This is pretty much a off topic question but here it goes. So I sawed alot of videos on YouTube which involves some classic cars being beyond repair and then some got rusted so badly that they ended up to the crusher, Some had like a massive mice/rat/other animal nest in them and some are so bad that they deserve better then to be rotting in a field and then having the mice/rats to make nests out of them Such the worst thing when it comes to being obsessed with classic cars, I hate to see Imbeciles just leave such beautiful pieces of history in a field and then being left to rot and then scrapped and crushed, it's just like putting an a pet dog that you had since it was a puppy down. It makes me mad and angry and heartbroken at the same time
they get scrapped because they are no longer ontologically a "car". there are too many parts missing for them to operate, and everything that is there is so badly rusted//corroded/perished that it's lost all of its structure, and wouldn't even be safe to use on the road. short of remaking the entire car basically from scratch, it's never going to see the road again. even when using them for spare parts, the likelihood is that the car you're restoring was in better condition, and so anything you can get from here will be worse than what was already on the car you're restoring.
It's sad but I guess there are just too many old cars and not enough sheds to keep them in. Even I have no choice but to keep my car outside most of the time and so it won't last as long, even with some attempts to prevent rust.
And then, you must remember, that the collectors themselves are limited by time. The cars, if they take great care of them, will last longer than them. Then they can be left abandoned until they are found.
Also, many of them have been parked up decades ago, when they weren't classics, but old beaters that the owners stowed away to possibly fix at some point instead of scrapping them outright.
In this thread you are showing rusty cars in fields, but if you really want to be heartbroken, just visit exotics cars spare parts websites, or Rolls-royce specialists for exemple. There you will see unfinished restoration projects, beautiful Silver Cloud that are decided to go for spare for other more interesting project. I even saw a very decent and extremely rare Rolls Royce Phantom V being dismantled for a more historicaly worthy model. This is the reality : old cars need parts for their restorations and maintain, and unless they are remanufactured like on many american cars, then you have to find them on decent cars, not on cars in fields rotten for years. Sad case are also owners driving without insurance in great britain for exemple, being caught and then you can find their mint state ferrari 308 Dino for spare because they were taken by the autorities. Heartbreaking !
Even more heartbreaking is when cars are taken by the government (illegal imports) and crushes them so they won't be resold. Could be any classic car or sports car. The fact that that 'no import for 25 years' law is there is stupid.
Yeah! I saw this one article where this guy’s father’s 30s ford was titled as ‘junk’ in the 70s, so even though he restored it to perfect condition, it still wasn’t road legal because he couldn’t change the title. And a guys first gen corvette was impounded and was almost crushed because he bought it without VIN plates, but SEMA worked with the state and created a new law to exclude restored cars, so it wasn’t crushed
There's got to be a way around that. You can't get a good frame and toss the body on it? Technically that would be restoring the frame car, no?
It's very convoluted, but basically, back in the 60's to the early 80's, people were importing in "new" cars that either had different/"better" engines and options that were offered elsewhere, but was never offered to the US market for a myriad of reasons, another factor was people importing cars that simply wasn't sold in the US at all. Long story short, people were importing cars in and it got to the point that it was hurting US dealerships and to an extent, the manufacturers themselves because every car that was sold by an importer, who's the third party, they never made anything, so that was a growing issue. Then there were the issues of converting said cars that weren't originally built to US specifications to meet those specifications, and more than not, a lot of them were done half-assed, and it grew to the point that the public perceived this as the brand/manufacturer themselves for having built cars at such a poor job/have horrible build quality. Nowadays, the law still stands, but certain stuff that's under 25 years COULD be imported, but that only depends on whether there's a US-spec equivalent, so for instance, Doug Demuro's Mercedes G-class Cabrio, they never sold that specific body-style in the US, but it doesn't take much to replace all the Euro-spec parts with ones from a US model. Then there's another sneaky/risky way of importing stuff is where something that's under 25 is registered as something that's over 25 years old. Example, a 2006 Nissan Patrol which apparently had made its way from Nicaragua and was registered as an 80's model. But TL;DR: Different emissions and vehicle safety standards, Money, and a ton of other reasons thrown in.
The point of the matter is that whenever I see car crushing videos like Cowboy Car Crushing putting those old classics like a 1956 Lincoln Premiere getting crushed, it just makes me feel heartbroken, angry and sad at the same time. The worst part is that if this happens when it comes to crushing junk classic cars, it just the number of those classics get decreased. This is basically like seeing your old childhood house get demolished as all those old cars had a bunch of memories from being someone's first car and then stuff like that and only for those said classics to end up rotting away by some morons and scrapped and then put in a crusher after all those years. Once they get crushed, there pretty much a goner and it's gone forever, and all that old iron that was from a factory years ago (like the 1930s 40s 50s or 60s) and then they just get left to rot and then put in a crusher. I wish there was something to make those classic cars again and increase their number for collectors or something. Such a shame to see such old metal go to waste and then end up in a crusher after all those years. (I'd really need to stop looking at those car crushing videos or anything like that on YouTube or whatever, It just makes me pissed to see such classic cars being left to rot and then crushed after all those years of sitting in a barn/field/junkyard/forest, I just get nightmares about this sometimes.)
I just searched up something and I found some 2 Nissan concept cars that were in a Tennessee junkyard. To make matters worst, Those 2 Nissan concept cars have been already crushed. Heartbreaking to see such stuff that went from being a showroom to catch everyone's eyes to end up in a junkyard and then scrapped and crushed. I guess it's not always classic cars that end up getting scrapped and crushed as it turns out that concept cars or any other car could even end up in the junkyard too.
to be fair, I don't think either of those were functional cars, they were basically fibreglass boxes on wheels. one I find especially tragic is the Subaru Amadeus concept. it was a fully functional rebodied subaru SVX, it had even made its way into private ownership, but it sat in disrepair for ages and was only recently scrapped for parts.
Oh man, That was awful to hear. Such a pity that a Subaru concept car has been sadly scrapped and dismantled for parts for some stupid reasons. I can't believe that a one of a kind Subaru concept got scrapped for parts
a lot of cars that we see as classic or vintage today were not seen as rare back then. They were common cars.
