Don't park in one spot too long . . .

I got talking to some old geezer about cars and tractors. He's 98 years old and used to have his own repair shop. He was telling me about all the junker Ford Model Ts and As people dumped on him as payment, when they lacked cash back around WWII. He told me he buried all sheet metal just to get rid of it. Took some of the running-gears and either made farm-equipment, or parked out in one of his "wet fields."

Ended up he offered to sell me any Ford As or Ts that were still there at $75 each. I bought four and that was enough. Most had huge trees growing through the center of them. Ended up using my chain saw more then my cutting torches. This was all "walk in." I had to carry in, or wheel-in and out all tools and parts. The area had become a swamp full of huge white pine trees snd hawthorne thorn trees.

I took one photo with a bad cell-phone camera.
Model A Ford with a white pine grown between the frame rails. My main interest was to retried the three-speed transmissions that are used in many small farm tractors.

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There was just a thing on TV here about car cemeteries. Old american cars in a place in Switzerland and another in Sweden with bumpers grown into trees, trees growing out of trunks, etc being sold to collecters for thousands of dollars. Some were sold to freaks for lawn ornaments.


Dave

Now I know why my ancestors left Europe! LOL! The
things people will spend money on!

Christopher

Guy paid 16000 Euro ($21,500) for a 57 Chevy that was grown into a tree. They cut the chunk out of the tree, picked the car up with a set of junkyard jaws and put it on a trailer.

Dave

Ford dealer in my old area of western KS pushed cars and pickups over into shale canyons just to get rid of them during the depression. Most were probably model Ts and other brands. Any yes, they were later picked over.