Barn find circa 2059

Ok, it's 2059 and your kids are having todays news downloaded into their brains while they inject today's 3-meals-in-one injection and they find out about a barn find, some old cars back from when cars didn't fly.
So, what cars being built now, or maybe 10 years ago to 5 years from now would excite folks 50 or so years from now?
I'll supply a few off the top of my head: Anything from RR or Bently Viper Vette maybe some of the Korean cars that are still around then (that means these early examples were important)

Another question. I keep reading these articles about "survivor cars" that have been sitting in a garage for 40+ years and are dragged out into the light. The fuel tanks are cleaned, fluids changed and a batter dropped in and they start up. Do you think cars build today could sit for a few decades and actually start up again? Like they say, cars ain't build like they used to be.
I'm thinkin', no. Too many finicky electronics that won't allow it to be anything more than lawn art.

A Prius.

By then Throttlegate will have rendered Toyota as GMs official appliance maker and GM will no longer allow them to build hybrids because the idea would impede on the sales of the Volt. (of which GM cancels three weeks after production starts because teh brobama say it is not viable)

there's a photoshop of a GTR sitting in a dusty old barn...slightly rusty and covered in thick dust

always going to find Vettes and Porsches.. maybe a few solstices?

and as long as nothing has gotten into the computers, they could still run. I had am 81 X 1/9 that was given to me for parts. There was no floor, no interior.. but the car was basically all there, but had been sitting out by the salt marshes for a few years.

For E36 M3s and giggles, I jump started her.. and she fired up

Anything rear drive and/or standard transmission. Bonus for V8 (the perfect trifecta of automotive goodness).

Clem

Given what we're seeing in Miatas that are sitting for a while, the injectors would have to be cleaned. But I don't see why they wouldn't fire right up.

At 40 years old, almost any car in survivor condition is cool and interesting. Pulling a GTR survivor out of a barn would set the internet on fire, but even a perfect Camry would get attention.

190E 2.3 16. Or 2.5 if in Europe.

My vote would be for a cop car. Sure could be a P71, but any cop car, preferably a Highway Patrol car from back in the days when they used to "patrol the highway" before they let all the sensors and general "big brother" stuff do the patroling.

I'm always amazed at the number of really old cars that keep showing up. There was one on the HAMB board the other day - someone found a '32 Ford tudor sedan that had been parked in a barn since 1957. You'd think all the '32 Fords would have been found by now, but people keep dragging more of them out of old barns and garages.

The biggest problem that I see is that we are getting away from our agricultural society. The problem is that there are fewer barns.

At the rate I am going, my Mirage Turbo will be a barn find some day.

Crossfire. People are never gonna believe that MB had a fling with Chrysler.

Why not?

So far Chrysler seems to be the "village bicycle" of car companies...

Standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out what that yellow hot rod with a SBC is doing with a bug body.

aussiesmg wrote: Standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out what that yellow hot rod with a SBC is doing with a bug body.

something about grampa making it back in the day along with ohter stuff that was in the same barn.....

Solstice coupe

I'm tempted to do some anti-rust prep and drop my car off in a barn somewhere, as it stands it has got to be one of the cleanest 1st gen neons in my area, letalone in another 50 years...

I'm just hopping for Soylent Green.

First gen DSMs and Sentra SE-Rs. Damn you Jalopnik readers!

Barn finds aren't going to be what they are now. Car hobbies are going to be very different in the future. Affordable performance cars are already a thing of the past, basically...and it will probably be illegal (and dangerous) to drive a "manually guided" vehicle on public roads, and with retarded HOA-style rules turning into laws over time, storing an inoperative / not-street-legal vehicle in certain areas will probably carry a fine.

It will probably be similar to computers now: Mainstream users are using devices and software that are sanitized of anything potentially "dangerous" and made safe for you, software's designed to keep the content companies in control of what you do, most people don't have much control over what they're using, they just buy like good little consumers, and most are happy because they don't know what they're missing out on.

The hobbyists will be doing the interesting things that violate various laws and contracts and generally have no outside support - they'll be stripping down 2045 Civics and installing old-fashioned mechanical steering systems so they can drive them on a track, updating "ancient" car bodies with electric powertrains and stronger suspension to handle the extreme cornering forces of molecular interaction tires, building cars from scratch or getting "open source" designs manufactured.

The actual racing might take place on huge barges floating in international waters with "flags of convenience" as racing may eventually be outlawed or made too expensive (to do legally) due to insurance costs and/or skyrocketing land prices.

^^Your dire description of the future sounds like the plot for a half-decent SciFi movie. "Renegade Racers", perhaps.

Yeah, it'd need one helluva prop + SFX budget though

the new turbo fords about to be released, the aforementioned R37 GTR, Genesis coupe, G8, the toyobaru if it ever hits the dealers floor, Evo X's, the new camaro/challenger/charger/mustang, and probably the sky

A prestine, fully optioned one. They already go for a small mint.

RossD wrote: A prestine, fully optioned one. They already go for a small mint.

FTW!! I see that as being a major barn find 40-50 years from now. And unlike today's cars, that one will start right up, shift into 4WD and climb anything.