Man buys abandoned farm, discovers large barn filled with vintage cars

Greenstijl ^

[LibWhacker]

Tons of pictures at the link: http://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/mirror/20070215-pritt-mazda/index.html

[Flying Circus]

Not a very smart retirement move. He would probably be better of if he put the money into a standard savings account and left it there. Cars lose a lot of value as soon as you sign the papers and take the keys. Except for a very few, even in brand new condition a car 20 or 30 years old won't collect its sales price in actual dollars, much less when you account inflation.

I've seen people doing this on Ebay and the same car goes up week after week for months and the seller never meets their reserve. A curiosity for a buyer, but never worth what the seller paid. To me it always seems such a waste to have a perfectly good car stored away, even perfectly preserved, when they are made to be driven.

[353FMG]

"..that stuff like this won't happen anymore."

Yeah, gone with all the civil freedoms we once enjoyed.

[Hildy]

Maybe they were stolen cars.

[ozzymandus]

I knew of a guy who bought an old ranch way out in the middle of nowhere in Colorado, so far off even the dirt roads that nobody could get there most of the year. Had an old ranch house, couple of barns, and a large stable. The stable turned out to be full of model A Fords. He told the old lady he bought it from about the cars, since they hadn't been included in the sale bill. She said they had belonged to her brother, who bought them in the 50's and had been dead for many years. She said he could keep them.

[Kurt_Hectic]

The cars is portugeese, but the intro text is norwegian where the letters "ø" and "å" is transformed into symbols by the programme.

"Den koselige gården var til salgs, så vi kjøpte den......"
= "Den koselige gården var til salgs, så vi kjøpte den....."
= "The nice farm was for sale, so we bought it....."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Look for some of these to show up at Barrett-Jackson after a few more years.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I think one of them is a ~1972 Oldsmobile....19th photo down from the top.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Make sure you're sitting down before clicking on the link!
Yer gonna love this. See if Lena can translate the captions. I think some are in Portugese.

[ApplegateRanch]

When I bought this place, all I got was a half dozen 50's-60's American hulks, stipped, that had been left sitting outside in the boneyard.

Oh, and a flathead engine that had been inexplicably left in the middle of the remains of the orchard.

[BunnySlippers]

Well, yeah. My farming family collected cars. We even owned Robbie the Robot and his car.

A Google search will bear me out.

[MountainFlower]

thanks for the ping!

[MountainFlower]

check these out...my fav is the
Fiat 508 Balilla Sport Spider(?), Mini e MG Magnette
MIGHTY FINE!

[mylife]

Cool collection of cars, but for a guy with all that $ youd think he could store them better!

[Samwise]

Gearhead ping

[woofie]

I found a big rock on our Muleshoe Texas farm once

[MountainFlower]

can you imagine buying an abadoned farm place and finding this treasure! first thing i would check is if they were all stolen!! LOL

[mylife]

possesion is 9/10ths of the law

[Trteamer]

Tha't one hell of a barn. How could anyone possibly miss that before purchasing the property?

[ApplegateRanch]

possesion is 9/10ths of the law

Until the guy who posseses the other tenth shows up with his warrents, badge, and gun.

This is the kind of thing, were it me, I would NOT want plastered for all the world to see.

What the government doesn't know, can't hurt me!

[MountainFlower]

i'll take my beauty from the lot of 'em and you guys can have the rest!! she is gorgeous!