180 cars found in a Portugese barn that had been welded shut for the last 15 years.
http:forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055
The above link is now dead. Someone has since posted a valid link further down, but is repeated here in case you didn't find it.
forum.autohoje.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=97706&whichp...7
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Would love to have a good look in there !
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That red "proper" Mini Cooper - wow !
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Hubba Hubba some lovely Italian cars in there!
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14.31 hrs Sunday. Where have the pictures gone ?
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14.43 sunday, still there ! For me anyway.
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Well they are gone for me, just the usual blank spaces with the red cross in the top L/H corners.
I have changed nothing on my system since yesterday, I am logged in and have refreshed screen.
Still no pictures. Anyone know what is happening here please?
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and me the same (as in not there)
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Working fine here, just tried the link.
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No pictures for me neither :-(
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Right click
Show picture
should solve the problem..
madf
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Nah, still no pictures. Is this my ISP playing silly b's with the bandwidth?
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The pics. have gone for me, too. Right clicking and selecting 'show picture' does nothing..
P.
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Still there for me!
But can't explain why or why not !
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I can't see the pics either. There is mention of this in that thread as well.
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Try www.intuh.net/barnfinds/
I can see the pictures in that link, but not with the earlier one, I wonder why?
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Gone now... probably taking up too much bandwidth and screwing up the site servers.
madf
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Those who saw them early on may well be viewing them in their local cache, rather than online. Clear the cache (some are set to do so after 24 hours) and they won't now be visible.
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OK got them back with the second link.
Thanks to all.
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Found in a barn on a newly purchased farm in Portugal.
Enjoy...........
forum.autohoje.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=97706&whichp...7
Steve
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already posted last week, I think: but I can see the pictures from this link (couldn't from the last)
Tim{P}
{Threads now merged - obviously - DD}
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I suppose that's impressive if you're into that kind of thing
Seriously though was it me being rubbish or did there seem to be at least three Bristols in there? The blue car in the third pic looked like one. You're thinking wow then you spot an Alfasud in there. What kind of bonkers collecting criteria was going on here if Alfasud formed part of it.
Keep scrolling beyond the pics, and check out the forum member called Leodas T-shirts it's like LJK Setright after 6 months in Goa.
My Portugese is non-existent - what's the punch line, did the new owner of the farm get to keep the motors?
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Link is very slow, if it's a collection of cars that haven't seen the light of day for many years, then what a waste.
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It'll be fascinating to hear the story behind these cars.
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I came upon this website today. Why do people store cars away like this?
www.intuh.net/barnfinds/index.htm
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So that people like us can drool over them. BTW - this barn find was all over the interweb about 4 months ago.
moved in here which appears to be the same barn !
-PU
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have you been stored in a barn yourself young dulwich?
we saw these yon pictures 6 months ago ;-)
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64 white tiles. Wonder what they'll fetch at Sothebys.
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Wow - I'll have all the Lancias.
I'm old enough to remember what a darn good little motor the Alfasud was, too - while it lasted.
Portugal is pretty amazing - you can get a crick in your neck staring at all the old British motors still pottering around.
I even came across a complete Fowler steam roller that looked in working order in one little village. Old Glory magazine didn't bother to reply to my email but if anyone wants pix and a location my email is on the profile.
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I don't know why people form these collections, but the habit seems to be widespread. I knew of one in Pembrokeshire a few years ago. The man had a barn full of old cars - from Austin 7s to 30s Rolls- Royces. There were more outside, including a rusty Lotus Cortina which he refused £800 for in 1984. He never used any of them, or restored them, and jealously kept people out who tried to get a peep at them. When he died 10 years later all the cars outside had rotted away and went for scrap, and those indoors fetched very little as a job lot.
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"I don't know why people form these collections"
Lots of people collect things, and I can think of plenty worse. We had a garage owner (I knew him because he sold me my first car) who both drove and collected E-types. When he died, his wife gave them away to people who had supported them and that she felt would give them a good home, at which point I rather wished I'd cultivated their aquaintance better!
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"Wow - I'll have all the Lancias."
Very tempting, but quite a restoration job, I suspect. Most of the rubber and upholstery will have rotted, if it hasn't been eaten by mice...
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One of the Lancias was just a skeleton, but the other(s) looked OK outside. The Aurelia B20 was a real beauty.
The jewel of the bunch was the Fiat Balilla I thought, and in impeccable nick too.
Some of the cars seemed to have been misidentified, and the pix were terrible.
Lots of bird, mouse bat and owl poo too. Towit towoo!
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"So that people like us can drool over them. BTW - this barn find was all over the interweb about 4 months ago."
OK, OK, local yokel - sorry for the delay. I'm not a regular anymore and have a non-chatroom based life now.
Mmmm - I think I'll just go outside for a walk - I may be some time.
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i could of sworn i've seen this posted recently
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Yes, I have seen this before though it never fails to amaze, accounting for the 205 etc it cant have been shut up more than 20 years ago and some of thses cars were worth a fortune then.
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Can any one elaborate on the story behind this?.
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'Tis an urban myth - the owner was a dealer who collected these cars in the '70s and '80s, then recently asked a photographer to record his collection. See www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp for further details
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See
www.sportscarmarket.com/portugesebarnfind.pdf
for a listing.
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pmh (was peter)
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Well the 'buying a farm and finding the cache' part might be an urban myth but the collection seem genuine enough. What extraordinary patience to sit on such a collection for so long. Will these be now sold off?
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But how would they clean them up without damaging the paintwork?, I would imagine compressed air followed by power washing will still not remove all that muck before a wash sponge can be applied!.
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Wow! I'd be like a kid in a toy shop if I went in there.
That red Cooper S is stunning!
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