First published in 2014 by Motorbooks, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

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Text © 2014 Tom Cotter

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Digital edition: 978-1-62788-371-9
Hardcover edition: 978-0-76034-575-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cotter, Tom, 1954-

50 shades of rust : amazing barn finds you wish you’d discovered / by Tom Cotter.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-7603-4575-7

1. Automobiles--Collectors and collecting. 2. Antique and classic cars--Anecdotes.

3. Automobiles--History. I. Title. II. Title: Fifty shades of rust.

TL7.A1C683 2014

629.2220973--dc23

2014013232

Publisher: Zack Miller

Editor: Jordan Wiklund

Design Manager: Brad Springer

Cover Designer: Kent Jensen

Layout Designer: Diana Boger

Cover photography: Lura Lauer

On the front cover: A rusty Jaguar E-Type peeks from beneath a crimson silk sheet. Lura Lauer and Carlos Lopez.