Discovering Lost Automobiles and Their Stories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ware, Michael.

Contributor:

Holland, Jools.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.) ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2022.

Summary:

Many enthusiasts dream of finding a Bugatti or a Bentley in a barn or a long disused building. In reality, such finds are more likely to be an Austin 7, Ford Popular or a Mini. This book is stuffed with these so called barn finds. The author has tried to find out the background to the abandonment and the previous history of the as found car when it was in regular use. Why was it put away and apparently forgotten? Many of the stories have appeared in his Lost and Found column in Classic and Sports Car magazine, but a book gives a chance for the expanded story to be told. The cars featured date from 1900 through till the 1980s, most come from Great Britain and Europe but there are plenty from Australasia and USA. There are well over 200 different cars plus collections featured. Each story has at least one illustration to go with it.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

DEDICATION

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

1 SOME STRANGE LOCATIONS

2 ACQUISITIVE COLLECTORS

3 THE YEARS OF INVENTION TO 1918

4 BETWEEN THE WARS

5 THE TWO GREATS - AUSTIN AND MORRIS

6 CLASSIC CARS 1946-1990

7 SPORTY CLASSICS

8 ONE-OFFS AND SPECIALS

9 ROLLS-ROYCE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781399019033

1399019031

9781399019019

1399019015

OCLC:

1482815278