Abandoned car thread...
 

Fairbanks Alaska United States of America...

What brand and model?

1954 Nash Ambassador

Had to do some googling for that. Right off the bat, I was fairly certain it was one of the little car makers. Nash, Hudson, Studebaker, maybe. And I was right :3

Hehehehehe...Love it. My Dad told me when I was a Bean Sprout, there was a smallish car maker in Yoorup that was BRAGGING when they finally MADE 25K cars the previous year, & were HOPING to one day in the future to increase production to a a staggering 50K cars a year... The GM guy looked at the guy & kinda chuckled & told him GM LOST 50K cars the previous year...Stolen from assy plants, off storage yards, dealers lots, who knew...

Learned a LONG time ago to NEVER mess w/old cars parked out in fields like that, especially late summer/early fall...EVERY DAMN one of 'em will have at least one, possibly 2 Wasp Nest(s) in it, maybe, if you're lucky a Hornet's nest as big as a basketball in it, too.. Trust me, they're in there, matters not if you SEE one or no... Just humor a crazy old man-Moi-in my paranoia, & Stay the Hell away from old junk cars ! Go back after Christmas, or after the 1st of the year, when its COLD, & has killed all them hateful bastards off !

Abandoned hearse...
 

Just in time for Halloween...

This is a Corvette that has been rotting in the woods in the front yard of a large property near me for at least the past 20 years . In the Summer it's completely obscured from the street by the bushes & trees but it's able to be seen in Winter . It's said that a vindictive Ex wife won it in a divorce and purposefully left it to rot , and supposedly she screams like a banshee at anyone who rings the doorbell asking about it .

Another Hearse...
 

Upstate New York...

I think a LOT of towns have a dead Corvette story. They're all reasonably similar, EVERYBODY knows the local ones, but they can almost NEVER be quite pinned down. The one I remember happened, I SWEAR, Honest Injun, hit's TRUE, in 1973-74 in Chattamaboogie... This dude-Its NEVER a woman, girl, ol' Lady-ALWAYS a guy-came into an unexpected inheritance, he was a lower middle workin' class hero, so he hied hisself to Ed Wright Chevrolet, bought a Yellow Vette, w/black leather interior, A/C, all the foxtails. Even FM.. He took his remaining windfall, saw his Dope Dealer, purchased whatever was BIG back then, drove out to Harrison Bay Skypark, after stopping at McDonald's, shot up, apparently hoping to See God on All Channels... Now this was late '73, I think Our Hero got hisself a '74 Vette. Anyhoohow, He took a tad too much of whatever Majick Potion he used to see the Almighty on, for shortly afterwards, he not only got to SEE the Almighty, he got to Meet Him, as well. Now, I was in Chattamaboogie in them days, & it is a tad warmer there, but I don't remember if it ever got below freezing or not. But in May of '74, when they found our hero, he had pretty much turned Really Bad, for he was an apparently a BIG fella..The Worst thing was the stench, the car was taken back to the dealers, the ENTIRE interior was removed, but it had leached into the fibreglass, & they NEVER could get it out. I think the car was eventually sold for the value of the running gear & a few other parts...But, I SWEAR, this is true... I was friends w/the guy whose brother pulled him outta the car, & he was sick hisself for a week afterwards ! Honest Injun !

:thmbsp: I not only promise you that this one CAN be "pinned down" , I make the blanket offer to anyone near eastern Massachusetts that if your brave enough to ring the doorbell and ask about the car , I will personally drive you to the property where it rests(rots) . Yes indeed , everyone has heard the urban legend of the Corvette that smells like a dead body , several times in the past I've challenged the tellers of such tales to bring me to the car and I'll buy it on the spot , it's funny how when someone like me says "I WILL buy it , bring me to it !" the car suddenly disappears , , , "oh it was crushed last week" :rolleyes:

This one , of course , does NOT smell like a dead body to the best of my knowledge , but I assure you it would take some serious tree cutting to get it out of the spot where it's been for at least the past 20 years , if the old lady in the house can be persuaded to finally sell whats left of it .

Soooo , if anyone wants to see this car for real , my open offer stands .....

Oh, I DON'T doubt you at all...But you gotta admit the whole thing kinda smacks of a Penn & Teller "Bulllshit" story... There are also usually wondrous gory details a lot of 'em I've heard have in 'em-Mine solemnly told that as they were getting the guy outta the Vette, his HEAD fell off, & landed face up on the feet of one of the hazmat/EMT guys... W/THESE kind of stories, the juicier & GORIER, the better... Especially as they were often used as Object Lessons to perceived Juvenile Delinquents... This story was THUNDERED at us by our Headmaster at a morning assembly soon after it broke.. We had guys grade 6 thru 12 there, us older guys were generally trying to completely wake up & kinda goin' "Yeah, RIIIIIIIIGHT", while the younger kids were sittin' there starin', eyes popped out, mouths agape.. Ahh, the Seventies...(Grin)

When my cousin's son was old enough to drive, they said they would buy him a car -- I think you can guess -- they bought him a used hearse. He was a big hit with his high school buds. I'm also guessing that if they worried where he was, they could just call the police, who would have spotted it already.

;) Well , like I said , this IS one of those one in a million times the story of the abandoned/neglected Corvette is true , I personally took the pictures I posted and I have myself driven past it at least once a week for the past 20 years . It's funny , 20 years ago when I first saw it parked there I thought it odd that someone would park a somewhat valuable car on the corner of their property on the grass rather than in the paved driveway , but hey , their car , not my business , , , , and it sat . And sat , And years went by as I'd constantly drive by , and those years slowly turned into decades , , , and still today , in the very same spot , it sits . This car is on a road big enough to be considered a "State Route" (Rt. 106 to be exact) in the small town of Easton Massachusetts . Many years ago a fellow motorhead buddy went to the door asking about the car and claimed he got cussed out something awful , so I've never got closer to it than the few feet away it took me to get those pictures , for fear of catching a buttful of buckshot .

:D My standing offer is , of course , for real and 100% sincere , I WILL show this car to anybody brave enough to ring the doorbell and ask if it's for sale .

Oh, I don't doubt you ! Often as not, the backstory/details are what really "Make" the story...I know where a GINORMOUS tree trunk lies by the side of a REALLY way back in the sticks country gravel road... And it is covered by a tin roof that SOMEBODY went to a good deal of trouble to put the whole business there... Story is, back a LONG time ago, a bootlegger lived in the little house up the side of the hill across from the big log, you'd stick a $10 or a $20 bill in a knothole of the log, toot yr horn, drive up the gravel road a mile or so, turn around, come back, stop, & pick up your gallon or so of Moonshine, be on yr way... Nobody was ever around the house, if you waited at the log, the guy would not show up, you had to leave.

If my folks had done that I'd have only not been annoyed if it were a 59' or 60' Caddilac...Those are cool no matter what body style.

2 Trucks...
 

Box truck in Upstate New York.

Flatbed Chevrolet in Alberta...

In the UK...
 

I think...

Reliant Robin?

Yuum!....


Wait, that is Red Robin. :D

I dunno what kinds/varieties of stinging biting bugs they have in Old Blighty, but I KNOW I could/would UNDOUBTEDLY find examples of several varieties in that odd vehicle..And I'm also positive THEY would be no more happy to be bothered by Moi than their Murrican cousins would be.. Wonder if they're SLOWER than American Waspers, Yaller Jackquettes, Hornets, et al ?!?

Its good seeing alot of abandoned cars working again!!!

;) Well , not quite a car , but here's a nice little bump for the abandoned car thread .

This is a 6 wheel John Deer "Gator" being slowly claimed by the woods at a farm near me ....

1954? Chevy wagon near a friend in Illinois
 

1955 Ford

a Cadillac in an abandon warehouse...

That's a second gen front wheel drive eldorado. Roughly a 1976 vintage.

Someday I'd like to find one of the first gen with hidden headlamps (67-68)... Those IMO were the most beautiful Cadillacs since they knocked the fins off in 64.

My friend has a 76 Eldo just like it.

Late 80's Volvo Wagon
 

Its been sitting in this shopping center parking lot for over a year. Expired license plate. A pile of garbage inside it. I once called the police about it and they said it wasn't stolen. A few more years it will qualify as an antique.

77 Volare
 

These had a slant 6 engine that had solid lifters that needed adjustment every so often. Most manufacturers had switched to hydraulic lifters by then. They had a really bad front suspension called torsion bar that would crack if you hit a bad pothole. It was then undriveable.

Maybe the volare had a particularly bad design or build of torsion bar suspension but torsion bar suspension as a design is actually much better than leaf or even most coil spring systems.

Case in point the first auto maker to adopt it for consumer vehicles (prior to that it was only found in race cars) was the luxury brand Packard around 1955. Mopar adopted it around 1957 and most mopar cars, from then until the introduction of the Macpearson strut equipped K-cars, were torsion bar suspension equipped.
Properly designed torsion bar suspension almost doesn't need shock absorbers a to avoid oscillations after hitting a large bump, and unlike a coil spring car where when the springs get worn and the car starts to sit lower you HAVE to replace the springs to restore ride height and suspension performance, torsion bars can be adjusted to restore (or purposely change) ride height and suspension performance. Also generally speaking replacing springs in torsion bar suspension is safer since the shaft only has to rotate a handful of degrees to unload and can't readily turn into a missile in the wrong hands the way a coil spring can.

My 02 Chevy suburban even has torsion bar front suspension and almost 150k into it's life the original suspension is still doing fine despite my tendencies to load the thing with 2k lbs of crap, drive over curbs and off road, traverse country RR crossings at 50MPH, power slide on corners and otherwise drive it like I stole it.

I didn't think GM had the insight to use torsion bar suspension. :thmbsp:
The very first Volkswagen had torsion bars.

Yeah the 4x4 GMT400 and all GMT800 trucks use torsion bars up front, Toyota had been using that on trucks since the 70s. I think it has more to do with Chrysler's quality in the 70s. There was a reason they almost went bankrupt in the early 80s. Also lots of Chrysler cars and trucks didn't get hydraulic lifters until the 80s.

My 1984 Buick Riviera has torsion bars for the front suspension.

Abandoned Gas Tanks+Monster Truck...
 

Gas tanks in a barn.

Monster Truck at a Restaurant...

Henry Ford Would Cry
 

This was found in the rear parking lot of a small office complex.

Two F-150s
 

These two trucks have been sitting in this guy's front yard for the past 15 years. Its unknown if they run but they are properly licensed (and insured?) according to the municipality.
I think he's sitting on them for the value to appreciate.
He should probably put a car cover over them to keep the rust down.

Wow I wonder if they are still there??

This thread makes ya sad like the abandon TV thread :(