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Title: The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
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| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks Thoroughly Recommended - One of the Best Books of its Type |
| Highly Recommended book - I'm happy to add it to my collection of classic car books as one of the best that I have so far. |
| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks Cobra in the Barn |
| Like "Hemi in a Barn" , well written in bit size chapters that are easy to digest .A book you can pick up and put down easily . |
| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks Great topic but weakly edited |
| Every car nut dreams of the great "barn find," and this book seemed to promise vignettes of some of the best, but disppointed me in a few ways. The quality of the writing covers a spectrum from "what I did on my summer vacation" type ramblings to the professional prose of Road and Track's Peter Egan. I had to read a couple of the stories two or three times to clarify who the people were and what the perspective of the writer was. Some of the chapters lacked photographs, or decent photographs, so the reader is left to imagine what was actually discovered, which would seem like a no-no for a book like this. Some beautiful photos were attached at the end of the book, said to be in some "mystery location" so that really did not connect to the rest of the book. My only other comment would be that if you're expecting this to be all about sports cars, it's not...several of the chapters are about big old touring cars, one-offs, woodies, and limousines. A decent read for car enthusiasts but not great. If I was editing it, I'd chop a lot of the banter and make the stories clear, and make sure there were photos to document each story from "find" to post-restoration if that was the end of the story. |
| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks Incredible!! |
| If you love cars, you have to read this book. You'll never look at an old barn or garage the same way again. |
| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks A Great Book If You Love Old Cars! |
| This is a really interesting book if you're into hunting old cars like I am. It has some great stories, and if you're a car guy it will make you want to go out and hunt for cars that people have hidden away and forgotten about. Don't think that all of the good cars have been found yet. As this book proves, there are plenty left if you are willing to do a little searching and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty. I found an old '68 Corvette convertible that was wasting away in a guy's backyard shortly after buying this book. He wouldn't sell it to me because he said he's saving it for his grandson to restore. Oh well, the search continues, and really isn't that half the fun? |
| The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology by Motorbooks Product Description |
It’s the fantasy of every car enthusiast: Pull a tarp off a pile in a barn, or hear a farmer say ""there’s an old car out back"" and discover a classic collectible such as a Hemi ‘Cuda, a rare Porsche, or a Jaguar E-Type racer. Many such tales told during enthusiasts’ bench racing sessions are urban myths. But this book is full of true tales of rare gems pulled out of haystacks or junkyards—and there are before and after photos to prove it! Author Tom Cotter uses his engaging writing style in telling the tales of found Cobras, a rare Delehaye found disassembled in Czechoslovakia that eventually won Best in Show at Pebble Beach, a Ferrari racer found in a California woodchip pile, and several more. Cotter traces the early histories of the cars, how they were discovered, and where they are today. |
