I am guilty of having a yard car but it is a 1966 so we won't talk about that one, but here is a yard car that is not too far away from me. I was wondering what the rest of you could come up with. I'm not looking for the cars rotting away websites, I'm asking about what is near you and what is the story behind the car. Post pictures if you can. I can post pictures if you email them to me. PM me for my email address. I do not know the story behind this car, yet.
My brother has a 58 Chevy Impala Convertible sitting In my dad garage, my garage, since 1979 and he will not sell it to me, he will not sell it to nobody, it is half apart but all there. I am thinking about steeling and rebuilding it, he will never know he lives 750 miles away.
About 6 miles from me someone recently bought a piece of land, looks like an older retired guy, built new fence, new entrance, piled up a mound of dirt and parked a very rusty 36 Ford 4dr sedan on top of the dirt pile, strictly old car art for arts sake. Makes me smile every time I drive by.
A guy down the street has a 55 checker cab sitting in his backyard with a lumber tarp over it, Another guy just west of edmonton has a bodyshop with a few acres behind it, He has 4 or 5 40 ford coupes, a 32 coupe thats all there and very solid, a couple desotos, lots of 50's and 60's caddy's, some big o'l chrylsers, lots of 60's pickups. He's one of those guys thats gonna fix them all up so he wont sell anything, not even the desoto grille. There must be 80 cars back there
This Model A is for sale near me....$3,000 ! The guy has had it for at least 25 years that I know of. Really rusty........really expensive.
you didn't say how long they had to be sitting there.... A friend of mine put this in his driveway last summer. He has a bunch of other neat old stuff too. I've been storing my brother's 40 LaSalle hearse for a dozen years now.
A woman near here caught her hubby cheating. She got his 57 Chevy convertible in the divorce. She then parked it 40 yards from the house and planted flowers and a small tree in it. That was maybe 10 years ago. It's still there. During the week of the county fair, she hides it from site with blue tarps so as not to be pestered. It's true, and I can and will get pics if need be. Crazy!
A few miles up the road from my house sits a complete 1957 chevy that has not moved for at least 23 years... about 15 years ago they got tired of people stopping and asking about it and put a big sign in the windshield that says "NOT FOR SALE", a few months back I was talking to a co-worker about cars and I mentioned what a shame that 57 2 door has rotted away. A few years ago it finally sank into the ground up to its rockers, so you can figure the frame and floors are probably history at this point... Anyway, he met the guy who owns it and apparently it belonged to the guys son who was killed in Vietnam and he decided he was never going to sell the car, I guess its kind of his memorial in his front yard to his son. I can appreciate it in a way but I wonder if his son would have wanted it to just rot away to nothing. When I first saw the car in 1983 it was in really good shape actually, no rust, just some paint fade, and I actually dreamed of owning it someday...
There is a 67 Chevy pickup near me that has been setting in a front yard for 30 years. It has sunk into the ground to the frame. It has a for sale sign in the window, and that has been there for 30 years too.
I don't know how to post photos but there is a 1950 Ford 2 door and a 1946 Plymouth 5 window coupe in Raineer Oregon that I have been watching for a long time now. They just moved the Ford and took all the wheels off it. Gumpa
My brother's yard is far more memorable than mine at present with it's conglomeration of 2 29 Model "A" Sport Coupes, a 27 Model "T" roadster, a 29 Chrysler sedan, the oddball 70's Chev pickup, the 67 El Camino in the garage he gave to his wife, and who knows what else at any given moment. Aside from my neighbor parking the two extra he can't get into his yard (71 Newport and 81 Coupe De Ville), and another one or two blocking my back gate at any one time despite my protests(for some reason when he gets rid of one, two more pop up to take it's place and he's got a dozen more stashed 30 miles out of town, don't ask), yard cars, running and not easily out number the total number of residents around here by a very large margin. I've managed to cull my own herd down to a half dozen or so at any given time. This would include my 64 Fairlane (currently the elder statesman) parked on a concrete slab under a portable garage to keep as much crap off the paint job as possible, something very difficult to do in this moss and mold laden area of nasty, cold, and wet (it's usually drizzling or rainy) weather. Not a lot of ice and snow for the most part though, a good thing. No pictures worth posting at the moment, sorry. As a postscript, some of the more memorable cars my other neighbors have hidden (literally) away within 200' of my house are a 59 Sedan De Ville, a 59 Chev station wagon, 70 Dodge Challenger 6 cyl, a 60 Chrysler 4 door with a Desoto HEMI someone stuffed in years ago, a 70 Chrysler 4 door with a 383 Six Pack (Edelbrock manifold), and a 70 351 Mach I (all original black interior Grabber blue car).
How funny that you post this today......I took the road round the back of the Lowes in Gilroy at lunchtime when I left work, and there in a truck supply yard behind Lowes are at least 6 or 7 mid to late 50's Caddy's, a complete(ish) 58 Chevy & several other things of interest...I'll take my camera to work & get pic's.... Also, just up the street from where I live there's a yard behind a garage that has maybe 10 late 50's Ford & Chevy trucks, a couple of Mustangs & what looks to be a totally complete '69 Charger!
i have seen the chevy grump talks about. nicest flower bed around. all of these are in my back yard this is a 1931 ford AA tanker truck my grandfather bought and plans to restore next
there is a yard down the way here is a pic full of old junk cars I here there gonna crush um cause they are eye sores
Well, I live in Kentucky so if its old and out doors, it probably not even worth throwing rocks at but there is an old man who passed away a few years back that made a fence with old ton an a half trucks. His son went out and started the old 52 ford and started to bring to the front I guess to try to sell it and The eng locked up. I used to have my 27 t coupe in the yard but some one bitched and i had to put it away. Now my willys wagon and 72 chevelle sits outdoors...waiting for someone else to bitch to get me motivated enough to hide them too...
OK. Even though triplexcustoms has seen it too. And I'll bet UPSRodder knows where it is too. Anyway, I'll run over that way this weekend and take pics. I guess I'm just gonna have to prove it! Stay tuned................
My '57 Plymouth was, and is, junk. But it's mine. It was a "yard car" along with a '52 Mercury wagon that an arteest was going to cut up and make Americana sculpture with. Fortunately for it, my wagon was plain-jane and didn't have anything he thought was cool enough to cut off of it. So it sat for 15yrs instead. Plenty of time to get nice and rusty... There is a '60 Dodge wagon, and three '57-58 Plymouth and Dodge wagons within 10miles of my house. Makes parts hunting a breeze.
Not so much yard cars but in my neighborhood, and I mean with in a 4 block radius is a 68 Cornet Super Bee, that was towed in when the people moved in, well over 4 years ago and has not even had the tarp off of it since! I drive by it every morning, it's killing the "Joe Dirt" in me. A 69 GTO, pretty nice, old dude's, never seen it move but at least it's in the garage, right across the street from it is a 61-62 Bullet Bird, black and beautiful, I heard from the local rockabilly grape-vine that it has an " engine problem ", problem is that it ain't in my garage.
I don't have pics at work, but... old Dodge 3/4 t, flat 6 Plymouth Plaza wagon 2 convert Challengers 2 440 4dr 69 chrysler somethins boats 65 or so dodge truck theme park for mopar guys and I don't get any of it till the wills are read
OK, I couldn't resist. Here are my 2. The 56 has found a permanent place inside. The 66 moves in and out depending on what else we need to get inside. The drain oil jugs have been properly recycled since these photos were taken.
And here is another 56. This one is not mine. The owner wants too much for it. I offered a couple hundred dollars for it a few months ago. He said for that much money he would just keep it.
Not a yard car but a driveway car. This Corvette is about 70 feet off a main road. I can't believe it has not gone missing yet. Makes me wonder what is in the garage that they have to leave this gem outside.
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