A sight more typical of Central California or perhaps the Great Plains, rusty tin shed with interesting stuff surrounding. I navigated a sharp rusty gate and nearly meter-deep drainage ditch to get to this place, whilst wearing Crocs and gym shorts.
Early travel trailer in ratty but restorable condition.
Rusty trailer side. Rust issues with similar trailers to this one in the early postwar era led to aluminum and wood construction, or pure aluminum aircraft-style construction in the cases of Airstream, Boles Aero, Avion, Streamline and Silver Streak.
50s Chevy tanker truck
Old workhorses left to rust away. 1940s/50s Hyster bulldozer and 1960s/70s International Loadstar flatbed.
Buried boattail Riviera. This picture is known to readers of video-game webzine Ctrl+Alt+Defeat, it was published in issue seven.
R107 Mercedes-Benz SL and crunched early Datsun 240Z
R107 SL in a dire state of neglect, amid lots of parts.
I first spotted this property as a kid riding the school bus through the bowels of Eugene, Oregon in the early 1990s, while not as exciting as the decaying marvel full of 50s, 60s and Malaise Era American & Japanese metal that was J&W Towing's lot on West 2nd Avenue (cleaned up in approximately 2007, no pictures are currently known to exist on the internets, and my film pics & their negatives are long-gone), this was a greatly exciting thing to see for a young car person and brightened up my noisy, boring bus ride and made my school day brighter. The lot continued to fill up with rotting car parts and eventually had a final car (tarped black BMW E30 four-door) added, but was cleaned up in early 2012, most likely between being adjacent to school-district property and being an eyesore.
Sad E21
Buick Riviera rally wheel hiding amongst an E21 Bimmer and random parts
A moment of silence for this decaying country service station, apparently once a Texaco franchise according to cut-up signage on a nearby building, near the small town of Coburg, Oregon.
Godspeed.
Photos by Chris Garza, Creative Commons Attribution licensed.
This dealership, in Ontario, Canada, sits somehow maintained but unused with an E24 635CSI and E28 5-series sitting inside untouched and an E12 M535 sitting outside in deteriorated condition.
Supposedly the cars are gone, according to YouTube comments, hopefully they were saved.
This abandoned 1/2 mile oval racetrack near Charlotte, North Carolina, perhaps best known as where Dale Earnhardt, Sr. won his first race on asphalt, was explored by the person behind the "AdamTheWoo" YouTube channel, before the track was cleaned up and an attempt at rebuilding it was made. Supposedly this place is returning to nature again after the attempt at a rebuild failed.
While I do not approve of the poor video quality, the horseplay inside abandoned places seen in the intro and in their other videos, and the obnoxious music in the intro, this is still one of the most thorough explorations of the Metrolina Speedway available...
