Thread: Do you want to see something that will bring tears to your eyes?

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This one does it for me every time . A 1972 Dodge 340 Demon I junked very sad I did so .

The best thing about old regrets is that it eggs us on to put more money into saving ,and slightly modifying those classics, which is why were here! Love old cars, even in dirt banks, they still look cool!

Quit I only see 5 cars in the first picture.

This place is about 25 miles from me.

Hey Mike, there may be some hope for some of those cars.

Although parts are occasionally known to migrate out of there, the chances of ever getting a whole car out are slim and none.

The cars serve a very vital role in preventing erosion from undercutting a nearby and active rail line.

Also something to think about is that if the cars had not been placed here they would have been crushed and melted down 30-40 years ago.

There ain't no telling when those hulks were put on the bank. Coulda been 5 years ago not when they were relatively fresh. There's nothing much left of them to use. Nothing rare that there aren't much better examples out there.

Remember that 56 Chevy Boyd Goofington built out of junkyard parts, well very few from the actual junkyard? That car was in far better condition than any of these and they had one hell of a time with hidden rust and getting doors, hood, trunk to fit after working on them. No body could bring any of these cars back for any price that would be worth it. Looks like they've been parted out so some folks cars live on cause of them.

".....There ain't no telling when those hulks were put on the bank. Coulda been 5 years ago not when they were relatively fresh......."

Actually yes there is. I've been going down there for the last 20 years. Talking to the oldtimers around here, they were put in in the mid thru late 60s.

Newest car down there is a 62 (?) Corvair rag top, with most being the mid to late 50's cars. Ther are probably somewhere between 75 and 100 cars total.

OH MY GOD

Years ago when I was a kid out east of town on the Colorado plains it seemed every farm field had numerous T's, A's, B's and some odd ball Dodge, Chevy and other cars and trucks just sitting there rusting away, some lined irrigation ditches or fields along the South Platte river. Sadly they are mostly all gone now or if they are still there there isn't much left. When I was a kid ,about 14-15 yrs old, I helped a friend and neighbor bring back to his house a '36 Ford coupe he'd found in a farmers field---bitter,bitter cold Feb. day, never forget it. He'd borrowed a pickup with no heat and an old rickety car trailer. He was a senior and I was a sophmore. Two years later he had the car on the street, primer gray, 327 Chevy w/4 speed, one of the hottest cars in town then. He continued working on it until he was drafted. When he came home he did a few more things to it then lost interest and sold it off.
I lost track of him about 30 years ago.

I ferget who posted these.......

Just remember for every pic like those last ones ,there was a pic for this side of it...........and thats how we got here today...well the slightly abbreviated version.....

I had this link in my files, I forgot how I found it or where, most likely on CHR a while back.

http://www.carsinbarns.com/

the amc's make me so sad

Two years ago This yard near my home had lots of T/As and Z-28s even this Corvette . Last summer I went there to pick up a set of 5.7 TPI heads from a GTA T/A they had . All the cars in this photo were gone .

if found a nice rambler scrambler id trade my car right across along with the vega!