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Faston Hanks and the Ultimate Barn Find
In your dreams you saw a glimpse of something interesting through a dusty warehouse window…you prised open the rotten old doorway..and there were 51. Yes 51 911s gathering the detritus of time and age.
Faston Hanks may be a literary creation – a fictional Automotive sleuth dreamt up in the fertile imagination of writer photographer Kevin Gosselin – but ye gads is this not the most unbelievable phenomenon?
If legend is actually true and this is not in reality some kind of grand and pointless hoax, this stash of Stuttgart steel was found in, of all places, deepest Wyoming
It may be stating the obvious that the vehicle of choice in said Western State is the Mack truck and the Mule – rather than the iconic german coupé. We’ve been staring at this story all day long and we still can’t work out how all these motors ended up here.
Answers on a postcard please!
Photos and full story by Kevin Gosselin
via A Time To Get
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Oh, this was real. This is Faston, nee Kevin Gosselin. I did find this collection and publish the story for a UK mag, Total 911.
Good thing I got there when I did. Last I heard it was sold with the building and being broken up. Shame, when I was there it was liking walking through time. So much dust, the cars had not been moved in years.
The website http://www.early911porsches.com was up and running for a few months shilling these 911s, now it seems shut down. These cars just can’t find a home.
And I hope you don’t mind my advertising, but you can read more about “Faston’s” finds by picking up his novel Hunt for 901. http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-901-Kevin-Gosselin/dp/097895632X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301018036&sr=8-1
Thanks for the link. I feel so lucky to have had found this collection and shared it with my fellow 911 nuts.
Hey Kevin: great to make your acquaintance and thanks for the comment. Really intrigued by your creation in Mr Hanks: will be hitting up certain online retailer directly. Please send me a direct message [email protected] to carry on the conversation…