Rust in Peace...old cars you've come across.

[2011G6E]

Decided to start this thread after finding a few photos I've taken over the years of old cars out in the bush and in isolated areas and hidden corners of wrecking yards. Here's a couple to get you started:


A little old Morris Minor I found out behind the dump at Dingo, where masses of old cars are sitting around the bush. The chassis and running gear were missing, so maybe someone made a bush basher buggy out of that part. Most have been pushed up into heaps, but some sit there neatly. One I wish I had got a photo of was an XB wagon, complete with six cylinder and three speed, all the windows, covered entirely in a fine coat of surface rust, but otherwise complete and pretty good nic. Could have been a good basis for a rat-rod style car. I grabbed the original chrome roof rack (the one that mounts straight to the surface of the roof) and rails, and the next week it was turned over, the diff and engine taken, and it was burned out.



A Charger up the back of Highway Wreckers in Bundy a couple of years back. Sad end.


Another Charger, this time less "rust" than a case of "Idiot who's going to do it up one day and refuses to sell even though it's sat there for years with three feet of weeds around it" syndrome. You'd have to move twenty cars to even get it out of the yard behind a machinery business unless you came through the neighbours fence. I seem to recall it's out at Jericho. I hardly even got the words from my mouth of "I wanted to ask about the silver Charger...", when I was curtly told "Not for sale, none of the cars there are".



At the wrecking yard in Gracemere a couple of years back. Old Holdens returning to the earth, but with a few interesting bits and pieces left on them.


Another gem at Gracemere Wreckers before they had thier big cleanup. An ancient Series One (or close to it) very short wheelbase Land Rover...probably less "Rust in peace" because it's alloy. Apart from missing wheels, it was all there, and in really good condition. Thankfully it seems to have gone to a good home. I'd fix it mechanically but leave it looking like that, absolutely chock-full of charachter!


Who else has found something interesting out in the bush or in a wreckers yard?