What have you found over the years that WASN'T sitting in a barn?

When I was a kid we spent a lot of time out in the woods or in farmers fields and there was always an old car rotting away under a pine tree or perched on top a pile of rocks. Most of them had been riddled with bullets or being slowly taken back by mother nature.

Seeing how there have been a bunch of really cool "barn finds" and "tucked away in a garage" threads lately (which I personally love reading) maybe the HAMB needs a thread dedicated to "woods finds", "field finds", "rock pile finds", etc. etc. etc.

Here's one of my "rock pile" finds from last fall. I was up north scoping out some cars and parts... this guy sends me to that guy and so on and so on... so I end up going to this guys house to see his original finished 28 "A" Sport Coupe and his '31 truck... both very nice. Then he starts showing me around the outdoor parts collection and the junk and I spot most of a roof and part of a quarter panel for a 30/31 coupe buried IN a rock pile. I pretty much blew it off thinking I didn't want or need it but I took his number anyways. A week goes by and I get to thinking that I could at the very least cut the roof panel off and hang on to it so I give him a call. He tells me a price and I tell him I'll be up that weekend. I get to his place and he tells me he already pulled the piece out for me to load. We walk out to the rock pile and here's what was waiting. It's really rough... but I was shocked. We're going to do something with it... some day.

So HAMB'ers... what have you found sitting out in the woods or in someone's back forty over the years and you dragged it home to save it?

 

all this and 10 times more was stashed in this guys back yard since the 60s ,right in the middle of tucson

 

izzat Arliss' yard? I miss that guy........

 

Anyway, found this at a shed sales lot with 3 others.......

 

.......and this my daughter found in a junkyard back when she was 12....

 

show off!!!!!!!

 

Found this in my Father-in-law's yard when I got married. Been sitting since the 70's, pulled it out this year.

an entomologist's dream lived inside. *shudder*

 

Buddy of mine gave me this '54 Pontiac Starchief. Been sitting in a field behind his Dad's house for 10 years. Soaked the engine with mystery oil for 2 weeks poured gas down the carb & she fired up!

 

I worked for a guy when i was 15, who had a 1950 cadillac in his front yard. It had been sitting for probably 2 years. I asked the guy if i could work the summer for it instead of pay, and he was shocked that i even wanted it. I was so excited to get it going, and drive it as my first car. I was raised by a single mom who worked 3 jobs to support me and my brother. When i came home with pictures of the car and told her the news, she said no way! She did not want some junky car siiting in her front yard. She just could'nt see the car like i did. I love my mom to death, but she never let me or my brother get into hot rods or old cars. She told me when i move out i could get the car. "thanks alot mom". When i turned 17 i moved out, and got my own place. I was ready to go and get my cadillac! I called the old man, and he said come get it. When i got there, i could have cried. Stupid f'n kids with no respect had busted every piece of glass on the old car. Someone had stolen the hood, and all of the trim, and all four rims and tires were gone! The interior was all ripped out, and it looked like someone had been jumping dirt bikes off the roof of it. I did'nt have a dad to teach me, so i've been picking up knowledge here, and there. Hopefully, i've acquired enough to teach my boy something. Thank you to all the great people on the hamb, who share thier knowledge.

 

Yrs back I saw a 35 3wd Ford coupe in a parking lot on Carson St. near Pgh. Pa. Near the Duquesne Light Train Bridge. been setting for yrs and had a problem finding the owner, but finally got him and it was a done deal for $35.00 dollars. As we was towing her home I dropped her in gear, and she started after a while and I had a 35 3wd of my own. ceman

 

My 1941 Lincoln continental Cabriolet was sitting beside the barn if that counts

 

about 45 mins drive from me.. this guy has a HUGE collection of mostly model T era stuff, but has some really nice pieces in there. Haven't talked to him in a while but everything is for sale.

 

a friend told me he had just meet a new girl that told him she was involved in a hit&run accident in there family 56 chrysler ny'r
hoping it had a hemi iasked if i could go by &look at it
they lived on a large lot with house at the back.....standing on their front porch asking about the car it was nowhere to be seen? her mom finally said i could have it for $75!&then said it was buried in the front yard?....their dad was in construction ....that night he pulled it out put in a battery drove it home....

 

A little OT but years ago I spotted a B-25 in a backyard in the San Fernando Valley. Kind of hard to miss, you could see the tail sticking up over the guys fence.

 

I know that this is not a HAMB related van but I enjoyed it. I found it abandoned in an alley in downtown Edmonton. It was being used by prostitutes and homeless people. It had holes the size of basketballs on the quarters and the rockers were non-existant. My wife was in the hospital with cancer and I just needed something to take my mind off things. I worked 20 hours a day on it and had it finished and painted in 10 days. It is gone now. On to other projects.

 

you're killing me!!!!! i stumbled across a damn near mint 30 cowl and 2 doors...cheap...then had another guy sell me the roof and quarter windows for $50...i've been waiting for someone to come up with a rear quarter section or 2...figure with a lil luck i could peice together a 5 window a for ??????????cheap

 

I was strolling through a World Heritage monastery on the highest hilltop of Kyoto, where they have Japan's largest buddha statue, and their were schoolgirls in Kimonos taking each other's photos under the blossoming Cherry Blossom trees.......when I walked over to the left and there, on the hilltop, in a glass case......was an as-new Black 59(?) Caddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surreal

I have pix somewhere.

 

I found this last year. I spotted it in a gulley when some of my cows got loose and wandered about a mile down the road to another ranch. I went back about six months later and approached the landowner. She is about 80 years old and very strange. I did not know her and I figured she would be upset for me being out on her property. Turned out she was very nice. She was unaware that the car was even there. She said I could have it for free.

 

I found this last year. I spotted it in a gulley when some of my cows got loose and wandered about a mile down the road to another ranch. I went back about six months later and approached the landowner. She is about 80 years old and very strange. I did not know her and I figured she would be upset for me being out on her property. Turned out she was very nice. She was unaware that the car was even there. She said I could have it for free.

 

I watched this '32 cab lay in the woods behind a guys house for 15 years. I finally asked him about it and he said " get it out of here..." Its pretty roached,but makes good yard art.

 

It's kinda wierd you should ask this question , cuz , just about a couple of hours ago , I came across these 2 little gems , far from being fixed , but they do offer alot of parts that are for sale , found these in a field in Hillsville , Virginia , not too bad for $50.00 a piece!!!!

 

does a corn crib count???????

 

NO I think it holds corn

 

On a hill in Paso Robles...

 

I've been finding shit since I was a kid.

Just some highlights -

Remains of a '23-'27 T off a trail in the town park - cowl top and steering got stolen from my yard, but my buddy and I got the frame years later. Judging by the bottles and things nearby, it had been the farm dump at some point.

'47 Packard Clipper, rolled over multiple times in the woods behind a buddy's house

Three '49-'50 Chevys rotting in the woods behind another buddy's house. Should have kept the rotty '34 grille I found under one. Not far from there was a '40s Mopar coupe that had been chiseled off behind the doors and had a small boom mounted on the back of it. For what, who knows, maybe to haul logs or something.

Down the street from there a '37 Buick Century 4-door. No doors, hood or grille, but a bunch of other parts.

And we didn't get it and I think it's still there, but about halfway between those last two is a '37 Chevy pickup halfway down a ravine, cabled in place over a creek. Side that's not buried is pretty solid. Don't know how the hell you'd get it out of there.

Later on a kid I knew in high school told me where to find what turned out to be a '48 Dodge sedan on it's side, not far from the school campus. Roof looked like swiss cheese it had been shot so many times.


That's all before I even had a driver's license - we don't have room to list all the non-barn finds I've run into since.

 

How aboat a 32 3 window , behind the bullring in Tijuana, or a 39 lincoln zepher convertible, in a wine cellar underneath a big house in tijuana, or a 32 vicky behind a fish market in ensenada, or a 1940 covertible in a reefer truck surrounded by corn flakes and boxes of shoes, 1959 vette that was burried in a back yard in rosarito. 1940 sedan delivery inside a tv repair shop, 1965 shelby cobra that got crush by a caterpillar bulldozer, I miss that one by a day , they where clearing ground for a road in Tijuana, over the years I hit a lot of scores in Mexico but my buddy manuel found the last T-Rex, A mercedez gull wing behind a popsicle factorey in tijuana. puke that one boys.

 

daaaannnnngggg

 

That Met. Did you get it for her? I bought one from my daughter and when I started looking at when I got it home I realized it was a complete rust bucket. Never did get it on the road....

 

Well, it wasn't my find... but the guy I got my coupe body from dug it out of a ravine here in Central Illinois

 

This was when I found my 53 sitting in front of a house out of town. Sitting for years not running. He wanted way to much money for it. A few months later I went out there again to see if has came down yet. Well the car was gone so I drive on down the road and it is at another house. So I go up ask them about it. Guy says it was his father in laws car and he died a couple weeks ago. I told him I was sorry and did not know I would check back in a few weeks to what they wanted to do with it. He said "no my wife wants it gone and gone fast".