including Alain Delon's Ferrari Spyder — independent.co.uk

They include a Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder – one of only 37 to be built which belonged originally to the French screen legend, Alain Delon. The Spyder alone is expected to sell for around €12m (£9.4m) when the trove is auctioned in Paris in the New Year. Detective work by two auctioneers located the cars last month after they had been “lost” for more than 30 years in a series of ramshackle farm shelters in western France. Matthieu Lamoure, the managing director of Artcurial Motorcars, said that the discovery was the mother of all “barn finds” . “We found ourselves overcome with emotion,” he added. “Probably much like Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter on being the first people for centuries to enter Tutankhamun’s tomb. It really was a case of waking up Sleeping Beauty.”

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