How did you find your abandoned car?

There are still cars out in rural KY hill country. I see a lot of them while driving around out on the back roads...40s and 50s stuff. Typically they are off in the woods or you'll see the rear end of something sticking out of an old shed.

 

I'v had two that stand above the rest . Num.1 is the die along the Columbia river in Portland Oregon. the fill when they built the dike was old cars( Ts,coups, pickups ect). When in high school if we needed a part or a body we would walk the dike from the Portland airport east until we found what we needed. I know of several bucket T bodies that were pulled out of that mess. The 2nd was a buddy of mine bought a house in a city that at that time was 6 miles out of Portland, now in the city limits, but back to the details. In the garage of this house was a 1935 Nash Lafayette town car that I bought for 10.00 . It took me 3 truckloads to get it home( it was in a 1000 pieces). I Put it back together and ended up selling it the Haras car collection for 2000.00 back in 1965.

 

I find alot of old cars driving back roads in Ky.
They aren't every where but if you look close enough you can find them.

I recently found a 32 ford 5 window in a small junkyard in ky.

 

HOLY SHIT !! .............wheres my fuckin canoe ?

 

Normally word of mouth...people know a lot of the guy's i hang around with are into old cars as i am, so many time's a person will contact one of us to see if someone would be interested in "some old car"......

A guy i know who is also into old cars contacted me when he wanted to sell his old coupe..He bought it from out of state and stuck it in a trailer he used for storage where his shop is out in the sticks...No one knew it was there so he said....
When he called, i went with money in hand....

That's pretty much how it happens now..just word of mouth..unless someone's got a BIG itch for a certain car..then you call everyone you can to spread the word, and start looking HARD....then cross your fingers something is found.

Tony

 

Most of what I have was left behind for one reason or another. some we hauled to the farm and are still there today! Guess you'd say I have my own stash, Keeping the thiefs away is the challenge today.

 

Amen on the THIEVES, Lil Russian! 'Been my problem. My car is GONE for good, but the guy who stole it couldn't help bragging in the roadhouses about HOW many "abandoned" cars he'd stolen.

Now, he's in prison where he belongs. Yeah, he got some old cars, but he lost something in the bargain, I think.

 

I bought a 59 caddie from a nice old lady who didnt want to talk to anyone. She said she was tired of people just offering 100 for it and that was that. I said I know and offered 500.00. She perked right up and got the title and some cookies. Later that day I barfed my heart when the garage door went up and the top was down on my new caddie. sadly I sold it a few months later to a real "goldchainer" at an intersection. I went back and gave her another thou. I made alot on that car and she was a sweetheart.

 

Working in a parts store years ago with a guy we called Hoopty Steve. Steve always had hoppty ass cars. So he was rooting through a trailer park storage yard and scored himself a Masaratti Bi turbo. He tells me that 'there is this little car there' http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FwpH8SLCS14FvN2TeERKpA?feat=directlink

I had to "make go away" a 1974 Fiat 124 Wagon and some other POS and tehh yard guy would give the MG to me.

 

Czuch, YOU are a prince. Not many guys would do that! Salute!