Ultimate Barn Find Sells for $4.5 Million

No matter how many times you hear it, the story never gets old -- the one about the guy who finds a the hidden-away dust-covered old racer that turns out to be worth a million, or in the case of this 1937 Bugatti $4.5 million. That's what the car sold for at a Paris auction earlier today.The story has variables -- there's the (insert your favorite car here) that a solider stored in a barn before he got killed in the war; there's the pack rat who stored vintage American cars in sealed semi trailers -- but the story is essentially the same. Someone stumbles upon a buried treasure.
In the case of this French two-seater (one of 17 Atalante 57S models built), the car was found in a doctor's garage in Newcastle, England, by his relatives after the man died. It hadn't been fired up in 50 years and had only 26,000 kilometers on the clock. Makes you wonder about the poor doctor, and, of course, his relatives.
You would think these stories would be getting rarer and rarer as time goes by, but they don't seem to be. Wonder what's still out there?