Barn finds....

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From another site but I thought I'd pass it along....

A New York 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 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 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?
Go to; www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm and start
wishing you had bought the place.
 
And that barn is HUGE. Can you imagine someone saying, "it's too expensive to open that barn and anyway, who cares?" Plus that barn has windows....I guess you couldn't break one out?? If it doesn't make sense, it probably isn't true!
 
The good part about the barn full of cars is that many are probably original and therefore a good source of information for those restoring similar cars.
 
In a way, it's a shame to do that to good cars. Not using a car for decades can render them junk. All seals and rubber components would need to be replaced to make each car usable. Good candidates for restoration though.
 
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In a way, it's a shame to do that to good cars. Not using a car for decades can render them junk. All seals and rubber components would need to be replaced to make each car usable. Good candidates for restoration though.




It certainly worked out better than Tulsa's attempt at storing a car underground for 50 years...

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