Found in a barn!

[tunnan]

As long as I'm still new here I figured this was the place since the forum name fits.

Back 20 some years ago Wifey and I were buying our first home and two country cottages on a hillside came up for sale. They were rented to students for some twenty years and everything that was trash went down the cellar steps. Now these are what we call "bank houses" built into the side of a hill so the basement opens to the rear.

Wading through the trash of old TV's, matress and bedding and old newspapers I could just make out the faint shape of a car and the realtor and wife were starting to get nervous as I started to dig.

Slowly, from under the heap a canary yellow 62 Vette emerged without doors or windscreen; those were in the heater room behind other piles of junk.

The basement of the second bank house revealed a hint of British Racing Green under old sheets and when taken off, there was an original Mini Cooper S all complete.

Sadly we didn't get to keep the cars since the place was an engineering disaster with huge pumps that took the sewage up the hill about a 1/4 mile to the main system of the town and the kid who inherited the place just wanted out but with an asking price that was way too high.

[73sbVert]

[wwomanC6]

Any idea what ever happened to the place and the cars?


Welcome to the Barn tunnan!

[tunnan]

Both cottages were sold about a year later totally rehabilitated and then sold again. I have no idea what happened to the cars.

The word from the realtor was that they were inherited by the son who, with the pile of cash his dad left him, headed for the Jimmy Buffet live style down in Key West and he was too busy putting the cash up his nose to want to deal with any details like selling the cars off.

[wwomanC6]

Well hopefully someone took them off his hands then and maybe sold them!

[stingraymyway]