'Barn find' is as a real as it gets

In May of last year, Tom Cotter of Sports Car Market Magazine first reported the discovery of 180 cars locked in a barn in Portugal. According to the story at the time, the new owner of the property had no idea the cars were in the barn, but was more than happy to learn "find" them inside. The original story can be found here.

The cars are covered in years of dust - but look to be in good condition, if not in working order.

Cotter, this week, has some new news about the cars. According to an article, here are some of Cotter's finds so far:
"1) A Portuguese lawyer reports he handled the estate of the old couple who owned the farm where the barn was located.
2) An SCMer has actually visited the barn and tells us where it is.
3) Another SCMer writes that car hoarding is not uncommon in Portugal and his neighbor has 30 Porsches and Citroens sitting in an orchard.
4) SCM has photos of the cars when they appeared in a big show last spring.
5) The son of the dealer who gathered the barn cars between 1960 and 1990 now has plans to disperse the collection."
Check out this slid show of the cars as they were found in the barn.
The magazine is also going to have coverage on another barn find - some 300 cars stored in an Australian barn.

I thought this was a great photo of Kyle Busch celebrating his win at Infineon on Sunday. I'm not going to cover too much NASCAR here, but this was too good of a photo not to share.


An update on what's going on over at my youtube site. Over the past few days I've uploaded a couple of International Race of Champions races from 1986 (Daytona and Mid-Ohio) as well as a couple of IMSA races and the 1990 Molson Indy Vancouver.
You can visit the page here or check out this great IMSA race from New Orleans in 1991.