About the "Tresorfund" barn find
06/27/2017
We have already become accustomed to barn finds. But what should we call it when a car has been well protected and safely stored, even preserved? The Americans like to call it a "vault find", which could be translated as a vault discovery or safe find. Of course, nobody will (be able to) store their car in a safe, but some garages are reminiscent of hermetically sealed rooms.
Mecum auctioned an example of such a "vault find" in May 2017. It was a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette C2 Coupé, a plastic sports car with just 8533 miles on the clock when Mecum sold it for USD 675,000.
It had been part of a family since the beginning, with son Mat taking it over in 1993. Only the batteries and exhaust parts had been replaced; a restoration was never necessary. In the last 15 years, the car had only been driven 15 miles, but was preserved to the best of our knowledge and kept in a climate-controlled room.
Of course, the car with its 427/435 hp L71 engine represented a rarity and would have been traded at such a high price, but the story of the family who bought and kept the car but never drove it certainly played a significant part in its high listing.
