Classic sports cars left to rot in barn for 50 years sell for over £100,000… including ultra-rare AC Aceca
A SET of classic sports cars left to rot in a barn for 50 years have been sold for over £100,000.
Content creator Elton took to his YouTube channel UK Barn Finds to share the incredible find – which includes an ultra-rare AC Aceca.
The classic car fan revealed how he recovered a huge collection of abandoned vehicles.
In the video he told subscribers he spotted the incredible set after someone tipped him over.
He said: “It is the most exciting barn find extraction that I’ve ever attended, certainly more exciting than this Austin Princess, although I do love it.
“We got a text at about 10:10 the night before asking if we’d like to film it. Of course we did. We dropped everything, I shot down, and you’re seeing this as I arrived to see it.
“Hopefully you’ll get the same excitement as I did watching these cars see light for the first time in 50 years.”
The collection boasts 10 classic vehicles which date back to the 1940s.
Many of the cars were sporty models – including six incomplete Jaguar E-Types and a couple of AC Aces.
The old convertible model would go on to become the iconic AC Cobra.
But the rarest model found in the barn was an iconic AC Aceca – which is one of only 328 that were manufactured.
Guy Snelling from Anglia Car Auctions bought the cars from the barn and sold them on to new owners to be restored.
He explained: “Bearing in mind in the 1950s, 60s and 70s these cars weren’t expensive.
“They were still very exciting and cool, but they weren’t the money that they are now.
“So, it was quite possible that you could put a collection like this together fairly inexpensively, and I’m very pleased that someone has.
“Yes, they all need restoration, but they have been preserved. And these cars are unknown, it’s going to be quite a buzz when they hit the market.”
All models from the barn went under the hammer for a whooping price tag .
The most expensive item on the lot is a dark blue AC Ace built in 1959.
Although the vehicles need an intense restoration and sold without warranty, a lucky bidder paid £113,400 to own the classic sportscar collection.
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