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Lioned

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Always Check The Barn...!!
« on: 08 December 2009, 16:23:08 »

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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #1 on: 08 December 2009, 16:29:13 »

I love those sixties Alfa Romeo. :y :y
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #2 on: 08 December 2009, 16:30:57 »

No mustangs/cadillacs :P :P
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #3 on: 08 December 2009, 16:43:16 »

Ahh, yes. Been around for a while - the Portuguese barn find.

I would give both my gonads and plenty of other things beside for that haul to tinker with. :-*

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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #4 on: 08 December 2009, 17:30:59 »

Lots of washing there !!!!  Even a car hater would've been in heaven !
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« Reply #5 on: 08 December 2009, 17:45:29 »

can't imagine how long it would take you to get them all out and the cost of all those batteries ? what a fantastic find !  8-) :y :y
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #6 on: 08 December 2009, 17:53:26 »

Thats true'ly Gobsmacking!  :o
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #7 on: 08 December 2009, 18:17:53 »

What a great find for the buyer, but someone was negligent-the executor, the solicitor, the selling agent-someone.
I bet the deceased is spinning in his grave- he obviously realised the importance of each car, but would probably have been surprised by the values now.

Great story though-like the Bugatti find recently.
I bet the classic car auctioneers are circling  ;D

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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
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« Reply #9 on: 08 December 2009, 18:41:41 »

It reminds me of the wonderful "dream" in railway preservation circles during the 1970s & 80s that some where in the UK there was a national 'strategic reserve' of steam locomotives sealed up in a tunnel, or a secret complex, ready for the day when there was a national emergency.

A great story / myth / dream, but unfortunately never true.  Dia Woodham's scrapyard at Barry was the nearest thing to this strategic reserve! :D :D :D ;) ;)   I reckon this car collection is like Dia's. 8-) 8-) 8-)
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #10 on: 08 December 2009, 18:57:45 »

It looks like a portugese remake of the film 'Wrong Turn' ;D
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #11 on: 08 December 2009, 19:16:51 »

True story or not, that's a remarkable collection of cars in one place, and my offer still stands.

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« Reply #12 on: 08 December 2009, 20:57:58 »

true or not i wish that was my barn
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #13 on: 08 December 2009, 22:03:41 »

Photos and cars are real ( wow..  :D ) but the story is indeed a well known fake.

Excerpt from http://www.hoax-slayer.com/barn-cars.shtml

"While the photographs are genuine, the text in the email explaining their origin is untrue. There was no retired New Yorker who came across an incredible, and totally unexpected, windfall when he broke open the welded doors of an old barn on his newly acquired Portuguese property. Instead, there is a more mundane, but much more believable explanation.

Journalist Tom Cotter researched the story and finally identified the photographer as Manuel Menezes Morais. Morais was contracted to take photographs of the cars by their owner. Due to the wishes of the owner, Morais was unable to reveal exact details of the barn's location or the owner's name, but he did give Tom Cotter some general information about the origin of the vehicle collection. In an article about the cars for Sports Car Market Magazine, Tom Cotter notes:
The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and "soldered" the doors shut. (Perhaps welding was too permanent.)

Web sites varied on the number of cars: 58, 100, and 180 were speculated. According to Morais, there are 180 cars in the barn......"
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Re: Always Check The Barn...!!
« Reply #14 on: 08 December 2009, 22:16:05 »

Damn they found my barn :o
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