A‘barn find’ is the term given to discovering an old vehicle that has been stored, often unsympathetically, in an old garage, hut, shed, greenhouse or, as the name suggests, barn. I have discovered many of these lucky finds way back in the day, and it was always exciting chasing up some story you had heard about – that so-and-so had this or that. But since the social media tidal wave and everyone now an expert, gaining a BA (Hons) in Scooterism and Chartered Valuation after completing a few hours scanning the prices of auction sites, these barn finds of legend have become few and far between.
But sometimes things are just meant to be, and it would appear that Phelim Lennon definitely has the fabled luck of the