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.........
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Seen this same set of pictures before on a Volkswagen forum.
Incredibly lucky.
Incredibly lucky.
I'd fall over in shock!!!! There'd have to be atleast $1m EURO worth of cars there just at a guess!! What an awesome discovery!! 
Nice, man I need a lucky break like that.
OMFG That is sick. Although those type of cars don't get there by mistake they were put there for a reason and i not sure if i would be showing it all off like that.
Hell yeah thats one wicked find there but it dose seem to be sus to me also, as i was looking at the pics
after the shock i could not get the thought of i wounder where they were stolen from out of my head
but unless you got them all checked out youil never know. Very nice though
after the shock i could not get the thought of i wounder where they were stolen from out of my head
but unless you got them all checked out youil never know. Very nice though
Someone needs to open a resto-barn.
i would be like
"wow, who stole all those cars.......
"
"wow, who stole all those cars.......
"
That's not actually the correct story. The real story from www.snopes.com
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.
Last updated: 20 July 2007
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2007
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
This material may not be reproduced without permission.
Sources Sources:
Cotter, Tom. "Portuguese Barn Find: Fact or Fiction?"
Sports Car Market. May 2007.
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.
Last updated: 20 July 2007
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2007
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
This material may not be reproduced without permission.
Sources Sources:
Cotter, Tom. "Portuguese Barn Find: Fact or Fiction?"
Sports Car Market. May 2007.
Regardless it is a nice collection of cars - true story attached or not.
streetmachine ran a story on an old guy that had heaps of sheds full of old american cars and car parts. as well as the dude on ebay a few years ago trying to sell a huge collction of cars and car stuff for $1000000. some ppl are just horders. nice collection though
i bet u any money the are barn all over australia wid old cars and other stuff in them...
but yeh nice find wouldnt mind that in my back yard anyday..
but yeh nice find wouldnt mind that in my back yard anyday..
Wow, there are a couple beautiful American vintages in there!
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