Worst news I could ever hear

You know this thread gives me an idea. I've got an old '63 corvette roadster out here in the garage taken up space. It's old like me. I'm the second owner, had it for about 28 years. Can't believe anyone would want an old non hamb friendly thing like that. And I've got a low spot out back that needs fillin. I do believe I can kill two birds with one stone.

 

you want another way to cry? take a look at any old films or stills during WW2 when people supporting the scrap drives delivered old cars by the hundreds to be crushed and recycled. Lots of stuff went by the wayside then....

dj

 

Has any one seen all the left over P-51s and other machines being burned and crushed after WW 2?? Same thing. Just equipment that's outlived it's usefulness.

 

How about more recent...



or how about some FEMA trailers, Good Job, Brownie...



Its just the way life is. I would love to have my toys from the 50's but most are long gone.
I'd also like to have my 427/435 '67 Vette coupe, but I sold it in 1971 for $2200...and it was showroom pristine...oh well.................or my Dads '67 GT500 that he sold in '75 for $2400...which sold at BJ two years ago for $229K...........carry on

 

Only to those that arent car guys, just like today,

 

There has been many a septic tank made from old cars......can you imagine shitting in a hole and it's filling up a Deuce!!!!

 

yep some people just dont care.
i asked my friend once if he would shoot up that old car (car had bullet holes all in it) in a picture. he said yeah why not its a old piece of shit. the car was a 32 coupe or something

 

Very well said. All things are relative. Take that dumbass quote earlier singling out Ford Granadas. I've said it before, but my 22 year old son has one that he's "hot rodded", and he loves it. It is 30 odd years old and it is getting hard to find body parts for it now, because most of them have been squished, buried, or turned into Prius(sp?), butt ugly, Greenmobiles. Where would we, as hobbyists, be if all the 30 something yr. old vehicles had been destroyed when we were in our twenties?
I imagine that somewhere in the future, the gearheads will be searching out the newer rwd stuff built by Ford, GM, Chrysler, and AMC for projects. Maybe the fwd stuff too, who knows. Anyhow, maybe the author of this post simply meant that was the worst news he'd heard about the waste of project material.

 

I couldn't agree more! I just lost my grandmother last week, and when asked by my mother what from her house I wanted, the only thing I could come up with was, I'll let you take everything from her house if I can just have her back. Cars are fun but with a great group of people like there are here on the HAMB some of them WILL live forever, unlike all of us. Yeah it sucks to hear about a pile of old tin being buried, but it's even worse when you lose something you can never get back. Enjoy what you have, but remember in the end we're all gonna get buried!

 

On a similar note, I heard stories from my Grandparents in Minnesota that folks would push an old car out on the frozen lake in winter and have a lottery when it would break through the ice in the spring. Also remember my dad saying they pushed a model T sedan into the lake and used it as a diving platform way back when...

 

That^ was very mature of you.
Now here's a really shitty story for ya. My buddy visits his family in Texas every year or so, and there was a 54 chevy sitting under a little roof on the side of the barn for as long as he could remember. Last time he was there it it was gone. He asked what happened to it, turns out they needed a new septic tank, so they buried it and ran a pipe to it!

 

It's a freakin figure of speech. Is he allowed to say his car flooded or will we jump on his shit because people have lost their homes to floods.

 

I know of a place in NE Missouri that has a big load of Indians and H-Ds buried. Roy Clark was an Indian dealer, and threw all the beat crap bikes and parts in a big ravine. After it got pretty full he bulldozed it full of dirt. This was about 30 years ago. The wet climate and acidic soil guarantee that nothing is left that is worth having.

 

Many years ago ('82?) I was offered a free '37 two-door Ford sedan. I went out to check it out and while it was rust-free, the only thing left was the body-shell and frame. It had been a complete car, but everytime the farmer who owned it offered it to someone, they'd just take what they needed until nothing was left but the body (no doors) and the frame. I passed, but we got to talking and he told me that years ago, he'd cut up a '36 Ford coupe to fill in a sink-hole up on the hill to keep his young daughter from falling in. He said I was welcome to go see if it was still there. I walked up the hill and sure enough, there was the perfect passenger side of a '35 5 window coupe. The thing was evidently cut into quarters and drug into place by a tractor. He assured me the entire car was in there. I should've gottem both of them, but I was still living at home and my parents likely wouldn't have gone for it.

 

As a kid in Olean NY we snuck into a storage yard behind a old where house packed full of 30's and 40's cars about 50 or so.None of the cars parts were taken off,We climbed in them pretending to drive them.My favorite ones were the 34 and 35 Ford coupes. Fast forward 10 years to 1972 ==As I drove past that place and they were tearing down the where house.I saw a D9 CAT plowing dirt over them.Nobody knew or cared the cars were back there.I stopped and watched them in horror as they all got smashed and buried,How sad. Enough to give a hot rodder night mares.

 

I know an old hodrodder who cut apart a 32 ford victoria back in the early 60s', just because he was pissed off at it! Funny part is, when he considers what it would be worth today, he is still pissed at that car because it got the last laugh. I guess it was a matter of principle gone wrong!