ultimate garage-find picture thread

[ersatzs2]

I'm always the last to get these things so pardon me if this has already been around the world three times.

Guy buys some land in Portugal, unoccupied for 15 years. There is a big barn on the property; he looks inside... Scroll between slides using arrow button at the top of the page.

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

 

[Uncle Buck]

Amazing, thank you, that was the first time I had seen that!

 

[Oranje]

That's just plain insane. "Score" is a slight understatement.

 

[comp]

Amazing, thank you, that was the first time I had seen that!

i agree

 

[DynoDave]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[enginerd]

Portugese mob member "dissappear" and collection was forgotten about?

Anyone have the address of this barn, my best friend is portugese and I could get him to pay the barn a visit

 

[Steve in Mi]

Thank you, lots of memories brought back plus more to think about.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Perhaps in Portugal all those old fords like the 40, the 42,6, 7, or 8 and the earlier Ford stuff like, did I see i think about a 34 may just be viewed as that crazy American stuff! How great would that be!

 

[HOTFR8]

So did he make a profit on the land and the find in the Barn ???

 

[Woogeroo]

nice.

you'd need yer own dealership with mechanics just to keep 'em tuned up.

-W

 

[Woogeroo]

http://www.jasononcars.com/review/more-information-on-the-portuguese-barn-find/

more info. on it.

-W

 

[1960apache]

Dibs on the Alfa's!!!
Seriously, I am racking my brain trying to figure out what the mystery person's game plan was??
I some way's it looks like he had someone scrounging for abandoned vehicles, and scooped them up and stashed them away??
Anyway, kind of a shame, most of the cars would have made decent drivers, but now have rotted away (seals, fluids etc) to the point where total restorations, or parts, are the only option!

 

[fotoflojoe]

Follow Woogeroo's link.
The "find" part of the story is a myth. The actual owner was an auto dealer during the 70's and 80's. He hung on the more interesting cars that he got hold of and put them in that barn. When the barn was full, he welded the doors shut. Recently, he hired someone to photograph his collection. The photographer was sworn to secrecy regarding the owner's name, and the vehicles' location.

Still kind of an odd thing to do, I think.

 

[rocketman]

The above post is the accurate story: Here's the exact text.

Manuel Menezes Morais shot the photos, but he was sworn to secrecy about the cars’ location and the owner’s name. However, he was able to obtain permission from the elusive owner to give me the following information:

The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and “soldered” the doors shut. (Perhaps welding was too permanent.)

Web sites varied on the number of cars: 58, 100, and 180 were speculated. According to Morais, there are 180 cars in the barn.

And, aw shucks, none of the cars is for sale

 

[RodneyPierce]

thats insane. Ebay should be that guys friend!

 

[UN4GTBL]

I've seen that before, but never heard the truth behind the story

 

[JTFormula]

Sports Car Market did a report on it. This is what they found:

"Prior to last summer, Portugal was known mainly to US car people for the lovely Formula One venue at Estoril and perhaps port wine. That was until pictures started circulating on the Internet of a huge collection of dusty cars in a warehouse. Few of the cars were extremely valuable, but most were quite interesting and in sheer numbers and dustiness, very captivating.

So the story went, a New York couple bought their dream farm in Portugal and found a large steel building on the property. The door had been welded shut. When it was opened, the bounty of cars, left by the deceased previous owner of the property met their eyes.

A nice story, but complete nonsense. The property belonged to a dealer who had been stashing less important inventory in the building for years. The photos and the story were nothing more than a giant publicity stunt"

 

[ersatzs2]

Sports Car Market did a report on it.

Can't wait to hear their coverage of the auction, someday when it happens. I can just hear them now, "otherwise unremarkable Alfa bid to unreasonable levels courtesy of it's widespread fame on the interminable email chain letter describing the urban myth..."

 

[JTFormula]

Here is the link to the whole article:

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

ersatzs2 - that sounds like something I would read in there - LOL