Not your ordinary Barn Find
 

Hi,

This is a true story. Think you all may find this interesting.....

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 yrs.; 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, a couple of grinders, and cut thru the welds.

What was in the barn...............?

Click on the link to find out.

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

Quite a catch ...I thought this might be too good to be true.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

Hi, Nice to hear from you Jim.

Intersting story, thanks :cheers:

Hi,

Ha - Guess not! I'll have to send your link to the guy who forwarded the story to me...

Happy Motoring!... Jim

I was going to have to throw the BS card on that one. Like the second link says a car collection of that size is just not forgotten about.

Hi Jim:

We talked about this in early July:

http://www.986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12052&highlight=barn

Reminds me of the Peter Max Corvette story:

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11902/

More pictures here:

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/corvette-photos/showgallery.php/cat/699/password//page/

Joe

or the missing shelby story...
http://www.carmemories.com/cgi-bin/viewexperience.cgi?experience_id=87

So what happened withthat missing shelby story? That article hasnt been updated since 2001...

What do you think that lot of cars would be worth???
My guess would be about 5 to 6 mil....