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SwiftysGarage In reply to 914four [2012-10-17 02:44:07 +0000 UTC]

Very much so.

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SwiftysGarage In reply to broettonavarro [2012-10-16 04:17:15 +0000 UTC]

I know. Unfortunately cars don't last forever, and most other places this one would have been recycled decades ago. Instead it still exists to donate parts periodically.

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broettonavarro In reply to SwiftysGarage [2012-10-16 04:38:51 +0000 UTC]

Looking at the bright side, eh?

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SwiftysGarage In reply to broettonavarro [2012-10-16 04:44:56 +0000 UTC]

I have to. As badly as I'd love to see this one back on the road I know it really is too far gone.

At least it hasn't been crushed and turned into a Geely yet.

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broettonavarro In reply to SwiftysGarage [2012-10-16 04:46:44 +0000 UTC]

"At least it hasn't been crushed and turned into a Geely yet"

Haha

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SwiftysGarage In reply to broettonavarro [2012-10-16 04:58:27 +0000 UTC]

The sad eventual fate of most cars. A moment of silence for them.

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CaptainPrower In reply to SwiftysGarage [2014-03-14 05:36:01 +0000 UTC]

So you're saying that a car could theoretically get crushed and the metal could be used to make the car's evil Chinese doppelganger?

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SwiftysGarage In reply to CaptainPrower [2014-03-22 01:37:59 +0000 UTC]

Yes!

Also, your signature.  I support G1 Downshift for president.

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CaptainPrower In reply to SwiftysGarage [2014-03-22 02:16:37 +0000 UTC]

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broettonavarro In reply to SwiftysGarage [2012-10-16 05:00:24 +0000 UTC]

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SwiftysGarage In reply to rustyironmonger [2012-10-15 04:28:34 +0000 UTC]

They have a junkyard out back- and I have many more pictures to share from there. It's almost completely Studebakers and Volvos. A few odd cars out (a Renault Dauphine!) are mixed in too, but for the most part Studes & bricks. These are their parts cars and while it's sad to see them in this shape, they're at least serving multiple purposes right now: keeping other cars alive and serving as quite possibly the world's most scenic junkyard.

I hope you shot some pics of the Hawk!

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rustyironmonger In reply to SwiftysGarage [2012-10-15 05:39:36 +0000 UTC]

Cool, I agree there, it's sad, but they are useful. Horopito Motors in New Zealand came close, as did the Autofriedhof Kaufdorf in Switzerland. The place I did a shoot at is close, was a working but not popular junkyard at one time but mostly a hoarding situation, but is now a place where cars and antiques are finding new homes (it may be on American Pickers someday, watch for a place in Oregon with a lot of old signs, bicycles, motorcycles and gas pumps if you are a fan!)

I hope to get pics of that Hawk if I decide to pull the trigger on 1 of 2 cars I'm interested in there (a 1973 Ford Ranchero or a late 70s Buick LeSabre that looks like a Mafia car), tho I'm more interested in building a daily-driver Bluesmobile tribute on a 1977 to mid-80s Caprice/Impala or 1979-87 Crown Vic. Closest things easily and cheaply available to a 1974 Monaco.

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SwiftysGarage In reply to rustyironmonger [2012-10-15 05:55:54 +0000 UTC]

If you're going to make a Bluesmobile, why not do the '88-'91 Crown Vic and make it a "Blue Brothers 2000" replica. Lame movie (not only could it not compare to the original, I couldn't get all the way through it...it was just plain bad), but more authentic replica without spending a fortune for a Monaco.

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rustyironmonger In reply to SwiftysGarage [2012-10-15 06:50:47 +0000 UTC]

That's a pretty good idea!

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