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

That's too cool, where did you find that at?

 

At a mine in the Aguila, Az area.

Curly

 

Ran across this 48-50 Ford school bus totally covered in black berry vines. The bus is storage for old bike parts, couldn't get a pic of the front, ex hippie motor home.

 

What's next to it in picture #2?

 

A Scout. ^^^

 

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Here's a view looking the other direction....

 

6 cylinder makes it a 1930

 

Thanks BigGeorge. I thought it was a 1915-20 model era due to the wood in the A pillars, etc. Dashboard shape is a match for 1930

Curly

 

Most GM's used wood framing for the body until the early 30's

 

1937 was the transition year- GM experimented with putting steel doors in some 36's.

 

Been looking at this car since I first saw it out the window of the bus on the way to school years ago. It's in a wooded area about a mile from where I live now, about a couple hundred yards off a main road but you can only see it in the winter when the leaves are off the trees. I went to see what it was the other day, pretty sure it's a '38 Cadillac, but very rough.

 

that caddy is pretty cool

 

Way cool, the manifold looks like it's enameled?

 

I thought it was some kind of porcelain, but not sure what it is exactly.

 

It IS porcelain zed from factory,,,
Get that transmission !!! they were wanted when I was young,,

 

The body on the Cad (or LaSalle, could be either, basically same car) is too far gone, still a good pickup truck load of neat stuff. Wish I could spend a day with truck, hand tools, gas wrench, and some means to load that motor onto the truck. With the carb off and plugs out, water has gotten in the cylinders. No doubt it's stuck, but it might be freed up with ATF or MMO, time, a breaker bar and patience. If you get it to turn, you might have a buildable engine. They were once a popular hot rod engine, some speed equipment made for them back in the day. By all means liberate that trans. Also pull the steering box and column. The Cad/LaSalle steering boxes were very good, easy steering for a big heavy car with no power assist. Even if you don't need any of it, there are a bunch of desirable parts you can sell or trade for stuff you want or need.

 

That makes sense, If I was closer, I would.

 

so digging the finds in this thread ... keep them coming ... =)

 

The car is not mine to take anything off of, and not even really sure who owns the land. There are some houses above it, and it may be their's, I would have to ask around. That said, I'm sure the engine is roached, with the carb and plugs gone, it most certainly has water in it, and as cold as it gets around here, it's probably cracked from freezing. Also, it's not in a spot you could get a truck back there with the trees, and you're not going to just lift it out by hand, at least I can't! As for the trans, its buried in the ground pretty deep, the car looks like it's been there 50 years or so. Here's a pic showing how far it's sunk in the ground, just look at the rear tire, the whole car is this deep.

 

I can see the top of the transmission in one of your photos, so might be possible to dig it out of there. 1937-53 Cad stick transmissions are worth the time and effort.

 

Here's an old Mack flat bed converted to haul logs with a custom hoist and rack on the back. It was used by the old man I purchased my home from. He used to run an old sawmill, which still stands next door to my house, and this was the rig he used to haul the logs from the woods out back.
I dont know the year, but it still has a bunch of goodies, yet he wont allow any picking of it, whatsoever.

 

Good eye!! get the trans man!

 

if it was me, I'd snag that bike that someone left there.

 

That may be what he rode in there! LoL!


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Yeah, the bike is mine, I rode it as far as I could and then pushed and carried it the rest of the way.

Here's another Caddi I saw last summer that I forgot to post the pics of. It's in a small town in northern Missouri.

 

I love old cars, but especially Caddis. I would probably try to rescue the old 38 and see what I could make of it but I definitely follow up on the 56? as well. I have a 53 that I found under a huge shrub. Only the taillights were sticking out when I found it. It's a someday project.

 

I think it's a '54, but no matter. Looks like it would be a nice one to get back on the road

 

Ran across these today, all at the same location.

 

Strange the way these were buttoned up?