Cool thread.
The street-view imagery is dated in the top left corner. If there is a date range of imagery available, there is a clock symbol that you can click on to view the history. Only Feb 2008 of this is available:
This reminds me of a guy I bought a Honda engine from about 5 years ago. He had an extensive Rusty VW collection mostly in barns and out buildings. I don't think that he actually did much with them other than buy them and store them. Even though I was just there to pick up the engine, we spent over an hour looking over his collection - until his wife called him in for dinner. I got a great deal on the engine, but his VW stuff was highly valued and not for sale.
Looked up his address in streetview:
