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

1953 Buick Riviera

 

The Ford dealer in the town where my Dad grew up had a farm place just like that. He also took all the outdated NOS sheetmetal that was laying around the parts department and stuck it in one of the barns. Along with the dead trade ins, there were several old Ford coupes that had been made into stock cars. The guy would never sell any of it. Eventually, it all ended up getting crushed, including the NOS sheetmetal.

 

That Buick is holding on....but nature is winning

 

the aussie ute's are really cool! that one is beautiful!! i've seen a pic in a ute thread on the H.A.M.B. of a #41 Pontiac roadster ute, that would it make for me! so many cool cars on the globe!!

 

ouch!

 

It's amazing what people scrapped, if they only could of known the future gold they were sitting on.

What's even more amazing is how the got all them cars piled up that high.

 

58 olds conv in that pile ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

Here is a couple i found today while expolring my local area,they were tucked away near the end of a long dirt road.the truck cabs look to be 1940's Ford and Morris,i'm unsure about the two other sedans.I will go back later in the week to see if they are for sale as there was no one there today.Sorry about the pics but it was the best i could do at the time.

 

I remember growing up there was an old panel truck in the woods behind a house up the road from my parents.. Well, I bought the house just a few months ago but unfortunately the trucks gone, just a couple scraps left.. I'm certain it got scrapped.

 

Looks like they might be the farm scrap pile, maybe you could get them for hauling it all away? I do that here all the time to get parts I need and end up making money off of the actual scrap and the good parts others want.

 

Yeh I thought it looked like the farm scrap pile too. They used to take the body's off and engine out to make a hay trailer from what was left,you see these trailers every where around here still in use.

 

Same with here, I picked up a mint 33 Plymouth farm trailer a while back, found most of the car was used around the farm, the hood was a doghouse, the one rear fender was a grain chute, some of the body was used to patch a chicken coop... I got the engine though.

 

Same down here, hay trailers last forever! I picked up a '30-'31 LaSalle chassis hay wagon at a large estate auction last fall. Has a set of the Buffalo knock-off wire wheels, which eventually I'll put up for sale. The guy was a hoarder, dozens of "A"s, early 30s G.M. stuff, a 1931 Chevrolet touring! South American car, right hand drive. One heck of a sale and actually I think a lot of the stuff was picked up by car guys!!

 

Man, love it, my kind of shop!! Reminds me of "Ralph's" old shop, really rustic, built out of scraps, neat stuff on the walls old calenders and advertising signage. Big; 30 x 40 feet, side walls at least 15-16 feet high. Ralph farmed some, but did repair work on the side, including big tractors and combines; all inside! I miss that place, did a lot of work there myself!!

 

this 60 or 61 Falcon is sitting on some private land behind a storage facility. There is a locked privacy fence around the property.

 

Is it summer in Australia? Just curious, looks alot warmer than it is here right now.

 

Earth is tilted on it's axis so when we are further from the sun (winter for us) they are closer (summer for them) and all this because earth is a sphere.

 

This whole thread is depressing... and kinda mesmerizing. I know of a guy who has almost every car his immediate family has owned since the 50's. Model A's, two Dodge brothers tourings, an old dump truck, Galaxies, etc, etc, etc. And then there is that guy I went to high school with who had a Deuce five window, bone stock, rotting behind the house amoungst the pine needles. His family moved, and Ive wanted to go back and see if its there, but I just cant bring myself to.

 

Are you still pin striping?

 

Any pics off the art in your barn?

 

I'd say go for it, you never know what could happen, you might be glad you did, or you might make a trip to look at an empty yard... it's all part of the hunt.

 

Yes it is summer over here but we are getting to the end of it.It has been a good summer too if you take out the floods,fire and heat waves.

 

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Hey, what's up, man! Long story short, I got my whole striping box stolen, and took a break when I moved out of down. Since Ive been back, Ive accumulated brushes and colors and Im back at it. I put some of my recent stuff in the last friday art. Been honin my paint and airbrush skills too.

 

I don't have pictures of it yet but I know where there is a 1959 Dodge 4 door sedan near me.
It is owned by my girlfriends friend.
I was informed they aren't selling.
One of these days I will have to go look at it and get pictures of it and maybe even hint to them when they are ready to sell it to give me a call.
Just going to take my time with it and not push these people to get them mad.

 

Sitting and rotting, but only for a few more days.



Last registered in the early 70s, then sat in a barn for over twenty years. All original, 99% intact. Even has skirts.

 

I wouldn't mind snagging that visor!