On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:04:55 +0100, Yippee
wrote:


It seems somebody 'found' a barn in Portugal with 180 classic cars in
it. They've been gathering dust and bird poo behind welded shut doors
for decades.

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

From the look of it, some are extremely rare and could be quite
valuable.

That has to be *the* mother of all barn finds. Thanks for posting the
link.

Still having fun trying to figure out what all of them are...

"Yippee" wrote in message
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Dean Dark realised it was Sun, 28 Jan 2007
09:01:51 -0500 and decided it was time to write:

That has to be *the* mother of all barn finds.

It's quite treausre trove, isn't it?

Thanks for posting the link.

The page is obsolete, since the links to the photographs are now all
broken. Luckily, I could rescue them from my browser cache and build a
mirror:

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/

Enjoy!




Thanks for that - I wasn't getting any joy from the original posting. Some
quite interesting Lancias there and what looks like an more or less unused
Super Seven?


Ron Robinson

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:46:34 -0000, "R.N. Robinson"
wrote:

Thanks for that - I wasn't getting any joy from the original posting. Some
quite interesting Lancias there and what looks like an more or less unused
Super Seven?

Series IV (Batman) Seven, though. I'd kill for a *genuine* Lotus
Series III Seven.

You can run the site (or its mirror) through Google Translate to get
some of the background information. The site is in Spanish, not
Portuguese.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:49:05 +0100, Yippee
wrote:

Dean Dark realised it was Sun, 28 Jan 2007
09:01:51 -0500 and decided it was time to write:

That has to be *the* mother of all barn finds.

It's quite treausre trove, isn't it?

Thanks for posting the link.

The page is obsolete, since the links to the photographs are now all
broken. Luckily, I could rescue them from my browser cache and build a
mirror:

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/
Thanks for mirroring the pictures.

I was trying to work out a date (when the barn was sealed) and I think it
would have been either 1970 when Salazar died or more likely in 1974 when
the 3rd Republic came to power.

[A family friend (of my parents) lost most of his estate and property
following the fall of the New State in Portugal, including his (even then)
classic Jaguar, that I never saw and my parents, who had visited his
estates, wouldn't have recognised if they'd tripped over it.]

I know Alfasuds first came out in 1974 and the one in the picture looks in
remarkable unused condition, but what's the latest date of any car in the
photos?

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Richard Cole ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

I was trying to work out a date (when the barn was sealed) and I think
it would have been either 1970 when Salazar died or more likely in
1974 when the 3rd Republic came to power.

Not a chance.

I know Alfasuds first came out in 1974 and the one in the picture
looks in remarkable unused condition, but what's the latest date of
any car in the photos?

That ain't a very early Sud, not with plastic bumpers and a hatch.
http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa46.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfasud suggests 1981 at the earliest.

Yippee ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

So judging from what we can see, latest date must be about 1983.

ITYM "Earliest"...

Not even an interesting 205, either - just a 5dr - seems a strange one to
salt away as a "future investment" as a fairly minorly bent near-new.

Yippee ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

So judging from what we can see, latest date must be about 1983.

ITYM "Earliest"...

No, I really mean latest. Earliest date is somewhere in the 1920's.

Ah, I see our cross-porpoises... I'm thinking in terms of the question -
date of sealing. You're thinking in terms of date of cars.

Not even an interesting 205, either - just a 5dr - seems a strange one
to salt away as a "future investment" as a fairly minorly bent
near-new.

It's an odd stash. Some very rare and valuable cars with the odd
Beetle, 70's merkin barge and worthless wreck in between. All crammed
in a barn and left to rot without any effort to preserve them.

It's Portugal. Shoving 'em out of the sun IS an effort to preserve - they
ain't going to rot.