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May 12, 2023
An incredible collection of 230 classic cars discovered in an abandoned church in the Netherlands is up for auction.
The so-called “barn finds” or “granary findings”, which in Spanish we could define as discoveries of cars that were thought to have disappeared, create great expectation in the automotive world. Today we will tell you about the peculiarities of one of the most recent, where 230 incredible units of rare and spectacular cars have been found that have been discovered in an abandoned church in the Netherlands.
The collection was started by a man named Ad Palmen over 40 years ago. Palmen began his collection with a yellow Lancia B20, and expanded it with more than 200 cars of all kinds, including models such as a Ferrari 365, an Alfa Romeo Spider and classic Rolls-Royce models.
Hidden for over 40 years, now for sale
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Palm trees he kept his incredible collection in an old church and in two department stores from the Netherlands, starting each car regularly to prevent the engines from failing. Of course, over the years, Palmen rarely showed the collection to anyone, so very few people knew of its existence.
And it is that, as we say, such was Palmen’s obsession with his treasures that it was solely responsible for car maintenance and no one but him came in and out. In fact, he even came to live in one of the warehouses sharing space with his vehicles.
Due to his delicate state of health, Palmen has decided to sell it individually (ie, model to model) and it’s going through Classic Car Auctions.
According to this auction company, Palmen he especially liked Italian carssuch as Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati and Ferrari, which are the ones with the largest number of representatives, although the collection includes cars from all over the world, such as British Jaguar, Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce cars and American classics from Chevrolet brands , Cadillac and Ford.
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At the auction, which It starts on Friday, May 19 and will close on June 7.you can bid online, although Classic Car Auctions has also confirmed that it will open the warehouse for a series of visiting days throughout the month of May.
2023-05-12 17:30:54
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