Posted on 02/17/2007 12:43:02 PM PST by LibWhacker
Perhaps a combination of A and D
My brother bought an abandoned farm and after 6 months of clearing brush he found a 1964 Dodge Polaria buried to it's axles. I keep telling him to check the trunk for a body.
Dang, no matter what I say, people keep contradicting me with their excellent counterpoints! Time for me to shuddupa my mouth and let the thread be guided by people who know what they're talking about! :-)
Wonder how many of them are actually running. Saw a few that were looking like parts cars. Amazing find though.
That was just too kewl.
Reminds me of a friend I had about 25 years ago. Every one or two years he would buy a brand new car, remove all the fluids and cover evrything with plastic sheet then park it in a barn on his property in Hamburg, NY. This was to be his retirement nest egg. He'd been doing this for about 30 years.
Upon retirement he was going to start selling them off as he needed money. Nearly zero miles and mint condition.
He retired about 10 years ago. I wonder what ever happened to him.
Maybe he discovered the barn before he bought the farm, and then he bought the farm to discover the barn - if you know what I mean.
Jay Leno's pager must be beeping like crazy!
My husband wants to know where he can buy a farm like that.
That is great!
"If a car has been buried for fifty or sixty years in a dry climate, can it be restored and would it be worth the effort?"
Speaking as a car buff, no. The better thing is to take a new car before it exits the assembly line and freshen up the old one with embryonic valve stem cells....
/s
(Also speaking as a pro-life, NO embryonic stem cells buff)
Back to your original question, 2-door hardtops and convertibles almost always yes. Sedans both 2-door and 4-door it is easy to lose money on over-restoring....
Ping
I am speechless! OMG! I just want a couple of them.
bookmarked
A few years ago I got to see a special collection of pre-WWII cars
at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.
I'm not an expert on auto styling, but these were the French and
Italian cars of the 1930s with autobodies with very smooth contours.
All of them were nice, but I did note that one of the cars had been
found sometime after WWII, sitting abandoned under a tree in some
orchard in North Africa (Algeria?).
I pondered to myself at the time: there's a good story (and movie?)
that that car could tell.
That is just awesome!!!
You are right about cars from the 50s, 60s, and perhaps 70s. One car pictured is a Volkswagen Super beetle that, considering the tail lights, was at least a 73.
Holy Crap ping.
I'll take the red Alfa Giulia Sprint Speciale and the white 356A, please. Am I being greedy?
Something doesn't make sense, however. An abandoned farm? That's not a barn, either. It's hard to believe no one knew about this stash.
Is he very near to where you're setting?
*Because this is Europe....
I'm sure that in most ways, the buyer is owned by "the state".
It is Europe, after all.
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