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08-30-2007, 04:38 PM
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Real or Not, looks like quite the find!!! Barnfind
A New York man retired and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal. The modest farmhouse and barn had been vacant for 15yrs. The owner and wife both had died and there were no heirs, so the house had been sold to pay taxes. The house was small and 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 and the barn was never opened.
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. He and his wife bought a generator, and a couple of grinders and cut thru the welds. What was in the barn...............? www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm 
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08-30-2007, 05:56 PM
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Re: Real or Not, looks like quite the find!!! Barnfind
Urban legend. The truth is that the cars are actually from an automobile dealer who hired a photographer to help document the collection. This collection was not something which someone just happened to aquire.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
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08-31-2007, 01:26 AM
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Re: Real or Not, looks like quite the find!!! Barnfind
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I'd reweld the doors...... Sorry, not for me  Steve [/ QUOTE ] Then light the match.
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08-31-2007, 01:31 AM
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Re: Real or Not, looks like quite the find!!! Barnfind
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[ QUOTE ] I'd reweld the doors...... Sorry, not for me Steve [/ QUOTE ] Then light the match. [/ QUOTE ]  Oooooo that's nasty!!
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09-02-2007, 06:44 AM
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Re: Real or Not, looks like quite the find!!! Barnfind
Yup, and you might as well light a match to your favorite yenko or ZL1, cause theres more dollars of cars in that warehouse (like it or not) than in more than a couple of Killer Camaros. You guys are looking at this all wrong,they aren't my cup of tea either, but that's a valuable collection of vintage sports cars.
I see over a million dollars in just a handfull of the cars I see in those pics and there are a lot more. Me....I'd have a nice little auction, use the proceeds to pay for a nice villa on the ocean, buy a couple ZL1's and a ferrari and watch the Portugal sunset, while doing aluminum powered doughnuts in my fancy cobblestone driveway.
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