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Man buys abandoned farm, discovers large barn filled with vintage cars
Greenstijl ^
Posted on 02/17/2007 12:43:02 PM PST by LibWhacker
Tons of pictures at the link: http://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/mirror/20070215-pritt-mazda/index.html
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: barn; cars; farm; portugal; vintage
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To: 353FMG
Any Austin-Healy with wire wheels? British racing green, please. Didn't see any. Saw a mini cooper.
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posted on
02/17/2007 12:58:39 PM PST
by
OldCorps
To: LibWhacker
That dang near stopped my heart! I wonder if he needs an old shop boy?
:O)
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posted on
02/17/2007 12:58:42 PM PST
by
papasmurf
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To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
I'm cryin! Why couldn't this happen to me?
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:00:09 PM PST
by
OldCorps
To: lowbridge
To: LibWhacker
What a find, indeed! I guess I'll take those "abandoned farm" ads a little more seriously.
To: LibWhacker
Nice score.
I counted only five that I would keep. The rest need to get the hell out of my barn pronto.
To: x
Lol, uh-oh your comment just made me realize that I violated a hard and fast rule here at Free Republic: We're not supposed to make up our own titles!
So... Moderator... If you see this, please change the title to:
Den koselige gården var til salgs, så vi kjøpte den......
Thank you. ;-)
To: proxy_user
they belong to the state now.
To: GoforBroke
Why would they belong to the state now? Most of the cars are post WWII, but not all. I hope that Hemmings does a story on this find.
To: LibWhacker
I have a question. If a car has been buried for fifty or sixty years in a dry climate, can it be restored and would it be worth the effort?
To: LibWhacker
None of the cars were stored properly. Some may be worth restoring, but they could have been worth dramatically more had the owner been an enthusiast.
For instance, the open exhaust pipes on the old cars (this was before cats) will allow air/moisture in through the open exhaust valves...which is not a great idea for a cast iron block, or iron valves, or for iron pistons.
Obviously the cars had no dust covers or rodent blocks/traps, nor even suspensions supported (e.g. on blocks).
From the above alone I'd guess that the poor owner left the old brake fluid in to harden in the brake lines (bye, bye) and clutch lines...and the old motor oil was probably left in to acidize, too.
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:16:45 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: glock rocks; Czar; B4Ranch; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sit down before you click the link ping!!!
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:17:52 PM PST
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Brad’s Gramma
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To: HiJinx; SandRat
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:18:18 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
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To: OldCorps
My brother and a friend were out hunting and asked the lady at the farm if they could hunt. She said yes - and there's lots of pheasant out in the field past the barn. In walking past the barn the friend spied an old Porsche covered in dust and bird droppings. It was the kind that had real rounded sloping edges both forward and rear - fairly rare he said.
Anyway, after hunting he asked about buying it. It was the widow's husbands car or something and he got it for a song. (Not exactly sure why a farmer would have a Porsche though?)
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:21:51 PM PST
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"Why would they belong to the state now?" Because this is Europe....
To: FrogHawk
To: LibWhacker
Or maybe a prewar stash Almost everything pictured is post war. A lot of them are from the 60's, a few are from the 50s and perhaps 70s. Only a handful of really old ones.
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:29:32 PM PST
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PAR35
To: toomanygrasshoppers
I emailed the folks at Hemmings.
To: LibWhacker
So many Alfas...... so many ringjobs to do.....sigh....
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:32:09 PM PST
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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