Supercar barn find

[trigger]

Well maybe barn find is a bit of a over used word but auctioneers Lacy Scott & Knight of Bury St.Edmunds was asked to assess an estate of a Suffolk businessman who recently died.

 

Inside two barns was a collection of very low mileage super cars, inculding a 1989 Maserati Quattroporte with only 960 miles, a very rare 1988 De Tomaso Longchamp GTSE with only 706KM, A 1976 Jensen Interceptor MK III with 24k and a 1996 Bentley Mulsanne Turbo with 609 miles amongst others.

 

Quite remarkable, All are going through auction on the 13th March.

 

LOCAL NEWSPAPER ARTICAL

 

PDF FILE WITH FULL DETAILS OF THE CARS

 

 

 

[r.welfare]

Great find, Trigger. All three of those cars look very odd on such "late" registration plates - I'd guess the Interceptor is one of the last, pre-receivership of the original Jensen company.

[trigger]

I was just reading about it in my local rag, I might take a drive down that day as I think I'm off work, All the car's seem to be rare and late production, The Jensen hasn't been taxed since 1984 and The Longchamp GTSE must be mega rare on a E plate.

[brammy777]

For such a long production run, the Longchamp is a rare car indeed. Something like 400 were made, no doubt down to a handful a year before it was stopped in 1989. I doubt many barns have things like this inside, the dealership I did work experience at had some majorly tasty things inside 2 barns. Damn crappy 2006 technology.

[CortinaDave]

I shudder to think how much those beasts would cost to make roadworthy, given their rarity and the length of time thy've been sat doing nothing.A damn good polish up then into a museum is probably the best plan.What is that green thing in the top pic? Those tail lights look like mk1 granada/mk1 capri

[trigger]

It's a Maserati Khamsin, It's ery rare as it's a 1985 model and they stopped making them in 1982.

[Station]

I like that Detomaso, what a proper 70's looking thing that is.

[The Liberator]

Those tail lights look like mk1 granada/mk1 capri

I think they're Alfa 2000 Berlina units. Both the De Tomasos' tail lights look the same, or very similar, too.

 

[Gompo]

Read about this in the Pistonheads forums a couple of weeks back, that De Tomaso Deauville might only one of two in the UK - the bloke who mentioned it on Pistonheads has one that he's spent a massive amount on getting it restored...I'd have the Longchamps, they look fucking tough.

[Pete-M]

There was a Deauville for sale in Manchester for around 4 years. Bloke wanted some silly amount of money for it £20k or thereabout, and only advertised it in the Loot. I think there was a DT- Longchamp in the same adverts for equally daft cash.It's quite probably still for sale.I turned down the offer of a low mileage BiTurbo Spyder for peanuts not that long ago, trader who offered it to me said "Strange that, I've offered to everybody and nobody at all wants the fookin' thing, not even the nutters who deal in oddball stuff will touch it, and nobody has even bothered going closer than t'other side of warehouse to look at it."