Topic: Major Barn Find

[Jugghead]

Depending on where in portugal this stuff was found, it could be like storing it in a desert.
east portugal is arid and dry, hot as heck in summer, mild winters. 
the north, however has extremely cold winters, and therefore a big temp swing season to season.

I looked into it more and it seems that there are two differing stories. 
one is that they are from a car dealer in portugal who kept everything interesting
the other "story" is that they belonged to a wealthy portuguese doctor who had a penchant for cool cars.

what's the real story? I don't know. cool find nonetheless

[tramp]

why do i get the feeling about a dead drug dealer

[Jeb]

A guy who lived in my dorm in the late 70's had a late 50's Corvette.  He was working at a gas station in N.C. and was called to tow away a junk car from a storage shed.  He find this vette.  The old lady said it belonged to her son who put it there before he was shipped off to Viet Nam.  You guessed it her boy didn't make it back.  He tells the women the truth about the car's value but then quickly calls his dad asking for a loan. 

[edbikerii]

Drug dealer would have had the cars all pimped out, not rusting in a barn.
A car dealer would have had the service department get them all in working order.
A wealthy doctor would have paid to keep the cars in top notch condition.

I get the feeling that these were accumulated by some pack rat who bought every car that had something interesting going for it, but was cheap because it had some stuff wrong with it.  I can hear it now, "its nearly complete", followed rapidly by, "it just needs....".  A hundred times over.  Each time either of those two phrases are uttered it is a recipe for a restoration project failure.  Anybody who has had the misfortune to restore a classic car knows that it is the last 5% of the project that costs 95% of the budget of the restoration.

Pack rats never complete projects.  They just keep buying new ones and salivating proudly over their expensive piles of unfinished junk.

[bwaller]

Pretty incredible.   Advancing through the pics I was sort of hoping there would be some two wheeled jewels in there! 

[Steve F]

I'm wondering how the new "owner" is planning on disposing of all of these cars.  I don't know how things work there, but I can assume there is gonna be a pile of paperwork to get just ONE of these cars freed up, let alone hundreds!  Looks to me to be a major headache along with legal battles over ownership, title searches etc.
Really cool though.

[dustyc]

Amazing what seeing that can do to your head.  I think I just about busted a nut.

I've heard a tale of an old guy around here that has bought a new car every year and after a year of driving stores it.  I recall the cars supposedly go back to the 20's.

[boatsdickson]

Paperwork? You dont need no stinkin paperwork.
We got the Heff repo company.

'The keys were in the ignition, I swear!'   ...

[dustyc]

The debunking petercb750 posted http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp rules out the necessity for paperwork. 

I like boatdickson's anti-bureaucratic thinking though.

[boatsdickson]

Thanx - Ill resemble that remark, pretty much anti everything...