You buy some land, including a vast, sealed-up shed...

[Steam]

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 all rusted solid.
So you grind the padlock and the welds off and... http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

[shafty]

BIG WOW!! Thats incredible! - Pity they weren't all covered with sheets.

[Steam]

I bet the new owner is really really upset because they weren't motorcycles.

[Cajun]

damn that be an awsome fine

sell off few of the cars and pay for the land no doubt

[Beemer]

Lucky, lucky bastard! Any idea what he paid for the place and does he get to keep all the cars?

[janno]

Here's a good article on it.



http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/1110

[Sniper]

That land has just paid for itself.

Would love to know the history as to why those cars were sealed there and where did they come from

S

[avgas]

we had exactly the same experience, we cut the look of our massive shed and viola......1 x 35 y/o mattress and some rat shit

[Goblin]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

What an awesome purchase!

[u4ea]

wow! cant wait to read the article Hemi In The Barn!!!! thats got to be one of the best things a person could find on their property!lucky bastod!!!!

[Pumba]

So many Classics, in not to bad a condition, and to think when I moved into my place all the previous owner left me was a couple of rugs

[Pumba]

Here's a good article on it.



http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/1110

That article sounds slighly more plausable, however it nice to believe the original story.

[Steam]

That article sounds slighly more plausable, however it nice to believe the original story.
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:o:Oops:

[Macktheknife]

I wish.... if he was a dealer though, why wouldn't he look after the cars, and why have a local photographer come and shoot them?
Something not right about that, also why would a dealer keep cars that are in such poor condition, no wheels etc.
As for "keeping the most interesting ones", since when has a mini and a VW beetle been in that category?

[Beemer]

That article sounds slighly more plausible, however it nice to believe the original story.

Yes, I couldn't see how anyone could 'overlook' a barn that size on their land unless it was several hundred acres! Weird, no matter which way you look at it though, and I'd be keen to know the full story if and when it comes out.

[crashe]

I don't doubt that the cars have been stored for some time in that 'barn'...... well in some ways I do doubt it........ lol.


Yep, they are stored in a huge 'barn'.
But if stored for years and years if going by the dust on them.
Then how come in a few pictures the tyres aren't flat?
Over years the air goes out of them.

There obviously has been a bird in that 'barn' as well as there is birdshit over some on the cars. Now as I understand it there is stuff in the birdshit and if left on metal for a certain length of time will cause it to rust in that area. Where the birdshit is there is no sign of rust.

It also wouldn't have cost that much to throw a double sheet over each car to protect them.

Some of those cars are really old and in pretty good nick considering their age. So they have been kept under cover but not in that shed for that length of time.

They are packed in like sardines, so that there isn't much room in the 'barn'.

They should now be restored and put into a car museum for others to see, but still be owned by the land owner.

How can you have a huge building like that and no one else knows what is inside it.