[OT] What A Find!

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

I could not find it on Snopes so I forwarded it.
Turns out I did not look hard enough, here it is debunked:
<http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp>.

-Marc
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ruffi [mailto:jimruffi@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:18 PM
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Subject: RE: [OT] What A Find!

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
>To: 'the list'
>Subject: [OT] What A Find!
>
>
>
>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.
>


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