Ah.... A collection, but not forgotten. Just an eccentric, who eventually
felt compelled to "leak" his secret. But not, apparently, enough to let
anyone visit it personally.
This kind of miserly hoarding is all too familiar -- the old guy down the
road with the wonderful old cars rusting away in his pasture... "I'll never
sell them...I'll fix 'em some day"... Then, by the time he dies, they have
rusted into memories...
At least these are under cover and reasonably well protected, though I worry
about the exposed upholstery under all that filth.
It's not like there is anything enormously valuable or exotic here (no
Bugattis, Duesenbergs or SWB Berlinettas), but there are a lot of desirable
older cars that might be better enjoyed as drivers than moldering away in
the shadows.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 6/27/07 12:39 PM, Frank P. Marrone at itswonderful@comcast.net wrote:
> http://www.classiccar.com/garage/blog/index.php?/archives/241-Update-Portuga
> l-Barn-Find.html
>
>
> Frank
> 1972 MGB-GT 3.1L-V6/5 speed
> 1964 Sunbeam Tiger
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
>> Behalf Of Max Heim
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:29 PM
>> To: MG List
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Old Barn Find - Hoax?
>>
>> I first heard about this and saw photos in February. Since then they have
>> probably had time to push a few cars around, clean up, etc.
>>
>> Even in those photos a few of the later model cars were much cleaner, but
>> all that means is they were put in storage much more recently. No one is
>> saying this is an untouched time capsule from the 1960s -- it's just
>> somebody's car collection, acquired over many years, and forgotten. The
>> last
>> car could have been rolled into the barn in 1995, for all we know. How
>> long
>> does it take for a padlock to rust in Portugal (briny sea air and all
>> that)?
>>
>> What is curious is the lack of follow-up stories. But it may be tangled in
>> legal hassles.
>>
>>
>>
>> on 6/27/07 11:12 AM, Peter Chast at pchast@francomm.com wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder........
>>>
>>> As you look at the pictures. The cars ane not uniformly dirty. Some have
>>> hand prints like they were recently pushed. The floor looks clean with
>> no
>>> footprints. The walls and the heating system is
>> clean......................
>>>
>>> a bunch of things make me suspicious. Perhaps a few car clubs got
>> together
>>> with a breaker yard and.................
>>>
>>> Pete
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