here's the real deal

http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/1110


sorry



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Sportsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Barn finds


> It's not quite as good as it sounds. Still a good
> story though, and a lot of really cool pictures.
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp 
> 
> Scott
> 73 Thing
> Kansas City, MO
> 
> 
> --- Robert Knupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Volks,
>> 
>> Slightly off-topic, but it reflects the dream we all
>> share, I suspect.
>> 
>> I friend recently sent me the following piece about
>> one man's luck with an
>> old barn.
>> 
>> I enjoyed it. 
>> 
>> Bert Knupp
>> 
>> 
>> The accompanying story goes as follows:
>> 
>> 
>> The barn: 
>> 
>> A NY man retired. He wanted to use his retirement
>> money wisely, so it 
>> would last, and decided to buy a home and a few
>> acres in Portugal. The 
>> modest farmhouse had been vacant for 15 yrs.; the
>> owner and wife both had 
>> died, and there were no heirs. The house was sold to
>> pay taxes. There 
>> had been several lookers, but the large barn had
>> steel doors, and they 
>> had been welded shut. Nobody wanted to go to the
>> extra expense to see 
>> what was in the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to
>> the property 
>> anyway... so, nobody made an offer on the place. 
>> 
>> The NY guy bought it at just over half of the
>> property's worth, moved 
>> in, and set about to tear in to the
>> barn.......curiosity was killing 
>> him. 
>> So, he and his wife bought a generator, and a couple
>> of grinders... and 
>> cut thru the welds. 
>> 
>> What was in the barn...? 
>> 
>> Go to; www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm 
>> 
>> and start wishing it was you who had bought the
>> place. 
>> 
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