Classic Cars Forgotten Farm for sale
The cars are legendary Marques such as Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Talbot-Lago, Panhard Levassor-Maserati, Ferrari, Delahaye and Delage.
Sleeping Beauties are auctioned by the auction house Artcurial auction and should seek 16m 12m in total.
They will be sold as seen, rusty and weathered, having been kept by some poorly protected exposed to the elements over the years.
Among the 60 is a Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, one of only 37 ever made, was found under a pile of old car magazines.
The car was once owned by actor Alain Delon, who was photographed in the car with the actresses Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine.
Another discovery is a Talbot Lago T26 Cabriolet that was once owned by the last Egyptian monarch, King Farouk, an extremely wealthy man known for his extravagant tastes and large collections.
The discovery once in a lifetime was found after a date with one of the sale of auction specialists who were on the lookout for rare items.
It was somewhere between a metal cemetery and museum, said Pierre Novikoff explaining how some of the cars were hidden by evergreen ivy while in other cases the cars were masked by corrugated iron.
It's probably the last time that such a discovery is made, everywhere What is so special here is the number of cars, the range and quality and pedigree of the models.
The exact location of the collection has been kept secret, but the original owner is known to have been car enthusiast Roger Baillon.
He made his fortune in the shipping company in the late 1940s and used his money to buy the farm Échiré and turn it into a museum of classic automobiles.
Much of the collection was collected between 1955 and 1965 with some of restored cars and others left in their original state.
When his business has suffered in the 1970s, Mr. Baillon sold much of his collection and dealers thought it was the end of the matter.
They did not know that he had held some of the best.
This is one of the works with the rare opportunity of unknown art market, said M. Novikoff.
To cut the Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport Saoutchik, assigned to the back, I think it should be left in this state is a sculpture.
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