Barn Finds?

Wow... Nice "barn" too... *drool*

Pete C.

DAMN! That's enough to make a grown man cry! With a good wash job and a little work some of those cars will be ready to drive, I suspect. If the purchaser gets to keep them he/she could probably pay off a good bit of the mortgage. Why can't I ever find anything like that?

Jim Chandler

My first thought was "YOU CALL THAT A BARN???", followed closely by "HOLY SHIT!!!", followed by "What a bunch of UGLY cars!!" :-)

Wayne

Nice finds but it seemed to be all over the net with car enthusiastes about a year ago.

Jon

Hi Joe,

This thing feels like a hoax, so I did some digging and found that Tom Cotter (contributing editor to Road & Track) did some research too:

Sure did, but Snopes had no info...

Very cool. Thank you.

Man I would be thrilled. At that space and as soon as I sold of most of those cars I could afford to equip the shop of my dreams. I bet I could even finance and have space to build a decent sized air plane in there.

Wes

Musta been some property to miss that Mongo barn on the walk through ....................

I smell fish .................

Decent sized airplane like a 737?

Wayne

Read the article for a bit more info, but it

I'd like to hear the end report on this. It would be an odd conversation, though ..........

"Honey, let's take a walk and look at our new property."

"'What's this, a barn?"

"I never noticed that before."

"I wonder why it wasn't in the realtor's description..."

The tiny url was neat, and what a find. I'm just not 100% convinced of the story or circumstances.

Steve

I believe you have come up with the next Internet tall tale.

As an aside, though, I knew a guy who advertised that he would clear out basements, garages, and attics. Very reasonable, of course. In some cases, when he went to look, it was garbage, so the price was for hauling. In others, there were treasures involved, and the man was paid to haul them away. He did pretty good on ebay for quite a while. Then he moved.

Steve

" That barn is an eyesore, call the demolition guy and have him tear it down and haul away all the stuff inside."

John

--Speaking of barn finds I went for a drive with a friend to get a pump I needed and, in the old barn, I found a Bantam press brake rusting away. Gotta grab that fer sure!

It happens all the time. A friend of mine does cleanouts and he is always finding good stuff in the junk. Brand new snow blowere, lawn mowers. He called me the other day about some machinery he cleaned out of a plant. I grabbed two of the pieces and sold one to a guy I knew that was looking for a brake press 150/225 ton mechanical Chicago. Im keeping the #4 vertical knee mill. Mastermill made it and the ways are wider and better than a cincinatti.

John

Mastermill? Thats a Gorton.

Gooooooood shit Maynard

Gunner MasterMill owner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner