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Quiet a barn find

A retired New Yorker decide to buy a farm in Portugal which was inhabited for fifteen years.Since the owner never left a will the state put it up for sale so he got it for halve it's value.On the farm was this huge barn with steel doors,he decided to have a peak inside and lol this is what he fond inside.







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Old 01-27-2013, 12:39 PM
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This is an old story and if I remember correctly this was found to be a false story.
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Yes, long ago debunked:

snopes.com: Portuguese Barn Find
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True or not, daydreams like this make us smile.
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Musta been a working dairy farm cause I can still see a lot of the Bull$hit!!
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not a barn find I have the full story in a book.
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true or not, daydreams like this make us smile.
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Old 01-27-2013, 05:42 PM
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story or not those are real cars sitting somewhere, belonging to someone
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no cobra's or testarossa's but i would still be very happy because he made profit in more ways than one off of that acquisition

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