Walking along the bike path in Skinner Butte Park, right near downtown Eugene, I wanted to get a closer look at the water level after some recent rains, and noticed automotive remains down there. That called for a scramble down the banks to check them out, and see what was there. I’m still not too sure.
Someone’s going to recognize this rear axle housing, I’m sure.
This one should be identifiable too.
That’s the other side of the first picture. I recognize the old street light pole.
Come on; you did a brake job on one like that once. And you swore you’d never forget it while wrestling the springs back in position.
Looks like a lever shock on that frame.
This looks more like a manure spreader or such.
Now that’s some tough red paint.
As well as durable blue.
That’s the other end of what I suspect might have been a manure spreader. Along with other objects.
Does that front suspension look British to you?
That X-reinforced frame looks like an earlier one downstream. It has a Brit vibe too. Maybe a bunch of early Austins?
These historic relics are in not going to get molested or hauled off for scrap. A few individuals have taken it upon themselves to make sure, and set up camp to watch over them Good for them.
Looks like a Rio to me.
Well all I know for sure is those look like bivouacs you stumbled upon.
I bet there is a Chevy somewhere in this photo.
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Did Eugene used to feed the Willamette everything they no longer needed? Mendocino used to do the same thing, they would toss everything into the ocean near this one beach and even set cars on fire until they finally came up with a better way of dealing with trash.
I’ve seen a logging road that they clear cut down a mountain side near the Oregon coast that when uncovered there was a city size dump of old washers, dryers, cars, trucks etc. People years ago would just back up to a road side cliff in the woods and dump what ever they didn’t want, lot of times there would be rivers down the bottom of the ravine and when the floods in the rivers came it would push the debris into town.
A friend of mine had a father who supplied juke boxes to bars and restaurants in L.A. One of his jobs was to ride in the back of the truck at night and shove old juke boxes out when they drove through sparsely populated areas.
Seen a couple of places like that in Tassie everything for the last 80 years that died just got shoved over a bank, we were hunting Morris parts found stuff for nearly everything else right back to a 20s Buick, I still have a brass hubcap off that one but nothing Morris, Did find a 60s Simca Etoile Estate in going order very very rare cars Aussie only and they didnt sell well apparently or didnt last long which I doubt it hadnt been dumped just parked out of the way under a tree.
Would you divulge the location to me? You can contact me at my name at Yahoo.
Which location? The ones I shot, or?
Sorry Paul, I was directing the comment to TMT. I thought it was posted under his comment.
TMT- Would you divulge the location to me? You can contact me at my name at Yahoo.
That third picture has a pre-torsion bar Mopar vibe to it. The brake drum tapped for bolts and the big fat section to the rear of the oil pan – possibly for Fluid Drive? Just a guess, though. As for the rest, no idea whatsoever.
I agree. Look at the rear axle center with the nut holding the brake drum on the axle. This was a Mopar design until the 60s.
“Riverside Classics”??? Hell, these are Riverside classics. (From Autoweek)
Looks like a New Idea #12A to me… (c:
It looks pretty close, but then the the 12A had two beaters (not that that means anything here) and the lower one was a bit smaller-looking than the only one here. Of course, depending on the scale, I could be completely wrong.
If it was a John Deere there was no warranty on it. That’s the only thing they build they won’t stand behind.
You might be able to date this by cutting the tree and counting the rings…..What a trade off. Do you cut the tree to save the junk or do you cut the junk to save the tree?
Sleepless nights ahead.
A few of these pics make some creative and interesting still life examples.
Am I the only one to admit he hasn’t a clue?
Found this in the woods
I think that was burned when abandoned to have rusted away so much…looks Hornetish to me.
No, it’s much too new to be a Hornet. That one is a Mercury Cougar. That a tree fell on.
I thought ’83-ish Thunderbird.
I’d also say ’83-’86 T-bird. Rear window looks angled the wrong way to be a Cougar.
Definitely an MN12 Cougar.
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this was there too
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Nissan Leaf, or something from the Rootes Group. Forgive me, guys.
Toyota Sequoia?
Chevy P/U with three on the tree?
Montgomery Ward Riverside motorcycles?
Sorry…
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a trunk contain a car.
I wonder what kind of tree those leaf springs fell from. Weird how they landed right on top of that axle.
There are some cities that used “automotve riprap” once upon a time to shore up the banks of rivers They’d take old cars and actually line them up along the bank and fill over with dirt. I saw such a thing once when canoeing the New River in western NC, but it was many years ago and I didn’t have a camera with me. Very odd to see 50’s and 60’s era grilles and tail panels projecting out from several feet down a cut bank.
Not the same here as this isn’t orderly, but another interesting river+car combo.
There are some photos of Detroit Riprap on this website:
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/02/detroit-riprap-abandoned-cars-as.html
The brake job pic looks like prewar Ford V8 the British looking suspension is attached to a box section chassis like an Austin A40 Devon, those thing were as strong as, a mate and I married an A40 frame and the powertrain from my L series Vauxhall it made quite a lethal beach buggy fast but very poor steering brakes woulda been nice but no it was handbrake only it got rolled at a reasonable speed and that was the end of it but that looks like the frame and front end.The rear axle and bumper look Mopar to me but which one no idea.
That first picture looks like a MOPAR frame from the thirties.
Yikes, hopefully it’s just riprap, not something worse. I’m reading this just minutes after reading a story about how a car was found upside down in a creek in South Dakota a few months ago and it is now confirmed inside were the remains of two girls who went missing in 1971: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/simple-car-accident-explains-deaths-girls-missing-42-years-n81246
Could be remains of the 1964 Willamette flood.
Whatever their story – riprap, flood wash, dumped – I find these pictures creepy yet somehow compelling.
The first pic, the lever shock (Houdialle) pic, the streetlight pole pic, and the X-member pic are 1935-40 Ford frames.