$4mil barn-find Ferrari and Cobra blows minds!

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

2 min read

Barn-finds are awesome when someone stumbles across a hyper-rare muscle car, or European exotic. But what about being the lucky bloke who opens the door on a ‘60s Ferrari, a big block Shelby Cobra, plus a Triumph TR6, Morgan roadster and even an all-wheel-drive E30 BMW!

Hagerty Insurance’s Tom Cotter, known as the Barn Find Hunter, has blown classic car enthusiasts’ minds over the years but his latest find trumps them all. Sitting in a garage in North Carolina since 1991 are two of the most desirable sports cars of the ‘60s, including a 428 big-block-powered Shelby Cobra 427, a ‘67 Ferrari 275 GTB two-cam. There is also a Triumph TR6 and Morgan roadster, though the show-stoppers are the Ferrari and Shelby.

These cars were reportedly left to sit due to the owner’s mechanic passing away in a motorcycle crash in 1991, and the mechanic being the only person the owner would trust with the cars.

All cars will need significant work before they can even be started, though that won’t hurt values as the Ferrari is a genuine original 13,000 mile-old two-owner car. Early indications put the value for the Cobra and Ferrari alone at $4,000,000 (USD).

Iain Kelly is the Barn Find Hunter behind The Creators Online.

What's would be your dream barn find? Let us know in the comments.

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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