The Balsa V8 as found in the shed. But where did the V8 come from? 
This is a great example of why Graham is Gauld. About 25 years ago, while organizing a road test in Paris, he chats with a Hotel Manager at de Gaulle Airport who suddenly talks Gauld into going out the countryside to see an old barn full of old cars. And of course, a story ensues.[Ed.]
By Graham Gauld
As regular readers will know I keep discovering cars and racing people in the most unlikely places. For example, back in the late 1980s I organized a press road test for Fiat UK and based it at one of the airport hotels at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. In the lull before the journalists arrived the manager of the hotel, knowing my interest in old cars, suggested we go and see a farming friend of his who had some old cars. [Read more…] about Gauld: French Barn Finds and German V8s