Please Save Me: 1940 Pontiac Hearse Basketcase Project

This rare prewar professional car project (in as-purchased condition in pics, now disassembled and stored inside), needs a lot of tender loving care, but with the rarity of prewar, non-Cadillac/Packard funeral coaches and the availability of stock '40 Pontiac trim, wheels, bumpers, engine and transmission as cast-offs from rodders or through junkyards, it is definitely worth restoring. Its elegant lines and curves are even more compelling. The coach has no engine, transmission, front bumper and possibly other missing bits, but it would be a great project.

Find it here in Veneta, Oregon with "make offer" as price, and here are some great professional car forums for the prospective buyer-restorer of this beautiful machine.

Backroads Mercer Drive

Taking a priceless, century-old car out for a spin on the back roads of Vermont. 

Video owned by YouTube car person Proscriptus.

Rust In Peace: 1939 Buick Limited in Springfield, Oregon

 (excuse the arty edits, photos were taken with intent of selling on my deviantART account)

This Fisher-bodied (back when "Body By Fisher" really meant something) 1939 Buick Limited, once a Pikes Peak taxi in Colorado according to the junkyard owner, has sat so long in gross decay that it has its own ecosystem and I could hear it rotting away.

It is a huge shame for such a majestic old car to end up this way, but we can't save them all.

First Photography Feature: Light-Painted Night Photography-style Digital Darkroom Work by Chris Garza

Periodically I will be adding posts dedicated to my car photography, especially where junkyard cars are concerned. These photos were all taken in 2012 at Springfield Auto Recycling in Springfield, Oregon, and edited in Picasa, and Preview, Apple's basic editing/viewing application for Macs.

It's hard to believe, that long ago, these cars were almost certainly well-loved by their first owners, but fell into abject decay and then ended up in the junkyard. I will let the pics speak for themselves, and won't add an explanation or description.

And now, these cars have a bleak future of decaying further and having many more parts pulled, before they are crushed and sent to Asian and Latin American manufacturing countries as steel and iron in ingot form.