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

I don’t have the space for a piece of yard art this size. Believe me the car was well beyond saving

 

This one has been saved. A '60 Vette with factory power windows

 

Clay County Alabama

 

AND a Pontiac/Ford Super Duty scoop

 

This '57 Belvedere showed up at an auction in Hesperia, CA not long ago - complete but very rusty, especially the roof and C-pillars and below the back window.












It did get rescued - top bid was eight thousand bucks .

 

Pretty good options - 318/4 barrel PS PB - think the design of that hardtop didn't help the rust factor - do you think it was a coast car ?

 

This is one of the interior shots of the rusty '57 Belvedere just a few posts above - what is that thing the red arrow is pointing at?

 

I think it is the park lever for the transmission. My dad'd '62 Dart had a sliding on under the instrument cluster.

The push buttons have N R D 1st and 2nd I believe but no P

 

could be trailer brake

 

This is how my Dad's 1962 Dart was.

 

California rusty must be a lot different from regular rusty....
that doesn't look very rusty to me.

 

I am thinking that the original Torqueflite was replaced with a later model year one and this is the makeshift lever to actuate Park.

While a number of button arrangements (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) were used through the years, the controls were all mechanical, with a steel push/pull cable between the shifter assembly in the dash and the Powerflite (two-speed) or Torqueflite (three-speed) transmission. Note that originally, there was no P for Park. Chrysler later added an internal parking pawl mechanism to the transmission and a dash lever to operate it.

The Motor City’s Push-Button Age | Mac's Motor City Garage (macsmotorcitygarage.com)

 

Athens Alabama

 

That's an old Railway Express delivery truck. Haven't seen one of them in many years!

 

Actually know of 3 of them in my travels. Unfortunately all of them are rotting...

 

My grandfather had an old Railway Express Agency truck body that he used as a shed for his garden tools.

 

Piedmont Alabama

 

Piedmont Alabama

 

Unsafe, at even this speed......

 

Stanwood Washington's latest tourist attraction.

 

River Falls Alabama

 

Sweetwater Alabama.

 

I have the missing pieces Only been waiting 25 odd years for someone to post a pic of a '37 Olds with a missing nose piece

 

Would somebody, I say would somebody save that Oldsmobile ( rescue that is, put it back on the road, driving that is)