There are barn finds ...

Talk about burying the lede; the story here is how did he get it down into a basement in the first place?
 
One of my deceased friends was a museum curator. He had a massive private collection of WW1 and WW2 deactivated arms together with deactivation certificates for all of them. That collection included crew-served machine guns, mortars and even bazookas and RPGs.

But when he died with no heirs, the local council decided his collection was a risk and destroyed the whole lot as scrap metal. They were afraid that burglars would break into the empty house for the weapons.

That was tens of thousands of pounds of collectors' items. Sad.
 
One of my deceased friends was a museum curator. He had a massive private collection of WW1 and WW2 deactivated arms together with deactivation certificates for all of them. That collection included crew-served machine guns, mortars and even bazookas and RPGs.

But when he died with no heirs, the local council decided his collection was a risk and destroyed the whole lot as scrap metal. They were afraid that burglars would break into the empty house for the weapons.

That was tens of thousands of pounds of collectors' items. Sad.

No imagination. Auction.
 
got my Omega running today, not a barn find as such, but since its not run for over a decade, i now owe it some attention. It was (in its prime), in true Lotus Carlton tradition, Faster than the police version (as Avon and Somerset police might testify should they ever own up) :D
 

interesting, missed the thing by a few days this year!

At the time the quote from the police, ''the manual version is faster than the auto'' I wouldnt mind there were only two cars on the M5 at the time, well one actually - me, and one hiding up a slip road - them.

probably the last of the vauxhall rear wheel drives.
 
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