Serious WOW factor

[Alex Donghi]

SUBJECT: The Barn

A New York man retired. He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, so it would last, and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal.
The modest farmhouse had been vacant for 15yrs.; the owner and wife both had died, and there were no heirs.
The house was sold to pay taxes.
There had been several lookers, but the large barn had steel doors,
and they had been welded shut. Nobody wanted to go to the extra expense to see what was in the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to
the property anyway......so, nobody made an offer on the place.

The NY guy bought it at just over half of the property's worth, moved in, and set about to tear in to the barn.......curiosity was killing him.
So, he and his wife bought a generator, and a couple of grinders.......and cut thru the welds.
What was in the barn...............?
Go to;
www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm


Alas no cobras

[BDR561]

Nice find... I wonder what that find is worth???

[RedBarchetta]

Talk about your fetishes...many of those cars were junkers, too. Maybe he had thing for grabbing and storing...or they are all stolen.

-Dean

[onefastmustang]

That didn't really happen. there is a news article out on the net about it and what really happened. the guy was an auto broker and started that myth. He even hired a photographer to photograph the cars.

[jwoodard]

Interesting story but not necessarily accurate. Per snopes.com:

The referenced pictures were indeed taken in a barn somewhere in Portugal, but the "lucky find" aspect of the story doesn't quite ring true. As Tom Cotter of Sports Car Market magazine noted when he looked into this story:
Huge collections of cars don't just happen. Cars are accumulated — sometimes lovingly, sometimes not — by someone with a purpose. I was sure this collection was not assembled by accident; nobody would simply sell an old farm and fail to mention to the new owners the stash of old cars in the barn.
What he found out by tracking down the photographer was that the owner of the barn (and the 180 or so vintage cars contained within) was not a lucky buyer who had just purchased the property and was astonished to find a treasure trove in one of the farm buildings. The owner was an automobile dealer in the 1970s and 1980s who had built up his assemblage of cars over the years and stashed it in the barn (locking the structure up when it was full) and who simply hired a photographer recently to document his collection.

[Alex Donghi]

I was wondering if it was a hoax. All the cars looked like they had been there quite awhile based on the crud on them