Author Topic: So you buy a house with a barn that's been abandoned for 15 years... (Read 1872 times)

culero · « **Reply #45 on:** February 18, 2007, 03:18:59 PM »

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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

Try this

Maverick · « **Reply #46 on:** February 18, 2007, 03:29:23 PM »

I wonder what made that beetle so special to add to the collection?

Roscoroo · « **Reply #47 on:** February 18, 2007, 03:47:47 PM »

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I wonder what made that beetle so special to add to the collection?

have you seen what a '58 or earlier bug is worth these days ??

Airscrew · « **Reply #48 on:** February 23, 2007, 08:23:27 AM »

so has anybody found any thing new? find the real story on all these cars?

DblTrubl · « **Reply #49 on:** February 23, 2007, 11:01:13 AM »

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it almost looks like a mercedes...

Looks like a '50s Ferrari to me, although a quick search did not give any results that matched this one exactly.

DblTrubl · « **Reply #50 on:** February 23, 2007, 11:08:51 AM »

Bears a strong resemblance to this one though. Anyone recognize the logo on the grille?

Airscrew · « **Reply #51 on:** February 23, 2007, 11:29:51 AM »

i think thats a Lancia badge, but I could be wrong, I'm not very good on european cars, especially older ones

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #52 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:56:15 PM »

WTH is up with that Website? reading the comments, I find "Bobcostas" screenname with a Barry Gibb avatar on it?

Sell off the cars and get some good quarterhorses in there.

DblTrubl · « **Reply #53 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:44:01 PM »

Good call Airscrew. The first one appears to be a Flaminia and the second an Appia. Attractive cars. The Flaminia looks alot like A Ferrari 250 to me. Probably no accident that.

Chairboy · « **Reply #54 on:** July 22, 2007, 06:59:30 PM »

The real story behind these photos is a little less exciting than the one we had been operating under.

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

The guy was an auto dealer, had built this collection up over time, and had just recently paid a photographer to document the collection.

Atoon · « **Reply #55 on:** July 23, 2007, 12:01:17 AM »

was thinkin same as I looked at photos- NO WAY anyone let this collection slip by. "I bought a farm & found em in the barn"

This is the kind of collection everyone in neighboring towns knows about.

Angus · « **Reply #56 on:** July 23, 2007, 03:38:02 AM »

Jeeeez.
This is like finding a barn full of 109's!!!!

Elfie · « **Reply #57 on:** July 24, 2007, 12:12:02 AM »

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was thinkin same as I looked at photos- NO WAY anyone let this collection slip by. "I bought a farm & found em in the barn"

This is the kind of collection everyone in neighboring towns knows about.

I just now saw this thread heh. Pretty cool collection of cars imo. To bad the story turned out to be:

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The guy was an auto dealer, had built this collection up over time, and had just recently paid a photographer to document the collection.

The original premise was a neat story. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.

There was a guy I knew in the Air Force that grew up in rural Vermont. One of his neighbors tore down their barn just because it was so old, really really old.

Inside the walls they found several hundred muskets still wrapped in oilskins from the Revolutionary war.