[OT] What A Find!

[jimruffi at gmail.com (Jim Ruffi)]

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/31/portuguese-barn-find-hoax-still-going-str
ong/

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Getty [mailto:marc@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:51 PM
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>Subject: [OT] What A Find!
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>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.  He found a
>modest farmhouse that had been vacant for 15 years.  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: http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm and start wishing
>it you had
>bought the place.
>