Urban explorer comes across abandoned barn with cars worth ‘in the millions’ left inside
- A YouTuber discovered a secret collection of abandoned vehicles
- The collection includes several rare classics
- There’s an F1 car, too
Published on Aug 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Aug 30, 2024 at 4:27 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
Colin Hodson, ‘The Bearded Explorer’ on YouTube, is back at it again with a new barn find that’s potentially worth millions.
The latest barn find revealed several classic cars and even an abandoned F1 car.
Some of these cars, if restored, would be worthy of a concours event.
This one is a particularly good example of that.
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A barn find worth millions
The Bearded Explorer is clearly very good at this, as he recently also found a unique collection of cars abandoned in a barn in France, but this is almost certainly worth more.
Hodson found at least 37 rare classics, including an old Formula 1 car that appears to be a Lotus and a rare Italian-American one-off with a unique story behind it.
Aside from that, he also found a few great American classics made by Cadillac and Studebaker.
This is the sort of stuff the owner of the world’s largest muscle car collection would happily add to his collection.
There are also several BMWs and a few classic Alfa Romeo models.
The rarest car here
This, known as the Silver Ray, may not be the most valuable car here, but it is almost certainly the rarest, because there’s only one.
It was originally commissioned by a Florida-based American collector at some point in the 1950s, and it was supposed to be combine American muscle with Italian design.
The car was indeed designed in Italy, but under the hood it had an American-made V8.
Many years later, it was purchased by a UK-based collector who clearly forgot all about it.
No one knows why or how it ended up here but, as ever with these cars, seeing it in this condition just breaks your heart, doesn’t it?