Did you ever hear the story of the English couple who bought some land in Spain to build a house on, had nothing but some old hangers on it and they were locked with big steel chains.
They bought the land but before they bulldozed the hangers they thought they should look inside so got a blow torch and removed the chains.
Inside was a priceless collection of Ferraris, Lambougines, Rolls Royce, sports cars, vintage cars etc, acres of them.
The PO was a collector and when he died his heirs (not knowing about his avid car collecting habits) couldn't sell the worthless land quick enough to make some fast money.
Turns out in Spain, if you buy it you get to keep it! 
Hush,
I'm sorry to pop your balloon, but that is or was one of the biggest cyber myths going around about 5 years ago. And it still keeps cropping up.
The truth of the matter was that it was supposed to be in Portugal, (or was it Spain?..or Greece?..or France?) and the barn actually belonged to a classic car collector. He was a car dealer by day but every so often a jewel would crop up and he would buy it. This hombre had mucho dinero, comprende?
He hadn't died or abandoned it or anything, just someone decided to start a "prank" and took a few photos, invented the story, posted it on the internet, and the rest is as they say; history.
It took the investigative journalist that followed up the story about 9 months to solve the mystery, such was the secrecy as to the location and ownership of the barn.
The names of the "British couple" was never established, none of those cars in that "barn find" ever found it's way onto the classics market.
Once again, my humble apologies.
