In 1950s, Roger Baillon, an entrepreneur and automotive enthusiast who ran a transport company based in the west of France, amassed a collection of incredible automobiles with a dream to conserve the heritage of pre-war automobiles in museum surroundings. During the 1970s, before he could complete the restoration work he’d planned, his business suffered some setbacks that forced him to sell off fifty cars from his collection, leaving some sixty undiscovered gems sitting in makeshift corrugated iron shelters for the last four decades, until the collection was recently discovered by the The Collectors’ Car Department at Artcurial Auctions, who will be selling off the lot – which includes a Ferrari 250 GT SWB considered to be worth approximately $15,000,000 as it sits – on February 6th, 2015 at the Retromobile Salon in Paris.
