Hook
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A Barn Good Deal............
Here's something interesting I had sent to me via email. Have no idea whether it is legit but if you love cars, it wont matter much. Didn't bother to
check snopes.com..........who cares!
*****A NY man retired. He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, so it would last, and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal.
The modest farmhouse had been vacant for 15 yrs.; the owner and wife both had died, and there were no heirs.
The house was sold to pay taxes.
There had been several lookers, but the large barn had steel doors, and they had been welded shut. Nobody wanted to go to the extra expense to see
what was in the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to the property anyway......so, nobody made an offer on the place.
The NY guy bought it at just over half of the property's worth, moved in, and set about to tear in to the barn.......curiosity was killing him.
So, he and his wife bought a generator, and a couple of grinders.......and cut thru the welds.
What was in the barn...............?
Go to; www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm
[Edited on 8-2-2007 by Hook]
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cabobaja
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Hook, I won't say what is in the barn, let the Nomads be surprised like I was. But damn, I would love to have a few of the ones I like
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Bob and Susan
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nope...sorry...can't "let it go"
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
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beachbum1A
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Bob & Susan are correct. Just a hoax.
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/31/portuguese-barn-find-hoax...
Just do it!
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vgabndo
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Nice legend, whale of a nice collection. I got that sent here last year and had lost the link, thanks Hook.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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