Thread: Do you want to see something that will bring tears to your eyes?

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The Travesty!!!! Wouldn't you like to get your hands on the person that came up with this bright idea?

These two always does it for me !,.....

Of course these are a close second,.........

I have a whole book with pics like that, its called old car wrecks, pretty neat stuff in it.

OUCH! The wrecks are facts of life, but old cars being used to prevent errosion on banks is crazy.

"....OUCH! The wrecks are facts of life, but old cars being used to prevent errosion on banks is crazy...."

Actually a very common practice during from the 20 thru at least the 60's. I'm told my grandfather used up a lot of model Ts during the depression to stop errosion on the family farm (I can remember dad having a bunch of the lights and horns laying around when I was a kid.

Using the old cars of the era would have been equivelant to using worn out Hondas and GEOs today.

Sooooooo,... I guess these don't qualify either ?

My grandfather used the trunk lid from a '48 Chevy to make a retaining wall at 1 time a long time ago.. it's still there but mostly gone, the trunk ornament still remains in tact.

Tough for us old car lovers of today to accept, but you have to remember that when these things were done, these were just old cars.........not neat old cars, just old cars.

Growing up in the '50's I saw so many Model A's, '32's, etc used for farm purposes and simply junked that I wish I had a time machine. It was just like we now junk some mid '80's Ford Granada and think nothing of it. (Makes you wonder if somewhere in the future people will be posting pictures of Ford Granada's going to the scrap yard and decrying the inhumanity of it all? )

Don

I'm afraid I'm guilty of sacrificing a few desirable relics. The pic of me below was taken in 1970 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Back then you could buy a '55 or '56 Chevy for about $200 and drive it home. We used up 3 of them in a 5-year period. Wish I had them now... as they were BEFORE we gutted and caged them for racing.

The cars in the river was an old way to reinforce the banks. Just imagine how much iron lays at the bottom of a lot of man made lakes?

If they want to control erosion , why not plant some trees? I'm sorry, but cars belong on the road, not in a wall..........except for imports......they belong in my rearveiw mirror!

This one does it for me every time . A 1972 Dodge 340 Demon I junked very sad I did so .

The best thing about old regrets is that it eggs us on to put more money into saving ,and slightly modifying those classics, which is why were here! Love old cars, even in dirt banks, they still look cool!

Quit I only see 5 cars in the first picture.

This place is about 25 miles from me.