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geno_86ed
03-21-2004, 03:50 PM
Wouldn't you like to find the guy who flipped this merc upside down and torched the frame out from under it. They probably thought nothing of it at the time, just wanted to make some money off of scrap iron, but now it just seems blasphemous. I guess the car is lucky that there weren't car crushers around back then.

Don't worry this car will soon be saved.
Sukie
03-21-2004, 03:54 PM
you see stuff like that all the time I would love to get my hands on them http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif but thats how it goes.
geno_86ed
03-21-2004, 03:57 PM
Here is another from the group.
flatordead
03-21-2004, 03:59 PM
Unbelievable, just like in the 60's.
geno_86ed
03-21-2004, 04:01 PM
Here are some more. Hope no one is getting too sick to their stomach's.
Mike
03-21-2004, 04:06 PM
It looks like there's a lot of very usable tin there to me.
geno_86ed
03-21-2004, 04:12 PM
Yeah remarkably there is very little rust on alot of these cars. The biggest surprise is that they aren't riddled with bullet hole, being out in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming.

Many of them would be less of a project car than I have seen others start with for their build project.

Geno
34Fordtk
03-21-2004, 05:14 PM
Man just how many cars are out there,I see a bunch of stuff in the background.Hell that stuff is MINT......... you better haul ALL of that stuff home!
Kojack
03-21-2004, 05:22 PM
I'd love to be there ther if only to take some cool ass photos. I love that one of the Ford half way in the dirt.
hiboy32
03-21-2004, 05:56 PM
Damn I want that 46-48 coupe, that and the merc. The project cars I see around here dont have a floor or the the bottom 6".
ChrisinPhilly
03-21-2004, 06:59 PM
they're not in Chandler, Kansas by any chance are they? A million years ago in 1971 when I was 14 my family did a road trip through back country Wyoming and I couldn't believe all the tin laying around. I'm sure it's mostly gone, but it'd be interesting to rent a small plane and do a little low level flying to see what's going on in the back of some of the ranchs. More pictures bro, that's some good stuff.
40oz.
03-21-2004, 07:23 PM
damnit man, now im sick.
geno_86ed
03-22-2004, 12:12 AM
Back by popular demand
geno_86ed
03-22-2004, 12:13 AM
and another
geno_86ed
03-22-2004, 12:16 AM
still more
geno_86ed
03-22-2004, 12:18 AM
I have some more pics if people want to see some more. Some upside down, some interior shots, some shots of groups of cars.

That shoebox ford that people seem to like doesn't have the amount of floor cancer that you would think.

Geno
Bigcheese327
03-22-2004, 12:22 AM
Personally I can never get enough pics of old tin out "amongst the pines" as it were. Keep 'em coming! Personally, I'll take the Poncho fastback.
TagMan
03-22-2004, 08:40 AM
Here's a couple sittin' around in Upstate New York......

http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrplates/Lincoln2.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrplates/misc1.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrplates/Picture_0912.jpg