Motors Barn FULL of Vintage cars

I got this email today from my father in law, some of you may have already seen it but it's amazing anyway. Apparently the Story is very fake but the pictures are real. What a collection!

A recently retired New York man wanted to use his retirement funds wisely,

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 estate was being sold to pay back taxes. There had been several lookers,

but the large barn had steel doors, and they had been welded shut. No one

wanted to go to the extra expense to see what was in the barn, and it wasn't

complimentary to the property anyway... so, no one made an offer on the

place.

The New York gentleman bought it as is, paying just over half of the property's

worth; moved in, and set about to access 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...?








The Barn









The doors were welded shut, but a grinder took care of that.









A warehouse full of vintage high performance cars!!!









Aston Martin?









Opel GT, Lotus Elan FHC, Lotus Super Seven Series IV, Lotus Elan DHC.









Porsche 356, Austin Healey Sprite MkII, Volvo PV 544, Ford Y?









Giulietta Sprint, Giulia Sprint Speciale (SS), Nash Metropolitan.









Alfa Giulietta, Lotus Europa, another Lotus Elan FHC, Matra Djet?









Lancia Flaminia Coupé









Abarth 1300 Scorpione









American (inspired) design









Interior of Alfa Romeo









Lancia Flaminia Coupé, Peugeot 504 cabriolet & 404 cabriolet.









Mini, Alfa 1900 Super Sprint, Balilla.









Fiat Topolino II, Triumph TR4, Peugeot 202.









BMW V8, Formula racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30.









Formula racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30.

Amazing.

Total value of all vehicles. over 35 Million!

The man and his wife had full title to the complete lot of vehicles.

They're having a great retirement!

 

What a great find. They got lucky.
I wonder what they will do with all of those cars?

 

Hasn't this been posted before?

 

Many Many times before.

 

uhmm this is quite old and floating round internets for a while

afair, it is not an "awesome" find, just some collector's stash of unused-at-the-moment rides

 

Well, it's still amazing none the less. I hadn't seen it. Only in dreams were I wake up and realise to my disapointment I am still in bed!

 

Yeah it's been posted serveral times here before. I wonder how many of these cars will still work, secondly... was this Grand Theft Auto from the past?!

 

Yes, it's been floating around for ages, it's all fake.

Apparently, the photos were taken by a mechanic of somebody's (i.e somebody not dead) car collection. He was quite pissed off when he saw the photos and the story that went behind the pics.

 

ah... http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/barn-of-cars.htm

 

Whoops! Sorry guys! It was new to me.....and apparently a fake. I was more amazed at the amount of awesome cars that had just collected dust, most of which I had never even heard of. I noticed in the back (and decription) of one of the pics there was a Triumph. My dad has one of those just sitting around collecting the same amount of dust that one had lol. I think he called it a Spitfire(?)

 

Indeed, a more accurate story can be found here, and the full set of photographs can be found here.

I am by no means a car guy, but I certainly appreciate the time and effort spent amassing that collection!

-monkey

 

Don't care about the story, not heard it before, but that collection is amazing, real awesome pictures! Serious gold mine.

 

Aw crud. Well, I guess that is one cool collection of cars!

 

Dude should clean his whips. lol if i had those, i would definitely have to open a museum, and they'd all be spotless.

 

If the fake story actually did happen to me, i think i would piss & even $hit myself on the spot upon seeing all those cool cars

 

Believe it or not...

Outside of Atlanta there is an Old abandoned WW2 airfield. Inside the hangar is a bunch of old cars. I know this is real because my girlfriend and i stumbled upon it when we were going exploring.

Google Map Link: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.43324,-84.918517&spn=0.002482,0.005686&t=h&z=18

Interesting old place. going to go back there sometime and see what else i can find

Aha... Mercer Airfield.

 

Posted before or not,you think if he could afford all these classics he would have had the foresight to cover them up! Some classics in there,esp the 356(Karmann Ghia)

 

Yeah indeed, maybe the reason he opened the place up is because the barn possibly got damaged in a storm etc, and the cars where in good condition before that.

 

lool i remeber this story and in fact i think the barn is located somewhere in alentejo but thats not the only collection of cars i know there is one of really old ones like ford models t and a a few citroens and stuff like the near porto and of course i'm talking because i myself have a 1973 austin j4 in the shack that's been really really slowly being restored lool it's nothing exotic but still is a nice vacation van lol

 

apparently that's 180 cars, worth over 35 million USD... nice...
the pictures DO stir dreams though... very nice collection