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Title: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: SIGNGUY on August 20, 2007, 09:40:29 am Anyone seen this email yet, can't authenticate it but sure is a nice story!!
Goes like this.. Subject: What's in the barn A New York man retired, 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, and a couple of grinders....... and cut thru the welds. What was in the barn...............? click on: www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm and start wishing it had been you who bought the place. Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: 90grad on August 20, 2007, 11:32:14 am If I had bought it, the barn would've just been filled with cow poop. The doors would've been welded shut by the townspeople to keep the stink in.
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: coke_and_stuff on August 20, 2007, 01:05:30 pm Ive seen this story a few places now, I believe on Camaros.net is were I read a magazine called old cars weekly or something like that did a follow up on it. They came to the conclusion that the cars were owned by a dealer, whatever didnt sell or whatever he wanted to put back went into the barn.
Joey Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: c125bob on August 20, 2007, 01:15:39 pm That's a barn full of WORK ! I know........... $$$$$$ but it's still a ton of work for somebody.
bob Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: sodaworks on August 20, 2007, 02:18:16 pm Interesting.
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: MoonDawg on August 20, 2007, 03:04:05 pm I'd volunteer to wash them.....to see what's really under all that dirt.
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: Kilroy on August 20, 2007, 06:07:34 pm Joey is closer to the truth, according to Snopes.com, an editor of Sports Car Market magazine hunted down the photographer, The barn exists, the cars exist, but both were owned by a former auto dealer who hired him to record his collection.
It won't stop me looking for a new house with a locked shed hoping for a stash of RC 81's inside... The full Snopes entry here (http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp) Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: bubba on August 20, 2007, 09:42:57 pm WOW... thats incredible
:jawdrop: Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: cormy on August 21, 2007, 09:24:23 am I see a few very collectable Ferrari's in there under the dust. I love too see this stuff!!
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: SquareTopCollector on August 21, 2007, 01:09:39 pm thats a warehouse not a barn. I would take the white porsche coupe and the aston martin.
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: Pat Pixley on August 22, 2007, 03:26:13 pm You know my luck would be, I would get the property the first day,the next day go out cut those welds find those wonderful cars then the next day my place would make the CNN new
because some jumbo jet would crash into my building destroying every thing inside, then I would be sued for damage to the Jumbo jet :wow: Pat Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: aspbear on August 22, 2007, 05:27:09 pm Wow. If it would have been me I would have found jimmy hoffa's body and the mafia would put a hit out on me...
Title: Re: Whats in the Barn....? Post by: old times on August 22, 2007, 07:02:41 pm Would not have happened to me either.
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