Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat]

[Atrus]

OK, I hope Basil doesn't get upset or anything, so if I violate a rule, just let me know.

Found this on the Grand Prix community I belong to...

Cliff's notes, someone in Portugal buys a farmhouse, discovers a padlocked barn, it's been padlocked for at least 15 years. Pry open the door, what treasures are inside? Check it out: https://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/mirror/20070215-pritt-mazda/index.html

 

[Bugeye58]

The last time I saw this, it was supposedly in Spain.
Jeff

 

[Atrus]

darn, thought it would be actually true. Hopefully that'll at least happent o me in a dream sometime /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[Tullamore]

I would just settle for having a garage that big!

 

[Camshaft]

I would just settle for having a garage that big!

Agreed, it takes a lot of "finesse" and "creativity" to fit 2 LBCs and a partially disassembled Mustang into a 2 1/2 car garage...

 

[ncbugeye]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

Most of the registration plates are in the Dutch format, so I'd guess it was in the Netherlands.

 

[AngliaGT]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

I'm curious as to the "REAL" story on this -
- I've heard 2-3 versions of the story,& what
will happen to the cars.

- Doug

 

[ncbugeye]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

If you are fascinated by this, you should read the story of the Schlumpf collection. It makes this barn-full of mildly interesting relics look tame. When discovered in 1977 hidden in a clothing factory in Mulhouse, France, it contained 437 perfectly restored cars, the vast majority of them were Bugattis, including several of the legendary but mysterious Royales which had disappeared over the years. The Schlumpf brothers had literally vacuumed the planet of almost every Bugatti that ever came up for sale over the period starting immediately after WW2, up till then, 1977, ie over 30 years.

They hid them in this vast, luxuriously furnished and air conditioned museum that ONLY THE TWO BROTHERS and their team of a dozen or so mechanics knew about. Even the hundreds of employees of their factory knew nothing of it, until their jobs were threatened because the brothers had gradually bankrupted their own company to buy these cars. Eventually the French Government bought the collection and it is now open to the public.

 

[Camshaft]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

If you are fascinated by this, you should read the story of the Schlumpf collection. It makes this barn-full of mildly interesting relics look tame. When discovered in 1977 hidden in a clothing factory in Mulhouse, France, it contained 437 perfectly restored cars, the vast majority of them were Bugattis, including several of the legendary but mysterious Royales which had disappeared over the years. The Schlumpf brothers had literally vacuumed the planet of almost every Bugatti that ever came up for sale over the period starting immediately after WW2, up till then, 1977, ie over 30 years.

They hid them in this vast, luxuriously furnished and air conditioned museum that ONLY THE TWO BROTHERS and their team of a dozen or so mechanics knew about. Even the hundreds of employees of their factory knew nothing of it, until their jobs were threatened because the brothers had gradually bankrupted their own company to buy these cars. Eventually the French Government bought the collection and it is now open to the public.

I saw that on "My Classic Car," such a cool story and an absolutely stunning collection. The Crawford Museum in Cleveland has a Bugatti, but when I was there last, they had a plastic tarp covering it. The nerve! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

 

[Bugeye58]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

I have the tarp!
Jeff

 

[Morris]

Re: Completely off topic [but about LBC's somewhat

I used to work for a guy who had a barn that looked a lot like that.