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And 49 other Entertaining True Tales from the World of Rare and Exotic Car Collecting

By Wallace Wyss

“The Baroness and the Mercedes” is just one of 50 entertaining true stories from the collector car world. Just imagine, a car abandoned for over 30 years by a Prussian heiress is located in Connecticut and was eventually sold for over $11 million! This book, written by former Motor Trend associate editor Wallace Wyss, has example after example of rare, purebred cars that were covered in dirt, ignored, or effectively lost until an enthusiast recognized their worth and rescued them. More examples: The Bizzarrini Manta prototype found abandoned in customs in Italy; the Maserati Boomerang prototype spotted on a street in Spain; the bubble-topped Rolls-Royce Wraith rescued from the basement of a nightclub on the Cote d’Azur; the Ferrari 250 GTO donated to a high school in Texas—it eventually sold for $52 million! Author Wyss, who has been an ace barn-finder himself, tracking down rare Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Bizzarrinis, Ferraris, Porsches and gullwing Mercedes-Benzes, mixes in his own adventures with the stories of full-time barn finders.

Softback, 272 pages, 50 photos, 6x9 inches