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Best barn find ever?
05:43 AM on Jul 31, 2007

You gotta wonder, but anyway...

A guy in one of the 4x4 groups I'm in got an email that says:

How would you like to have bought this property? Imagine you're going to live in Portugal. You find a lovely farmhouse set on a decent plot of land. The place has been empty for 15 years... While exploring your new property you find a large barn. The door is padlocked, and welded shut, and it's Rusted solid. So you grind the padlocks, and the welds, off and.......

Barnfind

The pics show some incredible stuff.




Posted by Ray Gillespie at 08:22 AM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #1

Good God... that's an amazing discovery.

Posted by David Fish at 01:22 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #2

Nothing like being an instant millionaire...

Posted by Richie Speed at 02:07 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #3

wow, i guess he has some spare money now!

Posted by Chris Geraci at 03:16 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #4

What a pain it must be to get keys and titles for all those cars.

Posted by Sam Michaels at 03:17 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #5

it would take ages to put them all through the car wash :P

Posted by Tom Malanga at 03:23 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #6

The hell with washing them...Just drive um super fast..that would blow off most of that dust

Posted by Chris Chappell at 03:27 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #7

That story isn't exactly true.

see snopes.com

Posted by Chris Geraci at 04:26 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #8

That does make a lot more sense.
Boggles the mind that someone would let that collection delapidate like that.

Posted by David Fish at 04:38 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #9

So, he's just stockpiling cars?

What a waste.

Wow.... restoring 180 cars to pristine shape.

I think i'd figure out about 25 i'd really want to keep, sell the rest and live off the proceeds in my house turned garage for the rest of my life fixing up my 25 new babies.

Posted by Adriano Manocchia at 05:08 PM on Jul 31, 2007
Comment #10

There isn't much in there that would make anyone rich. There are maybe 10 cars worth restoring in the whole lot, if that. You'd be lucky to get a ham sandwich for most of them.


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