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babysnakes
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SKT posted this last December. I drove by yesterday. I've known about this place for years. The bug has been moved and what's left of the building has been cleared.
There are all types of classic cars returning to the earth. There are various stories about who owns the lot. Over the years more cars are added and left to rot. Nothing is for sale.
Whats left of the building in SKT's pic used to be standing but collapsed on top of classic Rolls Royces, Bentleys, split window Corvettes and various muscle cars. The were all destroyed when the building fell on them. Crying shame! |
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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This in my opinion is awful. Why buy the cars if you aren't going to do anything with them? Then, to let them rot away and not even place them in storage. When that building collapsed, if the cars that were in it were what you said they were, then hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cars were destroyed. Terrible.
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Evil Clown
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:02 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Over 8 years ago.
It maybe still there cos the vines are absorbing the water
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FullFender
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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66 at my buddies house. I'm gonna bring it home soon to part out, it is to far gone to save. When we were loading it onto his trailer to take home I opened the passenger door and the whole door jam came of with it 
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Went to his house today to pic up some boxes of parts and some engines. It's been just under year since we were last there. Here is another pic of the 66 which has probably sunk another few inches towards mama earth. Also his rail. He had some OG 36 horse motors just sitting in a shed 
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bvolks
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:16 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Found in the woods by my niece yesterday.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:57 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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I found these years ago, owner wouldn't sell, "I'm going to restore them.".
Owner passes, son says "Nope, I'm going to restore them.".
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Evil Clown
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Ad said: original hubcaps 
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danfromsyr
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banana split
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Found these pictures online : moss covered split windshield Bus sitting in a forest in Norway
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jeffrey8164 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Looks like it could be left that way and made to run.
Not fast though. Doubt the clover can hold on tight.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Wood fired steam engine?
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Type 34 in the background... Edit: found it
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jwold
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Found these pictures online : moss covered split windshield Bus sitting in a forest in Norway
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And with the stove pipe sticking out of the top of it! |
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Jacks
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Which side are the cargo doors on? 
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Bunglebus
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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2nd picture must be flipped - good eye!
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spencersk8
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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EmpiGT
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Anyone else try to make out what the mangled mess is farther up the hill? Looks almost like a smashed barndoor with added vents in the roof. |
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spencersk8
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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| ^thats an old 40 foot camper that’s been crushed by rocks from the cliff above, how they got it there is beyond me |
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Skim
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:23 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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is that Colorado? Looks kinda like Northern NM
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