Re: Wish we could save them all!
Take a drive through eastern Washington sometime. There's thousands (I'm not kidding) of trucks and cars from the 20's to current just sitting in fields baking away in the sun. Our trucks are VERY common and mostly used as daily drivers. I've only seen maybe a couple dozen restored and nice looking ones in an area about 60,000 sq miles out of hundreds of daily users.
There's one guy who buys a new caddy every two years or so. There's lines of them just sitting on his property, all lined up according to year. The oldest one is probably early fifties. He drives it for a couple years, then parks it for good next to the last one he left. Buys another one.
I've come across old, old cars that are just sitting on the ground because almost half of them were wood from the factory... the wood has all rotted away and the springs and suspension bars fall apart with the smallest amount of pressure. Just a rusted flaky mess.
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