Art & Inspiration Sitting and Rotting.............picture thread

arg! that is painful to look at.......

 

most of these got crushed this summer.

 

got crushed!?!?!? dude i woulda been over there begging and pleading with the guy to let me pay him scrap prices.

 

BulletNose, I'm pretty sure this is that car Johnny Cash
sang about. There's a ton of different makes represented
there, fer shur! LOL

 

WOWEE! What have we here??? Dog427, I just fell off my chair. Looks like a Lincoln concept project, maybe from '54 or '55 for the short-lived Premier series of '56 and '57??? Why hasn't somebody grabbed this???

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pretty sure thats been restored, and it was at pebble beach. could be wrong though.

 

This is the 1954 Mercury Monterey XM-800


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And yes it was restored – here is a shot at the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance

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Unfortunately most of the cars in those other shots have not had such luck!

 

Dog & Johnny, that's a relief to know the rare prototype/show car made such a dramatic recovery! Either of you know if more than one was done, or was this the only ONE?

Old junkyards -- especially the ones with any '20s to '60s cars left -- are really close to my heart. Dog, what you said in post #730 is really painfully true, bro. It seems you here of another old-timey boneyard crushed out smewhere in the U.S. or Canada about one a month. It was SUPER bad when the Chinese were buying steel as fast as the U.S. scrappers could supply it. It can get depressing at times.

 

Oh, Mother McCrea! 292 or 312? Please tell me somebody
salvaged the 'bird! Dog, your pix are incomparable, man.

 

id rather see an old car return to soil than see it get crushed

 

Has anyone else noticed a distinct lack of information with these pics??

Doc.

 

I just had an image of a bunch of H.A.M.Ber's running a muck with pitchforks and torches in there hands steeling some of these cars that are wasting away. Come to think of it, that sounds like alot of fun. Anybody up for a little mayham.

 

Ok, I'll lead the Aussy assualt!
Doc.

 

The old Dodge truck sat forever on U.S. 50 east of Marathon, OH. The row of trucks was in Carlisle, PA., in '08. The roadster and Dodge wagon were on ebay.

 

hauling some junk to the crusher, thought you guys would like these. I'll get some more pics in the coming weeks, we're cleaning up the woods where the old yard used to be.

 

I see alot of good parts so I hope you are letting people check them out before crushing.

 

ha ha thats a cool mad max tow truck id still like to poke through all that woods treasure must be something saveable

 

Maybe he just wants to hear you all scream-only an IDIOT would post and say what he said.

 

can anyone tell me what those hubcaps came off of originally.

 

WOW! A lot of these cars could be saved by just rubbing them with dryer sheets

 

Damn Dog.........my holyfuckinshitometer just went off the scale.

This kind of stuff drives me crazy.......

 

Those parts were for sale for 30 years and no one bought any one them. All the rear ends for the most parts are rotted. All of the junk has been sitting in a swampy woods for 30 years, some of the stuff is rotted beyond belief. I really hate to see it go but there really is nothing left of the stuff.

We did get a good 283 out of an impala, we hooked the hoopie (yard wrecker) to it and gave it a pull off the sway bar. The front frame with motor and tranny ripped out of the car and left the rest there. So we went back and hooked to the a-pillers, the body came out and left the seats, gas tank, and rear end sitting in the ground.

It's just that everyone loves to talk about how there are good parts and why are you crushing the stuff, but no one ever coughs up some cash and hauls stuff out of there.

 

If you want to bitch about then go buy all the stuff, it's junk that has literately rotted into nothingness, all the good engines/trannies/rearends get saved but the bodies/frames are absolutely gone. This stuff is slowly turning into soil.

 

A so you guys know only the cars that have disintegrated are going to the crusher, anything still intact will be put into a row and kept. We are getting rid of the junk rotted into the ground stuff.

 

I have found through out the years that sometimes the sellers want way more then the market will bear for parts and cars so they sit there and rot to nothing and worth nothing in the end,since I dont know how the parts were priced but if they are priced reasonable they should sell easily. I am glad you are keeping the ones that have salvageable parts but if you dont want them to sit there another 30 years please dont think they are gold and ask astronomical prices for the parts,some of us dont have unlimited funds to build our projects and need the parts to be very reasonably priced. There was this used car lot near me that had alot of older cars that never moved,the owner thought they were gold so some had sat there for about 30 years and rotted to the point some were not restorable. All were mint when put on the lot and eventually the county came by and considered it a junkyard and most of the cars I heard were crushed so both the owner and potential buyers lost on that deal,the owner lost the money he had in the cars and no one got to enjoy the cars.

 

My Avatar is a 40 Ford woody I recently saved after digging it out. Not much left, but worth grabbing. In response to the last few photos of cars being crushed. I've owned several salvage yards. I've posted some tips on other threads on how to save yards from being crushed out. #1. Don't just go to look. Buy something even if it's a rusty hubcap to hang on the shop wall. #2. Don't be a BEBACKER. If you want something you can't afford that day leave a deposit. Most yards are happy to write a receipt. #3. Don't be a SQUEAKER. We all want a good deal, but do you negotiate at the grocery store? If the owner is testing you merely say "I'll think about it", usually he'll counter with "What will you offer". If you piss him off at the start with a low ball offer, good luck. Respect goes a long ways. I knew several hoarders that would sometimes give me stuff because I paid their price the first time. Besides it'll help the economy. LOL.

 

i dont have a picture of it, but i know a guy that has a 68 gran torino, sitting in his garage, rotting away, wont sell it, but cats and racoons tear the interior apart and use it as a personal litter box.. sad.

 

Caletcb Not sure of the exact year, but the hubcaps were off of a Mopar. Satellite I believe, early Seventies. I've had a few of these caps over the years.