12 Most Exclusive Abandoned Cars Found

For many people their car is their pride and joy, they invest money in buying it and then invest even more money in making sure it is always taxed, insured, maintained and filled with fuel. If that sounds like you, you probably would never dream of parking your car. one day and then walks away to leave it

abandoned

Some people do not share the same philosophy, although they are happy to abandon their

cars

even when their

cars

are rare, expensive and valuable. See these impressive

abandoned

specimens in this video, the

most

common places. Finding abandoned cars are old barns, places where a car might have been stored for safekeeping many years ago and then forgotten.

This first car is a barn find, but it's a barn find with the difference that it may have been forgotten for years, but at some point. In the past, someone loved it so much that they did extensive customization work on it. It's a 1941 Packard 90. It has been converted into an open-top tour bus. The original vehicle has been extended to a length of over 20 feet and with that extra. The space comes with additional seating. You can now fit 12 people inside this old Packard and extra doors have been installed to help those extra passengers get in and out, as the engine is a 356 flathead eight with a three-speed manual.

It may not go very fast, but power is more important than speed when it comes to a vehicle this size. Cleverly, the original open-top design has been extended along with the rest of the car, so the tonneau cover now rolls back along the entire length of the body. I need a new paint job and probably some new wheels to put it on. It would be a fantastic collector's item for someone. Our next car came not from a barn but from a garage. It looks great now, but was in a very sorry state when it was discovered that this beauty is a 1969 Mercury Cyclone spoiler that is already a rare sports car, but this 390 four-speed version is one of eight built by Cale Yarborough.

Most people will have never seen this make and model of car before. However, this rare treasure was allowed to rot inside a garage in Florida, USA, for decades, when Texan John McElroy purchased it as a restoration project. He didn't have high hopes. Many of the parts were missing and since the car was so rare, it was difficult. to find replacements through sheer determination and persistence, he managed to get the job done after years of hiding in the dark inside a garage that was never opened. The car is being driven to car shows all over the United States of America, where it never stops turning.

Even motor experts have a hard time identifying it when it pulls into the parking lot. The average price of a Mercedes Maybach S600 is approximately two hundred thousand dollars, depending on customization options and additional features, that figure could even exceed a quarter of a million. dollars, making it a big investment and therefore not the kind of thing you'd leave lying around in a public parking lot for over a year, but someone has a very dusty and seemingly forgotten Mercedes Maybach like 600 and Hanoi , Vietnam, the thick layer. The amount of dust is evidence that it hasn't been moved for a long time, but look closer: the car has no license plates or tax stamps.

The owner may have never driven this car after making the purchase. Because? Would anyone spend that much on a car and then leave it languishing like that if they don't want it? There are thousands of people who would love to take it off at a discounted price. What makes it even crazier is that the cars are more expensive to buy in Vietnam than in the US. When new in January 2015, this car would have sold for just under 10 billion Vietnamese dollars, that's say, al

most

six hundred thousand dollars if you convert it back to US currency, if you know.

A couple of things about vintage cars, you've probably heard the name Norman Thames before he became more well-known: He's an Indy 500 designer, but during the 1940s and '50s he also designed and built classic cars like the 1948 Buick streamlined special. , this particular version of the Norman Tim special took three years to create from start to finish and included a hand-formed aluminum body built by Emil D and a 1948 Buick v8 engine. Sometime in the 1950s It was sold to a painted US Air Force officer. white and then abandoned in California, outdoors and exposed to the sun, which should have been a criminal offense, the car rotted for 50 years until collector Gary Cerveny learned of its existence in 2002 and rescued it.

It took him several years to restore it. But now it is as beautiful as ever, despite having been exposed to the sun for so many years. Gary was able to keep 90% of the car's original body while he completed the restoration project, which is no small feat. Bonhams is one of the most respected auction houses in the world, there is almost nothing there that the experts haven't seen and their motor department is especially knowledgeable. It says a lot about this upcoming car that when they sent fund expert Gregory Titans to evaluate it, he had no idea what he was looking at.

It took him a while, but he finally realized that he had stumbled upon a totally unique michelada body. Jaguar XK 140 se coupe. There are only three michelada XK 140s on the planet, but this is the only one with a type C engine and the only one. To introduce this body style, it turned up as part of the contents of an old garage in Belgium that was donated to an animal rescue center to be sold for charity, or the people who made the donation were incredibly generous or had no idea the value of the asset inside the garage the car began life as a standard and after that it was briefly owned by the famous French actress Brigitte Bardot.

Now it needs a lot of repair work, but it's not beyond that. Rescue. The market for classic and vintage cars is huge and if you have the right car, there is almost no limit to its value. over time, the first time this 1936 Bentley vanden plas tourer 4.5 liter was sold from one owner to another in 1952, it sold for less than $400 the next time it was sold in March 2019, it sold for just under six hundred thousand part of that price is due to its rarity, although this is the last car of this type still in existence and discovering it was not easy, the car belonged to a British war veteran who loved it very much, but By the late 1980s it was no longer fit to drive and he was forced to lock it up in his garage in Stockport, England, where it remained for 30 years until he passed away at the ripe old age of 96 in late 2018. and his relatives discovered it while cleaning their house.

The once impressive interior has almost completely rotted away. But the damage is mostly cosmetic, there's nothing here an expert couldn't fix and all other features are original. The auction house that handled the sale expected it to fetch around $300,000 at most, so the final price was a surprise. Everyone, now we're back to fines in the United States of America and it would take a keen eye to spot the value of this Corvette among the pile of clutter underneath, on top and around it, although there's no hiding that design distinctive. This is not just any Corvette, it is an old racer, the car was a mystery when it was first discovered, it has the appearance of a 1970 Corvette Convertible, but contains parts from several different model years, the paint code was nine eight to suggest the car should be yellow but was red most disconcerting of all the red odometer zero zero zero two four it was only when the car's new owner posted photos on a forum dedicated to Corvette that the responses started coming in thanks to a combination of white stars painted on the ceiling. and the distinctive set of 427 cylinder heads in the photographs, the car was identified as an NHRA drag race car that was once known as the General.

The odometer was low because it had never been driven in anything other than drag racing. What a surprising discovery when a car collector named Art Winter passed away in New Jersey, USA, in 2018. He left his entire collection to be auctioned, as would be expected of a collector. He had a few valuable vehicles in his yard, but by far the most impressive was this 1968 Shelby GT500kr. It was apparently the pride of his collection, but he stopped driving it in the early 1980s after a careless driver rear-ended it. and suffered rear panel damage, even then it apparently came out of the barn from time to time.

The most recent inspection label. in the window when discovered was from 1995. Surprisingly the original tires were still attached to the vehicle but unfortunately they could no longer hold air and had to be replaced, other than that although it did not require any additional maintenance and started at the first time I ask, other than the black spray paint on the rear panel that hides the impact marks, all other details on the car are original, it is now in the hands of a new owner based in Iowa and we hope to make it available. The Rover group returns to the road regularly, a British car manufacturer that was popular in the UK in Europe, sadly no longer exists.

The quality of the cars it produced declined during its final years of operation, but we still have some of its classics. Remember in this example it may not look its best right now, but it was a beautiful custom car when it was new. This is a bespoke aluminum Rover Disco Volante, built on a Rover 10 chassis and made to order for a Brit. military by the name of Flight Lieutenant Crowley, we don't know how it came to be in such dilapidated condition, but we do know that it attracted a lot of attention when it was displayed at the Earl's Court car show in London in 1952.

It deviates from the typical design of its class by including a special radiator and a horizontal su which replaced the original downdraft model. A sport coilover and straight exhaust were also added to meet those of Flight Lieutenant Spratt Fritz. The only mechanical modifications that have been made to the car and presumably with some love and attention paid to the wheeled body it would still be viable for road service, a thick layer of dust is not always a problem for a classic car . If the dust is thick enough and never bothered, it can even preserve the original paint, as was the case with a pair of Ford Mustang Shelbys that turned up in Tampa, Florida in 2019, their 87-year-old owner was too old to drive them and I wanted to do it. sell them so he can donate the proceeds to a charity when he called experts for an appraisal he told them neither car had been moved for at least 17 years they are a nice pair one is a jet black gt500 and the other is a Lyman. 1968 Gold GT500KR, original provenance unknown, but purchased by current owner in 1980.

They are in such good condition that even the original air conditioning still works and after removing the dust and dirt, the bodywork was still in perfect condition , even the interiors are clean and protected against decay. They're like a couple of vehicle time capsules. Barn finds have rarely looked so good. Pulling out just one old Bugatti in a barn would be a story worth telling, but finding three at once is incredible, it's almost too good to be true, and yet it happened in Belgium at the end of 2018. It was

found

next to them a well-preserved Centurion from the 1920s, but with the three Bugatti to speak of that no one cared about the Centurion, the pick of the group is a 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Cabriolet personally coached by Graber the other two are a type 40 standard although we hesitate to refer to any bugatti 'as standard and a type 49 limousine all three came up for auction in February 2019 without any intervention having been done to them and even in their slightly damaged condition.

They claim that they sold for a combined price of more than a million and a half dollars, the cars were owned by a sculptor who bought them for art rather than recreation, so none of them had moved from the barn that had housed them since late fifties because the type 57 has barely been moved since it was purchased, it still retains all its original features, instruments and dashboard along with the horns, headlights and bumpers that the gray bar put on with its own hands when we mentioned the name Misery Knee, most of you will probably think of the Lamborghini. v12 is afair association, but Busty Rainy also designed and built a very small number of Stratus and here are 5,300 busy and rainy Stratus that haven't seen the light of day for many years, only 133 of these cars were built and this.

One particular model has been sitting and collecting dust since the 1980s. One of the advantages of its long storage time is that it has less than 10,000 miles on the clock and therefore very little wear on the Corvette 327 v8 engine that the interior could stand. with a little work and we can't explain why there is black tape wrapped around the steering wheel spokes, but when you look at the beauty of the car as a whole, these are trivial issues even though this incredible sports car deserved a better fate than Being locked in a garage for 40 years we have to be grateful that the conditions in which it was kept have protected it from the worst effects of time.

It just needs a few adjustments and a little maintenance work to be able to drive it on the roads once again, we hate to think about how much it could cost to acquire it, subscribe to the channel and activate notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out. Thanks for watching and see you in the next video.