Sad looking A12

[Basketcase]

found a link to this over on the 'parts. The poster is trying to but this, so he didn't give out too much info. Has '76 plates on it.

 

[69hemibeep]

I like the wheels and you know they are junk now.

 

[ACME A12]

It's always a shame to see them in that condition. Hopefully someone can give the old girl a new lease on life...

 

[Hoosier Bird]

I'd buy it in a heart beat if it's for real........ :drive:

 

[Basketcase]

I'll never understand the short sightedness of letting something like this sit and rot.

 

[dobie]

What a shame.

 

[Roadcuda]

I'll never understand the short sightedness of letting something like this sit and rot.

I think that many times when these cars were parked there was no thought given that the car might be worth a lot of money some day. If I had known back in '74 what I know about these cars now, I never would have sold my first '69 bird. I would have tried to keep it safe somewhere. Oh, well!

 

[Basketcase]

yeah.......but even a dumb kid like me in '74 could tell these kind of cars weren't being made anymore. the ones that really boggle me are the original owner cars that have rotted to the ground. then you see ones that have been kept in proper storage since new, and look like new.

 

[Plymouthfan]

Id drive it in that condition! :drive:

 

[mac]

lets start the bidding!!

 

[Hoosier Bird]

lets start the bidding!!

First, give us all the info, wether you know it or not. We need to know some more before we can bid.

 

[Confederate1969]

To be honest guys - and this is the opinion of a young man not yet 25 - I never have understood the practice of dumping vehicles in ditches. As redneck as my dad had our yard looking when I was growing up with tires and car parts and junk everywhere, we never let a vehicle rot. We had dozens of cars come and go but they all got taken care of as best as we could. Best of all, I remember all the Mopars we used to have and how much my dad enjoyed having them. I can still remember just a few occasions when I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s seeing old Mopars here and there but it is nothing like actually getting to live through that era. Now with very, very few exceptions, old muscle cars are never driven as daily drivers and only get taken out when the weather is nice and to car events. It frustrates me to absolutely no end that people dump cars the way I have seen them on carsinbarns.com and other places such as the A12 RR in this thread. That would be like me buying a 2009 Challenger, driving it for 6-7 years then throwing it in a ditch out back to watch it rust for 30 years only to have someone post a pic of it on a site like this saying "what idiot did this!!?!??!!!". I just don't see how folks thought this stuff was junk. My dad's buddy who originally owned my RR had it stolen in 1974 and a few weeks later the cops found it. The insurance company had already paid out on the car and was going to total the RR. Keep in mind it was only "worth" a couple hundred bucks back then. But he told the insurance co to take their totaling to hell and sell him the car back. It was just a 383 Runner, with absolutely nothing special about it then as they were a dime a dozen in 1974, but he saw the value in the car anyway. Now I have one of the few RR's left because of this.

I don't mean this as venting to any one here who may be guilty of dumping an old car out... It's just a general regret that I never got to see the muscle car era and it makes me upset to see what folks have done to cars like that. Whether a vehicle is valuable or not is no excuse to trash it and let it rot. I just don't get it. :brickwall: I've got a couple of vehicles that aren't insured right now that I haven't driven in a long while. But they still get taken care of and will be maintained for as long as I own them.

We have gone from the world of Eisenhower and Reagan with good common sense governing the country and all American vehicles on the road to the world of Clinton and Obama with nothing but foreign pieces of crap being driven by Americans and socialism and immorality being crammed down our throats. I never got to see the good old America and it makes me sick. Those days are gone and when I see pictures of trashed American glory, it reminds me of the fact I'll never get to experience any of the way it used to be.

Sorry for the rant.... I'm just one of the few kids who didn't play video games through the 90s. I payed attention to stuff and didn't go numb in the head to what's going on.

 

[ACME A12]

I'm just one of the few kids who didn't play video games through the 90s. I payed attention to stuff and didn't go numb in the head to what's going on.

Obviously. Too bad that more of your generation doesn't see things through the same set of eyes... Given the growing concerns of my generation (tail end of the baby-boomers) and the generation preceding, I'd be honored to have you select my old folks home someday...when I get to that point, of course...

:jester:

 

[mjoyner408]

so what is the story on this... prolly the same as every other one...

a. "thats my "so and so's" car. they are going to get it... it is not for sale."

b. "no, i do not want to sell it. i am going to restore it."

i have heard both of those sevral times...

c. "no, it is not for sale. (period)" no reason other than to say i have a such and such.

here is a sad... actully a horrific story. there was an old black guy that for whatever reason started rat holing cars. you can tell by the makes when he started. looked to be around the mid 50's. apparently he stopped in the late 70's. now there was grown mature hardwoods timber in the back with all the fined cars and it would have been super hard to get them out. even the ones in the front had too much growth to get without a chain saw and a days worth of labor. a bud of mine got a 68 dart gt, a 69 satalite and a 69 charger r/t but the sat and the charger were basicly toast. the only thing that held the charger together was the roof. the land was low and it flooded a coupple of times so even if you come accross a decient looking car the bottom was most likely gone. this guy was just hording all of these cars. why... who knows but it was hundreds of cars that met there doom. last year he died and his brother got the land. they hired a guy to come "clean it off" so he could develope it. all of the cars were mashed! i will link to a site with pics but i do not know if you have to join or not... i think i can find my buds photo page.

this is only what he could get to in a few hours...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v319/ ... /Junkyard/

 

[Basketcase]

thanks for sharing! there were a couple yards like that here back in the '80s. nothing apparently wrong with most of the cars, '50s & '60s stuff. they looked like they were just driven in, and parked. One had about 6 '68-'70 road runners and GTXs. The other had some second gen Chargers,Coronets. One '68 Charger looked perfectly fine from the outside. I sat in the drives seat, and the floor gave way from rust. Both sold parts, very cheap. I got lots of stuff from both. One yard owner had a booze problem, and sold all his stuff(scrapped) to pay leagel fees, I went there one day to simply find all the cars gone. and the other owner died and the family scrapped everything.

 

[Hoosier Bird]

That makes me want to puke........ uke:

 

[John69RR]

That makes me want to puke........ uke:

I can't remember where I recently read the post about a Superbird in worse condition for sale. What are these people thinking??

 

[Basketcase]

they're not :brickwall:

 

[mac]

guys remember this one at carlisle 2 years ago

 

[Basketcase]

I saw that at the Nats that year.looked like it al all the parts, but the sale price was steep(at least for me). wonder if it ever sold? I know it was on the bay a few times.