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?

[Road_Warrior]

This wrecking yard in Wongan Hills:

-30.900469,116.726311

(Sorry I don't know how to link images from Google Maps)

Mainly full of junk from the 1980's, however on a recent "fact finding expedition" a mate and I counted 2 XY utes, one of which was complete, 4 ZC/ZD Fairlanes and several Valiants.

[csv8]

There is a winery near Hahndorf that has 6 Escorts in old stables...
The Charger, what a waste....

[gcg2503]

There is already a thread dedicated to this called barn Finds. It has been running for years

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11191294

PS: you actually posted in it last month

[Dezza]

These were both along the Licola-Jamieson Road. I had to laugh at the "suit restoration"

[TheZHLANE]

Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

This wrecking yard in Wongan Hills:

-30.900469,116.726311

(Sorry I don't know how to link images from Google Maps)

Mainly full of junk from the 1980's, however on a recent "fact finding expedition" a mate and I counted 2 XY utes, one of which was complete, 4 ZC/ZD Fairlanes and several Valiants.

Did you ask how much each car was?

[302 XC]

The neighbour has a complete and runnng series 3 landy ute, complete with red motor conversion
Doesnt drive it or start it anymore because he cant be bothered,we both were driving around his paddock a while ago in it
But strangely "Not for sale","Leave it for the grandkids to bash around the paddock",thats the reply every time i ask about it

[Jim Goose]

Ravenswood.... this year.

[Neale]

Near Camden, NSW


Bimbi, Western NSW

[Chris_Rogers01]

that charger near the weeds looks like no wreck to me i would spend money on that asap haha be worth heaps if you do it right and a collectible =)
(just think of the possibilities with that charger)

[jrfttf]

the old holdens in the first post, have to say the wagon a rarity, looks to be a triple tone and in wagon, extremely rare!

[Jim Goose]

These were taken some time ago in beautiful outback QLD:

Half way to Winton from Hughenden near the old abandonned rail line, no farm houses but what appeared to be a dumping area... 2001:



The long lost railway to Winton



Property near Cloncurry 2002: (complete with abandonned farmhouses)



Just outside Hughenden 2002:




If anyone can ID the cars!!!?

[Ford_The_Win]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Property near Cloncurry 2002: (complete with abandonned farmhouses)

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If anyone can ID the cars!!!?

Great photos!

I'm guessing that ^^ is one of these, late '40s or early '50s Chevrolet. Or something from General Motors at least. It looks like it might have even been the same colour. Pictured below is a 1950 model Chevrolet.

[Road_Warrior]

Originally Posted by TheZHLANE

Did you ask how much each car was?

It was closed, and the owner lives in Lancelin apparently.

[2011G6E]

Yes, I remembered the "barn finds" thread...but what most people would call a "barn find" is a vehicle that you stumble across that is still in great shape, or near good condition, which can be easily saved and with minimal work be on the road again after being neglected.

I thought it might be interesting to have a thread for cars...bodies, bits and pieces...that you come across out in the bush, rotting in corners of wrecking yards, down the back of dumps...that are long past saving but which make you say to yourself "Aww what a damn shame...wish I could have been here ten years ago"...

The Holden "wagon" at the wreckers appeared to be a modified ute with a home-made (but well done) back on it. What drew me to it was the unusual chrome trim along the side. Would have been pretty stylish in it's day.

Out the front of Gracemere Wreckers now is a display they have made including a HQ Monaro shell (all flexy like it's been hacked off the floorpan), a couple of old vintage cars...model T's and the like...and an FJ Holden in reasonable condition. Outside the entrance there is an old Ford ambulance, from what looks like the Customline days, which has obviously been turned into a panel van.

[302 XC]

Originally Posted by jrfttf

the old holdens in the first post, have to say the wagon a rarity, looks to be a triple tone and in wagon, extremely rare!

I could be wrong, but the wagon in the first shots is a ute with a canopy added
Check the roof line

[dave351cid]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

image


If anyone can ID the cars!!!?

thats a Ferguson TEA 20 bonnet on the back of the old truck.