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

Skip's on some Professional car boards too, I think. Seems like a hell of a guy!

French Lake is on my "places to see before I die" list...

~Jason

 

Here are my long forgotten 54 Austins. When I got them ages ago the four door was decent, one vert was good enough to fix and the other vert was good for parts only. I did the bad thing of tarping them and letting them sit for many years without even checking on em...tarps rotted away, weeds grew through em, and rainy Washington has eaten them away. I ran into a guy that had a vert on a trailer at the Monroe swap meet and told him what I had. I drug em out so he could check em out and take them for parts, but he never showed. They are back in their places going home to mother earth. Sorry.

 

Here's one I salvaged a few years ag from under a shed! It had been there for aver 20 years...was going to be restored someday? I built a truck out of it.

 

some cutting of something was needed to get this one
body and tree are now missing!

roots of rodding? and the trunk and the whole damn tree

 

That came out great.

 

Here is one that sat alongside a major highway under a tarp. I finally saw someone there one day and stopped. It wasnt for sale of course! The guy was going thru a divorce and didnt know what he wanted to do with it. Then it disappeared! I think aliens got it!

 

Where is the first two photos taken.

 

Hey isn't posting pictures here of cars that can't or can be bought

then not telling anyone where they are just as bad as those that say "Not for sale someday I'm going to restore it"? It seems that if you want to keep it for yourself as a "someday I'm going to buy it" Then keep it to yourself and don't post it...
It's a wicked tease! Almost as bad as the guys who park these things that are not for sale next to a road just so they can tell people it's not for sale... besides the more people ask if it's for sale makes the car all that more expensive when the guy finally decides to sell it... "listen here buddy!! I've had a hundred people after that car, so it's gonna cost you just to take a look under the tarp! I got it.. and you can't have it!
...effin******s.

 

I saw these out behind an old barn today. Same ol story, NOT FOR SALE, GOING TO FIX EM UP !







OH?!? Wait a minute, that's my yard?@#$??

 

Damn, if i only lived back east.. There would be alot of old cars missing from the backyards and in the streets.. With or without paperwork...

 

WOW........ is that the remnants of a 37 woody back there?!

 

YES it is.

 

Photos taken 2/21/09 Eastern Washington.

 

More Meats,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Damn You found the pot at the end of the rainbow Any of that stuff for sale?

 

I want that '42-'47 Ford wrecker!!

 

Excuse me while I seek medical attention.

 

WOW! I grew up riding around in a old box car lincoln convertible, just like thins, it was white with red guts. I would love to have that car! Is it for sale??? Jim

 

holy*****!

 

this is a sad sad post here is the one i keep tryin to get it has been there 30 plus years and one of those i would rather it rot than anyone else having it a 75 year old jsut inhereted it.

 

Looks like a nice 37 Keep trying took me 15 years to get a model a coupe

 

Here's a coupe that I saved that had been sitting for 20 years. Had a 302 Chevy engine, automatic transmission. It's currenty running in low 6's in a 1/8 mile with a blown small block. Check out my avatar...

 

Nice save

 

What became of that 302 motor(Z/28)...Those were some high revvers. Pretty dame rare also...Unless it was a 302 someone built...

What really bothers me about older cars sitting and going to waste, is not the point that they wont sell `em, but atleast put a fricken cover on them, damn!...The site carsinbarns.com has many cars sitting and rotting. Most are muscle cars, but there is a section for antiques as well...Makes you shake your head, while the cars rot away...This thread had some amazing pictures of some nice**** cars...Kinda blows my mind actually of all the pics you guys have shown ...

 

These pictures are amazing. We don't have anything like that round here where I live.

 

It is a home made 302 big dome pistons steel crank no heads, they went on a 55 that is still setting beside where my car was sitting, still have the 302 with heads now waiting to go into a model a truck project.

 

I dont know if you guys know it or not but I was the owner of carsinbarns.com and yes it is a pretty sick site. I just sold the site 2 weeks ago. Jim

 

This model a looked way better untill somebody put a blue tarp over it. Tarps keeps the moisture in and they want dry out.