"When I was a callow youth (about 55 years ago; still callow but youth is long gone) there was a wooded lot, maybe an acre or so, in which were the carcasses of many old, old cars rusting away. I’ve often wondered 8f they’re still there."Yes a lot of that back in the day. Looking for a barn to store a Mustang I had a got a lead on a barn to find it filled with old Vettes. A lot of stuff in plain site in Suburbia. I stumbled upon a Triumph Stag in the burbs and I remember a home in "A Squared" with a 62' and 2 63 thru 67 Vettes either in the garage or one in the driveway.
Yes a lot of that back in the day.
Two of my uncles came out of WWII and, before going to college, they bummed around a year or two, buying '30s luxury cars and driving 'em into the ground.
They discovered that people had hidden away Lincolns, Packards and Caddies from the metal-drives, but didn't know what to do with them after the War. One of them told me in great detail how he had conned an owner out of her Cadillac Sixteen, and then rolled it on a New Hampshire back road a day later. Just left it there and walked away.