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mennie
PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:26 pm 
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This was posted on a Dutch weblog yesterday.
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ok, so imagine you live in portugal and your moving house. you find a lovely farm house set in a decent plot of land. the place has been empty for 15 years!

whilst exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. the door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open.........

and this is what you find inside......

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I think every WIXer dreams about finding a hangar like this barn, full of warbirds. ;)
Thought I'd share it with you because there might be some car lovers here too, my own car is a '95 Alfa Romeo Spider 2.0 TS and I like it very much.

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:shock: What a find! I think they just hit a goldmine.

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Is this old news in car circles or is it a new find? I.e. if I circulate the link to my car-buff friends, will they get all excited, or will they act the way we would if someone came on here telling us about a B-17 sitting in a swamp in PNG?

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Hmm, I don't know. I think it was posted on the original Norwegian forum January 31, 2007.
So it will not be the salvaged Fw 190. But it could also be an old brownie camera, who knows. ;)
Try sending it to only one best friend first? ;)

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Cool find if it's true. But my spidey-sense says that there's more going on there than just "A guy and his barn..."

(runs off to check the real estate ads for property with barns & out buildings.)

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Bummer..the photo links have petered out. There was one photo..I think it was #6, where a little car back in the corner was ID'd as a Porsche. The
white one, looking like a 356--was actually a Zagato-bodied FIAT-Abarth
750. Not many made..only about 600. I've seen 2, up close and personal.
Also known as the the double bubble, because of the fairings over the
cockpit..

Great collection..if I''d have found it- I'd turn it into airplanes..soooooo
fast....and of course drive the rest...

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Saw this link on the G503 website, some weeks ago. Thought it was in Italy instead of portugal then. Anyway, Who buys a property without seeing it before and not noticing the hangar ??

Seems a bit od to me though.

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