barn find.

[wickedE30]

Holy shit................it's like the 20th time it get's Reposted.

[Court M3]

wow

[ddavidv]

Fake story.
Real cars.

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

[delatlanta1281]

I saw that on the simpsons.....
It's photoshopped.

[JK_E30]

Damn that would be awesome...... if it wasnt a hoax.

[VacMan]

Fake story.
Real cars.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

Barn Find
Claim: Photographs show a barn full of vintage automobiles discovered by the purchaser of a Portuguese farmhouse.

Status: Real photographs; inaccurate description.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2007]

A dream come true.

A NY man retired. He 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 15yrs.; 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...............?





Origins: One of the many "fortunate discovery" scenarios that people sometimes fantasize about involves taking possession of a dwelling and turning up something of great value
left behind by a previous resident — perhaps a forgotten stash of currency, discarded coins that were once common but are now worth a pretty penny to collectors, jewelry hidden away and never retrieved, etc. Purchasing an old farmhouse and discovering that the property included a barn stuffed full with a few hundred vintage automobiles is a reverie probably outside the range of even the most optimistic daydreamer's imaginings, but that's the backstory that was created to enliven a set of photographs showing an "eclectic collection of old cars in a decaying building."

The referenced pictures (the full set is viewable here) were indeed taken in a barn somewhere in Portugal, but the "lucky find" aspect of the story doesn't quite ring true. As Tom Cotter of Sports Car Market magazine noted when he looked into this story: Huge collections of cars don't just happen. Cars are accumulated — sometimes lovingly, sometimes not — by someone with a purpose. I was sure this collection was not assembled by accident; nobody would simply sell an old farm and fail to mention to the new owners the stash of old cars in the barn.
What he found out by tracking down the photographer was that the owner of the barn (and the 180 or so vintage cars contained within) was not a lucky buyer who had just purchased the property and was astonished to find a treasure trove in one of the farm buildings. The owner was an automobile dealer in the 1970s and 1980s who had built up his assemblage of cars over the years and stashed it in the barn (locking the structure up when it was full) and who simply hired a photographer recently to document his collection.

A partial inventory of the various models of automobiles stored in the barn can be viewed here.

Last updated: 20 July 2007

[Ablice]

The cars inside might have worth, but the story doesn't.

[luTTz]

I saw that on the simpsons.....
It's photoshopped.

haha, college humor originals are the best.