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It's every classic auto enthusiast's dream. You go poking around someone's barn or garage, pull back a tarp or move some boxes, and there it is. It's dusty and clearly in need of some TLC, but you squint your eyes, tilt your head, and focus in on one or two details that tell you what you're looking at. It's some classic set of wheels, forgotten for decades, just waiting all this time to be rediscovered and put back on the road where it belongs.

It's called a Barn Find, regardless of the kind of structure in which it's actually found. It's the car collector's equivalent to the archaeologist unearthing some ancient crypt, or the explorer finding some piece of land never put on any map. And it seems to be happening a lot lately.

The past few years alone have uncovered everything from classic American muscle to vintage European exotics that time forgot. So lest we forget them again, we've put together some of the most notable barn finds discovered since the start of this decade into one slideshow where you can scope them all out in all their deeply patinated splendor.