Junked cars on my hunting property

[PILOON]

My son's FIL found a Cat D8 on his back 40 and he wants it gone.
It would be free but on condition that the forest is untouched, perhaps a Sikorsky sky crane might do the job?

 

[Oldoak]

If you venture out in South Dakota, you will find stock dams on many ranches lined with old cars from the '40s. Just halve submerged with trees growing through them where the windows once were.

 

[Oldoak]

My son's FIL found a Cat D8 on his back 40 and he wants it gone.
It would be free but on condition that the forest is untouched, perhaps a Sikorsky sky crane might do the job?

Yes, but certainly not worth the cost unless he has more money than he knows what to do with.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I've been hunting the same property for 5 years now, it's about 125 acres and I really haven't walked the entire property yet. Most of it is in planted pines with lots of hollows and big mature oaks that were untouched during the clearcut some years ago. There are also lots of gulley's and ravines throughout this property. Last Saturday I was walking around there and came across a gulley I hadn't seen before, and when I looked down into it, to my surprise there were three old cars lying in it. There was a 1954 Plymouth, a 1955 Chevy Belair 2 dr HT, and a 1958 Chevy Belair 2 dr HT in the gulley. These cars are roached out, but man, 20 years ago it might have been worth the effort to try and retrieve them, but now it would take an act of congress and a Sikorsky helo to airlift them out. The Plymouth still has the motor and tranny in it, but the two chevy's don't have motors. The Plymouth is the one upside down. Hard to see it in the picture, but it looks like in the past that coyotes have used the area between the Plymouth and the red Belair as a den. It forms a tunnel in between them, and the dirt inside it looks hardpacked and worn, and there are some trails going up the sides of the gulley. Thought some of you might enjoy the story.

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Interesting. The '58, if it is indeed a Bel Air (not Impala) hardtop, it is a rare care. If that's what it is, I suspect it might be worth saving, especially the trim and any body parts that can be saved. The 1958 Bel Air hardtop is a different animal from the Bel Air Impala 2dr hardtop; hardly any of the parts are interchangeable. I have only seen maybe two of the Bel Airs, ever...there are a lot of the Impalas around, except for the 'verts.

The third car looks more like a '55 Ford than a Chevy, but I'll take your word for it...you were there.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

You kind of beat me to the punch. The third car is a Ford. The Chevy is positively a Bel Air. I gamma corrected the picture a little, and you can see the Bel Air name and the extra trim pieces That came on the Bel Air and Impala only.

I will assume that you are of 40's and 50's vintage and are familiar with the vernacular of the time, i.e., that a "hardtop" meant a "hard top convertible" and not just any car with a metal top, including a two door post...Are you sure it's not a two door post?

 

[MossRoad]

I've been hunting the same property for 5 years now, it's about 125 acres and I really haven't walked the entire property yet. Most of it is in planted pines with lots of hollows and big mature oaks that were untouched during the clearcut some years ago. There are also lots of gulley's and ravines throughout this property. Last Saturday I was walking around there and came across a gulley I hadn't seen before, and when I looked down into it, to my surprise there were three old cars lying in it. There was a 1954 Plymouth, a 1955 Chevy Belair 2 dr HT, and a 1958 Chevy Belair 2 dr HT in the gulley. These cars are roached out, but man, 20 years ago it might have been worth the effort to try and retrieve them, but now it would take an act of congress and a Sikorsky helo to airlift them out. The Plymouth still has the motor and tranny in it, but the two chevy's don't have motors. The Plymouth is the one upside down. Hard to see it in the picture, but it looks like in the past that coyotes have used the area between the Plymouth and the red Belair as a den. It forms a tunnel in between them, and the dirt inside it looks hardpacked and worn, and there are some trails going up the sides of the gulley. Thought some of you might enjoy the story.

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Looking in the red car, what's that steel framework with the word STANDARD in the circle? Looks interesting. :scratchchin:

 

[tractchores]

I once found a barn full of old cars at an abandoned farm. No idea who owned the property, House was open and still had old furniture and food in it. We theorized that someone passed and the ownership was messed up. Anyway the barn had 2 floors stuffed with all these old cars, maybe 30 per floor. They were all locked and in good condition, but the barn was falling so some had fallen through the floor and the rest weren’t far behind. I was a kid so had no idea what I was looking at. No idea what ever happened to the property or cars because I moved away.

 

[MossRoad]

I once found a barn full of old cars at an abandoned farm. No idea who owned the property, House was open and still had old furniture and food in it. We theorized that someone passed and the ownership was messed up. Anyway the barn had 2 floors stuffed with all these old cars, maybe 30 per floor. They were all locked and in good condition, but the barn was falling so some had fallen through the floor and the rest weren’t far behind. I was a kid so had no idea what I was looking at. No idea what ever happened to the property or cars because I moved away.

GO BACK!!! :laughing:

You read about barn finds still, in this day and age. You never know.

 

[MossRoad]

From here:

Hardtop - Wikipedia

"A hardtop is a rigid form of automobile roof, also those automobiles that are styled to resemble a convertible.[1][2]

The top may be detachable for separate storing, retractable within the vehicle itself, or permanently attached to an auto that is lacking a center side-support known as a B-pillar. The term is also used to describe such vehicles, principally the last.

Hardtops may be either two-door or four-door versions and lacking a B-pillar they "give the impression of uninterrupted glass along the side of the car.[3]

Hardtops tend to be more expensive and collectible than sedan models of the same vehicle"

 

[ovrszd]

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but in my area at the time, a hardtop was a sports coupe or a car without the two door pillars. a sedan had the pillars.

Yep, that's how I know it as well. Could be a difference in local verbage. New car salesmen of the time used the same terminology that you and I know.