TOM COTTER
Tom Cotter's sequel to last year's best-selling The Cobra in the Barn relays one great tale after another, with players unearthing rare cars to die for. The treasures include an armored Mercedes-Benz Aktion P command car discovered in pieces in Russia, a desirable Dodge Daytona Hemi virtually abandoned behind bushes in a guy's yard, a bushel of Bugattis in a barn, the Divorcee Cobra, and a GTO owned by a mobster. These are great stories about great cars.
Edmonds.com
"Tom Cotter tells fascinating tales of dream cars discovered everywhere ... the stuff of every enthusiasts fantasy."--Road & Track Its every car lovers fantasy: the perfectly preserved classic automobile discovered under a blanket in some great-grannys garage. And as Tom Cotter showed us in The Cobra in the Barn, its a fantasy that can come true. Cotters adventures in automotive archaeology continue in The Hemi in the Barn, with more than forty new stories of amazing finds and automotive resurrections. Avid collectors big and small recall the thrills of the hunt, the tips and hunches followed, clues pursued, the heart-stopping payoff. Theres the forgotten Duesenberg--the only unrestored one around--that Jay Leno found in a Burbank garage. Theres another 1931 model Dusenberg Leno found in a parking garage in New York City that was parked in 1933 and was never moved. Theres a Plymouth Superbird found buried in a hedge out of sight in Alabama. Theres the rescue of the first 1955 Corvette ever built. Theres the find of legendary race builder Smokey Yunicks Boss 302 Trans-Am car. And theres the story of the original Cobra Daytona Coupe built by Peter Brock and sold to Phil Spectre--a story that somehow involves a chauffeurs daughter setting herself and her rabbits on fire. As entertaining as these tales are--and some are truly corkers--theyre also full of tantalizing hints and suggestions for readers setting off on their own adventures in automotive archaeology. "Thanks to The Cobra in the Barn, we now know theres another way to get that historic car of our dreams without breaking the bank. North Carolina auto writer Tom Cotter has spent his life driving down dead-end dirt roads, peeking through smudged barn windows, and nosing around his old Long Island neighborhood. These cars are out there, just waiting to be rescued and restored."--Philadelphia Inquirer
