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

[LibWhacker]

Any car nuts out there? ;-)

[nmh]

WOW!

What a find!

Hope he displays them for others to enjoy!

[Third Order]

wow

[353FMG]

Any Austin-Healy with wire wheels? British racing green, please.

[Enterprise]

Bump

[socialismisinsidious]

Cool. Hope he can find the keys. ; )

[Jet Jaguar]

Wow! A little bit of everything in there.

[nmh]

WHEW!

He'll never have to work again.

Many of those cars are priceless. Some may not be i great condition but easily restored. Very nice collection.

[proxy_user]

I can't read the text very well.

But if I were them, I'd be discussing ownership issues. Did he buy the farm outright? Does the purchase include any property left by prior owners?

[NormsRevenge]

Holy Moley!


All kinds of cool cars.. must have been a stash of a rich fellar or a master car thief. some old classics..

[popdonnelly]

Looks like the guy really liked Lancias.

[68skylark]

Very cool -- thanks for the post.

[Fiddlstix]

WOW!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

My jaw must be somewhere on the floor,,,,,,,,, can't seem to find it!

[LibWhacker]

Good questions. I can't read Dutch so I can't answer. Do you think they might be stolen?

Why would anyone abandon such a collection? If not stolen, the owner must've died and left no heirs. They'll be coming out of the woodwork now though, I'll bet!

[x]

HVORFOR SKJER ALDRI DETTE MEG?!?!?!?!?

You can say that again!

[Enterprise]

I wish the article had a few more details too. Who did he purchase the "abandoned" farm from? Was it from relatives of the person who "abandoned" it? Was it a Government tax sale of some kind? Is there a chance that he knew the cars were in the garage when he bought it? Who is the buyer, and has he done farming before?

[LibWhacker]

Yeah, someone on another site said maybe a mob dropoff point for stolen vintage cars... Or maybe a prewar stash (though I think there is some postwar stuff in there, too) that someone was hiding from the Nazis, lol. Lots of speculation.

[rlmorel]

I have often had this fantasy about doing the same thing, and finding an old WWII airplane in there...:)

[lowbridge]

I am a world wide car expert and I say everything in that barn is worthless.

But since I'm such a softy and I'm feeling sorry for the poor fella, I'll gladly give the guy 50 american dollars for each car.

Heh.