Awww.some sad sights there. What really irks me is the people who won't sell but think they'll restore them some day (its never going to happen).
paull,
May 9, 5:40pm
cheers for the link zac,,,classic cars rotting is just the same but god damm as depressing as cars in barns,,,,problem is there are thousands like it all over usa and no one gives a shit, just park it up and go buy another
ola_bitchola1,
May 9, 5:42pm
ahh all those mopars made me sad by the time they get restored there will be nothing left
franc123,
May 9, 5:54pm
Yes, with the US being so big and cars cheap and readily available, they just get abandoned if it stops or something needs fixing.I was looking at a '57 Plymouth Belvedere (the Christine shape) on there that had been parked up in 1963 under a tree and never moved since, apparantly just because the exhaust system needed replacing!Wasteful buggers.
whqqsh,
May 9, 5:56pm
Ive found a few 'barn finds', seen the cars & talked to the owners but the cars still rust & rot with a 'cant be bothered doing a deal or finding out what its worth' or 'nah, we're going to do it up one day' attitude. These include a F100 pickup, a 27 roadster pickup, a model A delivery, a Graham Paige, a roadster & chassis unknown make (in middle of paddock & too far to ID properly), a 55 Customline.
sgrants,
May 9, 6:02pm
I found a local Auckland version in my search for a Morris J type van on the road to the Ak Airport you can see here on google earth at Latitude 36°59'24.32"S Longitude 174°47'13.53"E lots of rusting history!
franc123,
May 9, 6:11pm
You find with a lot of these sods they can be bothered doing a deal all right if the right amount of coin is waved in front of them, it's usually about 3/4 of the value of the thing if it was fully restored and like new!They also tend to be the same people that have no idea how much it will really cost to get it back to that condition and don't have the DIY skills/gear/facilities to do it either!
pollymay,
May 9, 6:13pm
I know where some dodge chargers and stuff are. If people found out they would be GONE, they aren't in bad nick just sitting for 20 years.
I used to have a whole folder of photos some of which you will of never seen or ever will see again from people posting in a thread I found from across the world, there was some rare jap stuff to, DB5 astons and the like, a newer lotus that a drug dealer went down with in the UK so is just parked in a side street growing moss, dunno how the nazi parking wardens over there hadn't found it. Some old classics covered in tagging abandoned on the wrong side of the tracks, old service cars at shut down amusement parks. Really interesting stuff, dunno where it is anymore though, I do have it just *somewhere* amounst terrabytes of crap lol
whqqsh,
May 9, 6:18pm
good grief, i go past there a few times a day & seen the big tow truck (too big for me to be that interested in) but never thought all that other stuff was just around the hedge
yup, i talked to one old boy who reckoned he had most of the Ford pickups from model t to the late 30s sitting around the farm, when they stopped running he'd just buy the next one, one day when he had a contractor around digging ditches he paid him a few crates of beer to dig a hole & push them all in & flatten it off (running over them). He couldnt understand my pain hearing this even when I tried to compare chopping up one of his prize bulls for blood&bone or cat food, he jumped up & down about doing that to a prize bull but couldnt imagine my similar interest in old cars
trogedon,
Feb 5, 5:03am
In the early 70s (and probably before) my uncle and auntie had a poultry farm at Alexandra. My older cousin (died in a car crash) and his mates used to get 30s and 40s (mainly American cars ??
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