Check this out absolute great find

andyj22

Click link below what a find

any thoughts on if it were you to find this and what would you do

Adam

http://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/mirror/20070215-pritt-mazda/index.html

Eric318

oh ......... my............ Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwdd!!

I love the Alfas!!!

Spit62500

What's the story with the registration plates? They seem to be Dutch and many of them are much cleaner than the car.... If they're Photoshopped they're done well and why bother?

Nice cars though

peasant

That Merc 300 (on the left of the two race cars) alone would probably pay to restore half of the collection back to life

http://www.mbzponton.org/valueadded/other/adenauer.htm

spurious

What's the story with the registration plates?

They were found in a barn in Portugal.

KTRIC

Looks like the previous owner just horded cars !!!


What a find.

Spit62500

spurious wrote:

What's the story with the registration plates?

They were found in a barn in Portugal.

Full quote was:

What's the story with the registration plates? They seem to be Dutch and many of them are much cleaner than the car.... Question stands.

cxcully

Spit62500 wrote:

Full quote was:

What's the story with the registration plates? They seem to be Dutch and many of them are much cleaner than the car.... Question stands.

Check out this link-Portugal seems have similar plates to Holland...XX-XX-XX.There's also a "P" sticker on an Alfa half way down.

http://www.olavsplates.com/portugal_slow.html

Sensational.I'd like the Alfas

DeBeere

The reg plates are attached vertically, so dust is less likely to cover them than the cars themselves.

PaulK_CCI

Spit62500 wrote:

Full quote was:

What's the story with the registration plates? They seem to be Dutch and many of them are much cleaner than the car.... Question stands.

Being Dutch, living in the Netherlands, I can confirm what cxcully says, the old Portugese plates, do look a lot like the old Dutch plates, with white embossed letters on a black plate.

However, old style Dutch plates would actually be very dark blue instead of black, with white embossed letters, which makes them seem like black. Also the white embossed letters are not as angular as the old portugese plates...

The plates on this Dutch car show the differences quite well:
http://www.classiccarsireland.nl/autos_detail_groot.asp?ID=45

Spit62500

Makes sense now.

Nice Volvo btw...

BMWE21

They were all supposedly confiscated by the government during the revolution and forgotten about until someone bought the farm they're located on. The doors were welded shut!

PaulK_CCI

BMWE21 wrote:

They were all supposedly confiscated by the government during the revolution and forgotten about until someone bought the farm they're located on. The doors were welded shut!

That would have been an interesting and possibly even partially true explanation, were it not that in the original postings (on other sites, as this subject has been popping up on forums and threads all over the world for the last couple of months ) it clearly states that the shed had been lying welded shut for the last 15 years only!!! and the Portugese revolution was in 1974.... Also if you study the photographs, you can clearly spot there are also cars, manufactured well past that date, an Alfasud, peugeot 305, late series Beetles, late series mini's so it certainly couldn't have been lying shut and undetected since 1974.... but, that said it's quite clear that considering the dust most of the cars have gathered, they have not moved for a much, much longer period than just 15 years.

BMWE21

Oops, fair enough. I stand corrected!

Even so, who would just put cars like that away for so long? Surely the combined value means that they were all owned by more than one person?

Bit of a bummer if you wanted to take a particular car for a run. "I think I'll take the Alfa out today. Just got to shift the 100 motors blocking it in..."

dubtom

Being cynical and slightly bitter:eek: I would doubt if the story of someone buying a farm and finding a couple of hundred cars is true, granted,a nice idea,it would have to be a very very isolated farm for no one to know that a few million quids worth of cars are sitting in the barn.But like I said, I'm cynical.