Post your POS car ugly and rusty junker
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This was inspired by Vince’s image of the pickup with the cross. I remembered I’d been intending on making photos of these for the last seven years and was out and about today and took my camera.
I need to go back and take better images but this will have to do for now.
Both shots are five minutes from my home and within thirty minutes there are several more. There’s no shortage of rust here in East TN. Farmers have a habit if parking their old cars, trucks and tractors in their fields and forgetting them until they’re nothing but rust.
I need to go back and take better images but this will have to do for now.
Both shots are five minutes from my home and within thirty minutes there are several more. There’s no shortage of rust here in East TN. Farmers have a habit if parking their old cars, trucks and tractors in their fields and forgetting them until they’re nothing but rust.
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Vince Lupo
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Kai-san
Filmwaster
Will a cheapo Mercedes Benz do?
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KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Quite the parking space!
farlymac
PF McFarland
I owned three Pintos! They were far better than the Vega I had for three months. Only photo I have of that P.O.S. has not been scanned, and it would take me at least a couple of days to dig through my boxes of old photos to find it. Instead I'll submit a photo of my Ford explorer after it was hit by a little old lady in a Chevy. The damage doesn't look all that bad, but it was the beginning of the end for the truck. Most of the front body parts had to be replaced, and afterwards the transmission and engine started acting up and I decided not to spend anymore money on it.
It was my favorite vehicle, but in the end it was falling apart from the inside out.
PF
Dogman
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The Ol '55. (At least that's the license plate.)
Out to Lunch
Ventor
Chisinau, Moldova. "Mototest".
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
That car sitting on top of "Mototest" is not exactly a great advertisement for their services. 🙂 The car looks American, but considering this is Moldova, I'd be surprised if it were.
airfrogusmc
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airfrogusmc
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Hans Berkhout
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raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
My Dad's old car (Kodachrome 1948)
Vince Lupo
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This was mine about 15 years ago (63 Falcon with a 144 inline-6 and a 2-speed Fordomatic). It was definitely rusty and had dings here and there, plus a dulling Castilian Gold repaint. Someone rear-ended the car at some point in its life, and a tree fell on the roof of the car during a snowstorm, putting a nice dent in it just above the driver's door. But I managed to put 100,000 miles on this puppy over a 10 year period, and I don't think in all that time it ever let me down.
Wish I still had it.
Falcon1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Wish I still had it.
Falcon1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
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raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
Thanks @x-ray. They dressed so impeccably back then - like movie stars - even though they were blue-collar workers (my Dad became a cabinet maker after his semi-pro Portrait/Wedding Photography career).
I have many beautoful pics he took from that era. Some day, when I have time, I will scan and share.
GMOG
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Also in Amarillo, TX. The Bug Ranch!
GMOG
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There are some great cars there. I had a 71 Karman Ghia convertible I restores. I’ll try to find a photo and post.