This is unbelievable! I can't even imagine walking in to a situation like this! SportsCarNet.com • View topic - Always check the barn!
until i see more proof, i'm going w/ 'don't believe everything you read on the internet'. let's not even talk about the cars in the barn being worth $35 million NZ and all that. who in their right mind purchases a property w/ a barn that size without first considering their liabilities. i don't care if the doors were welded shut or not, you need to protect yourself for what might be in that barn. plus the article says the new owners were retired and careful w/ their money so they weren't some type of developer that could absorb any costs - that barn could have been stocked with who knows what crap that could have cost the new owner 10's and maybe 100's of thousands of dollars to clean up.
The story is incorrect. This wasn't some "barn find" that everyone would like to believe it is. While the photographs are genuine, the text in the email explaining their origin is untrue. There was no retired New Yorker who came across an incredible, and totally unexpected, windfall when he broke open the welded doors of an old barn on his newly acquired Portuguese property. Instead, there is a more mundane, but much more believable explanation. Journalist Tom Cotter researched the story and finally identified the photographer as Manuel Menezes Morais. Morais was contracted to take photographs of the cars by their owner. Due to the wishes of the owner, Morais was unable to reveal exact details of the barn's location or the owner's name, but he did give Tom Cotter some general information about the origin of the vehicle collection. In an article about the cars for Sports Car Market Magazine, Tom Cotter notes: The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and "soldered" the doors shut. (Perhaps welding was too permanent.) Web sites varied on the number of cars: 58, 100, and 180 were speculated. According to Morais, there are 180 cars in the barn.
in either way, they will need a lot of Chemical guys products (55 gallon drums!) to clean those vehicles up. why not bring them here, each forum member can help them out cleaning those up???:applause2:
