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.

Death Of The Studebaker Factory: Urban Exploration of the Abandoned Studebaker/Avanti Factory in South Bend, Indiana

A very interesting video featuring an exploration of the abandoned Studebaker automobile factory.

Second Junkyard Photo Feature

All photos by Chris Garza and Creative Commons Attribution licensed.
Prints will be made available on Chris' deviantART page.

Old walk-in vans, truck parts and a steel building.

1955 Pontiac station wagon and Fiat 850 Spider hardtop

1963 Dodge Dart

Malaise Era bustleback Cadillac Seville

Abandoned Service Station, near Coburg, Oregon

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.

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.