I just had to post this. I have a friend here in Pa who visits some relatives occasionally in Texas. They live way out in the middle of nowhere and are, well, sort of hicks I guess. Anyway, since he started visiting them there was always a 54 Chevy sitting against the side of the barn but under a metal roof. My friends not much of an old car guy, but lately he's getting more interested. Well the last time he visited he ask the old guy if he still had the old Chevy that was by the barn. He answered "yep, but it ain't by the barn no more, it's over there" pointing to the back yard, my friend asked where since it was no where in site. the old man said "under ground, buried it and made a septic tank out of it." Seems he just buried it and ran his sewer line into it! Musta made the ole woman happy to trade that broke down ole car for some indoor plumbin'!
I know an old guy that used about 30 model a frame rails as fenceposts around his VINyard. LOLOLOLOLOL
Somewhere near me there is a driveway that has as part of the fill a '51 Olds convertible. Or so I was told about 10 years back. I've heard of Fords being used as septic tanks, too. Just tell him to wait, the lifetime on a steel septic tank is only 30 years or so (unless they rust slower in Texas), they'll have to dig it out again eventually -
Another HAMBer posted a story about a guy's barn that was paved on the inside with 'banger heads, laid out like paver blocks.
Theres a guy up here that has ALOT of frames (Complete) stuck in the ground as his fence. All 20-30's. And septic tanks can be made out of anything that holds liquid. The old timers used old cars. They use hondas and Geos now. Just roll up the windows first!
my buddy was just levaling some land he bought to build a house .and when he started he noticed what it was levaled with before was 59a and 8ba heads .but he also got a barn of old say 33 to 50 ford parts.
What ****py end to a cool car! (Someone had to say it) When I was A kid a group of us canoed down the Russian River and they had that thing lined with old cars to keep the banks from eroding I remember wishing I had a way to hall some of those cars out of there. Then in the late 60s early 70s we took my brother up to Walla Walla Wash to go to College. And I wandered out in this field in the City limits near his school It had these pits full of old pick-up truck cabs I counted at least 20 All the way home to CA I dreamed about taking one of those cabs and chopping it and putting it on a short frame The last several years Ive seen lots of trucks just like that It would be interesting to know what happened to all those But Im not sure Id like it!
guy told me that when they did the four lane road near his place there was an old junk yard that they used the cars for fill under the hiway, including a couple of Zephers
how the heck is a 54 chevy supposed to be a septic tank? the tank has to be water tight so the water goes over the edge into the leach field and the poo stays in the tank. he may have buried it and he's now pumping his sewage into it, but it ain't no septic tank
I've had a few cars that should have been septic tanks, just they were still rolling. Maybe a topic for a new thread .
Given the stupid money those bring, I'd be trying to find out if it went in with the top down - and looking for my shovel. Can't be any worse than the '40 Chevy convertible I dragged home in pieces.
From now on when I hear someone say "That's my **** car." I'll have to tell them this story.. after saying "eeww doodie"
Cant you just see this on OVERHAULIN? They dig it up and Chip does a design on the side that has little turds painted on..... Chris pretends to be the sanitation inspector and tells the old lady that they had to take in the car for a perk test...The guys at the shop open the door and heres the chevy with **** running down the sides.... "Lets make one of those ratrod ****boxes out of it" says Duke.
Man that is just sad what some will do to good ol kewl cars.... I'm with the other HAMBer that said why not use a toyota.
Yeah, there's a '57 ragtop buried on a farm around here, too. An older guy I used to work with told me about his '52 Ford 6 cylinder car being donated (without his knowledge) for use as a septic tank while he was away at college. It might not have been so bad if the Winfield carb he had bolted to it didn't go in the ground too!! Also, in the town of Norwich where I work, there's an old one stall garage on a side street that's completely shingled with early '30s license plates.
OUCH!!! (hope everyone got outta this incident ok). I guess with regards to the thread topic sarter that the whole sorry tale of the septic chevy was well,a right bummer!
I've seen those ones too. Up where I'm at there's multiple places I've seen with cars used as fill. One of em you can see the cars poking out from the hillside. I've heard of another place that is nothing but buried Model A's and T's
My cousins in Allen,Texas had a 57 chevy pushed into a ditch on it's drivers side. I was in junior high when i took my life in my hands and climbed down into that ditch to pull all the chrome off the car. At the time I could of had a nice running 55 for $500 bucks. DOH!
Yeah, when I was stationed in Texas in the 60's i remember crossing a bridge and seeing the banks of the little river below us (not sure what it was called, but it was just a stream at the time) lined with old cars and I think there was a cable running through them. OK, since we're on the subject of lost and buried, get this one. I have a friend that worked for the gas co. checking meters and servicing wells, so he had access to a lot of places that the rest of us don't. He told me a story of a block garage where there was an old vette, the story is that when the owner was killed in vietnam his father went out and sealed the door with block and left the vette in there sealed inside. If someone else had told me that I'd call ********, but I've known him for years and he's not a BSer.
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