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I just got an e-mail from Hagerty Insurance in which they up-dated the Portugese barn find...here's what they sent me.

"Remember the urban legend of the Portuguese Barn Find? It's been flying around the world like an Internet fairy tale for almost four years. The rumor was a N.Y. retiree purchased a house in Portugal, opened up a barn and found 180-plus collector cars. German journalist Wolfgang Blaube wanted to learn the truth, and went to find out. Here are his photos, and the rest of the story. :smile:
 
That one has come around many times - turned out to be missleading.
I believe it was a dealer trying to drum up business on his cars.

- Doug
 
AngliaGT said:
.....I believe it was a dealer trying to drum up business on his cars.
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Not according to the link from Hagerty Insurance that Art has provided.
 
Tom Cotter included a nice piece on this story by Mr. Blaube in his latest book "The Corvette In The Barn" (got it for Christmas). Very interesting to hear the full story behind those pictures.
 
I ~still~ want that 1750 GTV!
 
AngliaGT said:
Nial,

Try this link:

- Doug

https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
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The Snopes link is not really saying anything different then the Hagerty link, but the Hagerty link goes into more detail...

"The answer, in the presentation, was hundreds of classic cars. But the owner, it turned out, was not a New York senior but a Portuguese collector, who had amassed his collection in the 1970s after the Carnation Revolution. Many Portuguese collectors were stashing their cars in Spain, or letting them go for bargain prices. In a labor of love for old cars, Antonio Ferreira de Almeida snatched up every offer. Cars from every manufacturer, from every country and year made, in every condition.

By the end of the 1970s and not even 30 years old, AntĂłnio owned some 100 cars, and by the mid-1980s he had more than 300. When his buying binge ebbed around 1996, almost 400 old cars were in his possession, around a quarter of those in good or excellent condition."
 
I ~WANT~ that 1750 GTV, dammit!!!

:jester:
 
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