{"id":22323,"date":"2019-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/mercedes-benz-300-sl-barn-find\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:03:50","slug":"mercedes-benz-300-sl-barn-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/mercedes-benz-300-sl-barn-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Barn Find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are still moments that you can hardly imagine. Especially as a car fan every now and then you dream about opening an old barn or storage facility, just to stand in front of an old, long forgotten car. Fittingly, those vehicles are known as ‘Barn Finds’. On YouTube, there is an occasional program called ‘Barn Find Hunter’, in which the moderator Tom Cotter travels through the United States on behalf of Hagerty’s, tracking down old cars by rumors and stories of local people – often with great success. In the course of the broadcasts, he came across some Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, a Pegaso and various American classic cars. In May 2018, in the 32nd episode, he together with Bill Warner, the founder and organizer of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, opened a storage room in Ponte Vedra\/Florida, which wasn’t entered for the last ten years at least.

Warner already knew what was hiding in that room, because he has known the owner and the stored vehicle for the last 60 years. Thus it isn’t ultimately the classic image of a barn find, but still an absolute rarity, which was brought back to daylight here. The owner, who wants to remain anonymous, bought this vehicle new in 1954, drove it apparently for only eleven years and just more than 35,000 miles, then decided to restore it, removed the original paint, primed the body and then put the car in storage. Why it stayed in this condition for the next more than 50 years until today is a question, that probably also the owner can’t answer anymore. But the attached rear license plate indicates, that it was last licensed in 1965, to the 400th anniversary of the state of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n

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