Date:         Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:26:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Interesting find...
Comments: To: Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@uws.edu.au>
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And now the rest of the story
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

On 8/28/07, Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@uws.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Dunno if the story is true, but the find in the barn is worth a look...
>
> Cheers,
> Steve O
>
>
> Apparently a man from New York retired and wanted to use his retirement
> money wisely. So it would last he decided to invest in a house and a few
> acres in Portugal. A modest farmhouse that had been left vacant for 15
> years after the former owner and his wife had died with no heirs.
>
> The farmhouse, with industrial size barn and the property was to be sold
> to pay taxes. While it was for sale there had been several people
> looking but it had little interest. Mainly because of a large
> unattractive barn with large steel doors that had been welded shut.
>
> It seems nobody wanted to go to the extra expense to open it up to see
> what was inside the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to the property
> anyway......so, there had not been any offers on the place.
>
> Regardless the New York guy bought it at just over half of the
> property's value, he moved in, but .......curiosity was killing him.
>
> So, the new owner and his wife bought a generator, and a couple of
> grinders.......and cut through the welds.
>
> What was in the barn...............?
>
> Go to;
>
> http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds
>
> and start wishing you had
> bought the place.
>