Wednesday 12 April 2023

Dutch Barnfind - Auction : The Palmen Barnfind Collection

Well, this one was hard to ignore as it went all over the place. A unique Dutch barn find.

Apparently it was discovered due to a fire that happened a few weeks/months back. It even hit 
the Dutch newspaper today with a supporting video:

https://www.ad.nl/video/productie/mysterieuze-nederlandse-schuurvondst-ontdekt-door-brand-369186

The collection was stored in 3 seperated locations and covers 230 cars in total.

They will now be auctioned later this year by The Gallery in Brummen (Aaldering). He bought the whole lot. See supporting video:

https://www.gallery-aaldering.com/nl/the-palmen-barnfind-collection-by-gallery-aaldering/

And the auction: https://www.classiccar-auctions.com/palmen/

The Dutch Octane Magazine published this article online and also in the printed magazine:

https://www.octanemagazine.nl/mega-schuurvondst-in-dordrecht/

And another Dutch blog: 

https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/uniek-nederlandse-barnfind-van-230-autos-3480408

In our car whatsapp group there was someone who happened to live very nearby this place and knew about it. When he was younger boy delivering the newspapers he used to stop at one of the locations and peeked inside. Another guy reported one of the properties was sold recently and the link on Funda:

https://www.fundainbusiness.nl/bedrijfshal/verkocht/ridderkerk/object-42094820-lagendijk-281/

So the first guy said, he used to climb on the grey electrical box so he could look inside. 

He also mentioned a few hundred meters further there was another solitiare guy owning 3 original Le Mans cars. And again another few hundreds further another guy with a barn parked with about 30 or 40 BMW E30 M3. How's that!?

In any case, this owner has some nice Italian cars in his collection and no surprise a Ferrari 400 is listed. And it has a sunroof. When checking the Dutch Road Register (RDW) it's currently listed as unregistered. It was first registered at 28-3-1984, so it's a 400i. Last registration was 4-2-2013



When doing further checking I found it in the Dutch Ferrari Register:

https://www.ferrari-register.nl/ferrari/home/stradali-nuovi/365-400-412/400-i/34509

And I know that car. It was one of the 400's I checked but did not had the guts to buy it. As can be seen it's the Pavesi model. Retrospecitvely I should have bought it. See my blog:

https://erwin400.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hunt-part-iv-ferrari-400i-pavesi.html

I will definately will follow this auction



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