LT70ZR91

Is the ambience of a barn find car of any value? Would a person be better off advertising it as a barn find and leaving it as is with all the dust and dirt, or should it be removed and cleaned up for sale? After 30 years they can be very dirty.

bluestreak63

If you advertise it as a barn find, then it really isn't a barn find anymore, it's a barn found.

I don't think it adds anything, except for the buyer to have an advantage of talking the seller into putting down the pipe.

On the flip side, as a seller, you can hide some of the faults by keeping it dirty.

Revfan

I'd take a bunch of pictures of it "in situ" with all the dust and normal stuff we expect from barn finds.

Drag it out, take pictures of the cleaning process and then present....

Like bluestreak63 says, the initial barn finder gets the mystique, but I don't think I'd personally pay extra for 30 year old dust. Clean it up and then call it, Barn Found SURVIVOR"

If you only have a little bit of money, spend it on marketing....

rfn026

I think people are paying extra for "Barn Find" cars. Dealers and brokers are creating barn find cars. They wouldn't be doing it unless they could make money at it.

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Frankie the Fink

I don't think its the dealers so much as the owners; having said that you brought a car back from the brink of extinction (rotting in a barn that is) means you are a real 'car guy' and put the car back to the beauty it is today. It also implies you're some kind of savvy treasure hunter that finds diamonds in the ruff and steals them for crazy money.

Its a subtle form of narcissism.