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

These are now for sale locally. He's serious. Bring cash and trailer before he'll let you in. Lol...

 

Power company opened the dam again.


Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Last weekend an old service station in Desert Center, CA was cleaned out at auction, which rescued a bunch of vehicles that were sitting and rotting (or, with the dry climate, sitting and patina-ing):


^^^Stump your friends with this one - a circa 1923 Gray, made by the marine engine company.

Late '20s Durant, last registered 1955.


Late '20s American LaFrance.





'51 GMC tanker sold for $9500.

'32 White rigging truck.






More to come...

 

Desert Center pt. 2:




Listing said this old GMC had a compactor body.





'51 Saratoga looks like it would buff out. Yep, it's got a Hemi:





^^^Somebody wanted a Ranchero in the worst way...



^^^The end. Open-air '46 Roadmaster was last registered in '59.
The auction list, with many many more photos:
https://bid.bidfastandlast.com/ui/auctions/41842
That '30 Indian 4 was the top seller a**** the vehicles... A friend of mine bought the 1916 Reo Six. Thanks for looking!

 

Looks like a really good buy on the Grey.

 

This Chevy was tortured? and now it's sitting and rotting.

Sent from my SM-G920P using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Ron,..that's a tortured 40 Chevy...

 

The front clip is 39, same as the rest.

 

Awesome pic, do you have more? Rip rap vehicles fascinate me for some reason. Thanks for sharing.

 

..^^^^.body is a 40 Chevy, grille looks to be 39...didn't see the grille the first time.

 

That coupe cowl looks a lot like a roadster cowl. Weird

 

I’ve posted pics from this spot on the river before, in this thread I believe. This was a quick, muddy, trip after church, so the pics aren’t great, but here are a couple more. There’s a desoto with a hemi, a couple of Lincoln’s, a ‘51 ford wagon with flattie, down there. You can see where the water line is. Most of these only show up when the dam is open.



Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Chilton County Alabama.

Sent from my SM-J727V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Northern Alabama.

Sent from my SM-J727V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Mine too. I miss it.


Sent from my SM-J727V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

The Desert Bar, Parker AZ.

 

I see the potential of making some like this out of it.

 

Yep it's a 40. I was almost certain it was a 39 when I saw the grille.
The 39 2dr is a little different.

 

Many years ago in Israel. 56 sedan delivery has been saved I believe, the rest became rust or Uzi SMGs unfortunately.






Last pic by A. Valinsky

 

Paducah, KY 2015:

And in 2019, just after a couple idjits in a stolen BMW clobbered it :

Idjit #1 was a real prize: the BMW caught fire and he ran off, leaving his girlfriend (idjit #2) in it. The cops rescued her and caught him. (1st photo taken by me, 2nd photo posted by Harley Hall III on the "You Know You're From Paducah, KY When..." FB page)

 

Marshall County Alabama.

Sent from my SM-J727V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

As far as I can see, the tortured wreck is/was a '39 Chevrolet. There are no details left to tell the difference btw. '39 vs '40 in it. The body could be either one, but as the front clip is definetely '39 one has no reason to doubt for the rest of the wreck.

 

What year is this GMC? 1949? Earlier? When were the head lights totally sunked in the fenders?

 

..I'm done talkin about it, but it's a 40 Chevy tudor body with a 39 grille, 39's have a more
pronounced hump trunk than a 40 sedan, 39's had tailites up on rear quarters, 40's were down lower on body...

 

It's probably a 50 to 53 maybe even newer. GM made them I think until 1959. That cab is often called the Cannonbal.

 

Exactly, the 40 had a more sloping trunk back.

 

Ok heres your chance to rescue some setting and Rotting gems. https://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/auctionview.cgi?lid=3348720

 

If I was there the blue 51 F1 nd dent side Ford SWB would be the two I would be after.

 

How about this?