Tuesday

AN INTERNET STORY


Last summer I printed pictures of a large 'barn find' in Portugal. I don't remember how many people sent me copies of pictures. Many of the worldwide classic car magazines printed pictures and the story to go with it.

Apparently it was an April Fool's joke. It bums me out because I thought it was great that someone would get a find like that. The story was that a New York couple bought their dream farm in Portugal and found a large steel building on the property. The door had been welded shut. When it was opened, the bounty of cars, left by the deceased previous owner of the property met their eyes.

Turns out that the pictures were of cars that belonged to a dealer who had been stashing them in the building for years. An internet story that duped everyone.