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Vintage cars on display outside a Rod Restoration company in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada
In the foreground are two Chevy's rusting to perfection - Oxidation - Patina
HDR Artistic Impression - Hope you like it
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'Why be a copy, when you were born an original'
Captured in a rural area in the interior of British Columbia.
An abandoned homestead and vehicle lost to time, partially hidden by overgrowth.
The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford from model years 1955-2005 (with a 1997-2002 hiatus), across 11 generations. Introduced as a two-seat convertible, the Thunderbird was offered variously as a four-seat hardtop coupe, four-seat convertible, five-seat convertible and hardtop, four-door pillared hardtop sedan, six-passenger hardtop coupe, and five-passenger pillared coupe, with the final generation designed again as a two-seat convertible.
Ford targeted the two-seat Thunderbird as an upscale model, but the 1958 model year design introduced a rear seat and arguably marked the expansion of a market segment eventually known as personal luxury cars, positioned to emphasize comfort and convenience over handling and high-speed performance.
Reference: Wikipedia
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~Christie by the River
Only a little light restoration is needed (!) - Newtonmore, Cairngorms, Highlands of Scotland. Can anyone name that vintage car?
#Flickr21Challenge 13. #Vintage
Retired (abandoned) Model T Ford pushing up wild weeds and rusting to perfection.
Klahanie Campsite
Sea to Sky Highway
Squamish, British Columbia
Canada
The Model T has a front-mounted 177-cubic-inch (2.9 L) inline four-cylinder engine, producing 20 hp (15 kW), for a top speed of 40–45 mph (64–72 km/h).] According to Ford Motor Company, the Model T had fuel economy on the order of 13–21 mpg‑US (16–25 mpg‑imp; 18–11 L/100 km). The engine was capable of running on gasoline, kerosene, or ethano although the decreasing cost of gasoline and the later introduction of Prohibition made ethanol an impractical fuel for most users. The engines of the first 2,447 units were cooled with water pumps; the engines of unit 2,448 and onward, with a few exceptions prior to around unit 2,500, were cooled by thermosiphon action.
The ignition system used in the Model T was an unusual one, with a low-voltage magneto incorporated in the flywheel, supplying alternating current to trembler coils to drive the spark plugs. This was closer to that used for stationary gas engines than the expensive high-voltage ignition magnetos that were used on some other cars. This ignition also made the Model T more flexible as to the quality or type of fuel it used. The system did not need a starting battery, since proper hand-cranking would generate enough current for starting. Electric lighting powered by the magneto was adopted in 1915, replacing acetylene and oil lamps, but electric starting was not offered until 1919.
The Model T engine was produced for replacement needs, as well as stationary and marine applications until 1941, well after production of the Model T had ended.
The Fordson Model F tractor engine, that was designed about a decade later, was very similar to, but larger than, the Model T engine.
The Ford Model T was the first automobile built by various countries simultaneously, since they were being produced in Walkerville, Canada, and in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England, starting in 1911 and were later assembled in Germany, Argentina, France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan, as well as several locations throughout the US. Ford made use of the knock-down kit concept almost from the beginning of the company as freight and production costs from Detroit had Ford assembling vehicles in major metropolitan centers of the US.
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I drive pass this truck everyday... and have always wanted to take a photo of it! I finally did!
This photo is HDR from a single JPEG.
Is there enough "blue" here for Monday Blues?
HEHE
Another Volkswagen Type 1 ‘Beetle’ found abandoned and neglected in the wilderness on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece. This example was a later-spec model from the 1970s, based on the modern dashboard layout (most of which had been stripped). Having donated many parts, including almost all its fenders, this battered Bug’s days are numbered. Although, there’s a chance this car could still be sitting in this exact same spot ten years from now. Maybe even longer. When scrap rates are high, the Greeks cash in on weighing stuff in just like everyone else. However, for whatever reason, some vehicles are left behind for much longer after others meet their fate.
Retired (abandoned) Model A Ford pushing up wild weeds and rusting to perfection.
Klahanie Campsite
Sea to Sky Highway
Squamish, British Columbia
Canada
The Ford Model A (also colloquially called the A-Model Ford or the A, and A-bone among hot rodders and customizers) was the Ford Motor Company's second market success, after its predecessor, the Model T. First produced on October 20, 1927, but not introduced until December 2, it replaced the venerable Model T, which had been produced for 18 years. This new Model A (a previous model had used the name in 1903–04) was designated a 1928 model and was available in four standard colors.
By February 4, 1929, one million Model As had been sold, and by July 24, two million. The range of body styles ran from the Tudor at US$500 (in grey, green, or black) to the town car with a dual cowl at US$1,200. In March 1930, Model A sales hit three million, and there were nine body styles available.
Model A production ended in March 1932, after 4,858,644 had been made in all body styles. Its successor was the Model B, which featured an updated inline four-cylinder engine, as well as the Model 18, which introduced Ford's new flathead (sidevalve) V8 engine.
Features
Prices for the Model A ranged from US$385 for a roadster to US$1,400 for the top-of-the-line town car. The engine was a water-cooled L-head inline four with a displacement of 201 cu in (3.3 l). This engine provided 40 hp (30 kW; 41 PS). Top speed was around 65 mph (105 km/h). The Model A had a 103.5 in (2,630 mm) wheelbase with a final drive ratio of 3.77:1. The transmission was a conventional unsynchronized three-speed sliding gear manual with a single speed reverse. The Model A had four-wheel mechanical drum brakes. The 1930 and 1931 models were available with stainless steel radiator cowlings and headlamp housings.
The Model A came in a wide variety of styles including a coupe (standard and deluxe), business coupe, sport coupe, roadster coupe (standard and deluxe), convertible cabriolet, convertible sedan, phaeton (standard and deluxe), Tudor sedan (standard and deluxe), town car, Fordor (five-window standard, three-window deluxe), Victoria, town sedan, station wagon, taxicab, truck, and commercial.[citation needed] The very rare special coupe started production around March 1928 and ended mid-1929.
The Model A was the first Ford to use the standard set of driver controls with conventional clutch and brake pedals, throttle, and gearshift. Previous Fords used controls that had become uncommon to drivers of other makes. The Model A's fuel tank was situated in the cowl, between the engine compartment's fire wall and the dash panel. It had a visual fuel gauge, and the fuel flowed to the carburetor by gravity. A rear-view mirror was optional. In cooler climates, owners could purchase an aftermarket cast iron unit to place over the exhaust manifold to provide heat to the cab. A small door provided adjustment of the amount of hot air entering the cab. The Model A was the first car to have safety glass in the windshield.
The Soviet company GAZ, which started as a joint venture between Ford and the Soviet Union, made a licensed version from 1932–1936. This served as the basis for the FAI and BA-20 armored cars which saw use as Soviet scout vehicles in the early stages of World War II.
In addition to the United States, Ford made the Model A in plants in Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
In Europe, where in some countries cars were taxed according to engine size, Ford in the UK manufactured the Model A with a smaller displacement engine of 2,043 cc (124.7 cu in), providing a claimed output of 28 hp (21 kW; 28 PS).[11] However, this equated to a British fiscal horsepower of 14.9 hp (11.1 kW; 15.1 PS)[12] (compared to the 24 hp (18 kW; 24 PS) of the larger engine) and attracted a punitive annual car tax levy of £1 per fiscal hp in the UK. It therefore was expensive to own and too heavy and uneconomical to achieve volume sales, and so unable to compete in the newly developing mass market, while also too crude to compete as a luxury product. European manufactured Model As failed to achieve the sales success in Europe that would greet their smaller successor in Britain and Germany.
Wikipedia
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay healthy
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~Nautical me - Christie
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Best I can tell that is a 1968 2 Door Plymouth Fury III (VIP?) Hardtop.
It seems this part of Alberta always presents great skies, for me anyway. Time to relocate?
Undisclosed location in Alberta.
I couldn't resist getting a shot of a church, two 'vators and an old classic car all in one frame. During its heyday Neidpath had four grain elevators, two of which still stand derelict today.
A trio of classic British-built Land Rovers; Parts donors sitting in a field in rural North Yorkshire, U.K.
Another front-quarter view of a circa 1941-1947 Chevrolet ‘Art Deco’ AK/YS-series 1½-ton/1.5-ton “Dually” tipper-body “YS” truck sits abandoned in the countryside on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece (possibly a “YS” model being that it has a rather long wheelbase - maybe 160”?). The truck is a LHD model, so could have been directly imported from the USA, rather than Canada (which would otherwise be RHD). The corroded paintwork could’ve originally been a shade of blue or green. I could not find any VIN plate(s), as the driver’s door was either locked or completely rusted shut. Not sure when exactly this truck came to Greece, or for how many years it was used for work, but it looks like it has been sitting here for some time. The floor pans were rusted through.
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Rust to me is a rather sad concept. Something that was once beautiful or useful is no longer so. Outgrown its usefulness perhaps or just forgotten and neglected. This particular picture puts me in mind of failure, once a thriving business but ........
What better place to find rust than the Wastelands - The Junkyard sim.
This week's theme for Instigate Inspiration is
"RUST IN PEACE"
Megadeth - American Carnage Tour
@ Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
August 30, 2010
All photos © Kaley Nelson - www.KaleyNelson.com
Front-quarter view of a circa 1941-1947 Chevrolet ‘Art Deco’ AK/YS-series 1½-ton/1.5-ton “Dually” tipper-body “YS” truck sits abandoned in the countryside on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece (possibly a “YS” model being that it has a rather long wheelbase - maybe 160”?). The truck is a LHD model, so could have been directly imported from the USA, rather than Canada (which would otherwise be RHD). The corroded paintwork could’ve originally been a shade of blue or green. I could not find any VIN plate(s), as the driver’s door was either locked or completely rusted shut. Not sure when exactly this truck came to Greece, or for how many years it was used for work, but it looks like it has been sitting here for some time. The floor pans were rusted through.
Retired (semi-abandoned) Model A Ford pushing up wild weeds and rusting to perfection.
Klahanie Campsite
Sea to Sky Highway
Squamish, British Columbia
Canada
The Ford Model A (also colloquially called the A-Model Ford or the A, and A-bone among hot rodders and customizers) was the Ford Motor Company's second market success, after its predecessor, the Model T. First produced on October 20, 1927, but not introduced until December 2, it replaced the venerable Model T, which had been produced for 18 years. This new Model A (a previous model had used the name in 1903–04) was designated a 1928 model and was available in four standard colors.
By February 4, 1929, one million Model As had been sold, and by July 24, two million. The range of body styles ran from the Tudor at US$500 (in grey, green, or black) to the town car with a dual cowl at US$1,200. In March 1930, Model A sales hit three million, and there were nine body styles available.
Model A production ended in March 1932, after 4,858,644 had been made in all body styles. Its successor was the Model B, which featured an updated inline four-cylinder engine, as well as the Model 18, which introduced Ford's new flathead (sidevalve) V8 engine.
Features
Prices for the Model A ranged from US$385 for a roadster to US$1,400 for the top-of-the-line town car. The engine was a water-cooled L-head inline four with a displacement of 201 cu in (3.3 l). This engine provided 40 hp (30 kW; 41 PS). Top speed was around 65 mph (105 km/h). The Model A had a 103.5 in (2,630 mm) wheelbase with a final drive ratio of 3.77:1. The transmission was a conventional unsynchronized three-speed sliding gear manual with a single speed reverse. The Model A had four-wheel mechanical drum brakes. The 1930 and 1931 models were available with stainless steel radiator cowlings and headlamp housings.
The Model A came in a wide variety of styles including a coupe (standard and deluxe), business coupe, sport coupe, roadster coupe (standard and deluxe), convertible cabriolet, convertible sedan, phaeton (standard and deluxe), Tudor sedan (standard and deluxe), town car, Fordor (five-window standard, three-window deluxe), Victoria, town sedan, station wagon, taxicab, truck, and commercial.[citation needed] The very rare special coupe started production around March 1928 and ended mid-1929.
The Model A was the first Ford to use the standard set of driver controls with conventional clutch and brake pedals, throttle, and gearshift. Previous Fords used controls that had become uncommon to drivers of other makes. The Model A's fuel tank was situated in the cowl, between the engine compartment's fire wall and the dash panel. It had a visual fuel gauge, and the fuel flowed to the carburetor by gravity. A rear-view mirror was optional. In cooler climates, owners could purchase an aftermarket cast iron unit to place over the exhaust manifold to provide heat to the cab. A small door provided adjustment of the amount of hot air entering the cab. The Model A was the first car to have safety glass in the windshield.
The Soviet company GAZ, which started as a joint venture between Ford and the Soviet Union, made a licensed version from 1932–1936. This served as the basis for the FAI and BA-20 armored cars which saw use as Soviet scout vehicles in the early stages of World War II.
In addition to the United States, Ford made the Model A in plants in Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
In Europe, where in some countries cars were taxed according to engine size, Ford in the UK manufactured the Model A with a smaller displacement engine of 2,043 cc (124.7 cu in), providing a claimed output of 28 hp (21 kW; 28 PS).[11] However, this equated to a British fiscal horsepower of 14.9 hp (11.1 kW; 15.1 PS)[12] (compared to the 24 hp (18 kW; 24 PS) of the larger engine) and attracted a punitive annual car tax levy of £1 per fiscal hp in the UK. It therefore was expensive to own and too heavy and uneconomical to achieve volume sales, and so unable to compete in the newly developing mass market, while also too crude to compete as a luxury product. European manufactured Model As failed to achieve the sales success in Europe that would greet their smaller successor in Britain and Germany.
Wikipedia
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay healthy
Happy Clicks,
~Christie
**Best experienced in full screen
A rare 1952 Triumph Mayflower 2-door saloon, complete W/ original six-character black plate Paisley registration “NXS 981”, sits neglected on a lawn in North Yorkshire, U.K.
The pickup in the background is a 1986 Land Rover 110.
Megadeth - American Carnage Tour
@ Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
August 30, 2010
All photos © Kaley Nelson - www.KaleyNelson.com
Front onside quarter view of a grey Morris Minor 1000 Series III 4-door saloon [ADO59], which sits abandoned and neglected, slowly being reclaimed by nature in a field in rural North Yorkshire, U.K. The car had no registration plates, but it is a model built anywhere between 1956 at the earliest (first year for the 1000) and at the latest 1961 (the last year for side-mounted semaphore-style ‘trafficators’).
Examples of abandoned, derelict and neglected true old-style classic and vintage vehicles of the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s are becoming an increasingly rare sight in the U.K. However, these pictures of this old Moggie prove that old finds are still out there, in the year 2024!
The iconic, long-built Morris Minor is one of the most common classic cars in Britain, and as such - is one of the more frequently sighted in various stages of disrepair. So far, I have snapped all these other examples on my travels (and this is not counting the ones I did not have time to snap!):
An infrared shot from last weekend at an old car graveyard. I'm convinced that old cars look best in infrared.
These were a really common sight when I was a kid – Mom said they were “Army Surplus” from WWII. I saw this one at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California.
I was finally inspired to look up the origin of the name. According to Wikipedia it came from the “ site of their first manufacture at Quonset Point at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island.”
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