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Portuguese Barn Find Photo Gallery

I thought this was a great read and even better pictures of one man's discovery and another man's once in time collection (to say the least).

Check out the photo gallery. How many cars can you identify before looking that the list within the web page?

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That's absolutely incredible!

Could you imagine being the guy who purchased the property and finding the cars?

How is it that 99% of all the tires are still inflated ????

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Originally Posted by Xavier (Post 1099371)

Could you imagine being the guy who purchased the property and finding the cars?

As the article states, that is a myth. The original Portugese collector is alive and still owns the cars.

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But the owner, it turned out, was not a New York senior but a Portuguese collector, who had amassed his collection in the 1970s after the Carnation Revolution. Many Portuguese collectors were stashing their cars in Spain, or letting them go for bargain prices. In a labor of love for old cars, Antonio Ferreira de Almeida snatched up every offer. Cars from every manufacturer, from every country and year made, in every condition.

By the end of the 1970s and not even 30 years old, António owned some 100 cars, and by the mid-1980s he had more than 300. When his buying binge ebbed around 1996, almost 400 old cars were in his possession, around a quarter of those in good or excellent condition.

German journalist Wolfgang Blaube set out to learn more about the legend. He travelled to Portugal in 2009 with his camera, and met with Antonio.

Still a remarkable story.

That 1955 Lancia Aurelia Spyder in img_ 4675 really caught my eye.