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- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -6/+206"the place has been empty for 15 years! whilst exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. the door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open........."
Yeah, thats the opening to like 50 different horror movies. - TDave00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+162That's not a barn that's a warehouse! A warehouse worth millions.
- madmike759, on 10/12/2007, -1/+107Keys??
- EviLiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+100He bought the farm? How tragic.
- MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -8/+96Am I the only one that heard the patented Tim Allen "Ho ho ho ho ho ho" as I read this?
- bryan4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71You know this warehouse has some crazy druglord history.
- jakhtar, on 10/12/2007, -15/+75Too all the idiots making "In Soviet Russia..." jokes above:
Please stop. Just.... stop. This story has nothing to do with Soviet Russia. Stop. - xstnothing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56This is the kind of thing that would make Jay Leno cream his pants.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54How come i see this
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18 hours 23 min ago, made popular 2 minutes ago - cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52Yeah really. I mean how can you just "forget" about all of those cars? No one who owned the property before knew about these? I mean even if let's say the owner died and it was left to his relatives they wouldn't know or even look around and find this?
Needless to say this man just found a goldmine if he chooses to sell them, me personally? I'd just sell off the ones I didn't care about and fix up the others. I mean there are just sooo many cars I've dreamed of driving or at least seeing in person.
So envious right now. - KingAdrock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51probably the husband who loved them died.. then the wife forgot about them and sold the barn. Like a wife throwing a garage sale.
- Ludnix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Anyone else think they were stolen?
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.
... - TKovacs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45That´s what I call luck. Nice story.
- k4rb0n8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36those must be some big ass trees to hide that building!
- RareSaturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36That's unbelieveable, how can they be forgotton for so long?
- vurx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/portugalwarehouse/838359
what trees? - acab9759, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31You built a time machine, out of a delorean?!
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Wait, in the woods, in Portugal, a barn? Yup those are mine, thanks for reminding me where they were. I'll arrange a pickup.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22If it was in the US the local assessment office would probably present the new owner with a bill for all the back property taxes on the vehicles - complete with interest. lol
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Dibs on the 356...
That would be freaking awesome....its like a car guy's wet dream. - Zeush8su, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I see a big trip to Pep Boys in the near future.
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19"That would be freaking awesome....its like a car guy's wet dream."
+ Dust
- Shine
Oh by the way, I hate to think of what legal proceedings might happen to the guy that found these. It would suck to have found such a collection on your property only to find that they're stolen cars & that they need to be impounded, returned to their owners, or otherwise taken away. - eric0213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16What's with the comments? Is Slashdot down?
- rodgerdodger5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12My index finger is itching to write "WASH ME" about 190 times right now.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Actually, Leno has individual cars that are worth more than that entire collection pictured. I think very few people actually realize how extensive Leno's collection is.
- igibson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12damn i wish i had that kind of luck
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Please. Leno's collection is more than double that size, and his actually drive and have paint that isn't covered in an inch of dust.
- kyleh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1320's gangster car heaven!!
- ddfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11My jaw dropped and I'm not even a car guy. Damn... Nice...
- mcwizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10there were a lot o license plates visible, could they be traced?
- bradallen18, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12this was posted earlier but these are some new pics.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Not all of them. A couple of them are obviously in dire need of repair... like the one with a big gaping hole in the front grill.
- DurtyJ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11They're F1 cars. I don't think they have an actual name.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I would so love to clean all those cars (seriously). Restoring them would be bad ass.
- roxics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8First thing that comes to mind "Stolen Cars".
- RatTrap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Any one know how much the guy payed for the property?
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7WOW.
that's one hell of a find.
that property has more than paid for itself. - anks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm feeling lucky today! time to check my garage!!
- JD52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Cha-ching!
- Alfarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Holy F**k, HOLY FU**ING @#$%!
That's AMAZING. Best find of your life I'd say. Congratulations. Now just to figure out if the paperwork for the purchase included 'everything on top of the property', because that's worth a handful! - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The guy obviously struck it rich - but it's not like he was poort to start with. Think about how much it would cost to buy a farm house with enough property to not only house a warehouse that big, but to also conceal the very existance of such a warehouse.
Gigantic farmhouses with huge plots of land and hundred-foot-tall trees don't come cheap. - geniusNOTatWORK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10ummm...wasn't this posted before?
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Portuguese_vault_opened_reveals_forgotten_collection_of_180_classic_cars - MonkeyMCSE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I was thinking the same thing. That place is an easy 3000-7000 square feet, how could it hide? I'm thinking there's some exaggeration going on here, because i've never seen property go for sale that hasn't been checked out. What realtor/investor doesn't take a look at the whole property before purchasing/selling? Something this large doesn't just get "hidden" by trees. Great story and all, but I highly doubt it.
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have to say from experience that it's entirely possible for a large building to mostly disappear in a stand of trees in ~20 years. It's not that it disappears, actually--it's just ignored, and the trees are far taller than the building. The owner tells you it's empty, it's been empty for years, needs to be torn down--owners don't usually cover up good news with bad news--so you believe the owner, put it off as a side project later once you get moved in. It's entirely possible there was no physical way to get close to the building for at least ten years without heavy lawn equipment, depending on rate of growth of the surroundings. Of course I don't know about this specific incident but as a son of a real estate agent I've seen plenty of forgotten outbuildings. None of them had stuff like this, though...
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Cleaning time!
- hadimirza, on 03/26/2008, -0/+6omfg...i was expecting like 3 or 4 old cars....but this.....*****... :o
he found lots of cars....but where are the keys? ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Would love to hear the story behind it. I doubt we'll ever get an explanation, though.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7finders keepers.... (:
- KnytFyre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You're missing the point. The point of old cars isn't that they drive like heaven on earth, it's that you are driving a piece of history. A piece that is disappearing constantly, and yet here you are, with your own little slice of it. The new Camero may drive like a dream and scream down the interstate, but it's the 69 Camero z28 that will turn heads and inspire envy.
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