Alibaba's cave of classic cars/ La cueva de clasicos de alibábá

mhku

Apparently someone bought an old farm in Portugal, which included a warehouse which had been locked up for 15 years. When they opened it up, this is what they found inside...

http://forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055

Se ha encontrado en Portugal un almacen con 180 coches en el interior, este permanecio 15 años con las puertas soldadas para que nadie pudiera entrar en el increible.

Zip file of photos HERE

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Analoguesat

Great you buy a shed and its full of scrap!

You could soon clear all that clutter in the shed with a gas axe and some skips

Apart from the Beetle - thats mine

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mhku

suicide doors on the Beetle. Did you notice the wipers and pillar indicators?

http://www.interclassico.com/genpics/afa25.jpg

I'm not 100% sure it is a Beetle though - the windscreen shape looks wrong and for that age I thought it would be splitscreen?

The source website is http://www.interclassico.com/

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Topper

This must be some kind of test, there are just red crosses no pictures

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rolfw

No it isn't a beetle, anything of that age would have had a split screen, looks more like a Fiat. Have brightened up the photo.

There is a beetle in the other photos though, have downloaded and zipped them 4MB, so that they can be easily viewed at leisure.

Wow, what a stroke of luck, don't think I'd want to sell them all at once, would rather restore them one by one and live on the profit, perhaps just sell ing a few for working capital.

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afa25.jpg (66.7 KB, 5 views)

Attached Files

cargoldmine.zip (4.03 MB, 10 views)

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mhku

Beetles only ever had a split rear screen. The windscreen shape is wrong - def not a Beetle.

http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Volkswagen/

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rolfw

Yes, of course you are right, don't know why I had it in my mind about the split front screen, possibly thinking of the camper van.

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2cvbloke

What?? No 2CVs???

It's not a proper collection if there's no 2CVs!!!

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2cvbloke

Oh, there is a couple of bugs in there, look at pics afa7, afa20, afa30, afa41, there may be about 3 or 4 Bugs in there, but I prefer the Minis, cos they're not made by a company set up by Hitler...

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rolfw

LOL, probably time to let that rest.

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2cvbloke

Well, it just goes to show how well some people look at pictures...

So how much would that collection, as-is, be worth? Up in the Millions range?

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Topper

Thanks for the zipfile Rolf

Wow there has to be some serious money in there

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Yes, a fortune, some very interesting hardware in there, nothing particularly exotic, but all worth money, particularly bearing in mind the apparent good condition of them.

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2cvbloke

Looking at the interior pics of a few of then, they're like new, but, who in their right mind would just stick them in a barn and lock them up, WITHOUT putting Tarp sheets over the cars!?!?!?!

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hedge

Staggering. Look at those Alfas & Lancias....DROOL..
Come on guys please! There are some serious machines in there.........please don't contaminate them by talking about V-Ws!!!!!!!!

Hedge, retired from the car business...& showing his loathing for beetles.................blair & cliff richard are the others, & all three have something in common