Barn full of cars thread

[GasoLane]

Some time ago there was a thread about someone supposedly buying a farm and finding a shed full of cars.

Well Snopes has sussed it out.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

[Melz]

Now that is incredible... I'm sure my sheds will look like that before too long!!

[4Vman]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

Some time ago there was a thread about someone supposedly buying a farm and finding a shed full of cars.

Well Snopes has sussed it out.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

: number 2000..

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

: number 2000..

Really? Someone beat me to post the REAL story?

They must have been exceptionally fast as the email from Snopes only came in this morning and NO ONE has posted it yet!
:

[V3RSAC3]

ZING ...

haha god, that would be a dream come true ... bloody lucky yank!!!!

[Aussie Falcon]

he can afford these cars but not a set of $2 tarps from Bunnings?

[4Vman]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

Really? Someone beat me to post the REAL story?

They must have been exceptionally fast as the email from Snopes only came in this morning and NO ONE has posted it yet!
:

There's been multiple posts about that barn find over the past 18 months...

[bodes-sh]

^^yes, but if you read the last couple of paragraphs you will find how this really happened....

Originally Posted by From story

The referenced pictures the full set is viewable here "http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/index.htm" were indeed taken in a barn somewhere in Portugal, but the "lucky find" aspect of the story doesn't quite ring true. As Tom Cotter of Sports Car Market magazine noted when he looked into this story:

Huge collections of cars don't just happen. Cars are accumulated; sometimes lovingly, sometimes not; by someone with a purpose. I was sure this collection was not assembled by accident; nobody would simply sell an old farm and fail to mention to the new owners the stash of old cars in the barn.

What he found out by tracking down the photographer was that the owner of the barn (and the 180 or so vintage cars contained within) was not a lucky buyer who had just purchased the property and was astonished to find a treasure trove in one of the farm buildings. The owner was an automobile dealer in the 1970s and 1980s who had built up his assemblage of cars over the years and stashed it in the barn (locking the structure up when it was full) and who simply hired a photographer recently to document his collection.

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

There's been multiple posts about that barn find over the past 18 months...

18 mths, really. it only started doing the rounds in Jan this year!!

I'll say this again slowly so that you can understand....

Snopes uncovered the REAL ...thats R E A L ! story about the barn find. If you followed the link you'd see!!

[holmsy]

as said. OPEN YOUR EYES BEFORE BEING AN ***.
good find gasolane.
imagine how good it would be if it was really something you found.

[freak6]

thats the first time iv seen that and i swear i spotted a mustang in there.
thats a massive collection for anyone to have.

[Elks]

As the saying goes "If it seems to good to be, it usually is"

Good get GasOLane

[Zed7fiddy]

I was always a bit sus on this story, gotta lvoe snopes to bring the truth out

But snopes isnt ALWAYS right hahaha, gotta watch them, they throw in bs stories to proove that you should always beleive them either (Mer Ed was actually a Zebra - for example)

[cowboy]

Was working on a station in the Riverina once, wandered into a big old shed on a remote block and there was every car that had ever been owned on the property. Started with a model T and ended with an XK Falcon. In between was a Rambler 770, a Jag MkII, a couple of Dodge Pheonix, a 36 Merc and a few old holdens. Nice!

[SHIFTN]

I can just imagine walking in and finding that

-SHIFTN