Barn Finds

They keep pulling running classic bikes out of this barn!

http://www.coolestone.com/media/3728/Am ... Barn-Find/

Thanks for posting this, Bob. Anyone I circulated to was amazed at the sheer number of ancient, original machines that were dragged out of that warehouse and rudely awoken from their long, long slumber!

G'day Bob, many thanks for posting the link. Unbelievable to see such a treasure trove of desirebles constantly wheeled out in this day and age! Mixed emotions about them being started on the spot after such a long spell hiding.......also seeing a shifter being used to remove spark plugs makes me think they are dickheads!! Not my type of mechanic! Would love to be at the auction though I have to admit.
foxy

Some nice bikes, thanks for sharing with us Bob,

I tend to agree with Foxy, haven't those blokes heard of a plug wrench?
Further proof of lack of intelligence was the line "I'm not sure what year this is" If they had a look at the big sign on front of the bike it says 1928 :mrgreen:

Anyway, I'm jealous!

Webby

The Hartung collection has been on several shows. One in particular is 'Chasing Classic Cars' which airs on Discovery's Velocity channel. The Host, Wayne Carini, focused on the 1949 BMW Veritas - a very rare and very ugly car (IMHO). He ended up buying a pre-WWI Thor with sidecar. Also in the Hartung collection was the first Hertz rental car - Model 'T' of course. He pretty much just collected stuff and stuck it in one of about 8 buildings on his property - some had been there for 60 years - no preservation except to get the piece out of the weather.

Look it up on the Discovery web site

just watched the clips of the bikes and cars being pulled out and a few fired up

amazing!

I had better be dead if somebody uses starting fluid on my "rare" vintage bike! Otherwise I will probably be going to prison.

OK, with that rant out of the way...I would love to get a look at these bikes first hand. Oh yeah, the cars too.

Russ

rvich said:

I had better be dead if somebody uses starting fluid on my "rare" vintage bike! Otherwise I will probably be going to prison.

OK, with that rant out of the way...I would love to get a look at these bikes first hand. Oh yeah, the cars too.

Russ

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I almost fainted! What the hell kind of idiot using starting fluid on anything much less a priceless collectible bike? I kept thinking that these guys are animals. Where was the guy standing by with the fire extinguisher? "It's just burning some oil off the engine." Right!

On another note, that crescent wrench is probably the correct plug wrench for the Henderson. I have had a chance to ride a Henderson four and it is amazingly smooth.