But no Gs....
An email was floating around earlier this year about a man who bought an abandoned farm in Portugal.
Imagine you live in Portugal and you’re moving into a lovely farm house on a large swath of land. The place has been empty for 15 years! While exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. The door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open…
and find 180....
but sadly the story is only half true... the question is how could someone with such a collection let it go to rot :cry:
thats amazing, i love the old porsche!!!!
I could cry
wow :!:
so whats the full story on this maxwell :?:
who was the original owner and who is the lucky owner now :?:
who ever sold that place must be severely kicking themselves now!!!! where would you start tho, all of them will need attention surely even though the they were stored. any links to more info max?
... the question is how could someone with such a collection let it go to rot :cry:
Nah! That's the catch! Provided that the barn is NOT in the North corner of Portugal, the weather is so benign that any rot would have dried overtime!
Obviously you have to do a little of preventative maintenance to get those classics to work, but nothing really out of the ordinary....
It really pains me to remember that I had to badly sell my previous G-Wagen because I didn't have dry storage for it while living in England and I could not bear to see it rot while sitting outdoors... but indoors and in Portugal... that's a different kettle of fish!
that the cars are located somewhere in the area of Sintra, near Lisbon.
Even the story of the car dealer sounds like a load of bull$hit anyway...
something dodgy. next thing the kays will be found in a canoe in panama!
Why does the car dealer bit sound dodgy. The second last link I posted seems pretty believable - certainly a lot more than the original story. Also if you read snopes while not the definitive, it does seem to support the dealer story.
You certainly don't forget about 180 cars of which the vast majority are rare and classics.
Why does the car dealer bit sound dodgy. The second last link I posted seems pretty believable - certainly a lot more than the original story. Also if you read snopes while not the definitive, it does seem to support the dealer story.
You certainly don't forget about 180 cars of which the vast majority are rare and classics.
Well some American knows a girl who can speak Portuguese lingo so that he gets she to ring around... gimme a break!
there is a bloke in the barn in one of the pics in the photo grid.
now, if Isa can track down who he is i think we can solve this mystery 8)
I have a friend investigating this - he's got some classic beautys and "connections". I read somewhere here that its an old barn in Sintra?... Very close to my place. And guys, Sintra is as wet as the Highlands...
There is a little farm near us and legend has it that in the 60's a well to do couple arrived for a short stay in a Mercedes 190 SL (the pretty rare one) and left it there after a little fault stopped them driving it back to London. They never returned and apparently it is still there to this day (I will go and ask the farmer one day and leave him my G if its true!!)
what are you waiting for draxey :shock:
be quick and keep your fingers crossed :!:
Apart from the Lancia Zagato, the Adenauers, the Elans and possibly the 956 I do not see cars of significant interest. Assuming most of them are restoration projects, then do not get exited...More often than not, beautiful classics do not make viable restoration projects.
So it goes like this: Mr. Ferreira de Almeida is the lucky owner! He had been buying the cars until the wharehouse was full... Closed it for some years and it is now restauring some, selling some and renting others.
I believe one can find some here: http://www.classicosonline.com/index.php
Apologise for the poor english.
Was the Aurelia part of the fold?
Probably, I spoted a white one in the pictures. I'll check.
There are two confirmed Aurelias listed on the partial inventory list.
The Abarth might be interesting.
The B20 could bite your arm off just by looking at it...
What is the Steyr Puch mentioned in the list?
What is the Steyr Puch mentioned in the list?
There is a picture of it in one of the links I posted. It looks not much bigger than a cinquecento... so no its not a G.
Anakreon wrote:What is the Steyr Puch mentioned in the list?
There is a picture of it in one of the links I posted. It looks not much bigger than a cinquecento... so no its not a G.Then it must be a Steyr-Puch 500 (basically a Fiat Cinquecento with Steyr engine)
Or a fiat panda
As you can imagine the S-P 500 was put together a lot better then it's Fiat sister. :lol:
I would love one of them...
You couldn't make it up could you - an amazing film - if you put that on tv now you would sell them by the million
They may ot be worth much but there are lots of cool sports cars in there like some of those Lancias...
But of course if you thinking getting parts for a G is hard...... like what on earth is a Simca?
Here is the Steyr Puch
wonder if you can gogle earth the place?
Maxwell you are correct: it does not really matter, to us anyway, if they are valuable. The point is that there are cool cars in that barn: what about the AR Junior (classic Bertone) or the Lotus Seven (the archetypal big toy). Just to reminisce & dream about them is enough of a pleasure.
It does not even matter if the barn find is genuine: "si non e vero e ben trovato", as Zagato maybe would have said...
I wonder if Gs were around when the collection was amassed.
Yes, G,s were around, in oneof the pics is a Peugot 205.
Not G but ...
Think Unimog's are a bit wee... get one of these.. Maz 543
http://www.russiantruck.co.uk/details.php?id=57
38 litre, 17 ton, amazing to have a 4 valve head on a diesel V12 in 1967
Further back in the site you can get a Russian jeep.. more G sized at 1.6t and 2.2l petrol
.. or go for the tracked carrier with the same engine in 14t .. with 10t on water carrying capacity... just the thing for a commute up the Thames :lol:
or a mig21 :twisted:
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Well the story is only half true because after some digging it turns out that while the door were welded shut it belongs to a car dealer who kept some of the more unusual cars he's come across over the past 20-30 years.
When the barn was full he welded the doors shut and forgot about it....
More pictures and the true story and whom I believe the owner.
But still the question remains is how could you let the collection go like that. Some obviously looked like they would of been in vary good condition going into the garage only to be ravaged by exposure to the elements and lots of neglect.