I tried to dig around to find out the backstory, but unfortunately I am unable to find much in the way of real info. Apparently these photos seem to have been floating around since early this year or late last year.
Someone said that they were originally sourced from this place...
http://www.interclassico.com/ which looks to be a Portuguese dealer of exotic and collector cars. But that the original photos have been since taken down due to the owner of the cars wanting to remain anonymous and/or not have to deal with all of the questions about the cars.
One rumor was that these cars were purchased by a Portuguese doctor in the 1980's and that the building was locked up sometime in the 1990's. I find it highly suspicious that someone would buy a tract of land that had a barn on that was welded shut and that they didn't know what was inside prior to purchasing the property.
Regardless, there can't be many of these secret stashes to be found these days. I seem to remember a recent story about an excentric rich guy in Florida that has a building full of rare unrestored cars and he was not paying his property taxes on time. It was thought that it would all go at a tax sale, but the guy showed up at the last moment and paid his taxes.
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I would probably fall over if I found that. I find it amazing how people collect cars and just stuff them in a barn somewhere, never to be used.
I believe they must be stolen. Also, the latest model in there seems to be a '60s VW Beetle, although the pictures aren't working in all the threads anymore..they must have been in there a while...