It's a mad mad mad mad world, a German "artiste" bought 50 cars made in 1950, put them around his property to watch them decay

Michael Fröhlich is a former fashion designer, racer, philosopher and artist as well as a unique classic car dealer and expert restorer.

Yet he drives around Düsseldorf in a charred Rolls Royce that was all but incinerated when his dealership burnt down in 2005. He has written several reference books and traveled the world searching for rare automobiles and tracking down lost collections.

But in his backyard, he concieved a Auto Skulpturen Park, a museum/ sculpture park of sorts in the Neander Valley near Mettmann, Germany. Surrounded by a security fence in the wooded hillside next to Fröhlich’s house, fifty classic cars were parked here when the car enthusiast turned 50 in the year 2000. They were all made the same year he was born

http://www.michaelfroehlich.com/

Full gallery at, and these photos from  http://www.alamy.com/search/Imageresults.aspx?st=21&simid=4051504&qt=E03P4F

Learned about this from the May 26th 2014 issue of Autoweek magazine

Bigger gallery at http://www.fotogalerie-thomas.de/transport/fahrzeuge/inland/ruhrgebiet/autoskulpturenpark/autoskulpturenpark.html
also a good article at http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/30/the-vintage-supercars-rotting-away-in-a-forest-because-thats-how-the-owner-wants-it/