Ahhhh an "old head" speaks out....but do you really want to get them fired up with what happens when a derailment occurs. I know the one I work for plays cat turd with 'em. They dig a little hole, slide them in, and bury them. So from the dawn of cars to the present, God only knows what's buried. Yeah right you say, that pure crap. I know where a whole rack of modern Jags are. It's a liabilty issue. They can't scrap them, resale them, or crush, because if a part slips out and somebody gets hurt who bought and used it....then you can say lawsuit. This said, don't go digging around looking for them....then you can say jail time. -Sneakyjane
Is that what they did to those GTO's that derailled a couple years back? I bet the EPA just loves that.
I think Chris is full of shit . Now I know why I see him draggin all that scubba gear out that way every weekend
http://www.rense.com/general75/germ2.htm T34 tank brought up from a lake after 56 years. Regards Alex
Heaps of stories in Australia of military stuff left behind by the US after WW2 as it was simply too far to take it home with them. Caves and tunnels full of jeeps, aircraft, Harleys still in boxes etc. There was also heaps of stuff left on the islands as the Japs were driven back, and as the thread with the 'Air Pirates' link shows, dozens of old warbirds in New Guinea and the other islands. I know a lot of jeeps, trucks etc were simply driven of wharves into the water up in the islands, and I've seen film footage of warbirds dumped overboard in about 1000ft of water off the Queensland coast. There's anl A Ford sports coupe buried in my old back yard in Sydney too. I used to play in it as a kid, mint condition, even had the keys in it! They subdivided the land, and the developers drove a dozer over the coupe a few times before shoving it into a hole and burying it. Cheers, Glen.
Thats like Greenmayer destroying that B-50 (B-29) in Greenland, what a dickhead. When I was in the Army one of my bosses had a job with war graves registration, when a wreck was found they would go out and recover any human remains. Heaps of photos and yeah there are still a LOT of aircraft wrecks out there. A lot of them restore-able, its just a shit fight between governments as to who has the right to recover them regardless of what country did own them. Worked on a couple of Bostons that came out of New Guinea, an early B-17 was recovered from a Kunai swamp a few years ago. There was also a very good P-47 that sat in a swamp, was well known and much desired aircraft until some local decided he wanted to 'look' at the turbo supercharger, took a gas axe and cut a wing off, rolled it over and left it to rot.
Yes they absolutely did ship cars by rail in the 30's. The highway system was not what it is today and the cost to ship cars by truck any real distance would have been way too high. They first used regular boxcars but later used cars adapted better to automobile shipping.
I have it on very good authority that there's a big cargo ship on top of Mt. Ararat, and that it is perfectly preserved because it is packed in ice. There's supposed to be two of each bodystyle of '32 Ford on board it.
I was there 2 years ago and now there all sitting in my garage 20 of them Coupes ,Roadsters , Vickies
Being the age i am we all knew of cars from lost vietnam service men .. we just never pressed it to the point of watching for the obit and then hitting the families for thre son's cars.. 4 of my fellow graduates from 74 had cars from these service men locally and from calif. GTO, camaro ,55 nomad ,and a mustang ALL BOUGHT FOR AROUND 700-1000
Iwas Told That At The End Of Building The Alaska Hiway They Tied All The Throttls Open Of All The Equipment Dozer And Graders And Drove Them Into The Sea End To End
Yea... the '32 California plate story is true... I saw the dude at a swap meet with tons of them in numerical order... and knew a guy that bought 3 sets in order for his 3 '32 Fords. Sam.
Yeah I met that guy too. He was saying that a boxcar crashed in '34? and the old guy got all those plates and had his whole house covered in '32-34 California plates. Then they went through and removed all of them. He must have had about 20 or 30 milk crates just full of NOS plates!! It was pretty impressive. I forgot to get his phone #. I will try and get it next show. I was gonna buy a set just to have, but i needed a bunch of other stuff to get my car going but they were like $40 a set!
I don't know when they started loading cars in box cars, but as a kid in 1955, I used to watch them unload the cars at the siding. There were 4 cars in each box car, and it did not take them long to unload them. I was crazy about any kind of machine then, --- oh wait, I think I still am... Bob
The story about all the vehicles left in Northern BC, and the Yukon is true. At some of the camps, they lined up all the trucks, cats, and other equipment, pulled the axles, and walked away. The Canol pipeline from Norman Wells to Whitehorse, ( associated with the Alaska highway project ) actually cost more than the highway did. They were salvaging brass and other scrap well into the mid 70's. There are also P-36's and other types that crashed while being ferried to Russia during WWII, and there are still lying unsalvaged. One word of warning, it isn't cushy fun country, the bugs eat you in the summer, and it is slightly cool in the winter. The name of the Book ( four volumes ) is the Forgotten War by Stan Cohen. I used to fly over that part of the world regularly and got very interested in the history. I know, a hot rodder actually reading, but I couldn't help it. Bob
If ya look at a map Delta Junction (the end of the highway project in Alaska) it's better than 300 miles to the nearest 'Ocean'. I realise that they started from both ends and met sort of in the middle, but still, that's a lot of mileage for any earth mover. Most of that stuff was sold as surplus after the war, some of it is still in use here. But the guy on Craigslist that wants $3500 for a beat up old Deuce and a Half W/ a 302 GMC is just nuts.
Let's add another to the list. Supposedly some guy in Portugal bought a large plot of land and found a barn with the door welded shut. Inside he finds... http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm Go figure. I found a bunch of spiders in my garage when I bought the house.
Pie in the Sky sensationalist Bullshit. Some 150 Post and 16000 views, and we're still right where we started...
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