Yahoo Autos See The Chevelle Which Began The Barn Find Craze
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This is how the insanity started…
Back in 2007 for the May edition of Car Craft magazine this 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6 graced the cover. The publication called the Chevy the “Godfather of the Barn Find Era” and for good reason. While there’s no telling if it for sure was the barn find car which originally got everyone excited to go poking around for hidden treasures in their hometown, it was the most dramatic early example of a barn find. Now we live in an era of barn find saturation with plenty of suspicious examples which look like someone sprinkled some magical “barn dust” over the otherwise perfect paint to get people’s hearts racing.
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In the included video, YouTube channel Patrick Glenn Nichols Musclecar Barn Finds visits the Tennessee shop where this ultra-famous Chevelle and another 1970 are both in the process of being fully restored. It’s interesting to see the progress made on these cars, but it also brings up a hotly-contested topic in some gearhead circles these days: should barn finds be restored?
