Art & Inspiration Sitting and Rotting.............picture thread

...the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round....

 

Wrong picture it is a bus. My camera quit working so i looked in my pictures and didnt realize it wasnt the correct picture. That bus I bought in missouri at a estate auction it was1/2 full of hoarded junk. It is now completly full. I towed it home behind a 3/4 ton 64 chev wrecker. raised the front wheels only 6 inches from the ground. If I gassed to quickly I pulled wheelies. If I ever have to tow something that heavy again ill attach a Y block ford boat anchor to the front bumper! The hood was jammed and after i got it home and pryed it open I was dissapointed to see that it wasnt a flathead V8. it was a flathead six. The very next week I sold the engine to a fellow hamber that lives in Calif. He promptly sent me the money. after several months he called stating he was coming to get his engine.I pulled his engine the next day. When I got it it was stuck . So I told him that he was buying a stuck engine. however I had previously pulled the plugs and filled the cyl.s with auto trans fluid and diesel mix. When I got it pulled it turned over freely by hand. He Drove from calif to retreve it. We had a really good visit and he really enjoyed looking at my sitting and rotting hoard. Another Hamber also once drove from calif to get a V12 lincoln flathead. He bought some more goodies when he came. OldWolf

 

This63 Studebaker wagon has been sitting for years .I was drinking my morning coffee looking through CL and it was in the free section! So now I have a Wagon project to add to my things to do.

 

Whats with all the pictures from the Vanderbrink website for the Hastings, Nebraska Auction?

 

That's not a wagon. That's a WAGONAIRE!

 

My bad .thanks for the correction Mr. Barn find

 

I thought they fit the bill as Sitting and Rotting. You apparently disapprove, so they're gone.

 

Nooooooo dont listen to one guy. I was digging them.

 

Is this the same car?

 

whewww...EsterEdie.....it's got the single headlite grille.....I like that.....

 

Model A some where in Oregon?

 

Strange how those two headlights have kept so well considering what the rest has gone through. Same for the radiator shell and cap.

 

Probably due to the high quality plating done back then. They weren't as worried about protecting the environment as protecting the metal they plated.

 

Some of my latest finds,
55 Speedster in a barn since 1969
Whole truckload of Porsche's

One of the cars on the carts won Daytona in 67.

 

Well it's all stainless steel on 30/31 A's wojojo. I meant that those parts have,nt been swiped yet or even smashed in. Even the horn is still there.

 

The guy was born and raised Studebaker his dad work at the dealer in Anchorage until they went out of business . He has a hand full of Studebakers still . He said he took the grill and fenders of a 64 but has the original stuff for me too . He's also giving me brand new grill still in original Studebaker box!

 

Found these recently at our local U pull it....

 

...The owner says he drove this car where it was parked 30 years ago. time, thieves, vandals have taken their toll.... Now he just wants to see it gone.....
Stash. ...........

 

...Barn find....

 

Looks like he got his wish. Congratulations! What's the plan?

 

That is the same car..

 

...No plans. probably part it out.....
Stash. ...........

 

Re that porsche find. Not HAMB material but who cares - that's incrediable!

 

Here's just a few of many I've found.

 

A few more. The Falcon I saved from sitting for the past 20 years. Future project.

 

That tarp sure helped protect this one.

 

just to make you guys feel a little better....

 

That makes a good start.

 

Here is an old Truck sitting outside a building in an Oregon Ghost town of Shanniko.