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Abandoned cars and barn finds picture thread!!!!!
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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!
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!
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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
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
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in Italy have forgotten your car! 👎
Cano
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Let's hope it is.
Finally stumbled across something worth contributing
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.
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:
La Salle Roadster (the white and blue thing on top of the 54 Plymouth):
The Biscayne:
And another member of the famous Bortz collection, the $4 million Futureliner:
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/
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If you look close at the last one you'll see something really special for such a barn find.
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Cano
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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.
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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:
La Salle Roadster (the white and blue thing on top of the 54 Plymouth):
The Biscayne:
And another member of the famous Bortz collection, the $4 million Futureliner:
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.
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all those SL500s and that split window corvette... those make me sad.
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1967 Shelby GT500
All original and factory stock was sitting in the desert for more than 25 years.
http://bangshift.com/blog/1967-shel...ing-car-found-in-death-valley-california.html
This really makes me sad, it's impossible to find one of these, and this just spent 25 years rotting in the sun. If only I could find its owner...
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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:
Very rare Simca Aronde, even rarer because it is in the US.
Another very rare car, this makes me real sad:
super awesome Divco milk truck:
another cool oddball, Corvair wagon:
early Datsun 510 that's now a garden:
AAAGHHH this is freaking horrible:
Check this out, this ain't no joke, that car was serious, maybe a Rolls, a Cord, even an Alvis or SS, I dunno.
and finally:
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I recognize all those, shame so many concept cars met their fate like this.
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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This thread is fantastic ive been reading through and 2 hours have flown by top work all!👍👍
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WTF?! That's mental... There's what looks like a 275 GTB/4 (or maybe 2 cam) in the background. Mad!
EDIT: Yup, it is. Just found more pics...
http://aussieexotics.com/forum/Ferrari-Barn-Find-5289.msg76887.html#msg76887
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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.
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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 :
And a bunch of these :
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.
He had 10-15 of these :
And a bunch of these :
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:
Aaaaah that must have been quite the trip. I wlould love to see the place where several GM conepts had their final rest.
Like this?
