i remember seeing these cars when i was a kid .when i first saw them they where in pretty good shape.25 years ago!!!
don't really need the pics. 25 years in a creek, the only thing that steel is good for is crawfish pioson.
went down and asked the old guy that owns the land ,asked if he would sell any of them.he said cause it would let his land get washed away.asked if i could buy trim .. he still said NO!
tell him they are puttin iron in his wash water and it will ruin his shorts when in contact with urine or other... did ya also tell him how big the rustycut was on your bleedin friend laast seen floatin down stream! oh ya we'll see how quickly all these will be identified! that shoebox trim has gotta to be saved
Very sad. There is a place in MO that there is a dam made of old tin, whole cars, 30s-50s. You can see the stainless shining through the mud. Sorry to say we can't save everything. You asked the guy, that is all you can do, legally that is.
Oh-ma-gawd that hurt. Atleast they are returning to the earth. I think it kills me more when I see old cars sitting in garages covered in junk and dust and the owner either won't sell or thinks he's sitting on a gold mine and wants waaaay too many dollars for it.
Personally, I think those pics are VERY cool. Look at it this way,,, if someone today piled up a bunch of Ford Tempo's and Dodge Neon's to build a wall, we would not give it a second thought... Just an interesting use for some junk cars..... But jump forward 40 years and our grandchildren would think we were nuts for treating cars like that. 40 years ago, those cars were nothing but junk, and I'm glad that they were put there for us to enjoy looking at rather that sending them to the crusher 40 years ago and have them be gone forever.
That's one where you send a guy in in a suit and tie with a clipboard to say "I'm here from the Department of Environmental Conservation" ....
Cool pics=thanks for sharing them. The wierd things people did with getting rid of these old cars back then
Around here (montana) they used them for "rip rap" , to prevent river bank erosion, the enviromentalists have been geting them cleaned up-removed- for the last 15 years or so. About 45 miles from me there is an entire dam that was made of cars in 63 or so. It even had some 59's in it,? -a 4 year old car thrown away-. some of the bumpers and trim pieces are still in good shape, our water dosent rust out the cars like I have seen in other parts of the country.
Bird Creek? Mingo? I know where there are some cars in the Arkansas River "to stop erosion" south of Broken Arrow down County Line Road all the way to where it turns back east toward Coweta. The funny thing is, the cars, cabled together, have had the river bank eroded around them.
There's a creek or river in Pennsylvania I remember crossing on one of the interstates years and years ago. As far as you could see on both sides of the road, both sides of the creek was lined with old cars, dissappearing into the water. Thirties stuff furthest in the water, up to 50's and early '60's stuff on the banks. Come on, someone here knows where that's at! I've forgotten.
How many years did you say the nightmares of your youth had plauged you? 25? That's a LOT of sleepless nights, Bruddah'!
It was actually pretty common practice back in the day to line 'em up along the banks of creeks and rivers to prevent erosion. There are several places along the rivers near here where Arkla gas had them put along the banks where their naural gas pipelines cross the river. You'd be surprised what you run across sometimes...years ago my father and I were going to a car show in northern Arkansas, dad decided to take the scenic route. I remember a shallow river winding along next to the highway and at one point there was a picnic area. Near the picnic area, sitting in the middle of the river was a 59 Ford RETRACTABLE Hardtop!! Its top was stuck about halfway up. Looked like someone had deliberately started to raise the top and maybe it got stuck and pissed them off enough to dump it in the river! lol....I'll never forget it
We had a few buried in a river bank down here, I remember years ago digging loose sand away from one to see what it was. It was a white 55 Thunderbird, from what I could see in pretty good shape. I hesitated a few months, debating whether to dig it all the way out or not. someone else did. Which was ok, I was glad someone got a chance to save it. I was amazed at the cars condition to be buried in sand like that.
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