Say `Sleeping Beauties' to committed car enthusiasts and they will
immediately know what you're talking about: a world famous 1980s
photo series, showing an extraordinary collection of classical
automobiles rusting away in a French barn, neglected by their
owner. Famous brands like Bugatti, Lancia, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo,
Cord and Aston Martin, laying under thick layers of dust, spending
their remaining days falling apart in isolation. Many have tried to
find out what happened to these cars over the last twenty-five
years - decayed? destroyed? sold? - but all leads fizzled out ...
until two Dutchmen and a German hung on where others had given up.
In true Boy's Own style, their book tells of the three-year-long
search for the fate of the cars from that French barn. It tells the
story behind the collection's origins in 1948, through the moment
in 1983 when the famous photos were published, up to the day in
2007 when the authors talked to the current 79 year old owner - a
man who finally broke his silence about the fate of his collection
for the first time in 25 years.
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