Posted on 10/13/2015 6:05:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
The Chevy or the John Deere? (8^D)
Old and ratted out old farm trucks are kinda cool looking. Long as I don’t have to touch them!
I have a cousin who has around 8 or 9 old and somewhat desirable cars just sitting out in the weather. I was talking to a guy who restores cars and he wanted a couple of the 64 Mustangs.
I phoned my cousin and he said they were not for sale. Ten years later, they are still rusting away.
Cool old iron! Couldn’t miss the John Deere behind her, though. The farmers on Mother’s side of the family all ran Deere equipment. My uncle had one each of the models A, B, C and D. All’s I will say is when you pop a wheelie on a John Deere D, you’ve scared the crap out of yourself. ;)
these “guys” may have been out in the weather for very many decades.
I dont know the year of the blue truck...the tractor...or the partially moss covered brown truck...But Im glad I encountered them.
the Chevy first....a ford...not shown in this shot...and then the john deere
I remember turning over and old engine...when I was about 15 years old...at a rod and gun club....way WAY out in the woods along the Au Sable River In Central Michigan .....only to be greeted by snake that had taken up residence Inside the block....
My dad knows a widowed lady who was left a vintage Toyota landcruiser that the deceased was working on.
It was done up nicely but no engine and some minor things weren’t done.
She was fine with leaving it out in the weather to rust. She thinks her idiot son will eventually do something with it. The lady will not sell it for anything.
My dad was able to talk her into letting him keep it in a building of his.
the torque must have been something!!
there something to be said for the look of old rust...
but nothing to be said of letting a classic vehicle disintegrate before your eyes.
I live just south of their headquarters in Moline Illinois. My son in law works R&D for them all over the world. The Deere nuts around here make Harley riders look ambivalent about brand loyalty. They “bleed green and want to be buried in Moline”
I’ve never understood why some people will let perfectly good things rust and fall apart when they have 0 plans to do anything with it.
When you say “turning over, you mean kicking over the engine block?
I actually like old machines but I no longer can fall in love with them enough to do the work. I can imagine getting one to Beverly Hillbilly’s format for use as a farm truck....but for example, if you really found a whatever that is....a late 30’s whatever....and tried to register it, you could be looking at thousands and thousands in back reg fees here in CA. So you could drive it on a road. That’s the primitive part of my brain.
The non-primitive part says I can buy a better functioning truck (if I needed a truck in the first place) that would be
a lot more reliable and probably better in 723 ways for massively less money than I would spend hosing something one of those out. Yeah, it wouldn’t be a 1938 Chevy. Thankfully.
His are not extremely valuable but I would like to have a couple of them if I had someone to restore them. One is an early model Buick, Roadmaster. Another is around a 1950 Ford pickup with a flathead V8. My cousin is around 73 and will die and leave them still rotting away.
I believe all of them are still sound enough to restore but they will not last forever. He must think he is going to live forever.
I also know where a 1955 3/4 ton Ford Pickup is. It has always been stored inside and was for many years used as a fire truck tho I have no idea what they hauled on it. For the last 20 years it has been used as a welding truck.
It still looks practically new. The paint is still bright. The most striking thing to me is the tires are original and they too look almost new. I was certain they would have rotted but no, they look like new. Less than 6000 original miles on it last time I saw it.
I love the work a day Model A Trucks that a couple of my “neighbors” drive to work everyday. This area is rife with really cool old trucks.
Yes I pushed over the block. and being a young teenager just had to trash the escaping snakes....
Ive never seen this many old rustbuckets in one spot before...and with mere inches of the two lane country road.
The back registration may be why they were abandoned as a matter of fact
A Lot Lot better condition
Im guessing restoration that is out of the question for Old Blue!
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