Abandoned cars and barn finds picture thread!!!!!

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Finally stumbled across something worth contributing :D

Studebaker Starlight
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1929 Hudson
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Cheverolet Canopy Express
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Kaiser
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1956 Hudson
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Apparentley they were part of a private collection and have since been removed. More pictures here.
 
In a forest outside of my village there are some old, anandoned cars. One of them looks something like what could be an Austin-Healey (Now some rabbit houses, it is very far sunk in, with burrows everywhere!), one that is definatley a Ford, possibly Escort, that looks as if it was crashed into the tree it's nearby. There are some tractors and farming equipment near another car that is a very sleek looking coupe (once again sunk way in).

Also, a Vauxhall steering rack that has been wrapped around a tree and a Motocross bike which my Jack Russell decided to mark his territory on!
 
Chicago collector creates gems from the junkyard


Bortz's car-collecting passion began with a 1928 Chevrolet Landau coupe. But it kicked into high gear in the early 1980s, when he bought the 1954 Pontiac Bonne-ville Special, one of General Motors' Motorama concepts. He later acquired the '53 Buick Wildcat, the '53 Pontiac Parisienne and the '55 Chevrolet Biscayne. All four concepts will be seen together at the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance on July 25 in Rochester Hills, Mich.



Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100708/CARNEWS/100709921#ixzz1nzrr1jYR
 
as for grave digger 1, I drive by it on the way to the beach every summer (it's in North Carolina). Last summer it wasn't sitting there so perhaps it's being restored?

Let's hope it is.

Finally stumbled across something worth contributing :D

Apparentley they were part of a private collection and have since been removed. More pictures here.

Your pictures never showed for me, but I managed to see them. the Hudson is amazingly complete. so sad.

In a forest outside of my village there are some old, anandoned cars. One of them looks something like what could be an Austin-Healey (Now some rabbit houses, it is very far sunk in, with burrows everywhere!), one that is definatley a Ford, possibly Escort, that looks as if it was crashed into the tree it's nearby. There are some tractors and farming equipment near another car that is a very sleek looking coupe (once again sunk way in).

Also, a Vauxhall steering rack that has been wrapped around a tree and a Motocross bike which my Jack Russell decided to mark his territory on!

Dude, PICS got dammit.


in Italy have forgotten your car! 👎

Amazing post! Is that a Monte Carlo in the first pic? The Subaru wagon and the BMW6 are also damn sad. your pics?

Chicago collector creates gems from the junkyard

Bortz's car-collecting passion began with a 1928 Chevrolet Landau coupe. But it kicked into high gear in the early 1980s, when he bought the 1954 Pontiac Bonne-ville Special, one of General Motors' Motorama concepts. He later acquired the '53 Buick Wildcat, the '53 Pontiac Parisienne and the '55 Chevrolet Biscayne. All four concepts will be seen together at the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance on July 25 in Rochester Hills, Mich.

Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100708/CARNEWS/100709921#ixzz1nzrr1jYR


Of course, the Bortz collection is world-famous for its unique GM motorama custom show cars and how they were mostly junk when the guy found them. Proof of this:

The LaSalle II:
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La Salle Roadster (the white and blue thing on top of the 54 Plymouth):
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The Biscayne:
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And another member of the famous Bortz collection, the $4 million Futureliner:
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All of them with the exception of the LaSalle II have been restored/recreated to perfection, with the LaSalle II coming in 2013 accordingto the Bortz Collection website:

http://bortzautocollection.com/
 
Those are in the first post of this thread, they're the now wolrd-famous barn cars of Portugal.
 
Those are in the first post of this thread, they're the now wolrd-famous barn cars of Portugal.

Sorry, yeah you're right I heard the story was fake though. The barn is real but not the story. I mean I hear it's real and it's fake equally that is
 
Sorry, yeah you're right I heard the story was fake though. The barn is real but not the story. I mean I hear it's real and it's fake equally that is

The story behind it (guy byus property, in property is barn, barn is opened and guy wins car lottery) is fake, the collection is privately owned and the pictures were taken with the owner's authorization.
 
The story behind it (guy byus property, in property is barn, barn is opened and guy wins car lottery) is fake, the collection is privately owned and the pictures were taken with the owner's authorization.

thanks Cano for the insight

Found this, my favorite charger model

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got DAMN those two last posts are mind-blowing. LMSVette, what's the story behind those?

Also, in the first pic of Roczx's post, behind the BMW... a split window bug. The hell?
 
Let's hope it is.



Your pictures never showed for me, but I managed to see them. the Hudson is amazingly complete. so sad.



Dude, PICS got dammit.




Amazing post! Is that a Monte Carlo in the first pic? The Subaru wagon and the BMW6 are also damn sad. your pics?




Of course, the Bortz collection is world-famous for its unique GM motorama custom show cars and how they were mostly junk when the guy found them. Proof of this:

The LaSalle II:
Junk1-vi.jpg


junk2-vi.jpg


junk4-vi.jpg


La Salle Roadster (the white and blue thing on top of the 54 Plymouth):
junk6-vi.jpg


The Biscayne:
junk9-vi.jpg


junk10-vi.jpg


And another member of the famous Bortz collection, the $4 million Futureliner:
fliner-natmus.jpg


All of them with the exception of the LaSalle II have been restored/recreated to perfection, with the LaSalle II coming in 2013 accordingto the Bortz Collection website:

http://bortzautocollection.com/

I recognize all those, shame so many concept cars met their fate like this. :nervous:
 
got DAMN those two last posts are mind-blowing. LMSVette, what's the story behind those?

Also, in the first pic of Roczx's post, behind the BMW... a split window bug. The hell?

Supposedly a hurricane destroyed the structure of an old house those cars were under and someone took pictures. The cars were in order and fine surprisingly. Obviously a big Ferrari collection. I found interest in it due to the old F1 312 it looks like.
 
I will get pics of what I described in my prevous post once my foot is out of plaster!

Is that an IndyCar next to the Ferrari F1 car, and a Studebaker in fornt of it? I think that's what it's called.
 
Supposedly a hurricane destroyed the structure of an old house those cars were under and someone took pictures. The cars were in order and fine surprisingly. Obviously a big Ferrari collection. I found interest in it due to the old F1 312 it looks like.

Ah I see, that explains quite a lot. Sad story, but I bet they will be (maybe have been) re-restored again.

anyway, post time:

Little rust on this Camaro:
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Very rare Simca Aronde, even rarer because it is in the US.
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Another very rare car, this makes me real sad:
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super awesome Divco milk truck:
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another cool oddball, Corvair wagon:
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early Datsun 510 that's now a garden:
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AAAGHHH this is freaking horrible:
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Check this out, this ain't no joke, that car was serious, maybe a Rolls, a Cord, even an Alvis or SS, I dunno.
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and finally:
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It would be so creepy if you were walking down that path and the lights on that Porsche just flipped up at you..
 
I recognize all those, shame so many concept cars met their fate like this. :nervous:

I've been to that junkyard where all those concepts were found. There's still some pre production cars there, but they wouldn't let me take pictures. Nothing too great, but there was an early Chevy Suburban that looked to have like 6 or 7 doors, we could figure out what it was.

Like this, but older:

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Did you scroll further down the page and see the 512 racecar, 250 GT Boano and vintage F1 cars? That image is going to stay with me for a while. Wonder what has become of them all?
 
Yes I did see them. I'd bet they are already stored somewhere else. I mean sure the cars were pretty much left there but the owner must be a relatively wealthy guy... you know, he has like 10 nearly priceless cars in a shed, he can just build another one and store them for dead inside that one.
 
Last saturday we went to pick up an transmission in a place called Hank. There lives a guy there in a shed. A big shed, filled with cars.

He had 10-15 of these :
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And a bunch of these :
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I wasn't allowed to take pictures, there where maybe 2 or 3 cars still in a condition that they could be restored, the rest was gone beyond repair. It was sickening.

8 classic HEMI engines tucked away behind some cloth. 1 block had really long inletmanifolds, stretching out beyond the side of the engineblock.

edit: This is the block.
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I've been to that junkyard where all those concepts were found. There's still some pre production cars there, but they wouldn't let me take pictures. Nothing too great, but there was an early Chevy Suburban that looked to have like 6 or 7 doors, we could figure out what it was.

Like this, but older:

1973%20Chevy%20Suburban%20Limo-01-200.jpg

Aaaaah that must have been quite the trip. I wlould love to see the place where several GM conepts had their final rest.

Last saturday we went to pick up an transmission in a place called Hank. There lives a guy there in a shed. A big shed, filled with cars.

8 classic HEMI engines tucked away behind some cloth. 1 block had really long inletmanifolds, stretching out beyond the side of the engineblock.

Like this?

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