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Originally Posted by Joesjunk
Check out this poor truck. A 67 3/4t 4x4, v-8 4 speed. It was complete, even had the key in the igintion!! The frame looked real clean. The tags were from 1981. I was out of town today and it was sitting just off the road. No one was home to talk to about it. Look how far the front tires are sunk in the ground!  |
Isn't it funny how people will abandon seemingly good condition vehicles like that? I recently had a discussion with some of my buddies about various vehicles we had seen, parked for a long time, and we had asked if they were for sale. Most of the time we got a resounding "no." We figured that these vehicles have been left as a shrine of sorts to one of their deceased relatives/friends.
In my case, there is a mid 70's Ford F-250 4x4 that has been parked outside of this rickety old house for as long as I can remember. Its sheetmetal is almost perfect, and all the evidence indicates it only has 6k some odd miles on it (interior is mint, plastic bags on the pedals, Ford-printed paper in both footwells). I have left notes multiple times and even dug up the phone #, but no one answers. The truck was last registered in 1991. Someone there mows the grass, though, and the drive is always plowed in the winter. I'd be curious just to hear the story more than anything else.