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Offline Ripsnort

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So... you buy yourself a house and barn that have been abandoned for 15+ years. While you are cleaning up the property and moving in, you cut the lock off the barn to see what is inside...

Might take a 1 minute load for the pics, but freaking worth it!

http://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/mirror/20070215-pritt-mazda/index.html

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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2007, 06:59:02 PM »
Incredible find!

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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2007, 07:03:36 PM »
Wow!

I wonder how much they are all worth...

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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2007, 07:18:32 PM »
Jehosophat!  Yeeoww!  :O

Some were obviously junk or shells or had been parted out.  Wonder what makes and models were on all of those.  Recognized a few Mazdas, and the Austin Cooper....

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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2007, 08:14:09 PM »
If I had done that I'd be absolutely dumbfounded trying to figure out which ones I wanted to hang onto and restore first. :O

I'd also be very reluctant to post pictures on the internet about it.......
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So you buy a house with a barn that's been abandoned for 15 years...
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2007, 08:34:31 PM »
wow orgasm ....

hell just give me the mini's and the porshe's .

I know of a few places up here that have a better collection then that though ...
(Can you say Duesenburgs )
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2007, 08:50:10 PM »
He's probably sitting on a million bucks worth of cars/parts

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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2007, 09:19:33 PM »
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He's probably sitting on a million bucks worth of cars/parts

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Easily $2 million IMHO.  

The two Mini MKI's, the two GP cars (which were probably raced, further increasing their value), the Lotus Europa, Super 7, Elan.   The 356 appears to be a 1300 Coupe and judging by the interior being in near mint shape (the paint on the dash looks factory new).

Throw in the rest and I'd estimate around 2-2.5 million bucks after some car washes, polish and wax.   Alot of that crap will come off.   But it is a shame that some of the convertibles didn't have covers on them.
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« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2007, 09:23:59 PM »
I'd say several million, with all the super-rare Lancia, Alfa and other exotic veterans.

Edit: Masherbrum beat me to it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2007, 09:34:28 PM »
Theres about 1 mil worth in this pic alone ...  


Id guess closer to 5 mil after they were cleaned up .. alot depends on milage and history though .
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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2007, 10:37:49 PM »
easy 5mil.   some "barn"  My dream come true, except for somebody else.

I gotta search and see if I can find a story about this, this had to have been written up somewhere.  It would take years to clean those all up but I would stand in line to walk through that barn.  I curious as to how all those cars ended up in that barn.  

1 of at least 3 Porsches I saw and maybe a 52 Oldsmobile Rocket 88


besides the two GP cars also looks like a 49 or 50 Pontiac and 48 or 49 Ford


then a couple of more mercedes and what looks like a 39 or 40 Lincoln


on the right looks like a 47 or 48 Chevy Fleetline and left looks like it might be a 49 or 50 Mercury or possibly a Hudson or Packard


and then a 70 Oldsmoblie Cutlass (too bad its a 4 door) next to it looks like a 67 or 68 Dodge or Chrysler and then might be another Dodge next to it too dark to tell


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« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2007, 10:47:51 PM »


is that some American vintage?  (the 2 black four doors in the middle) and a blue chevy above them?

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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2007, 10:52:25 PM »
all three of those black ones in the middle are American, or at least two of them, Olds and possible Chrysler, not 100% on the 3rd one on the left picture is too dark.  Also the Maroon car on the right looks like it might be a late 40's Dodge or Plymouth Business coupe also.  and towards the top middle, kinda greenish looking might also be a Packard or a Hudson?

I dont think the Blue car is a chevy, theres another pic of that car from a different angle

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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2007, 10:56:28 PM »
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is that some American vintage?  (the 2 black four doors in the middle) and a blue chevy above them?


yes , thats and olds .. and the 4dr next to it looks like another olds


the lower right corner under the time stamp ... If thats what I think it is there's a 500,000 dollar car right there easily ...   Im guessing it may be a 33 willys
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2007, 10:59:48 PM »
same couple of cars but different angle.


blue car to me doesnt look like a chevy, not sure what though.

Roscoroo, I'm pretty sure that 2nd car next to the Olds is a dodge or plymouth/chrysler Polaris or Coronet,  you can see the back of that car in this pic on the left.
and I think that one under the time stamp might be a Fiat or another Italian make, I'm not real good on recongnizing european cars.