Hot take: 'Barn finds' are mostly just people neglecting their cars
I was scrolling through Bring a Trailer last night and saw a 1970 Challenger that supposedly sat in a garage for 30 years and sold for like 80 grand. But here's the thing that hit me - that car wasn't found, it was just ignored. My uncle has a 67 Mustang in his garage back in Ohio that hasn't moved since 1994 because he keeps saying he'll restore it someday. That's not a barn find, that's just him being lazy about rotting metal. Every time I see one of these stories about someone finding a dusty muscle car in a shed, I wonder how many actually get saved versus how many just end up as parts cars for someone else. The whole romantic idea of uncovering a hidden gem makes me roll my eyes because most of the time it's just a car that someone couldn't be bothered to maintain. Have you guys ever come across a real deal barn find that actually ran after a battery swap, or is it all overblown?