uk’s biggest barn find display

• 20 incredible rusting wrecks that will be winched from their slumber and brought into Birmingham’s NEC for the Footman James Barn Find display.

• Visitors will vote at the show for their Best Barn Find.

• Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show is held at Birmingham’s NEC from 22-24 March 2024.

After scouring barns, lifting tarpaulins, and searching the UK, this year’s Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show has discovered twenty incredible rusting wrecks that will be winched from their slumber and brought into Birmingham’s NEC for the Footman James Barn Find display.

Katie Delamain-Blunt, Head of Marketing for feature sponsor Footman James, said: “Finding these vehicles has been an incredible process but to see them all at the NEC will be something special. The hard task ahead is for the visitors to vote which they think is the Best Barn Find on the stand.”

Celebrating its 90th birthday this year, the oldest car on display is the 1934 SS2. SS Cars were forerunner of the luxury brand we know today, changing its name to Jaguar Cars Limited in 1945. Mike Atlee found the car five years ago and it is still in original condition, having never been restored.

Bringing the display into more recent times, Danny Hopkin’s 1997 Ford Mondeo Ghia V6 Estate is proof that even modern classics can make excellent barn finds – although at 27 years old, this car is only 13 years off being a historic vehicle. This is the mid-cycle facelift Mondeo which was launched in October 1996 - known as the Mondeo MkII and it is about as posh as a Mondeo can get despite the mould and leaves!

The cars in between range from a BWM Isetta bubble car and a rare Cadillac Flower Car, both from the 1950s, to a trio of 80s vehicles including a quirky Hustler, a Fiat Uno Turbo, and a Ford Transit Minibus that has spent most of its life at Heathrow Airport.

The winner will be announced on Sunday 24 March by Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars presenter Paul Cowland at 2pm. The Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show is held 22-24 March 2024 at Birmingham’s NEC with tickets now on sale.

For more information as well as the ticket prices and booking details, visit www.necrestorationshow.com