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

In God We Trust Rust !

 

knocked on their door to inquire about the truck...nothing is really for sale but the stud wagon "mighr be" for 10,000 becuase its rare
every thing else they'er gunna "fix up"

 

Oneonta Alabama

 

My backyard

 

Do you have any plans for it?

 

I dont like them rare...windshields , glass and gaskets , weatherstripping cost more than the car

 

Morgan County Alabama

 

^ Truck has "pooptina"^^

 

I went by the office of Denton’s Auto Parts yesterday. “No Trespassing” sign and no one there.I hope that his son took it over and won’t crush out!

 

@Lone Star Mopar, I need that running board back, I'm going to fix that T one of these days..

Larry

 

"Ran when parked" @'34 Ratrod

 

Pictures from Model Cars Magazine forum....
Sad.....

 

That '56 Fairlaine looks nice. Even the side trim looks perfect. The other two are ready to race, well almost

 

Many years earlier in Israel... The girl nearest the camera is 57 and has two grown up sons of her own. This was how we used to play back then, put this in a park nowadays and the authorities will hit you with a huge fine or worse

Ford is most likely been made into Uzi SMGs long ago.

 

A cool but sad old custom in the junkyard I saw yesterday, was a '47 Chevy Fleetline "German Helmet" sedan, was nosed and decked and the trademark fender stainless shaved, had a '49 license surround installed and the vertical guards removed, top grille bar had the lettering filled, looks to have had spotlights originally too.

The headlights were hooded, looks like some very heavy round rod was bent up into shape and welded on, then sheet-metal'd over to form the new shape. Remains of a custom green interior too. But the neatest part were the tail lights. The originals were filled, and what looked to be early Corvette lights were cut into the sides of the fenders. Not just an oblong hole either, but with sheetmetal buckets built into the fenders to hold them in place.

An odd choice for a custom car to start with, and sad to see it in this shape. But also fun to look at, and notice all of the details.

 

Would one of youse guys please save that galaxy ( rescue that is) from the dadgum scrapyard Dagnabbit.

 

A historic discovery . But did you see the oddball in the background ? A British 1959 Ford Prefect. Makes you wonder how it got there and where it was used. They make cool little racers and ofcourse the van model for the dragstrip.

 

Heres a Ford Prefect drag car, complete with chute

 

@34 GAZ I did see that, I think it says Anglia 100e on it, it's a coupe. There's also an Opel Rekord P1 in this yard, too. Most of this early stuff came out of another yard that emptied out, and this guy adopted it, that's where the two foreigners came from. But the custom was actually owned by a local guy to me, although he didn't build it, and I have no idea where he got it from. It got junked when he died and they cleaned out his estate.

 

@Squablow cool find, neat car. I used to save all the 49 plate surrounds I could until they started re popping them. I still prefer running the originals.

 

Ashville Alabama

 

Ashville Alabama

 

Fredonia, AZ

 

^^ There two 26-27 T Roadster bodies on the containers in the background. I stopped there in 2019 and i think it's all cleaned out now. JW
I have posted this on here before.

 

And in the same place (Fredonia AZ) this RPU was in a shed there. JW

 

Ashland Alabama

 

Birmingham Alabama