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Trucks and trees
Here is an amazing sight I saw the other day looking at a 67 small window cab. Just a little rust hole in the floor board for a little elm shooter to grow through and years later a tree. I've seen other vehicles/objects with trees grown around but haven't come across one of our truck til this. Wondering if you guys have any pics of trucks and trees? Mother nature and rust never sleeps.
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Re: Trucks and trees
Saw this one at the junkyard last week. I want that fender. It has a small dent on top behind the grille, but the rest looks great. I'm surprised it has remained all these years. Original paint!
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Re: Trucks and trees
Snag that drivers fender!
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Re: Trucks and trees
Not trucks specifically; these are of a manure spreader near our house.
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Re: Trucks and trees
I went down south the other day to pick up a trailer made from a 71 bed. On the way back I was driving my Longhorn and pulling the trailer, when I stopped at an old salvage yard.
Legend goes, The owner has an old production chicken house full of trucks and parts. On the corner of the property is a house he used to live in that has two Cheyenne LWB trucks parked out front near the highway. They have been sitting there so long they have 10' trees all around them. When I pulled up a late model roll back wrecker was parked near the trucks with a half loaded late model truck. I figured somebody was around , so I backed in front of the wrecker. Before I could get out of the truck, the guy came up the main highway, blocked me in, and jumped out and started loudly asking what I was doing and told me it was private property, and for me to leave. My longhorn is not quiet and I was wearing a company uniform, not a black hoody, but I guess the guy thought I was up to something. He ran me off before I got pictures of that truck and tree scene.
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These are awesome
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From the looks of the rollback and the truck half loaded on it, I think I was the victim of some other bad situation.
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Here is a wild sight while doing a little junkin today.
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That Ford looks like it's been there since 1967.
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I wonder if it yanked the motor and trans mounts loose. Looks that way...and they are Ford parts after all
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Now that's what I call stump-pulling torque.
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Or torque-pulling stump!
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I think that is a Olds engine not a Ford. Strange.
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Wow, never seen a tree move something that heavy.
Is that the yard north on 25? I always wondered if there were any of our trucks in there.
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It's about Halloween so.... ghosts from the past grasped in mother natures grip
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In the jungle...
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Good Eye! Olds or Pontiac.
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Always like seeing truck like that and wonder the stroy on them. How long has iy been there?, why was it parked?
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I thought Pontiac when I first saw it, but it has the distributor in the front. My bet is 390 Ford
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I'm more concerned with the species of tree
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My bet is that it IS a Pontiac motor that was just sat down in the engine bay backwards a long, long time ago. The attached photo is of a early 70's Pontiac with mid 70 heads. I can see some striking resemblances!
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