There's a fictional story about this barn find in that some New Yorker had bought a farm in Portugal for the taxes owed. The barn was welded shut and not in good shape and he was going to just knock it down and then decided to cut the doors open.
Now the reality, there are 180 cars in this building. The owner was a car dealer and put cars of interest in this building starting back in the 70's. He did have the doors welded shut when the building was full. Here's what they found inside:
http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

Click on NEXT to see all of the pics. Obviously most are European cars but interesting anyway.

 

somebody has some detailing to do....

 

That is wild! Yea, lots of dust and bird poo to be cleaned off.

 

Damn quite a collection

 

That one has been around for awhile, But it still makes me fantasize! Why oh why couldn't that be me!

 

I wonder if they would start with new fluids and batteries!

 

Fail.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

Adrianspeeder

 

I absolutely love Snopes.

 

Wow. Either way, one helluva collection. I wonder why he didn't keep them in a some-what decent shape. Wash every once and a while and a good 30 minute run once or twice a year.

 

Once or twice a year is a part time job in it self. several hundred cars, for an example lets use 200 cars. Two- three hours each hours each to shuffle and move them around, fuel up, start insure and then drive. That would be way to much time and trouble. That for only once a year would be 12 hours a week, if the car was at the front of the line. starting 50 other cars to get one out....

think about it.

 

That's funny -- the only cars in there that interest me are the "American Barges".......

Whenever I drive down Texas back roads, I often fantasize about what must be sitting in all the sheds and out-buildings I pass. Usually my thoughts turn toward a pristine '63 Galaxie just waiting to be found, or maybe even a nice low-mileage '56 F-100 needing only a weekend in my garage to be back out on the road. The sad truth, however, is that most of them are probably just filled with "horse sheet"......

 

wonder how many Mustangs are in barns across America.. I've seen a few Mustang barn finds..