and as bad as tires were in the 60s, how do so damn many still hold air after 50 some years? That's crazy!
this tree is working on growing around the fender
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
these make me wonder why so many people in the 60s just dumped vehicles in the back 40 acres, since we've all seen vehicles in such worse shape driving around
and as bad as tires were in the 60s, how do so damn many still hold air after 50 some years? That's crazy!
this tree is working on growing around the fender
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Rode coast to coast last year, saw old cars in the Heartland used as flowerbeds - and cars in same shape actually driving around Detroit. Amazing sights....
ReplyDelete60 years ago I asked my Dad why there were so many old cars sitting out behind barns. He said, "They go to buy a new car, the dealer offers them $100 trade in. They get mad, say 'I can sell the parts for more than that!" They park it out behind the barn and never get around to selling those parts."
ReplyDeleteohhhh! Huh, I never thought of it like that. I grew up where the old car just got parked out back, because no one would buy it when it was know to be totally worn out and in need of too much repair work, and you had to pay someone to tow it 100 miles to the nearest junkyard.
DeleteI bet it was either the dealership thing, near cities and dealerships, or out back of the barn, if they were way out in the country
My grandparents had a farm in Southern Ohio. They took the old cars and trucks into one field and left them there. They went back as far as a late 50's Olds 4-door up through a mid 70's Malibu. My brother salvaged the 350 from the Malibu, but everything else was just rusting away. One of my uncles must have sold the cars for scrap, because they were all gone a few years ago the last time I was there. There was still one old Oliver tractor, though.
ReplyDeleteI know a guy that when the his cars get wrecked or the transmission croaks, he parks them out back and buys an identical vehicle to drive, then uses the old one for parts.
ReplyDeleteafter three or four years, you be surprised how many parts you remove from the old one, he even gets the same color vehicle, so the fenders and doors match.
im sure he has saved many many thousands of dollars over his life doing this.