Sentence examples for barn find from inspiring English sources

Three Cunningham C-3 coupes will be on display, including a barn find fresh from a 20-year slumber.

This weekend, the 17th edition of the Greenwich Concours d'Élégance will do much to stoke the allure of the barn find.

"Barn find," a catchall term for cars unearthed after decades of neglect, has become a buzzword on cable television and at auctions of vintage autos.

This weekend, the 17th edition of the Greenwich Concours d'??nce will do much to stoke the allure of the barn find.

The derelicts, raw and as-found on the outside but entirely modern under the skin, also acknowledge the growing fervor over "barn find" classics, a branch of the shabby-chic mindset that satisfies a yearning for authenticity and originality.

The allure of the barn find has spread to motorcycle collecting, and the concours acknowledges this by displaying a well-preserved 1928 Indian Scout that had been gathering dust for the last 60 years.

The car has turned out to be the mother of all barn finds, found mouldering away in a warehouse this year.

The trainer Patrick Biancone received the suspension last week from Kentucky racing stewards after a search of a refrigerator at his Keeneland barn found snake venom, which can be used to numb a horse's nerves.

Though they were not available to drive, other auction highlights include a concours-quality 1934 Ford V-8 Deluxe Roadster; an alloy-bodied 1954 Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS by Ghia; a 1956 Cadillac station wagon special-bodied by Hess & Eisenhardt; a bright pink and Hemi-powered 1955 DeSoto Fireflite convertible; and two barn finds: a 1932 Packard and 1949 Healey Westland.

The "barn finds" are no longer busted-up cars in traditional wooden buildings, but in rickety, shitty old iron sheds.

He claimed that, while he was walking away, he heard a pistol shot and, running back to the barn, found Maria dead with one of his pistols beside her.