Or should that title be, “Can’t see the LeBaron for the trees”?
I’m always bemused when I see a car abandoned like this. This facelifted LeBaron wasn’t in some barn on a rural property or lying in some junkyard. This was a street-facing garage in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood. I’ve no doubt the vines sprung up quickly given Seattle’s ample precipitation. But what’s the story here? Does the owner no longer require a car but a tow truck to the junkyard is too expensive? Also, this might be an optical illusion or the indomitable vines, but is this LeBaron missing its windshield?
Chia Chrysler.
Leaf me alone.
LeBaron? More like LeBuried.
I saw a similar situation when I lived in upstate New York. The dust of the road would coat the windshield of a Ford minivan peaking out of a garage stuffed to the gills with boxes and junk. Folks would write “Clean Me” on the windshield. On occasion, a strong rain storm would clear the dust and the process would start anew.
On day, the minivan was gone, but due to the weather, the junk had fused together leaving a distinct cavity when the van had been.
“the junk had fused together leaving a distinct cavity when the van had been”
It flew away, leaving the Chrys-alis behind 🙂
For sale: 1994 Chrysler Le Baron. Genuine wood interior, large trunk, canopy top. Complete log available.
You win the internet for the day!
++1
Low foliage. 🙂
Fantastic.
This all could’ve been prevented if the guy would have just closed the garage door.
$10,000, no low ballers, I know what I’ve got.
I’ve y been planted.
Chrysler took a more frugal approach to developing a Green Car than did other manufacturers.
REN when parked?
I’ve got a ’94 Baron, we call it a Woody (Craigslist, here we come)
It last ran when parked, you’ll need a batt’ry (Craigslist, here we come)…
It’s got a four cylinder n a radio
Eventually it’ll get you where you wanna goooo
Let’s see – not a Tech IV, an EEC-IV or a Mark IV
I’Ve given up.
Wait! It is clearly the Goosebumps Edition. The plants have already gotten Dad and are now coming for the car.
Or . . . Chlorophyl ‘er up with premium, please.
Ethan was pleased to read that his Ivy League college acceptance included student parking…
Little [auto] shop of horrors.
Chia Chrysler is my favorite so far.
There are so many good ones, plus Jim’s! 😀
I got nothin’.
Runs groot?
Kudzu, Chrysler, and the Camouflage of the K-Car.
Forrest Green
She’s so mean
The wet come forth,
The top it leaks.
Now I’m faced
With yard disgrace
Sadly I
no longer have a place.
OR*
Green and mean,
Just like the stank A/C
Hertz tried enought
I felt that it was junk.
I walked away
Felt fine OK,
bought a Sebring coupe
Became sick that day
No caption submission, but I do note at least it’s just ivy or somesuch, and not bindweed or himalayan blackberry.
English Ivy. Typical Seattle.
Taking offers on this very vine Chrysler LeBaron, I wood love to keep it, but I’m leafing town, so it’s gotta go.
And turn over a new leaf.
“I wish I hadn’t auditioned for that part in ‘Creepshow’!”
“Meteor shit!”
The Earth after Humans
No kidding, right? After a sufficient length of time, on the order of a quarter million years, the only things remaining will be the plutonium scattered here and there. Plutonium-244, has a half-life of 80.8 million years, plutonium-242, a half-life of 373,300 years, and plutonium-239, a half-life of 24,110 years. Maybe some concentrations of U-238 where reactors used to be.
The geographic alterations we’ve made such as mines will endure as well.
Oh and our footprints and artifacts we left on the Moon and the five space probes (the Pioneers, the Voyagers and New Horizons) which will go on forever until they get pulled into the gravity of a star and orbit it. Forever.
I was going to say Capitol Hill, but Madrona is just down the hill. You would be surprised just how many scenes you’ll see like this in the general area, considering the home values.
The black LeBaron nestled deeper into the vines that almost hid it, only its cats-eye headlights revealing its presence as it waited for its next victim to be pulled in.
Soon, soon, along will come some young innocent who will utter the fatal words, “I could fix that LeBaron up for next to nothing!”
And instead of playing 50s rock n roll, the radio would only play grunge, metal and rap from the early 90s
Oh crap, I just did some figuring and this car is older than Christine was in the book…
There will sure be lots of angry looking beat up old cars in 2039, won’t there?