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British sleeping beauties
Sleeping beauties, named after the book about a farm house in France where a lot of extreme rare and expensive cars are falling apart after years of standing in the barn. Stories about cars which are used as chicken barn or flower pot. Cars and bikes which have been in barns for many years under straw and after turning the ignition key starting again even after many years of stand still. Stories which are more often told, but will be told less and less and only a few of them are really true. Is it not the dream of us all to find a forgotten Bugatti in the barn of an old woman who wants to clean up the trash in the barn. So now and then I have found cars in the field for which I wondered why these cars were standing here just waiting for some attention.
Below you will see some movies of a Bentley barn find. See how much fun a barn find van be.
Would it not be possible to get this sleeping beauties on the road again. Below you will find some photographs out of the field which I have found on the internet, only a few of them were spotted personally in Holland, or during holidays in foreign countries.
If you have pictures like these.
Send them to hermann@car-brochures.eu
Aston Martin DB
Pre War MG
MG TC
MG TD
MG TF
MG A
MG B
MG Midget
Healey Abbot
Healey 100
Healey 3000
Healey Sprite Bugeye
Austin Healey Sprite
Jaguar MK V
Jaguar XK140
Jaguar XK150
Jaguar MK VIII
Jaguar MK IV
Look dad we have pimped your car !!!!!
Jaguar MK I
Jaguar MK II
Jaguar S-Type
Jaguar 420
Jaguar E-Type
Jaguar XJS
Rolls Royce
Triumph TR3
Look at this virtual restauration of a TR3
Triumph TR4 & TR5
Triumph TR6
Triumph Stag
Triumph Spitfire
Standard
Some forgotten Italian super cars
Renault Alpine
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January, 2012
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December, 2011
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December, 2011
- Riley brochures added.
February, 2011
- Morris adverts added.
November, 2010
- Rover adverts added.
September 24, 2010
- Nice Austin Seven movie added
September 19, 2010
- History Austin eight added
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July 19, 2010
- Sunbeam adverts added.
July 18,2010
- Crossley adverts added.
- Alvis adverts added.
- Lagonda adverts added.
March 12, 2010
- New Chinese MG brochures added
February 18, 2010
- New Armstrong book information
January 9-10, 2010
- Morgan adverts added
- Dellow adverts added
- Berkeley adverts added
- Bond adverts added
December 13, 2009
- Doepke Toys information added
November 20, 2009
- New MG TD book information
- Land Rover adverts added
June 8, 2009
- MG brochures added
- Several 1943 adverts added
- Jacques Coune article added (*)
- War and post war adverts added(*)
- (*) Memebers section only
June 6-7, 2009
- AC adverts added
- Daimler adverts added
- Fraser Nash advertsadded
- Humber adverts added
- Jaguar adverts added
- Lagonda adverts added
- Lea Francis advertsadded
- MG adverts added
- Morgan adverts added
- Rolls Royce adverts added
- Singer adverts added
May 2, 2009
- Humber adverts added
April 25-26, 2009
- AC adverts added
- Allard adverts added
- Alvis adverts added
- Armstrong Siddeley adverts added
- Aston-Martin adverts added
- Bentley adverts added
- Daimler adverts added
- Fraser Nash adverts added
- Healey adverts added
- Jaguar adverts added
- Jensen adverts added
- Lagonda adverts added
- Lanchester adverts added
- Lea Francis adverts added
- MG adverts added
- Rolls Royce adverts added
April 12, 2009
- Sunbeam adverts added
- Oost Grunnerger rit info
February 27-28, 2009
- Morgan brochures added
- MG brochures added.
- Sunbeam adverts added.
February 8-9, 2009
- Morgan advertisements added
- Austin Healey Sprite brochure added
- MG brochures added.
- Singer Vogue brochure added
- Triumph Spitfire brochure added
January 29-30, 2009
-Morgan brochures added
January 24-25, 2009
- Pre war MG brochures added
- Sunbeam Talbot adverts added
January 10, 2009
- MGB adverts added.
- MGB GT adverts added.
- MGC adverts added.
January 2-4, 2009
- Triump adverts added.
- Healey adverts added.
- Aston Martin adverts added.
- Bentley adverts added.
- MG adverts added.
- Jaguar adverts added.
- Bristol adverts added.
- Allard adverts added.
December 20-21, 2008
- MG B brochures added.
- Healey brochures added.
- Jaguar D-Type brochure added.
- Singer Nine 1946 brochure added.
- Land Rover Series I brochures added.
December 9, 2008
- Jaguar E-type adverts added.
December 6-7, 2008
- Singer adverts added.
- Riley adverts added.
- Jaguar adverts added.
- Jensen adverts added.
November 24 -25, 2008
- Daimler adverts added.
- Lagonda adverts added.
Soon expected
- Standard advertisemenets.
- Wolseley advertisements.
- Rover advertisements.
- Humber advertisements.
- Hillman advertisements.
- Land Rover brochures.
- Sleeping Beauties.
- Jaguar brochures.
About me
My name is Hermann Egges. I am collecting car brochures and advertisements since I was a little child.
First I collected articles and adverts of cars out of news papers and magazines. After that I went to local car dealers to get the brochures of the cars, showed in their show rooms. I was a happy child if I left the dealer with one or more brochures in my hand. These were the first brochures collected, which are still today in my private collection. This means that the collection of brochures starts in the late seventies up till now.
I try to search for people who have the same interest for car advertisemnets and brochures as I do. I would like to share experiences and information and hope to get in contact to interchange brochures with each other. In this way I try to enlarge the private collection of my and the collection of people I get in contact with.
All brochures shown on my web-page are out of my own collection. I have made photographs of them and made collages as shown on the web-page. More than 2.500 advertisements and more than 1.000 brochures are shown at my web page.
I hope you will enjoy my web-page.
Kind Regards
Hermann Egges
hermann@car-brochures.eu