Question: What’s the coolest barn-findever? Answer: The one you found.
With that out of the way, we can probably agree that the rarer the car, the longer it’s been packed away, and the better its condition upon rescue, the cooler a find it is. Following that train of thought, Tom Shaughnessy’s ’66 Ford GT40 might be in the running for coolest find ever. It’s a real GT40, untouched since 1977, when the owner parked it in his two-car garage in Thousand Oaks, California, and daily life slowly buried it.
Tom specializes in classic race cars, especially Ferraris, and has owned several rare machines—including other GT40s—but says this car, Ford chassis P/1067, is something he’s really excited about. “It’s got so many original parts and period-correct race modifications,” he…
