Two rare sports cars found parked in a North Carolina garage on an episode of the popular car enthusiast YouTube channel ‘Barn Find Hunter’ have sold for $3.5million.
The 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 Alloy Longnose and 1976 Shelby 427 Cobra were put up for auction at the Gooding & Company auction in Amelia Island, Florida after classic car expert Tom Cotter stumbled across them in January.
Cotter, who hosts Hagerty’s ‘The Barn Find Hunter’, filmed the once-in-a-lifetime find for the YouTube series calling the discovery a ‘dream’.
This 1976 Shelby 427 Cobra sports car sold for $1million at an auction in Florida after it was discovered abandoned in a garage
This 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 Alloy Longnose, also found abandoned in the garage, sold at the auction for $2.53million
The classic cars were found by ‘The Barn Find Hunter’ host Tom Cotter parked in a garage of a North Carolina home that was about to be demolished
The inside of the Cobra was dusty and filled with cobwebs but was in good working condition
The Ferrari was also dusty but started right up when Cotter turned the engine on
According to Fox News, both cars sold on Friday for a combined $3,575,000.
The Ferrari was initially priced at $1million but that price quickly climbed to $2.53million. The Cobra sold for $1,045,000.
It’s not clear if both cars were purchased by the same person.
Cotter said he came across the cars after the owner contacted him wanting to sell the cars because the North Carolina home they were being stored at was going to be demolished.
The owner, who was not identified, said he had parked the sports cars in his garage in 1991 following the death of his trusted mechanic in a motorcycle race.
The owner did not want anyone else working on the classic cars so he left them in the garage, untouched for decades.
The Ferrari was initially priced at $1million but that price quickly climbed to $2.53million during the auction
The Ferrari is one of 80 made with a lightweight alloy body making it an extremely rare car
The Cobra was one of 260 built with a 428 cubic-inch engine for the street
The owner of the cars said he parked them in the garage in 1991 following the death of his trusted mechanic. The owner did not trust anyone else to work on the cars
Pictured is the engine of the 1976 Shelby 427 Cobra
The owner decided it was to time sell them because the North Carolina home they were being stored was going to be demolished
Both cars were covered in dust and cobwebs, and mice had made a home in the trunk of the Cobra, but they were in good condition and their engines started up right away.
The Cobra was one of 260 built with a 428 cubic-inch engine for the street. The Ferrari is one of 80 made with a lightweight alloy body.
Hidden in the garage was also a V8-powered Morgan and a Triumph TR6, but the owner decided to keep those cars.