Classic Auto Mall Show #201 - Tom Cotter, Author & Barn Find Hunter + Keith Martin of Sports Car Market join Stewart Howden

CAM Show #201 07-09-25  Stewart welcomes Tom Cotter, author, race driver, and host of the hit show Hagerty's "The Barn Find Hunter" on YouTube. They discuss his 18 books, sneak peek at one about rebuilding a #Shelby #Cobra, a special order car that was approved by #LeeIacocca and of course, the fine art of "barn find" hunting! Plus, Keith Martin from Sports Car Market magazine talking about millennial attraction to @Volvo wagons and his son's V70 T5.  Keith also has a special subscription offer. https://sportscarmarket/testdrive6 @Hagerty @TheBarnFindHunter

Tom Cotter has authored 18 books with many of them being on amazing Barn Finds as well as a book on TV Tommy Ivo, The Greatest Road Trip, Cubas Car Culture and the Holman-Moody Race Car Team, just to name a few. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Last Barn Find Cobra, which is about finding a very rare original Shelby Cobra in a barn. It will also be in his Barn Find Hunter YouTube show and will tell the story of finding it. They discuss the story of the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona that was found in a storage building in California and is now on display at the Simeone Museum. There were 998 Cobras built and it’s tough to determine how many still exist. And when a Cobra disappeared, people would build one and claim it was the one that disappeared, but sometimes the original was found and it was tough to know which car was actually the original. 

Tom talks about finding a GT40 in a barn. He also discusses driving his original Shelby Cobra and his 1952 Cunningham C-3 Vignale Coupe. He also discusses find an incredibly rare 1967 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon with a 428 V8 with a 4 speed, bucket seats and a console that was special ordered. In 1966 a father wanted a muscle car but his wife told him they needed a station wagon for the family, so he figured out how to special order  a station wagon muscle car. In fact it took talking to a young Lee Iacocca to put the special order through and build the car.

Before becoming a Barn Find Hunter, he was involved in Auto Racing and NASCAR as the PR Director for Charlotte Motor Speedway and is a graduate of the Humpy Wheels school of promotion and launched the Cotter Group in 1989.

Conversation moves to barn finds and some of the most amazing cars and stories. He thought they found a 289 Cobra owned by Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, but it turned out Dennis owned a different Cobra. But the research to find the original owner was amazing. Tom talks about some rare barn find cars he’s heard about and trying to find these awesome barn finds that have been hidden in storage for many years. He tells Stewart about some of the barn find cars he’s bought, incl

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