Well I found what I think is a ford 5 window if you can identify what it is let me know. Trouble is its located under the surface of the earth. After an hour and a half of digging I found a hubcap which is cool cause there is a trailer made from what I think is a model A frame about 100 yds away from the wreck. Trouble is when I examined the hubcaps they don't match so it makes me wonder how much stuff is in my parents backyard. There is a ton of old stuff back there in fact it looks like a mini junkyard but this is the only car that I know of back there. The question is should I keep trying to dig up this ****pile or just let it go cause I have other stuff to work on? I'm leaning towards finding out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Give it a shot and see what you dig up. A couple years after the Baldwin Hills (L.A. area) dam break and the resultant flooding a friend of mine found the top of a 40 Ford coupe sticking out of the ground way out in his neighbor's back yard. He got permission to dig it out and the car was in fairly good shape. Course, that was only two years . . . your mileage may vary....
HAHA i knew I could count on you guys to put it all in perspective for me guess I'll be diggin it up tommorrow instead doing of all my other stuff on my list.
Besides so far the car seems more solid than my first car but then again cars from the 70's came with rust straight from the factory. I can't wait too see what it looks like further down I'd go dig now but its too dark, cold and I wanna cruise the HAMB and see what everybody else is up too.
In your parents backyard you say...so you have no one to chase after you with a shotgun all pumped and ready to blow you *** apart for digging on thier land... Hmm, sounds good to me.. DIG til you see china if you have too!!
Buy a Metal Detector so you find the rest of it. It should give you an idea of the area you need to stake out. Backhoe?
HAHA dude if this thing is remotely solid it is now my #1 priority and if the club wants a car from me they can buy my dodge or my beetle and if they don't like it too damn bad.. yes damb bad for them I say, yes. Hey tanko I might get HotRodPat to help me dig up this thing and I'll be diggin it up like there's no tommorrow. Blacksix dude the whole area is infested with busted nails,screws, coffee cans, fencing wire and metal **** everywhere I think if I took a metal detector in there it would beep, die and explode into a big f*ckin mushroom cloud that kills everyone in the county... but good idea anyway.
Yeah... After thinking about it you would need one of those big *** units with the "fishfinder" type displays that give you the size and depth of the target. They run around a grand though. Not that I'm a ****in metal detector expert or anything. Mine detectors maybe....but not those pansy hobby units.
Abones thanks for lightening the pic up it helps quite a bit. Dig it up tonight Ha I got time well wait it could snow anytime now couldn't it... ah I'll just dig twice as fast tommorrow. What kinda makes me mad is that I knew that there was something down there for years but I thought it was just a truck cab from the 50's or 60's then two days ago I just get the urge to check it out again and I saw that alot of the mud on it had been cleared away by the rain we've had this year and I realized that it ain't no truck cab. but I'm getting ahead of myself it could be great but it might not. (Please god let it be good, please oh please, Amen)
Keep Diggin' Boy, the rust sleeps under all that dirt (no oxygen) thats why I bury all my kill..I call then now and laters Heh Heh Heh!!! WEREROD.
There has probably been alot of cars buried over the years.Richard Petty use to bury his old racecars,my grandfathers farm had a few buried cars,and an older friend of mine buried a few of his old racecars too.Hard to say why they did this,but makes for a cool story.Maybe National Geographic would be interested in pics and a story of this unearthing.
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