Take one barn that's been welded shut and left for 15 years.

Cut open:
http://forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055

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looks like a hellavu amount of ruined paintwork thanks to bird strikes

"Carl Gibbs" <cagmeister (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

thats one hell of a great find :-)
thank you for shearing them with us.

In article <o0Juh.98663$493.69424 (AT) newsfe4-gui (DOT) ntli.net>, " banjo" <-
deeenoregistrar (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk_> says...
Just define "great find".

The cars are all older than 15 years, some are the double or triple.
They stond there for the claimed 15 years and are now worth close to
nothing. I don't see any car which will not need a restauration of
around 20 kUPd (and that's an optimistic number)

Crying shame because when the cars went in some minor protection would
have cost close to nothing and should have preserved them like a time
capsule.

Tom De Moor

"Tom De Moor" <viperengine (AT) removethis (DOT) gmail.com> wrote

What you don't know is whether that happened before they went in.

David

On Jan 27, 9:30 pm, "David Lane"
<aswb58NOSPAMTAVERYM... (AT) dsl (DOT) pipex.com> wrote:
Regardless, I'd still love to discover a collection like that.

Looks like a real find to me.

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In article <1169940150.181232.135560 (AT) q2g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk says...
Whenever you are in Brussels, just visit -if he allows you because it is
strictly private not a museum-:

Carrosserie Vanderveken SA
Roodebeeksteenweg 19-25
1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.

The man is a "carrosier", meaning he repairs cars after accidents. He
employs 40-60 people. His company exists now for about 40 years.

Whenever he had men with spare time, he let them restoring cars.
Strangely enough he never sold the restored cars. Restoring is ment here
in the meaning of spanking new. His building is about 6 floors high and
it ressembles the barn find (on every floor) with the exception that
every car -for 1920, racecars (Lemans, rallye,etc)- are in
showroomcondition.

You have money burning a hole in your pocket and want a Bugatti or
Talbot Lago which will start first time? Or a Renault Alpine Berlinette,
ready to take on Monte-Carlo? A Maserati racer? Vanderveken is the man
you have to see.

He won't sell his cars. But if you are genuine and hand him enough
money, he will give you one.

Tom De Moor

PS I searched for a website but Guy is so modern that computers seem
just too new-age for him.

<jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Yup.

They don't look *that* bad, to be honest.

They're certainly pretty much rot free, I'm sure a lot of 'em would be
relatively simple to get back on the road.
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In article <1hso0yp.n25go38uukt0N%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk>,
steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk says...

Just as info: how many pre-1970 cars, which stood for the last 2
decades, have you ever managed to get back on the road? Do you have the
slightiest idea what is involved?

For those who never do it -and most likely never will do it- everything
is simple.

Out of multiple experience: every car in that barn needs a minimum of
1000 Hrs work and 5 kUPD in parts while some need a lot more of both.
These figures render most of the cars in that barn close to worthless.



Tom De Moor