Talk about a barn find, check this out

URY914 · URY914's Garage

A warehouse in Portugal that had been closed for years. Recently they opened it, and it turned out there were 180 (classic) cars.

http://www.autoblog.nl/archive/2007/01/27/de-vergeten-snoepwinkel-voor-klassiekerlovers#post-8196

URY914 · URY914's Garage

Some more pics.

http://forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055

holtjv · 01-27-2007, 07:07 PM

Damn--incredible collection. Can anyone do a one-liner translation of what the deal was?

CJFusco · CJFusco's Garage

Somebody is suddenly very wealthy.

david914 · 01-27-2007, 07:14 PM

My gosh, what a collection! There's a little of everything in there!

Flatbutt1 · 01-27-2007, 07:17 PM

I would prolly pee myself if I walked in and found something like that.

ZAMIRZ · ZAMIRZ's Garage

IB lone POS American car in there shows up at Barrett-Jackson with rare quadruple ashtray option and goes for $2 million to fat, balding, redneck cigar connoisseur.

In all seriousness, that's phat.

Dottore · 01-27-2007, 08:06 PM

HOLY CRAP!

HardDrive · 01-27-2007, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by holtjv
Damn--incredible collection. Can anyone do a one-liner translation of what the deal was?

How about a haiku?

Squeaky doors roll open
Someone is gonna be rich
Classic sheet metal

tabs · 01-27-2007, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ZAMIRZ
IB lone POS American car in there shows up at Barrett-Jackson with rare quadruple ashtray option and goes for $2 million to fat, balding, redneck cigar connoisseur.

In all seriousness, that's phat.

Stop talking about Joeksea that way...

tabs · 01-27-2007, 09:19 PM

WOW

Nostril Cheese · 01-27-2007, 09:38 PM

truly, the ultimate barn find

Nostril Cheese · 01-27-2007, 09:41 PM

anyone know what the open wheels in there are?

stomachmonkey · 01-28-2007, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nostril Cheese
anyone know what the open wheels in there are?

They look like Formula Fords or similar.

holtjv · 01-28-2007, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by HardDrive
How about a haiku?

Squeaky doors roll open
Someone is gonna be rich
Classic sheet metal

Most excellent.

slow&rusty · 01-28-2007, 05:13 AM

Incredible...the block warehouse looks fairly new..so these cars have been sitting in there for not all that long? I am also interested to hear the story behind this.

Yasin

RickM · RickM's Garage

Is that a Reatta next to the Super 7?

RickM · RickM's Garage

From the top of the first link:

(In Dutch)
"In an old shed in Portugal is a collection of 180 old cars found. The cars have that more than 15 year behind closed weld doors stood. It is a multicolored collection of the most various models. Porsches, Jaguars, Lotussen, etc. etc. A snoepwinken for the klassiekerlovers.

I took over a number of photographs, but in the Portuguese forum on forocoches. com, you find whole much more photographs of this hidden treasure. Whose the cars are, and/or what happen goes it with the cars, I have not can overtake. Can someone read Portuguese? "

One of the links he asks about is a Spanish forum where people react in similar fashion to pelican.

RickM · RickM's Garage

To add, a poster in a Potuguese forum states:

"A time that did not obtain to edit mine finishes reply to this topic, leaves here a reply to a Message placed in the page “InterClassico”, that it clarifies the relative subject to this discovered warehouse. Here it is, and start to cite: “The cars belong to a coleccionador that asked for anonymity, they have documents, and during years 80 they had been being bought, in the 90 with the full warehouse doors closed and they had been welded being reopened this year in my presence.” Writing for Nuvolari (Administrator of the page “InterClassico”) is unmasked the mystery. Being I equally to cite"