Sad Sight
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Sad Sight In my job I get to wander off in the woods on different people's property, with permission of course. I see some interesting sights and have decided to snap pics along the way. We had pics a few weeks ago from another guy who believed he'd found a late 50's Vette sitting in the woods....wait for it...."rusting away" in his own words. It took just a minute to tell him that fiberglass doesn't rust, turns out it was a late 50's Tbird with a tree growing through the middle.
On to these pics. Very nice gentleman, talked about cars for 30 min while I was on site, but snapped these pics before he came out. He also has a 1968 SS396 in the same shape, a 67 SS396 in a little better shape, and determined never to sell them and will restore them one day. One of these is a 68 Malibu and the other is a 71 or 72 Malibu.
It frustrates me because by the time people get around to restoring them they'll be too far gone. I recently sold my 67 Camaro that was in near perfect shape, just apart, because I didn't have the time, money, or patience to fix it. So I let someone else enjoy it. I just wish people would store these cars so they will atleast not get any worse.
Ok, rant over. I'll buy an old one when I win the lottery.
On to these pics. Very nice gentleman, talked about cars for 30 min while I was on site, but snapped these pics before he came out. He also has a 1968 SS396 in the same shape, a 67 SS396 in a little better shape, and determined never to sell them and will restore them one day. One of these is a 68 Malibu and the other is a 71 or 72 Malibu.
It frustrates me because by the time people get around to restoring them they'll be too far gone. I recently sold my 67 Camaro that was in near perfect shape, just apart, because I didn't have the time, money, or patience to fix it. So I let someone else enjoy it. I just wish people would store these cars so they will atleast not get any worse.
Ok, rant over. I'll buy an old one when I win the lottery.
Last edited by ncsu602; Mar 2, 2011 at 07:33 PM.
I am with you. I let go of my 68 GTO about a year ago because it sat at my father in laws house for about 6 months. That was my first car and I had done a decent restoration on it but then I got married and had a few kids so the car took the back seat so to say. It had a few mechanical problems there at the end so I parked it and it sat for about a year then I let it go to another guy who wanted to restore it. Those old cars paved the road for all of us modern muscle guys and girls and sorry but there still isn't a better sound than a cam'd and built big block. I'll miss it but at least I know it is in good hands.
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I'd trade mine today for a driveable 69 Camaro. My father in law is in the planning stages of restoring his 69 Chevelle.....I'm hoping to let him pay the bills and I can drive the car! I missed out, I was born at the wrong time. I love my 99, but it's just different.
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I didn't even ask prices, I knew he wouldn't sell. He had alot of other stuff too, the American Pickers guys would've had alot of fun. He wouldn't sell anything. The malibus weren't that big of a deal, but the two SS big blocks with trees growing through them really broke my heart.
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That's a shitty deal, those cars just rotting away like that. I sold my SOM SS this past December to pick up my '69 Camaro, my dream car! Never looked back! If Jesus drove a car, it would be a '69 Camaro!
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I can take you to atleast 10 different sites in this county alone.....no one sells. There's supposedly a 67 396/375 Camaro a few miles away from my house....rotting away in a field. Owner has been offered tons of money. Another crazy old man near here has a 67 Mustang GT Fastback sitting on a trailer on a busy road, in plain sight. I've heard he's been offered over $10k and turned it down, and this car is rough. I've talked to him before, he likes when people stop and want what he has. Actually heard of a 69 COPO 427 Camaro near my parents for years, rotting away in a front yard.
I bought my 67 Camaro in 2008 and had to go 2 hours away and haul it home in boxes. It's always the same deal....."Aw I'm gonna restore that one day." I left notes and business cards on 10 different cars and doors, still no one budged. I'm sure it's everywhere like this, I just see it more being able to visit multiple properties in a day.
I bought my 67 Camaro in 2008 and had to go 2 hours away and haul it home in boxes. It's always the same deal....."Aw I'm gonna restore that one day." I left notes and business cards on 10 different cars and doors, still no one budged. I'm sure it's everywhere like this, I just see it more being able to visit multiple properties in a day.
I work for the phone company and sometimes I go out to the countryside down here and I see the same thing. All kinds of good cars that are still in salvagable condition but the owners don't want to sell. I talked to one customer one day and their neighbor had a 68 camaro in their front yard on flats and the windows were clouding up from sitting for so long. Me and my buddy went there to see if they would sell it. Before he could get the words out of his mouth about the camaro the ladies that lived there shut him down and told him not for sale.
My buddies dad is high up in the sheriff's office and he was thinking about going back over there and get his dad to put up a notice on the door as a visual public nuisance and get his dad to take the car and save it from rusting away.
We have run across a bunch of the same old guys that give you the same line "I'm going to restore that car so its not for sale" 1, 2 or 3 years later the car is still sitting in the same spot in the same condition. It hurts to see cars like that just rotting away. My dad had an all original 1966 chevy II SS and Katrina took it from us. That really almost made me cry when I saw the condition of the car. It wasn't just flooded. It was pushed outside and every body panel was crushed and bent up. We vowed to get another one someday.
My buddies dad is high up in the sheriff's office and he was thinking about going back over there and get his dad to put up a notice on the door as a visual public nuisance and get his dad to take the car and save it from rusting away.
We have run across a bunch of the same old guys that give you the same line "I'm going to restore that car so its not for sale" 1, 2 or 3 years later the car is still sitting in the same spot in the same condition. It hurts to see cars like that just rotting away. My dad had an all original 1966 chevy II SS and Katrina took it from us. That really almost made me cry when I saw the condition of the car. It wasn't just flooded. It was pushed outside and every body panel was crushed and bent up. We vowed to get another one someday.
me and my dad was hunting for an old mopar to restore probly 10-11 years ago and we searched for about a year. you wouldnt believe the cars we found rusting away and the owners wont sell. we even ran across a superbird in a barn and the old lady wouldnt sell it... theres a 69 chevelle rotting away across the street and a 69 superbee rusting away on the property behind us 
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It's twice as bad now due to the prices some people will pay. A friend of mine just went to look at a 67 Mustang GT fastback, 289 3 speed. The car is currently on ebay for $8500, and my friend is a mustang expert (owns 7) and said he wouldn't give $2000 for it due to it looking like swiss cheese. It'll sell for a rediculous amount of money. People around here won't sell, or if they do, they ask 10 times what it's worth.
