Abandoned Goat

While doing my weekly activity of driving around the countryside looking for old cars, I would normally not find anything. Then one week in September I was out for a drive when I made a turn to go return to school and I thought I saw something sitting next to a old house nearby.

I turn back around and head down the road, to discover a GTO sitting next to an old house. I was in complete astonishment! Here, in the open sat rough, but nice GTO. How could this thing have survived so long?

I didn't have much time to sit around, so I snapped a few pics from the road. When talking with some local friends of mine about the car, they all knew about it. I almost beat them to the ground for not telling me. They then told me that the woman that owned it has had it since new and won't move on it. She will keep it for her kids, or their kids, but it isn't going anywhere.

So there the old girl sits, slowly rusting away, hoping to cruise in the future.





Ryan

Yard with a View

I returned to the yard where the 70 Charger sat later in the week to pull the steering wheel for a friend of mine.

The owner was in the office and I entered the yard and went straight back to the Charger. I'm no small guy, I'm fairly noticeable. Here I am in this rusted hulk of a Charger trying to pull a rusted steering wheel off when a police officer comes up next to me and asks me what I was doing.

I told the officer I was trying to pull the steering wheel off of this column. He asked me to come out of the vehicle. I came out of the vehicle and the cop informed me that I was trespassing and that I would be arrested and taken to the station.

I informed him that I had permission to be here and that the owner was in the office and was aware that I was pulling the parts off this Charger. He of course didn't believe me and put me in the back of his cruiser where then all of a sudden the owner of the yard comes running out telling the officer that I was allowed to be there and that I had his permission to be at the Charger.

The officer then released me and said he was sorry, they had a problem with people stealing and that I was just another punk kid. I told him that maybe next time don't jump to conclusions.

I go back to the yard and finally get the wheel pulled and begin browsing the yard. The guy had quite the collection of cool old muscle. From a 65 Belvidere, Cutlass S and Cutlass vert. Sad that they were all in different states of dis-repair. There were a few good projects there to be had, but the guy wanted more then they were worth and I passed on them.

I still remember sitting on the buddy seat of that 70 Charger, had some really cool options, maybe I'll go back sometime and see if the vehicle is still there. Might be worth saving in today's muscle car crazy world.





This might not be big for anyone else... but this was the first RamCharger I found in a junkyard... made me very happy at the time!
















Too view all the pictures from this yard, please follow the link below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hemipwr70/sets/72157600546746756/

Ryan

One Charger, Two Charger, too many chargers....

While attending class at Western Illinois University, my general enjoyment of muscle cars became apparent. The fact that all I read was Mopar Muscle or Hot Rod might have tipped them off.

One day a guy comes up to me and we start chatting. He's a gear head too and we talk about the cars we own or want. And he tells me about a Charger 500 sitting out in a field near by and that it was blue. Well that was enough for me and away I went.

Driving around the west side of Macomb was definitely interesting. I passed a small grouping of old cars, but didn't see anything special. Kept on driving until I found a small salvage yard. Guy there was real friendly and said that he did have a Charger sitting in the back. I get in back and there is a 71 Charger 500 in primer. Completely apart, but everything was around it. I told the gentleman I thanked him for showing me the car and that I would be in touch.

I return to class and tell my buddy about the 71 Charger sitting in the back room of the junkyard. He looked at me funny saying that the Charger he knew of was sitting in an open field. He gave me directions and it was in the little yard I had passed earlier!

So back on the road I go. I find the little yard there and there is no one around. I get the number off the sign near there and call asking about the Charger. The guy on the other end told me that he did have one and that I couldn't go to the car until he got there. He said he would be there in a bit and to hold tight.

I wait an hour for the guy to show up and he says to go ahead. I get back in this little yard that is littered with old cars and there in the back is a 70 Charger 500. Not much left of the car though.

I snapped a few pics and went back to the front where the owner was standing and asked him if I could come back later that week to get a better look at some of the cars. He said no problem and we parted ways.

I did return later, picked a few parts, was almost arrested. But that's for another post.


71 Charger 500 in the barn.






70 Charger 500










Ryan