I am always amazed at all the great finds that some people find and always wishing that it was me finding one! Well yesterday it happened to me! I was out chasing cattle on my horse in the Utah desert close to three miles away from the nearest road and all of a sudden I run across..... Well I really don't know what it is but I think with some touch up paint and a tune up I can hopefully have it up and running in a few hours! It makes me wonder how exactly this got out in the middle of nowhere and how much stuff like this is spread across the country lying around unknown!
My New Find!
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juke joint johnny
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Well have you found something there !!!!
I know what my wife would call it and this time she might be right !!
No all jokes aside I bet some one here will recognise what car it is or was !!
Who knows maybe someone the other side of the world will want those doors or something ,it's happened before
Keep looking & good luck !!! it might be a 32 roadster next time
John
I know what my wife would call it and this time she might be right !!
No all jokes aside I bet some one here will recognise what car it is or was !!
Who knows maybe someone the other side of the world will want those doors or something ,it's happened before
Keep looking & good luck !!! it might be a 32 roadster next time
John
Ray in La Mesa
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Kool, just a bit of TLC will do. I had the same kind of find on my dad's 160 acre ranch in the foothils outside Oakhurst, Ca. Down at the bottom of a ravine covered by flood washed debrie and rolled into a ball was what appeared to be left of a Chrysler Town & Country from the late forties, the only recognisable part was the waterfall chrome trim in the center of the dash. Oh well...
mot
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when I live in Idaho in the very early 60s ,I used to drive out in the desert in my 30 tudor sedan
i would go miles off road and always would find rows of old cars,many model As and Ts
there was no rust out ,just surface rust
i couldnt understand it
but my girlfriends grandmother clued me in
there were no junk yards back in the 30s or 40s (in rural Idaho)
so they would drive the cars out as far as they could get ,and just walk away from them,so all her cars were in a row
even back then a few people went out and hauled the good ones back to town
i remember a beautiful brewster green roadster body standing up against a garage that the guy had hauled in
i believe they have all been removed by now
i have some property up in the foothills and some people would just push their cars and trucks over the edge and they are wedged in amongst the trees,where I cant get them out
i would go miles off road and always would find rows of old cars,many model As and Ts
there was no rust out ,just surface rust
i couldnt understand it
but my girlfriends grandmother clued me in
there were no junk yards back in the 30s or 40s (in rural Idaho)
so they would drive the cars out as far as they could get ,and just walk away from them,so all her cars were in a row
even back then a few people went out and hauled the good ones back to town
i remember a beautiful brewster green roadster body standing up against a garage that the guy had hauled in
i believe they have all been removed by now
i have some property up in the foothills and some people would just push their cars and trucks over the edge and they are wedged in amongst the trees,where I cant get them out
Randy
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I was out dove hunting once (well, everyone else was hunting, I was scouring the woods for treasures) and I came across a Model T or A body (didn't know the difference then) and in the pile were 6 or 8 Edison Battery Oil glass bottles. I kept the bottles but left the rest there. It looked like someone had just lifted the body off and set it there, probably to use the frame for a farm trailer. I gave a few bottles away, but still have a couple of them.
Stretch Cab
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i'm probably wrong but my guess is that it is a coup of some make. The two doors and what looks to be the "turtle deck" seem to point to that. The key/magneto switch should be easy for someone to identify.
Greg Jones
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I'm thinking the key here is Marvel Mystery Oil....that should cure what ails it.
Jack '29 Sport Coupe
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Back in the day, all of the "old school" car salesmen would have some choice
"catch phrases" to describe such a find. Here are some I remember:
It runs out real good
It's a little jewel
She's a creampuff
Owned by a little old lady
Only driven to church on Sunday
Jack
"catch phrases" to describe such a find. Here are some I remember:
It runs out real good
It's a little jewel
She's a creampuff
Owned by a little old lady
Only driven to church on Sunday
Jack
Farrell In Vancouver
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Yeah all the hard work is already done!
I have always been amazed at how far these "bush finds" are dismantled or ripped into pieces. Who had the time and tools to do that? I could see it if it was discovered in a wash or at the bottom of a cliff, but the stuff you see sitting in the middle of nowhere, all torn to pices..........Aliens?
I have always been amazed at how far these "bush finds" are dismantled or ripped into pieces. Who had the time and tools to do that? I could see it if it was discovered in a wash or at the bottom of a cliff, but the stuff you see sitting in the middle of nowhere, all torn to pices..........Aliens?
james hitchcock
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A light sanding should do.
Randy in ca
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Chris Haynes
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The reason so many car bodies are abandoned is economics. Junkies say cutting the frame and axles out from under a car brought more money than cutting up the body and hauling it off. Acetylene is expensive.