Parkin said: “I received a notice from a friend who had seen another car for sale in the same barn and in the background was this Ferrari.
“I got in touch with the owner and found him in the middle of nowhere in a very dilapidated barn where he had been for 40 years.
“It was a very sexy team in the 60’s. It was a luxury sports car that was just like an Aston Martin DB4 or a Jaguar E-Type. Someone very rich would have had it in their day.
“The owner bought it when he was 11 years old. He had been with a garage in High Wycombe for a considerable time after the crash repairs.
“The seller used the car every day for the next 10 years, taking the family of five with it.
“Then he put him in the barn with the intention of doing a job, but other things took over. When the roof of the barn leaked, it went into disrepair very quickly and it became more and more daunting for him. do the work.
“When I saw him he was in absolutely shocking condition.”