I doubt there is a car enthusiast that hasn't dreamed of stumbling across a barn, or a garage that has a car already in it, even a humble Austin Allegro would do for most people, but it is those real jackpot finds that cause the biggest stir.

Hemmings.com blog has a great entry on a new barn find in New York It always amazes me that these collections sit either undiscovered or unrevealed for so long.  The images on this entry have come from that find.  Check the entry on Hemmings for more photos and details.

One of the most famous to do the rounds on the internet in recent years it the Portugese "barn find", which turned out to not be a barn find at all, but a photographer documenting a car collection.  However real barn finds do happen an Vintage Sports Cars has a page of them, some really special machinery has been found.

The subject is interesting enough to have had a couple of books written about it. Tom Cotter's The Cobra in the Barn : Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology as the name implies has some great stories of barn find cars.

If you enjoy that, or have already enjoyed it you may want to pick up The Hemi in the Barn also by Tom Cotter.

So keep that dream alive, every time you see an abandoned barn, or garage, that temptation to just peek through the door edges, to see if there is something inside, is always strong.  You never know, one day you may turn up that Ferrari 250 GTO SWB,.. or an Austin Allegro, it doesn't matter which.