They Laughed When She Took 6 Rusted Tractors From a Condemned Barn — Then Collectors Paid $640,000

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When a county condemned an old Iowa barn, six rusted antique tractors were about to be buried with it. Nora Whitcomb, a former farm parts clerk, bought the lot for less than the scrap yard's offer, and everyone laughed.

What she found inside was a barn find nobody else had noticed: a hand-stamped number on a century-old engine block. But before it paid off, two costly restoration mistakes almost wiped out her savings. One of them erased the original paint a collector would have paid extra for.

This is the story of how patience, documentation and a veteran tractor judge turned scrap iron into a $640,000 payday at auction.

This is a fictional story created for entertainment.

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