Where cars go to die - Pic intensive!

About 6 years ago Joe and I bought a bunch of cars from a gentleman who's father had passed away. We hauled out a few Fiat Multiplas, some Fiat 600's and a pair of 1200 Trasformibles. Yesterday we finally went back for the 3 other Fiat 600's we deemed low on the priority list. We seem to always have a few Zagato bodied Abarth cars that need hard to find pieces with no other source.

We headed south to Creswell and were greeted by over 80 derelict cars of varying degrees of awesomeness. I snapped about 40 photos and could have taken another 100 but my SD card was too full of music to take any more. The seller told me that in the 70's he and his brother would buy interesting cars for $50 or less and park them on the property if and when they stopped running. Dad also had a car lot in the 80's and a fair bit of the cars came from there. Most of the area is a marsh for 9 months of the year so summer is the only time you can get to them. He takes deposits all year and you haul them out from June to August.

Here is a taste of the sadness

Honda 305?

Ford Anglia

One of the Fiat 600's

Nash

Another 600

Cool Bertone bodied NSU sport prinz and a random animal carcass

Corvair

One of 6 stove bolt Chevys

This one hurt. I LOVE Datsun 1200's and this one is just too far gone

Lots of 30's trucks. Seriously, like 12 of them!

Strangely not rotted bicycle

This thing has been tugging at my heart strings. I might go back and make a really low offer on it. I have no use for it but, I can't stop thinking about it. Cushman? Any thoughts? Electric three wheeler.

GoKarts!

How rad is this Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi wagon?

More stuff

Stash 'o' Model T fenders. There was another stack of frames

Yard art T

Speedster

1914 Samson

Belly Tanker project he thinks is worth much more than it is

There was at least 6 piles of bikes like this

another 'vair

I spotted something that caught my eye in this field

A Ford Consul! Looks like a viable project too!

Reo

Another 600 we came to collect and a heartbreaker of a '59 Fiat 1100. The buy in was only $600 before haggling but I decided that with the amount of needed rust repair and dipping I would be better off buying a better car. So cool though.

There were so many other cars I didn't get pics of. A lowlight Karmann Ghia that had rusted in half at the A pillar. Over 2 dozen Datsun B210's. 50's Suburbans. I will be heading back out for one more 600 and hope to get some more pics.

Not sure if the seller is an optimist, great salesman or just clueless but he treats every car as if it is an easy restoration, even when they have a tree growing through them. Surprisingly he has titles for most of them.

speedster

me likey

Do some research on that bike. There was one similar on American Pickers rerun the other day and the rough frame was worth $600 or so. Most likely a different make but worth looking into for a quick flip.

I have ID'ed the 3 wheeler. It is an Autoette

Any of those B210's still have louvers?

I think I am glad that place is far away from me.

Wow reminds me alot of some of the junkyards ive been too. I worked on a crew with my dad and a few others cleaning up 5 acres of woods a lady had sold and we pulled out 63 cars that were just gone. A mix of air cooled vw's, packards and 80s bmws/mercedes. It sucks seeing cars like this.

Had an inkling of hope for these until I read 9 month marsh area and saw the vegetation, that can't be good. But if they weren't collected by this guy they might be scrapped by now.

fasted58 wrote: speedster me likey

+1. I'm guessing he wants way too much for it. I have this dream of building a car that could qualify for the Challenge as well as RoG.

that is sweet ain't it

so cool

In East Tennessee there are a few of these. From people who pick up too many projects to DIY junk yards they are out there and have some marvelous pieces of moving art in them.

No matter if you like them or not, the amount of work that went into the style of those vehicles is astounding.

Thanks for sharing.

I not sure what that speedster started life as. The cowl was not cut down and narrowed. It was welded to the rear half which appeared to be made from the nose of another car. Rough welds, visible areas that used to have fenders or other panels mounted to them.

Really cool though.

hobiercr wrote: Do some research on that bike. There was one similar on American Pickers rerun the other day and the rough frame was worth $600 or so. Most likely a different make but worth looking into for a quick flip.

Being a woman's bike, I'm not sure it would be worth that much, but it's probably worth at least $200 as-is. The skip-took parts are worth about half that alone.