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Love this kind of stuff and I know a few of you guys do, too. This guy goes around Europe and America hunting out decaying gems in the wilderness.
What's your favourite pic? I'm torn between the second and the last one.
Also, what is the Porsche looking thing that had the race numbers on the side?
The one below reminds me of @colournoise pics in some ways.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-52632396
Love the shot of the dashboard colonised by all kinds of small ferns and mosses according to the conditions each plant prefers. This is as good as the pics on Urbex sites like 28dayslater.
My car is beginning to look like some of those, not having moved for a couple of months.
great pics. the porsche is part of an art instalation in Germany. a rich artist guy bought a load of cars and left them to rot in his garden.
here are some of mine from the last 6 years( the album is transport though not just cars )
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhampshire/albums/72157660763979431
Some great pics there. I'm absolutely positive that there's a Land Rover (Series II I think) in a hedge in North London, in the northwest Islington/Camden area, only the passenger side visible. I have a vivid memory of seeing it, but can't for the life of me remember where it is.
It's the moss on the dashboard for me.
Fantastic.
It gives me a little faith that the Earth could regenerate itself to a large extent if only we would give it a bloody chance!
Quite a few feeds for this kinda stuff on instagram, rusting classics I think is one that springs to mind.
Nice vid here of someone reclaiming a VW camper back from nature in the French Alps - (you might have seen it as it's been posted up here before).
An uncle of mine left exactly that camper at my grandparents place in Ireland and 25 years later it had all but disintegrated, rusted away with the Atlantic sea air.
Used to take a cheeky walk to school through someone’s land We called “the farmers” (couple of fields with cows in behind his house, this was in the middle of a housing estate) the place was littered with old Jags and other cars abandoned with trees growing through them. This was 30 years ago doubt they’re still there now. I’ll have to go look, it’s not far away
Also, what is the Porsche looking thing that had the race numbers on the side?
Renault Alpine A110. Sacrilege to let it rot away like that.
there were 2 Artic explorers in that first lot!!! Up the roadfrom me some bloke has an EType sitting rotting away in his drive piled full of cr@p - grrr
I'm a huge fan of all the farmers round here that collect rusting shit and leave it lying around in a field for decades hoping that it will become useful one day. Really helps define the rural ambiance.
Its a Porsche 356, Alpine 110's are fibreglass
Some great photos in that feature, not sure about a favourite, but I rather like the last one, there’s an Austin A30 stacked on top of a SAAB 99, not sure what the others are.
There's a guy on Instagram I follow called @reallyloudcars loads of great stuff on there. His scrap yard photos really take you back
I’m absolutely positive that there’s a Land Rover (Series II I think) in a hedge in North London,
There's one in a hedge just up the road from me, I cycle past it occasionally.
Actually: [url= https://www.google.com/maps/@53.353079,-2.0379703,3a,75y,140.03h,83.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEpPwCp6ctpq8bn8thFY4OA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 ]Streetview[/url]
That Streetview was May 2011 and it's still there now but with more tree and less Land Rover.
Its a Porsche 356, Alpine 110’s are fibreglass
Oops, so it is.
Ah, good old Rust Dragons! The world is a more interesting, if slightly untidier place thanks to them hording all sort of old, rusty metal 🙂
On a similar theme, this "Smith and Sniff" video showing the cars at an "unloved classics" car auction i found strangely captivating:
Many farmers do hoard rubbish. My neighbour has about half a dozen Range Rovers in his sheds and barns.
Yeah, that seems to be a hobby here in the country parts of Sweden too. You can barely move for seeing rusting volvos and half stripped old US cars in spare bits of land, slowly rusting. This one always makes me sad when I see it...
I was out in Alaska a few years back and there were a few of these up gravel roads away from the smaller towns.
35 years or so ago there was a field near Chiddingly in East Sussex with loads of VW Beetles lined up slowly rotting away. I can't recall exactly where it was but I've cycled a lot around there over the last 5 years or so and not come across it so I guess they must have been cleared
There are a few chassis (chassis’s?) around my way that make you think ‘what the hell were they doing to get that there?!’
This is one from my Insta
@houns, you went to Thorns, then?
I remember the Farmers. Used to be a similar spot down Delph Lane (off Amblecote Road), which I think has now had houses built on it.
I pass this one regularly so took a run past it today for a photo
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^^ That literally looks like the rotting corpse of some dead animal on an African savannah.lol
I would have said the T-34 tank that sits near the old kent road in London qualifies, but there's no sign of it corroding, plus it gets a snazzy paint job every now and then.