Ferrari Logo with NART & a gtb/2, as far as I know this is a very rare model of the 275 wich is allready rare... You should call Wayne Carini or Ferrari in Italy for more info
I'd be willing to be in debt all of my life for the A/C Cobra and Ferrari 275 GTB, those are my dream cars!!!
275*
Robert Alejandro What the heck. .. it's worth it..:)
Actually it's a good investment. .
LOL untill you lost your house & your cars because of your debt, then became homeless, your family left you, ended up dead with no one care about you.
@@YyouTTubeE boo
A bloody Morgan! I’m Malvern, born and bred, and to think that car on my screen has made it all the way from my home town of which I still live in, all the way to that guy’s garage in the states is bonkers!! For anyone that doesn’t know, Morgan is a completely hand made, luxury car that is only and always has been made in a single factory in my home town, Malvern.
I have been binge watching your videos all weekend, awesome stuff
"This brings tears to my eyes" - yeah, that'll be the mouse urine.
That Craftsman will be a collector's item too. :-D
Wow... Just Wow... I Love the 275. The Triumph and Morgan are nice finds on their own. But that Cobra! If I could only have one weekend car and money was no object it would be a 427 Cobra like this one. Unreal.
Amazing. And so complete. It's both exciting and a bit sad to see them in that condition. Those cara are so incredible, it would be an honor just to clean and detail them. If it was possible, I would and not charge a dime just for the experience.
And there they sit just waiting for their next owner to find and love again!
The whole episode i was looking at that BMW 😂
Same
I was looking at what I can afford.
The lawn mower.
@@sharksport01 A honda :D
SharkSport 😂😂
Such statements as vinyl and Ferrari speak of the ignorance that is apparent in the level of knowledge witnessed, sacrilege that they even get to see the Ferrari much less drive
Better be kidding how can we enjoy all these new of episodes of these nice looking cars
Wohhhhhh what a great barnfind, beautiful!!
Those are the videos I wanna see!!
Best car enthusiasts channel on yt
Petrolicious?
Best part is there are no commercials to waste my time with.
Petro is great as well - but in a different way ( they dont do barn finds ) but restored cars & passionate drivers /owners
roadkill
OMG what an amazing find. Congratulations.
Wow, what amazing finds, would've loved to have seen the MGTC and TR6 close ups as well. Keep these coming Tom
I think you are referring to the green Morgan, not an MGTC
holly crap! you know just sitting in a abandoned building and garage is a ac cobra with big mouse nests a ferrari that is rare, a tr6 the white car with hood up? what looks to be a morgan or some sports car, and a bmw in the back so yeah loads of good cars just in one place that is as old as me! as i was born in 91' and yes i feel old some days
Agreed. Don't overlook the E30!
E30 is nowhere close to an original Cobra or 275 GTB (racecars). Several millions of value and quality. BMW M3 E30.... mmmm $8,000
@@CaptainFALKEN 8k? Try 100k for an M3 in decent condition. It's not an M3 tho. It's a relatively rare AWD 325i E30. No one really cares about those in the BMW community.
A dream to find these vehicles!! but it is incomprehensible to me how one can let these treasures rot away like this.
All I have to say is WOW W what an AMAZING find those cars are absolutely Epiccc. Absolutely love the cobra and Ferrari twin cam, but keep the episodes coming I absolutely love the episodes
The mice couldn’t afford the rent in the Ferrari so they moved in the Cobra.
and there's a freakin MORGAN !!!!! they didn't even talk about it !!! yes, findin a cobra is amazing but i would be even more exited about a morgan !
Coming in a later episode!
MrPafleouf why V8 Morgan ain’t that rare
Propane powered - Jay Leno just did an episode on these rare cars
he mentioned the morgan and if I heard him correctly , he said it had a V8 in it, which I found odd.Some of those were wooden chassis. or part wood. similar to the early Triumps.
I agree.
a barn find is something that no one knew was there. just because someone leaves a car in a garage for a million years does not make it a barn find. they have to be forgotten, not just neglected. Clearly, these cars we're not forgotten or lost.
Wow, what an amazing find. So gorgeous.
Some years ago my elderly neighbors garage door was open,a very quiet peaceful lady that was a retired teacher. In her garage was a Parade green 1957 Chrysler 300c Hemi Conv just hidden away. Her and her late husband bought it new in 1957and they was also married in it. Some years later I asked hey what'd you do with the old car and she said i donated it to my church.
My aunt did that with my uncles '76 C10 that he bought brand new, it was perfect. Wish I could have snagged it, oh well.
Brian Ruff rip u should've snagged it
Wow, idiot.
@@Ruukas9 wow, imbecile
Yes, donate to church (Vatican) who do not have to pay tax and have trillions dol is so smart.
Incredible WOW!
I was very fortunate to drive cars as a Rotary volunteer for the RM auctions for thirteen years. I was lucky enough to drive across the block in the 289 Cobra that was the subject of your book, The Cobra in the Barn. I don't get jealous too often, but when I see you make a discovery like this,I do get a bit green.
I knew the e30 would be passed over, but a little shoutout would have been cool. They may have been mass produced, but they are becoming a hot collector car now. Glad I picked up my 325is before prices got ridiculous.
This series inspired me to go asking around to see if there are any old neglected or hidden cars in my area. There's stuff i'd never see If I hadn't asked around just like Tom does. Keep the awesome finds coming
I had a horrible experience with a 48 Hudson. It was a beautiful car. Straight body, no rust, no collisions, no this no that. The Hudson sat for 30 years. Owner died..blah blah blah. I didn't think it would be that bad. It was a nightmare. What was in the gas tank was Mississippi river sludge. Same goes for the fuel lines, and the carb. All that had to go. Tank was cut open, blasted cleaned, by the time I thought I was finished I was so deep into it and it still never ran really. Sold it on ebay as a non runner and had to take pennies in the dollar.
I love Barn find Hunters videos, and but as long as I live, I will never buy another barn find. too many hidden factors, way way too many gremlins you'll never know about until you are sitting in the middle of your garage, surrounded by greasy parts scratching your head wondering what the hell did I just do. sorry for going off. I just want people to learn from my experience.
I'm more of a spectator in this regard, I'm not planning to buy a barn find anytime soon but I'm sure there are many people who don't mind getting their hands dirty and who know what they're going into beforehand. If a car's been sitting for a long time there's a lot of things that have to be replaced to have a runner, I can understand your frustration.
TheSgtAngry oh man. I mentioned to another poster here, unless I get reincarnated as Wayne Carrini the closest thing I’m coming to a barn find is a car that’s already been gone through. Otherwise, it’s spectator city for me 🤔
Amazing video Tom but PLEASE MAKE LONGER VIDEOS. This is another episode than could and SHOULD be half to hour long. Also amazing is the fact, the owner probably acted like he didn't have 2 nickels to rub together, yet had MILLIONS of dollars worth of cars tucked away at a house and property that's going to hell in a handbasket.Such a shame but it makes for an EPIC experience and video. HUGE thumbs up!!!!
You do it.
It pains me to see cars like this so neglected, so so sad
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Vampirebear13 lol he was hiding his loot from the taxman 😋
The first guy in the world who was smart and didn't try to start the engines
I love Cobras and Ferraris, but I have some love for that TR6, I could actually afford that one