Abandoned cars and barn finds picture thread!!!!!
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MedigoFlame
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It's a horrible sight looking through pictures of cars that have been through natural disasters. A depressing picture of that Mustang.
Not sure if this has been posted but...this poor Cossie.
Not sure if this has been posted but...this poor Cossie.
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- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
You sure it was a real cossie and not just some decorated 1.4 Escort?
Wiegert
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The real deal, or a body shell/rear wing on a less desirable and almost assuredly more scarce Mk V 1.4 Escort? Either way, it's not at all inconceivable to see a Cossie stacked amongst other on a heap like that. Especially if there's irreparable front end damage we can't see.
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- HamiltonMP427
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Fortunately these cars have been bought and are on their way to being restored.
Good thing, if they hadn't I'd been mad. One of my favorite muscle cars.
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I shouldn't have happened. That car will be a hazard on the road. Once sheetmetal has been crushed that way, it will never be as good as it was. Might look same, but will be way easier to fail especially in the load bearing structures.
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Um no, it will be just fine especially if done right.
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You could get another one for the amount of work that requires.
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Not really. Parts are extremely cheap for old cars. I could buy an entire beater* car for like $500 if I wanted.
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Depends if you know what to do and how to do it.
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That also comes into play. Doing the work yourself will save you ridiculous amounts of money.
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Well I have a degree in welding/metallurgy and had to do plenty of fab and machining work to get said degree, and I'm currently doing my engineering degree. So you could easily understand why it's depressing to see such cars go destroyed, when I have a good amount of knowledge on how to work with such things but no funds or room at this time.
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- slashfan7964
Exactly. Knowing what goes into such cars and then seeing them wrecked makes me want to cry. Hell I feel that way about my own vehicles (though notably I can't do anything about that right now).
Who says you need to buy a new unibody or chassis? You'd be amazed at what a welder, torch and clamps will do. My friends dad spent 2 months with his '70 Mustang in clamps to straighten the body/chassis out. Just as good as it was new. Only can imagine what it would have costed him if someone else did it. I have seen cars in WAY worse shape come back to life.
Labour is free if you do it yourself and not pay someone else to do it.
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A car as badly damaged as that Charger is going to have to go on a chassis jig if it has any chance of being road worthy again. It'll take more than a few new panels to straighten that out. Any slight changes in position to the suspension mounting points underneath is going to drastically change how it feels to drive.
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Obviously it's not going to be easy work. It will be a long, dragged out, time consuming process. With the rest of the shape the car is in, it would be worth it, at least to me.
