Barn Find

[waad_uk]

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 15 years; 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 through the welds.

What was in the barn?
http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm and start wishing you had bought the place.

[kingfishers2]

omfg! estimated resale value of blank cheuqe...

[terrybullwon]

coxy posted this a little while back

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20071&highlight=barn

bloody mad eh? you would be more than happy

[Error404]

I hope he's got a jetwash

[Rusty]

Lucky sod!

[waad_uk]

Gonna start keeping my open for mysterious locked up barns for sale

[coupegt]

The story is false.

Was up in the danish press as well, a few days later it was announced to be false.

The barn and cars are true enough though.

I think the real story is, that a portugise automobile dealer has been buying interesting cars when he saw them for many years, and the pics are from his colletion, but the whole deal about a "barn find" is not true.

pretty good story though, can easely see how it can travel across the internet so fast

[dubmeister]

Started my apprentiship with an vw/audi dealer, one day I had to go and take some spares to the owners "shed"- a old 1940s air raid shelter out in the sticks-road up to it had overgrown grass etc inside was his collection of cars that he liked so much he kept
Porsche 356 coupe & speedster
model t ford
Split beetle
early beetle cabrio
split barndoor bus
jag e type s1 roadster
s1 land rover
mk1 mini cooper
very early mk1 golf gti lhd on steels
audi 100 coupe
early lhd ur quattro (4 light grille)
loads of old tractors/vans
boxes full of old parts(95 % vw/audi)

Forgotten about it till now,but next time i visit my folks i'll have a look to see if it's still there-last time was in 1988

[Acidburn]

Sounds cool, i've also heard one about a huge find of rover sd1 parts and the like which if I recall was bought by rimmerbros. Was commented about in PPC.

[urquattro-island]

here

you can read that its false..

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp