I've had more than one guy tell me about a bunch of "old cars' sitting somewhere and when you drive 150 miles to check on them they are 80 something rice boxes.
WARNING...!!! WARNING...!!! Rusty car photos to follow... Waaaaa-aaaayyy eastern ColoRODo...they're still out there... R-
actually i gave those to my ex son in law who know lives in texas, he murdered my daughter and no one has heard from him in 15 years, but i did already give them to him.... who knows he might show up some day, sorry their not for sale.
What? Are you talking about the pix above? 15 years? No way. I have been there a few times. Think you are confused?
There were cars in Kansas! Scrap hit $300 a ton a couple of years back & there was total carnage of anything that could be bought. As it was stated earlier that the rest belong to guys that " are going to fix that up someday". & "you know one like that sold at the Barrett - Jackson auction for $600,000"
In the summer of 1964 I was working on a pipeline that was stretching across Kansas. Just outside of the town of Pratt, the line went through an area where there were hundreds of Teen and Twenties cars that had been buried to block the winds during the great dustbowl days. Nothing whole that was worth anything, but I did manage to get some nice windshield posts and other odds and ends from some of them. Needless to say they were used many years ago.
If he was there, why don't you just ask him? They are out here. A few yards operating, tree rows, fence lines and old farm steads, and even one old man that has had his scrap heap classified as a museum to keep the state and county off his back.
Truth is, most guys have no idea what is out there, in any state, dead car rows at the back of old farms are everywhere, we use helicopters in my job and I am a car guy, fly OK,KS,MO and ARK...mark em with gps, then go back on a day off and explain how I know what ya got on your place, then try to buy a few, Im honest and straightforward, its hard to walk away from an old vette, Nomad, tri fives, coupes, pick ups that the owners wont part with, but some do..., there is still alot of old cars around......
They are out there! You just have to get off the main roads and take the time to go looking. I have found more while "working" checking gas wells. my route covers from the Oklahoma/Kansas line up to just south of Scott City Kansas...
On the weekends some times my wife and I drive some of the back roads in eastern Kansas because that is where she grew up. Have more than once seen old iron that would be worth retreaving. Saw a nice 48 ford sitting by a house with a for sale sign a couple months ago, didn't stop my plate is full now. There is still some good pickens out there if a guy is patient and keeps an eye peeled.
i know of several fence rows north of goodland with upwards of of a hundred model A s and eastern colorado has a lot of old cars especially south eastern i know of a few old yards and also a few old farmers have some fairly larger collections of stuff almost all of the stuff i know of is for sale and choptvan is right i also went to wyotech and there was a lot of cars right close to laramie that were there and for sale
Honestly, what I heard...if you want to know where it's at...is Canada. But I don't know the "in's" and "out's" of getting a vehicle across.
A friend of mine found a bunch of old tin by flying with a crop duster buddy.The farmers for years have shoved the old junk cars in ditches out of sight from the road so it's tough finding them.Your best bet is get off the main highways and drive the back country roads.Ask around in small towns about anyone having old cars. Roger Jetter knows where all the cars are in colorado,he won't tell you where.
For those of you in the area, Finney county(Garden City, KS) just passed a new county ordinance on junk effective the first of the year. No cars outside(in public view, which they seem to classifying as within one quater mile from any county road) that are non running, uninsured, or not tagged. It's bullshit but it happens. Might be time to cruise around and see who has what that they have to get rid of after the first.
Just one more thing the gov't has taken away!! I have talked to the guys that made their barn a "museum"
there is a lot of good cars out in western kansas, but i've found tons of "car farms" in the middle if missouri also. Most of the time I get better deals on cars at swap meets because the guys with the fields of cars think their cars are worth their weight in gold.
Western Kansas is just an illusion. I've driven thru on numerous occasions and there was nothing there. No cars, buildings,trees. Try Lake Superior up in Minnesota or the Boundry Waters Canoe area on the US/CAN border. I heard they dump em in the water to hide em from fur trappers.
I know there are no old Chev trucks left, the old man has bought them all up and hauled them all home...every single damn one of them.
This is news to me?? In my neck of the woods CO any old cars were dismantled with a hot wrench and left to rot in pieces, or dumped into the big irrigation ditches to "stop erosion" in the 70's. Occasionally when they drain the ditches you'll find one, half buried in the silt and more rotten than anything you've ever seen. Sad really, but all the old timers had been living in the same area out here since the depression, and old cars are still near worthless to them.
Guess you stay on the interstates then, eh...??? Guess you haven't cruised around on dirt roads then, eh...??? Guess you believe everything everyone tells you then, eh...??? Fine, you just keep on that way then... R-
If there is an old car in Kansas Paul (povertyflats) knows where it is. I see 1/2 tons to 1 tons all the time, made good farm trucks. We have lots of farm land around here.
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