The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Cotter
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 44477
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0760319928
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.222
EAN: 9780760319925
ASIN: 0760319928
Publication Date: November 10, 2005
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Product Description
It’s the fantasy of every car enthusiast: Pull a tarp off a pile in a barn, or hear a farmer say ""there’s an old car out back"" and discover a classic collectible such as a Hemi ‘Cuda, a rare Porsche, or a Jaguar E-Type racer. Many such tales told during enthusiasts’ bench racing sessions are urban myths. But this book is full of true tales of rare gems pulled out of haystacks or junkyards—and there are before and after photos to prove it! Author Tom Cotter uses his engaging writing style in telling the tales of found Cobras, a rare Delehaye found disassembled in Czechoslovakia that eventually won Best in Show at Pebble Beach, a Ferrari racer found in a California woodchip pile, and several more. Cotter traces the early histories of the cars, how they were discovered, and where they are today.
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 The Cobra in a Barn June 23, 2008
This book was enjoyable and really shows what is still hidng out there for anyone to find. My only criticism of the book is that it is a series of articles all by different people written in their own words. Some sections are written better than others, and the writing style changes often. I would have liked a few more pictures, but overall the book does a good job presenting what it was intended to present.
It's worth getting if you are an enthusiast who likes to turn his/her own wrench.
 Thoroughly Recommended - One of the Best Books of its Type April 7, 2008
Highly Recommended book - I'm happy to add it to my collection of classic car books as one of the best that I have so far.
Cobra in the Barn March 6, 2008
Like "Hemi in a Barn" , well written in bit size chapters that are easy to digest .A book you can pick up and put down easily .
 Great topic but weakly edited January 27, 2008
Every car nut dreams of the great "barn find," and this book seemed to promise vignettes of some of the best, but disppointed me in a few ways. The quality of the writing covers a spectrum from "what I did on my summer vacation" type ramblings to the professional prose of Road and Track's Peter Egan. I had to read a couple of the stories two or three times to clarify who the people were and what the perspective of the writer was. Some of the chapters lacked photographs, or decent photographs, so the reader is left to imagine what was actually discovered, which would seem like a no-no for a book like this. Some beautiful photos were attached at the end of the book, said to be in some "mystery location" so that really did not connect to the rest of the book. My only other comment would be that if you're expecting this to be all about sports cars, it's not...several of the chapters are about big old touring cars, one-offs, woodies, and limousines. A decent read for car enthusiasts but not great. If I was editing it, I'd chop a lot of the banter and make the stories clear, and make sure there were photos to document each story from "find" to post-restoration if that was the end of the story.
Incredible!! January 23, 2008
If you love cars, you have to read this book. You'll never look at an old barn or garage the same way again.
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