Barnfinds in Portugal...WOW!!

[MickG]

Came across this story of a chap who bought some land in Portugal which had a barn on it that had not been opened for 15 years.......take a look at what he found inside when he opened it:eek:

http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListMessages&PID=1&TID=991002&FID=2&pc=27

Like winning the lottery.

Link to original post below

http://www.ozaudi.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10350

[Quiggers]

How the hell has anyone got pics of my shed????

not impressed:D

Thankfully, there are no pics of the B29.......


GQ

[Utemad]

How on Earth could you buy a property with a building like that on it and not know what was inside. That 'barn' is probably 30 times the size of my house!

My jaw would have hit the floor when I opened the door though :eek:

[loanrangie]

**** me, what a collection of classics, i would weld that door back and leave them a few more years - till i recovered from the shock !

[Quiggers]

while the contents are superb, the background story is sus, there was no 'stumbling'....


but i'd still like much of it!!!!

lots of real Lancias and Fiats

there is a date telltale, look for it....

(many of these stores exist in Australia, i've seen such with 400 m/cycles and another with at least 20 tractors and steam traction engines...nearby, there is a private shed replete with WW2 bits including a complete Spitfire)

GQ

[Tank]

Came across this story of a chap who bought some land in Portugal which had a barn on it that had not been opened for 15 years.......take a look at what he found inside when he opened it:eek:

http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListMessages&PID=1&TID=991002&FID=2&pc=27

Like winning the lottery.

Link to original post below

http://www.ozaudi.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10350
It would have been nice to uncover an original low mileage XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3, would've made my Year, Regards Frank.

[DirtyDawg]

Yeah right every one has a shed the size of a football field on 15 acres....I feel someone is having a lend of us here:angel:..some of those cars were a bit clean for 15years of grime...:angel:
I'll have the porche though;)

[Rayngie]

maybe the shed was no more than an old phone box...worked for Dr Who...plenty of space inside there!

[JohnE]

Good bit of investigative thinking there quiggers,
the telltale would be the number plates, some of those old european plates, i beleive were issued in some sort of year order.
The spitfire in the shed sounds interesting, will speak to you later about it.


john

[MickG]

Yeah, I have my doubts as to the authenticity of the story but we can all still dream of that feeling when you crack the lock off the door and pry it open to reveal all the treasures a man could wish for...........several of them anyway;) :D

I'm with you DirtyDawg.....Porche for me too:D

[hiline]

true or not it would still be nice to find :D

[dobbo]

The property is obviously a cattle farm, you can almost smell the Bullsh**

[RobHay]

Awwww ...........I think I would just wreck the cars for parts..................I just want that Shed:D ,

[JES]

Reminds me a bit of Wolf Creek -the movie. Perhaps a similar story bout a guy in Portugal many years ago. Have they found and bodies or sheds with butchers hooks? :D :wasntme:

[p38arover]

Every man's dream find in a shed!! (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/showthread.php't=34970)

I couldn't see her anywhere in the shed! :( :D

Ron

[stevo68]

Just being picky but it is PORSCHE, spelling it PORCHE doesnt do it justice :p , oh and yes I'd have it too :D

Regards

Stevo

[Mick-Kelly]

The yellow lotus model isnt even 15 years old from memory.

[nobbydoldrums]

I'm disappointed, I couldn't see any Series trucks in that shed.

But seriously, some nice cars there. From the size of the collection do you think it may have been a storage spot for stolen cars?

[UncleHo]

G'day Folks

That sure is one nice large collection of once popular vehicles, looks like it may be that of a now deceased motor dealer-come-collector asthese vehicles date from the 30's through to the late 70's or early 80's,

I would also not discount them being put into storage by a regal or head of state from some part of Europe or the Middle East , now deposed, or no longer with us.

I would be happy with Mercedes 600 Grosser Pillarless H'top or the 46 Ford Coupe,;) but there are some very rare and desireable vehicles in that lot, including the Vintage commercials:)

The Lotus 7 looks like late 70's-80's as they didn't differ a hole lot.

[moose]

I'm disappointed, I couldn't see any Series trucks in that shed.



No, most of the cars are actually worth something:D

[incisor]

i'm with ron, dammed if i can see her.....

[pretender]

I'm disappointed, I couldn't see any Series trucks in that shed.

But seriously, some nice cars there. From the size of the collection do you think it may have been a storage spot for stolen cars?

......and the truth shall set you free!

[1103.9TDI]

I reckon the shed looks like an old hangar!, anyone know where some of the cars are now?, be interesting to see some of them fully restored. I'd give my left nut for a Seven in good nick.

[dobbo]

The yellow lotus model isnt even 15 years old from memory.


Which one the 30yr old Elan or the 38yr old seven?

[DiscoTDI]

How would you like to have brought this property?

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://tinyurl.com/2ryvpm (http://tinyurl.com/2ryvpm)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

would have been nice,,

but I discovered that I wanted THAT last year,,
:p

[DiscoTDI]

would be a fun auction to hold:D

[CraigE]

Only in my dreams.

[Larry]

I'd be happy with a bard that big!:o

Larry.

[Ace]

Knowing my luck i would be opening the door just as the police pulled up with sirens blaring and be arrested for possesion of stolen goods. :mad::cool:

[Blknight.aus]

looks like someone found Dirk Pitts hanger, all thats missing is the ford trimotor, the railway car and the bathtub with the outboard....

[Pedro_The_Swift]

looks like someone found Dirk Pitts hanger, all thats missing is the ford trimotor, the railway car and the bathtub with the outboard....

and the railway car is the only souvenir on the floor that never moved --;)

[Michael2]

I did some gardening for an old guy many years ago and he had a couple of large garages with 30-40 really old cars, most well restored. He said he sometimes rented them out for movies. He gave me some 1950s & 60s Land Rover brochures :)

[HAK]

knowing my luck it would be a garage full of jeep grand cherkee :o:D:o

[muddydigger]

If it was Rons farm house he just purchased the farm house would be full of white ants the tin roof rusted to buggery and he d be charge for receiving stolen goods when he opened the barn doors:D

[Pedro_The_Swift]

If it was Rons farm house he just purchased the farm house would be full of white ants the tin roof rusted to buggery and he d be charge for receiving stolen goods when he opened the barn doors:D

and none of the cars would start---:angel:

[barryj]

No good to us in south east Queensland, we could not even wash them to see out of the windows :o.

[JamesH]

One single Bristol 403, not a sniff of a Landy and a load of junk. Some people don't deserve sheds.

[barryj]

One single Bristol 403, not a sniff of a Landy and a load of junk. Some people don't deserve sheds.

Maybe that's why they were behind welded doors!

[blitz]

sell the lot - way to much humbug to restore them. With the profits buy more landys :D:D:D

Blythe

[Quiggers]

There's one car in there I'd like to have: Fiat Abarth 1300 Scorpione Lombardi.

Would match my X1/9 very nicely.

(I'd have the Europa, too, but a mate has one it's a rolling nutcase - ahhh, the eccentricities of Colin Chapman).

GQ

[Grimace]

meh who wants cars with flat tyres... worthless

[Quiggers]

Grimace, geez.....



just turn them upside down and they'll be fine:D

The NRMA callout on this place would be funny...:

"Hello NRMA, the cars have got a flat tyre and a flat battery."

"Cars? How many cars do you have, sir?"

"About a hundred"......

GQ

[longreach]

:angel:The old guy how owned the old cars,had no taste, not one landrover among them..........:D:D:D

[barryj]

:angel:The old guy how owned the old cars,had no taste, not one landrover among them..........:D:D:D


..... or he did not like oil on the floor :wasntme::banban::nazibanned:.

[DEFENDERZOOK]

he did have some other pome marques in there.......

i liked the minis.......and they were coopers.........

[CowsGoMoo]

Bit of an update on this one...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

[Christopher]

G'day,

Check this out !!!http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/index.htm

A New York man retired. He wanted to use his retirment 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 years. (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 want 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 New York 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.............? :eek::eek::eek:

Cheerio.

[moose]

Not to mention, a hoax.
http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/myth-blaster-the-case-of-the-barn-find-in-portugal/

[86mud]

I have just moved jobs and am now working in a building on North Quay in Brisbane....The owner of this building has over 20 old cars covered in dust stored in the bowels of the carpark....and it reminds me of the barn yard story. YEs...I know it is worthless without pics, so I will bring my camera to work on Monday. There are old porsche 911's, fiats, aston martins, austin Healeys...just amazing.

Cheers

Andrew

[George130]

We get the Barn find every month at work.

[Quiggers]

Great collection of cars, tho'...

Apparently Roy Orbison collected cars, and had a shed full of gear, none of which were spectacular.

He just liked to buy ordinary new cars, then when it was a few weeks old he'd get another - station wagons were his favourites, as they could carry a few buddies and some fishing gear etc...

Not such a myth as several (of the buddies) commented about his lack of taste in buying cars...
even in Roys later years Jeff Lynne (ELO) remarked about Roys penchant for the urbane...

Like: Roy could have a Roller or a Caddy, but buys Chevs.....

GQ

[mcrover]

May be a repost but I hadnt seen it before so Im glad you reposted.

Nice collection of cars though.

[rangieman]

May be a repost but I hadnt seen it before so Im glad you reposted.

Nice collection of cars though.
Well it is a hoax , so listen here hick get with the times and get broad band:p

[k1000o]

Nice cars collection.

Personaly that pics makes me very sad ... :(

[hodgo]

:oWhat a retirement fund just sell one or two every 12 months

Hodgo

[Col.Coleman]

Didn't see a landy. so not that lucky

[Dinty]

G'day All, This surfaced about 2 years ago and everytime someone else puts their sixpence worth into it, fact is they were stolen cheers Dennis

[Phoenix]

Not stolen, they belong to somebody who had a car dealership. more info here.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Portuguese Barn Find (http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp)

[Col.Coleman]

still no landies