Friday, September 04, 2026

Lewis Hamilton knows where all the coolest barns are

Lewis Hamilton is perhaps the greatest Formula 1 driver ever.  His list of racing achievements is preposterously impressive.  After repping Mercedes for 19 years, he moved to Ferrari in 2025, giving him access to preposterously impressive cars.  And it appears that he knows where all the most preposterously impressive barns are.

Hamilton recently posted his barn find Ferrari F40 on Instagram and I almost passed out.  Much like the street-parked F40 I wrote about previously, there should be no such thing as a barn find F40.  But this guy found one.  And he has access to all the finest mechanics at Maranello to restore it.  Officine Classiche y'all!


I'm jealous on many levels.  But I can't hate!  Look at how much he loves the car, you can practically see him morph into a 10-year-old as he looks at it, sits in it, rubs the badge.  He's in love.


Call me if you know a barn with something even half this fantastic stored in it.

16 comments:

  1. Yarn Barn has a lot of fantastic knitting supplies if you know where to look!

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  2. mini-summit with danimal in columbus has commenced.

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  3. Hey z, not enough props to you for finding and posting this cool stuff about Hamilton and his absolute love of vintage vehicles. Maybe holiday weekend and everybody occupied and distracted, but want to say way worthy..

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    1. Thanks man. I think the dearth of comments is partially related to a blogger glitch on Friday. And everyone else hates me.

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  4. I popped onto a garage sale today, but nothing remotely good there. Wrong kind of barn.

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  5. Gheorghies, hello from Jamsil Stadium, where me and the missus are waiting 2+ hours in line to see if we can get tickets for the LG Twins' KBO season finale. Wish us luck.

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  6. Jamsil Baseball Stadium, I am in you. My LG Lions take on the Samsung Lions before a sold out crowd. And it is balls hot out here.

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  7. Holy shit Korean baseball is insane

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  8. For Whit and Marls -Mets legend Cookie Carrasco is on the LG Twins

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  9. Carlos went 19-20 with the Mutts with a 5.21 era for a -.9 WAR. Gross.

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  10. hershel greene's barn has some fantastic stuff in it.

    finally.

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  11. anyone got content for tomorrow?

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  12. We spent labor day weekend getting our house ready for the kitchen / pantry / downstairs bath demolition to start today.

    I finished up this morning at 3 am. Among factors that made things go more slowly: looking for implements / ingredients that were packed away too early, a 375 F bacon grease burn on my left arm, and the kitchen sink spray hose that got stuck in an on position last night and wouldn't let go.

    My prize for the work? 12 - 16 weeks of having a construction zone in our house. Woo!

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