Art & Inspiration Sitting and Rotting.............picture thread

a few more..

 

What is that???

 

alot of these cars look better then what I'm working on

 

Here's a few shots from an East St. Louis boneyard

 

Got lost in East St Louis last year when we were driving across Route 66 from Chicago.Every side street is like a wrecking yard.Scary.

 

It's a tough neighborhood...but worth it to get parts

 

I was just telling Mrs. Yankee how much I'd like to find a Willys Wagon (2nd from the right)...

 

There are a couple in a junkyard near me.... Check out RatmotorMike on Youtube to see...

 

Hi, Mac, Jim here! Too bad we are so far apart. I know where there is a fixable '54/'55 W/O wagon with a Super Hurricane 6 in it. I'm sure it could be had cheap.

 

That is so cool

 

Found this one rotting on a snowmobile trailer, a buddy has it now and he's putting it back together. I think it's a 32 Chevy.



Dashman's Hot Rod & Speed Parts

 

Really, this thread needs to stop before I look like my girlfriend after a Meg Ryan movie.

 

This sat in the chaps garden ! But he would not sell it

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=442552

Thanks to the linked thread, we have determined it to be a 1933 willys 8-88a custom sedan.

My buddies and I are going to attempt extraction tomorrow!!!

 

Salvaged frame and floor braces from this '50 chevy for my '51 project.
Found it at this junkyard in Blythewood, SC.

 

WARNING: this threads side effects include: upset stomach, bloodshot eyes, severe sadness, hopes and dreams, and slight depression

 

All within a few miles of home and waiting...:







This Pontiac sat next to a busy road for a few years with winter road salt spray until most of the shiny work was toast:























Powerband

 

Tom Cotter wrote the books Cobra in the Barn, Hemi in the Barn, and Vincent in the Barn, all of which are filled with interesting stories about hunting for and ultimately finding rare and very special collector cars and motorcycles that have been stashed away in barns, garages and abandoned sheds and warehouses.

While we have been surfing the net, squandering time, Tom figured out how to make this pay off.
He is smart and we are dumb.

 

heres a pic i took years ago. they arnt there anymore which is a shame. to far gone, but you never know, something is useable on them.

 

Here are a few..





Some of these keep me up late at night...

 

Some pics I took today....cars were dumped over the river bank to stop erosion.

 

you should save those fender tops off that 55 olds...good for kustomizing or fixing rot if they any good

 

I remember in the late 70's almost every weekend I went with my dad or uncles and dumped a car into the Kansas river. Most were VW's that they bought, drove home, took motor and transaxle out for a dune buggy. Damn I'd like to have some of those back!

 

Man, I know where a little red '58 to '62 corvette is sitting much like the one in the pic above by LowFoMoCo. Not exactly sure of the year...can only get the occasional glimpse when the tarp blows off one corner revealing the faded red paint. I've never stopped to inquire, mainly because I haven't had the green in case they wanted to sell.

 

A few I've taken...

 

just sitting and rotting....

 

I just want to take 'em all home..........Here are some from "Down Under"(australia)...





I managed to save this one.......

 

Its sad that there is a generation of people who would see nothing of monetary or sentimental value in these cars. Like those who move into the "Brand New Development" and form an "Association" that complains about what you do with old cars! They can take their BMW and golf clubs and stick it!

 

I do land surveying found these in a old chicken house thought I would share.