r/abandoned • u/Gunimation812 • 9d ago
2 abandoned cars in woods
Found these with my dad earlier while out geocaching, got a bunch of angles.
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u/New-Vegetable-1274 9d ago
Nature is reclaiming them but I've seen 1930s cars in the woods that still appear to have once been a car. I wonder how long it takes before they are just a pile of rust. When I was a kid, junkyards still had 1920s cars sitting in them, back then there was no interest in restoration so they eventually ended up in the crusher, what a shame.
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u/deadbeef4 9d ago
/r/whatwasthiscar could probably give you more info.
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u/cdsbigsby 9d ago
Thought I could poach it here before it ended up there.
The smaller 4-door is a 95-99 Plymouth / Dodge Neon.
I thought the big 2 door was a late 70s Cadillac Coupe DeVille but now I'm second guessing that.
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u/Defiant-Handle-2417 9d ago
the big car is giving me trouble, its got a v6 which is throwing me off
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u/cdsbigsby 9d ago
I think I'm going with a 77-85 Oldsmobile Delta 88 coupe, available with a 3.8L V6
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u/mrgreengenes04 9d ago edited 9d ago
It's definitely an 80 and up GM B-Body, the 77-79 had a different rear quarter window shape and roofline. I just can't say for certain yet which one. I want to say it's an 80-85 Buick LeSabre based on the rear quarter window shape, V6 engine, and what remains of the shape in the wheel arches.
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u/carrie_m730 9d ago
These are the kind of images that make me think about what a hypothetical future civilization unearthing our ruins would conclude.
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9d ago
Probably stolen, took them out joy riding and beat the hell of the cars, ditch them in the woods.
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u/sorryistoleyourbike 8d ago
Sometimes I see abandoned cars like this and I think about how at one time, these were brand new, fresh off the line, marvels of human ingenuity and now animals probably have sex in them
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u/Gunimation812 8d ago
ikr, I think of that whenever I see something abandoned, including a diner I’ve been in, before closing and after. It’s sad to see something that once existed and was lively abandoned and neglected.
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u/ArguablyMe 8d ago
My dad and his friends used to tell stories of getting junk cars for free, fixing them up just enough to run and then having a smash derby in the woods.
It was a different world back then.
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u/NordicNjorn 9d ago
“Car” is a bit of a stretch. More like piles of rusty metal that just happen to be “car” shaped.