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By Y block Billy - 14 Years Ago
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Arrived in Texarcana yesterday and went to the site today, We were done after noon so on the way up to the plant i saw some 58 F100's (3 of them) sitting in fields etc so I stopped and did some junk shopping, another guy had hundreds of antique cars but nobody wants to part with anything, they are keeping them all for parts cars they are restoring. What a bummer.
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By MoonShadow - 14 Years Ago
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Thats Texas! Lots of cars in old closed junkyards and I even found a carlot that had closed around 1960 with a couple dozen cars on the lot. They were still there in the late 80's. Several Merc's, several Metropolitins, a couple of Mopars. The most interesting was a 57 Ford 4 dr hardtop with all power and air. Must have been top of the line in 57. Mileage was in the 20's. I found the son of the original owner of the lot. He was keeping them to "do something with someday". It just sat ever since they closed the lot down ! Texas just be's that way  Chuck in NH
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By Daniel Jessup - 14 Years Ago
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I have lost track at the number of times I have stopped somewhere to wheel and deal on parts cars rotting down to the ground, outside, no cover, weeds all around 'em, (one time an honest to God tree through the engine bay propping up the hood!), etc, etc. Only to hear, it's not for sell, going to restore it, blah, blah, blah. So....the things just sit, rot, rust out, waste away to nothing until the landowner dies, the county gets upset, and someone crushes them all. Out here there was a horrific story about this kind of thing. About a half hour away from here, a "nut" I know (his brother and I tried to talk him out of it), crushed over two hundred complete 40's, 50's, and 60's cars, some of them good enough to restore, other obviously parts cars. He wouldn't sell him at $10, $100, or $1000. One day, he just up and decides to have most of them crushed. About two months later, he passed away suddenly, and the other relative completed the job. Flat out crazy.
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By The Master Cylinder - 14 Years Ago
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It is crazy and really sad.
This old fella up the street from me had a Kiaser-Frazer from the early '50's (the big 4 door, The "Manhattan" I think it was called) that he used to drive and I mean this thing was nice. Then he just "stored" it in his back yard. I watched the weeds grow, than finally a tree through the engine compartment. Used to ask him if he wanted to sell, but of coarse he was going to fix it up one of these days.
One day while walking down the street I noticed it was gone... He had passed and his daughter sold it for scrape.
By this time the car needed some work but it was all there and not that bad, being a California car all it's life.
Yeah, Crazy and really sad...
http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/kaiser.html
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By Y block Billy - 14 Years Ago
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Yeah, the guy's neighbor I talked to for quite a while, he used to restore cars and showed me some of his stuff, he said his neighbor will never do anything thing with them and if it was up to him he would have me haul them off. The only thing is i would have to haul them to Teds place, its a lot shorter than hauling them to Maine. on the other hand it is strange how the sun bakes the crap out of all the tops and interior down here, the surface of the cars ends up complete rust from the paint getting baked off by the sun and interiors are baked right out of them. In my neck of the woods the paint stays on, interiors stay good but the floors rust out. hard to say which is easier to deal with. the cars down here would need to be completely sandblasted, dipped etc, ours you patch the floors, sand the paint and respray them. 6 in one half a dozen in the other, can't say what I would rather do to restore one but it almost looks like patching a floor is easier.
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