Beauty discovered in the Italian Le Marche

A Fiat Cinquecento (500) discovered in the Italian Le Marche, just outside of the walled medieval village of Caudino. Thanks to Raymond Van Donk from www.triumph-tr3a.nl for sending us this Italian sleeping beauty.

This must be the ultimate accolade for any book!

Jay Leno invited Kay Hottendorff to his Book Club

to talk about The Fate Of The Sleeping Beauties

The Most Beautiful Sleeping Beauty Photo ...

This was the winning entry chosen by author Ard op de Weegh

Sample this beautiful new book from Veloce ...

The Fate of the Sleeping Beauties

By Ard op de Weegh, Kay Hottendorff & Arnoud op de Weegh

The ‘Sleeping Beauties’ – an array of neglected Bugattis, Lancias,

Ferraris, Alfa Romeos, Cords and Aston Martins on a rural French

estate – have fascinated car lovers worldwide since 1983, when

they were immortalised in a sequence of photographs taken by

Herbert W Hesselmann. For 25 years, the full story behind the

collection and its fate has remained untold ... until now.

Beauties sleeping in Latvia

Here are some sleeping beauties from Latvia for your

photo competition. There are two cars in different seasons

of weather and different stages of condition. The biggest

one is a 1919 Renault FU truck whose restoration we just

ended, but the smallest is a 1932 Praga Piccolo who's still

waiting for her restoration. It was hard to choose which is

the best photo with all the beauty of rust, so you can choose

which is the best. P.S. I think one of the best is that where

a sleeping beauty is sleeping on a sleeping beauty!

Says Ivars Dortans of Riga, Latvia - thanks Ivars

A 1959 Cadillac sleeping in the woods

Here's some pictures of a 1959 Cadillac in the woods, a pretty

nice find here in the US, says Jeremy Nutt - thanks Jeremy

Giant beauty resting up in Shaftesbury, Dorset

Many thanks to Jools for this beautiful slumbering giant