Staged Barn Find Photos

http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2015/12/why_this_disheveled_dodge_dayt.html#incart_river_home

Yes, the car obviously was left somewhere to rot and "found", but if you want to take some "barn find" pictures, at least pay attention to the details. Tracks in the dirt before the fresh hay laid around the car? You can see where the tires were sitting flat in the dirt showing the car was moved to where the pictures were taken.

I'd rather see the pictures from the Hot Rod article that show the car in as found condition, not some showy made up BS promo pics.

I'd still love to find a barn find of my own someday though. A guy in our local PCA chapter dug his late uncle's 356A out of a barn collapse. Fairly rusted out but salvageable (a lot better than some of the stuff where only the VIN tag is) with the engine removed but included, and sold it to a restoration shop in Europe. Bought a used Cayman S with the proceeds.

There was a Europa on fleabay once, in a barn. Obviously faked. Like, someone threw some hay on it in a somewhat random fashion. Labeled it as a "barn find." BS.

And the car was right in the middle of the barn, blocking access to the rolls of hay, completely making half of the barn useless, and no one noticed or cared? Aren't they usually tucked away in a back corner somewhere?

Didn't get the impression that the Dodge listing was trying to present it as anything but found. It certainly wasn't living outside either, yet they've pictures of it there as well. I just saw some generic staging of the pictures showing it to be the rotted out clapped out valuable hulk it is.

As for where in the barn things end up, well, pushed to the side is sorta typical, but not always. Neighbor of mine left his Avanti sitting right in the main passage of the barn, mostly because he didn't use the barn for livestock any more. It just sat there, rotting along with the hay and bridles.

Most of the farmers where I grew up would drag the non working stuff to a field behind the barn. The working stuff goes in the barn.

Pay 100k, dump 100k into it, sell for 300k. Shoot, I'm in the wrong business!

volvoclearinghouse wrote: Pay 100k, dump 100k into it, sell for 300k. Shoot, I'm in the wrong business!

I don't know, if I had a Daytona, I would have a hard time parting with it. I mean, there were only ever 503 of them