People who let rare cars rot.
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I spotted this car probably 8 - 10 years ago in a shed. I stopped and inquired about it. The guy told me he was selling the entire place...house, property, shed.. and the guy he was talking to wanted to car to go with the sale. Fast forward a couple of years (this is now 10 - 12 years from the time I first spotted the car). It is now about 1/2 mile down the road, sitting outside. Been sitting outside like this for a couple of years. I won't bother to ask the guy what he will do with it.
We call them "yard ornaments". Every time I see a vert sitting outside, no top, I tell myself I am lucky I hate verts. Had a few.
People are funny. Some are plain strange. Some are just retarded. I guess it is their right!? ha
People are funny. Some are plain strange. Some are just retarded. I guess it is their right!? ha
This one is not too far from you. It's just south of Carthage on St. Hwy. 315.
I moved to SE Tx 3 years ago!!! You are behind! Thanks anyway.
Yeah, I know where Shepherd is. Carthage, Texas is about 2 hours north of you on 59. No matter; you're not a fan of rag tops anyway.
Sorry, confused. I used to live 35 miles from Carthage, Missouri!!!!!! lol True, I hate ragtops, I have had a few over the decades. They just aren't me. Hate the cost of the tops, the water leaks, the air noise, the odd parts. Thanks for thinking of me anyway!
And this is how a hobby turns into a hate fest. My mother owns a 55 crown Victoria has sat for years, I have seen thousands of”rare” cars that may or may never run again. Why hate someone because of a machine? I have crushed all brands of cars trucks tractors combines etc. You will be gone long before all these machines are gone. I remember when model Ts model As 32’s 40’s were the rage and you could buy a mustang-roadrunner-chevelle cheap! And I have bought them cheap. This won’t be the last post to hate on people that own cars. You really should stop with the jealousy and enjoy what you can. If you won’t pay the price-you won’t buy! Good luck with your cars but the hate really needs to go.
There is a 2018 Hellcat parked behind a barn down the road from me. lol
It will be rare shortly and will be still sitting there. lol
I don't like seeing stuff sit, but it does. Someone has or had a plan, but it hasn't worked out.
It will be rare shortly and will be still sitting there. lol
I don't like seeing stuff sit, but it does. Someone has or had a plan, but it hasn't worked out.
Cuda Al
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Every once and a while one escapes.
This person has a field full of cars, almost all big block B-Body.
2010
The day it left, August 2010
Six and a half years later
Genuine CHP cars are hard to find, the holly grail 1969, I didn't think I'd ever find one yet be able to acquire and restore one.
Alan
This person has a field full of cars, almost all big block B-Body.
2010
The day it left, August 2010
Six and a half years later
Genuine CHP cars are hard to find, the holly grail 1969, I didn't think I'd ever find one yet be able to acquire and restore one.
Alan
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
we moved to this side of town almost 3 years ago
one of the first days we were here I spotted something wegdy looking under a typical blue tarp
well, time passed and the tarp is now disintegrated
so the other day, me and the wife passed by there and I could actually see the car...not a clue what it is
at first I thought it looked liked a de Tomaso but a quick google search didn't jive, this thing has huge air scoops behind the doors, so whatever it is, its a rear engine car
I drove passed it to get a closer look and it looks real cool, but no clue what it is
(whats even worse, is I caught a glimpse of EV2 in the garage behind it, so you know that one hasn't moved in 3 years either)
I told the wife what a waste it was to let that car just sit there, so she says "why don't you ask if its for sale?"
I may have to see how the budget looks next year
one of the first days we were here I spotted something wegdy looking under a typical blue tarp
well, time passed and the tarp is now disintegrated
so the other day, me and the wife passed by there and I could actually see the car...not a clue what it is
at first I thought it looked liked a de Tomaso but a quick google search didn't jive, this thing has huge air scoops behind the doors, so whatever it is, its a rear engine car
I drove passed it to get a closer look and it looks real cool, but no clue what it is
(whats even worse, is I caught a glimpse of EV2 in the garage behind it, so you know that one hasn't moved in 3 years either)
I told the wife what a waste it was to let that car just sit there, so she says "why don't you ask if its for sale?"
I may have to see how the budget looks next year
Yet there it is. That's super cool, man. Thanks for sharing.
Cuda Al
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Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
Cool looking car, I like the story and the progress!
Mopar87
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This thread makes me feel bad.I want to get started on my 73 scamp but I need to clean up,organize, and build work benches in my shop before I can do anything to the scamp.Meanwhile the scamp is sitting on my driveway under a tree.
Mopar-Mitch
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Well, after trying to get the taillights from the demon in the sink hole, I finally succeeded today, glad they are now in my possession sometimes you can finally get parts or cars people aren't willing to part with, I can now replace my chipped taillight with a good one and have a backup if something bad happens. 
Are these from the Demon in the sinkhole? Nice score.
Mopar-Mitch
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Yes, they are from the sink hole, they cleaned up good, I need to repaint the chrome inside the housings. The chipped one is from my car.
Glad you were able to pry them away, your patience is rewarded. Dying to find out what they cost. Less than a big block I hope.
Mopar-Mitch
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I traded a 440 block, it was a 1977 cast crank, short block minus cam, it had no heads, pickup tube or oil pan, I had $150.00 in it, so I basically got the taillights for $150.00, thanks to my brother who let me have it cheap.
To me it's not just about rare cars. Whatever those are. I get sad seeing any older American car past the point of no return. That's a piece of American automotive history that's gone, regardless of rarity. It's gone. I don't hate others because of it. In the end, it's their property and theirs to do with as they please. If they choose to be stupid, that's on them. Move on and find another car. I LIKE CARS and I am saddened when I see one slip away. It's really pretty simple.
Mopar-Mitch
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I feel the same, I don't hate anybody ,its only a car, but it hurts to see one waste away when it could benefit someone else, three houses up from me an old lady has a 69 ford torino GT fastback, it's been sitting in the back yard for years and she wont sell it, but I can understand because she bought it new and it means something to her, I hope some of her children restore it before it's too far gone.
I wonder how many of those people realize the cost to get them back on the road goes up with time. I have things go wrong with my old parked car in a garage! Image the cost difference between a semi solid car and a rotted frame from being parked in the grass. If they truly cared about the car they would let someone fix it. While i'm wondering, would they sell if they could have a hand in the resto or were promised a visit and ride when running?
Way back many years ago I was driving down a back country Missouri road and of I see an old farmhouse, and right there I spot what looked like a '71 B body, hummmmm, maybe a RoadRunner, maybe a decent old car and maybe it is for sale at a reasonable price???? Maybe never know. I drive up the lane to the old house and car, and I see it is running and some old looking guy sitting in it. Yep it sure looks like a 71 RR and has some patina, the old farmhouse looks like it came from the civil war, lots of patina! I get out of my pickup and strike up a conversatipn. I tell him I am a Mopar lovers have a few, and his old bird sounds pretty good.
He gives me the story of how he came to own it, we talked of some of the good times he had with the car, how he brought his kids home from the hospital when they were born in the RR , how they grew up and moved away, how his wife used to love the trip to town and the grocery store they made every couple weeks, how she had passed 10 years prior.... we talked and talked, and he just sat there listening to it idling and it sounded pretty good. I bragged on his old car, and he tells me how he comes out and starts it every week and just sits there hearing it run. He tells me how it used to sit under an old lean to of the old barn, but it was about to fall down and he moved it out there years ago, he tells me how he is too old and woreout to build a shed for it, no one on to help him do it, hates it to sit out in the snow. He says he can't drive it anymore, he has some sight issues. A neighbor lady does is shopping and takes him if he has to get somewhere.
I said lets take it down the road and "blow it out" I bet it could use it. So we do and he is so damned excited. It needed some tune up but it ran OK, sorta.
I asked him if he had anything we could use for a shed and he said yes old tin of the barn that fell over. I told I can put up a roof over it one afternoon easy. I told him it would be a coupe of weeks but I would be back. When I returned a few weeks later, he was not there. The next trip there I could find no one home, the old RR as not there, so I and asked a neighbor and said he had passed one night in his sleep.
He gives me the story of how he came to own it, we talked of some of the good times he had with the car, how he brought his kids home from the hospital when they were born in the RR , how they grew up and moved away, how his wife used to love the trip to town and the grocery store they made every couple weeks, how she had passed 10 years prior.... we talked and talked, and he just sat there listening to it idling and it sounded pretty good. I bragged on his old car, and he tells me how he comes out and starts it every week and just sits there hearing it run. He tells me how it used to sit under an old lean to of the old barn, but it was about to fall down and he moved it out there years ago, he tells me how he is too old and woreout to build a shed for it, no one on to help him do it, hates it to sit out in the snow. He says he can't drive it anymore, he has some sight issues. A neighbor lady does is shopping and takes him if he has to get somewhere.
I said lets take it down the road and "blow it out" I bet it could use it. So we do and he is so damned excited. It needed some tune up but it ran OK, sorta.
I asked him if he had anything we could use for a shed and he said yes old tin of the barn that fell over. I told I can put up a roof over it one afternoon easy. I told him it would be a coupe of weeks but I would be back. When I returned a few weeks later, he was not there. The next trip there I could find no one home, the old RR as not there, so I and asked a neighbor and said he had passed one night in his sleep.
Bless you, man. You probably made his day just listening to him and offering to help him with a shed. You gave him something to hope for, even if he didn't live to see it.
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