Martin
Well-Known Member
Soooooo, in my recent trolling through the interweb I keep seeing older cars for sale described as barn finds. Now being somewhat knowledgable in what a barn actually looks like its pretty obvious that the barn find they are describing is more of a field find or a garden find or a , I opened up my garage door and the car I knew I always had was in there find.
Seems the term "Barn Find" has now become a generic term for an older vehicle that has been recently rediscovered or uncovered or has some kind of recent dusty matter on it like the contents of the sellers shop vac emptied out on top of said vehicle.
It does appear however that adding the term "Barn Find" to the description even though there is clearly no barn in site seems to add an exponential dollar value to the vehicle in question.
Now, the last barn I was in had a bunch of straw in it and a Miriad of egg laying foul within and thus the aforementioned beasties tend to poop a little.
I see no bird poop in said Barn Find for sale ads, tends to be more bull crap which I guess at a long stretch could be farm related and would be a lot messier to wash off, not to mention the hoof prints in the roof that allowed it to poop up there in the first place, anyway, I digress, much like the barn find description really.
Even those lovely chaps from Hot Rod Magazine, David Frieberger and Mike Finnigan, have their youtube resurrection of the 66 Buick Special convertible described as a barn find yet it was in a chaps back yard up to its axles in Arizona sand (good episode by the way and well worth the watch).
Mind you, baby Jesus was a barn find and look how much revenue that has brought in over the years, oops, sorry Vicar?
So, in the interest of being PC, lets just keep a barn find to what it actually is. It's either going to be an egg, a piece of straw, or a piece of crap by one description or another. Oh, wait a minute, that last description kinda fits the three projects I have on the go, whatdoyaknow, I gots me a bunch O Barn finds.
This evenings entertainment has been brought to you by loneliness and a four pack of Kilkenny, oh, and maybe by some of the noxious fumes given off by the crappy bathroom sealant
Seems the term "Barn Find" has now become a generic term for an older vehicle that has been recently rediscovered or uncovered or has some kind of recent dusty matter on it like the contents of the sellers shop vac emptied out on top of said vehicle.
It does appear however that adding the term "Barn Find" to the description even though there is clearly no barn in site seems to add an exponential dollar value to the vehicle in question.
Now, the last barn I was in had a bunch of straw in it and a Miriad of egg laying foul within and thus the aforementioned beasties tend to poop a little.
I see no bird poop in said Barn Find for sale ads, tends to be more bull crap which I guess at a long stretch could be farm related and would be a lot messier to wash off, not to mention the hoof prints in the roof that allowed it to poop up there in the first place, anyway, I digress, much like the barn find description really.
Even those lovely chaps from Hot Rod Magazine, David Frieberger and Mike Finnigan, have their youtube resurrection of the 66 Buick Special convertible described as a barn find yet it was in a chaps back yard up to its axles in Arizona sand (good episode by the way and well worth the watch).
Mind you, baby Jesus was a barn find and look how much revenue that has brought in over the years, oops, sorry Vicar?
So, in the interest of being PC, lets just keep a barn find to what it actually is. It's either going to be an egg, a piece of straw, or a piece of crap by one description or another. Oh, wait a minute, that last description kinda fits the three projects I have on the go, whatdoyaknow, I gots me a bunch O Barn finds.
This evenings entertainment has been brought to you by loneliness and a four pack of Kilkenny, oh, and maybe by some of the noxious fumes given off by the crappy bathroom sealant