found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/05/27/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1927-rolls-royce-phantom-i where the 2nd owner want to part with it for $94,000
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Barnfind 1927 Rolls Royce of Mrs Anheuser Busch
found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/05/27/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1927-rolls-royce-phantom-i where the 2nd owner want to part with it for $94,000
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45 years parked in a garage, and finally the 1939 Studebaker gets towed out into the light for the first time since LBJ was president
read about it at http://bernalwood.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/studebaker-time-capsule-emerges-from-bernal-garage/ somehwere in San Franciscovia http://blog.hemmings.com/ where Dan posts great stuff all the time!
This is not verifiable, but a Shelby GT 350 #6s966 may have been pulled out of a Kansas garage after 30+ years
This story has issues, but notice the photo of the GT 350 doesn't have the H after the GT 350 on the rocker panel decal, and the story claims it is a GT 350 H rent a racer Hertz car with original paint.the original story http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/apr/02/rare-1966-shelby-gt350-fastback-found-garage-lawre but Jalopnik has the story http://jalopnik.com/#!5787316/how-a-66-shelby-gt350-was-hidden-in-trash-for-26-years as March 30th 2011 and writes that it's a Hertz rent a racer GT 350 H, and the Leake Auction website has no story to go with the photo gallery of the GT 350 that does not have an H after the GT 350.
The CNN video news clip never mentions Hertz. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/04/06/dnt.rare.nustang.found.kctv?hpt=T2
Shelby Forums says that this will be written up in the Spring 2011 issue of the Shelby American http://www.shelbyforums.com/forums/1965-1970-shelby-mustang-gt350-gt500/13464-6s966-found-shed.html
Images from http://www.leakecarauction.com/index.cfm?id=209&auc_code=SA11&year=1966&make=Shelby&model=&keyword=&color=&search=1&lot=474
I learned about this story from Robert L and his link was to the Kansas City Star article: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/09/2789114/rare-car-found-hidden-beneath.html
The SAAC forum addresses this story http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=12348.0 and in the thread they state it was orignally a GT 350 H red and gold, but now has a replacement engine as well as a repaint
If anyone knows more about this, or has read the spring 2011 Shelby American, please drop me an email and add anything you can to this story
Thanks to Chad Lawhorn the story writer from the Lawrence Journal for sending me the link to the original article!
In the "For Sale" lot at Good Guys Del Mar Nats
Above a Bently barn find and below is a Rambler American 
barn and field finds
GTX
GSX, yup, real one
Z code 63 1/2 Galaxie , that means high performance, and highly desireableThey're still out there, and some are never going to part ways with the nimrod that owns it, and tells every possible buyer "Someday I'll restore it" but will die before he ever touches that car again, meanwhile it rusts so much no one can do anything with it.
But every now and then, the owner has forgotten the car was even hanging around because it faded into the background of the family farm
See a new find or two every week at http://www.carsinbarns.com/
1929 factory race Harley. Not found in a barn, it was found in a mine in Australia
This original and intact, rare Harley-Davidson, was found in the bathroom of an Australian gold mine in the late 1940's. It's a no transmission, 21cu in, 350cc, and had no brakesA. L. Bicker had heard stories of this machine still in a wooden crate and traced the Harley-Davidson to a mining operation in Western Australia.
It was indeed in the men's room of the mine. Best of all, the machine was a factory racer with overhead valves. Essentially a twenty year old motorcycle at the time, it was not coveted as a rare antique but still a desirable machine to own and use.
Sold for 125,000 in Jan 2011 at the Bonhams auction in Las Vegas
Info and photo from http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4828410&iSaleNo=18553&iSaleSectionNo=2
I came across this on http://voodootimm.tumblr.com
Barnfind 63 Ranchero in So Cal was offered up by the owner for 500 bucks... that is so tempting
read about the find http://inlinesix.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/1963-ford-falcon-ranchero-barn-find I'm guessing he's going to get swamped with request for the location. 
Barnfind Shelby AC Cobra, and a one owner, less than 7.4 thou miles '62 Benz 300SL roadster getting auctioned by Gooding Jan 21st
Said to be the only unrestored Cobra in blue and red livery, the '64 AAC Cobra spent 33 years in "storage" yet comes off as surprisingly lustworthy in spite of that. It began life as Carroll Shelby's promo car at SoCal racing venues, was pulled from the deeep barn sleep to do the 2010 Pebble Beach
from http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/15/gooding-unloads-its-time-capsule-cars-for-its-2011-scottsdale/
1 of 3 existing BMW R51 RS factory race bikes in unrestored condition getting auctioned
Read about the sad true story of how the first owner was ruined by the US Govt because he was German immigrant businessman at the beginning of WW2, just like many Japanese Americans were. He was the BMW importer in New York, and managed to finagle one of these seventeen R51RS racers from the factory. In truth, BMW sold very few motorcycles in the US in the 1920s and 30s, as protectionist trade policies introduced in the mid-20s levied a huge tax (up to 100%) on 'heavy' imported goods. Thus BMWs were rare and very expensive in the US
The 'RS' was a pushrod 500cc ohv flat-twin
Emil Recke's troubles began when AMA track officials ignored the bike making the fastest qulaifying lap at a race in Langhorne Pennsylvania, and when the US finally entered the War in Dec. 1941, Recke, as a German national and 'enemy alien', had his bank accounts seized by the US government.
Suddenly broke, he was forced to sell his BMW dealership, parts stock, tooling, and motorcycles to survive, for which he was paid pennies on the dollar given the ramping-up of the propaganda machine against anything, and anyone, German (or Japanese). After selling nearly everything he owned, all he had left in the world was his most precious possession, the R51RS which had been entrusted to him by the BMW factory. When it became clear that this, too, must be sold, he did what he had to, and sold the bike. He then took his own life.
Via: http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-unrestored-bmw-racer-at-auction.html
Update on the Portugese barn find collection that shocked everyone a couple years ago, full story and list of cars
Feb 2007 was when 58 photos and a description of a barn with steel doors welded shut was opened for the first time in decades and this collection was found. Well, the story was all made up... but a journalist finally went to get to the truth of the matter in 2009, and new photos as well as a complete inventory are after the linkLoewy's personal design '59 Caddy was found
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/raymond-loewy-leader-of-amc-designs-and.html to read about it, and the color photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=561 
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