You know the joke about mowing your lawn and finding a car?

http://dacula.patch.com/articles/vehicle-reported-stolen-was-actually-hidden-by-weeds-in-victim-s-yard

I know a guy that cleared some blackberries and found a Jensen Healey.

Shawn

Okay, I vaguely see how this could happen if it were a Spitfire or something, but a 1973 Chevy van? How the hell tall were her weeds?!

Datsun1500 wrote:

Trans_Maro wrote: I know a guy that cleared some blackberries and found a Jensen Healey. Shawn

I bet he was pissed, blackberries are worth more.

Awww, that's not nice

Actually his son ended up restoring it.

Up here in B.C. Blackberries will reclaim any strip of land in very short order.

Shawn

I know where a 914 has been over taken by a bush. When I was a teen it was still small enough you could see the car now its just bush. I feel for the poor sap who takes a trimmer to it one day and fins metal.

On the road into where I used to work, there was a mobile home. And one day they mowed the lawn. There was a complete landing gear assembly from something earlier than 1950, sitting right in the middle of the lawn. Right next to the sign that said, "Pant for sale, $1 a gallen"

Landing gear as from a trailer or aircraft ?

I sometimes find cars behind our barn when I mow back there (which doesn't happen very often because I am a very bad lawn mower, which is no accident). When I ask Tim or Tommy why, say, there's an MGB or a Beetle shell back there (both actual examples), they just look at each other and laugh.

Margie

Datsun1500 wrote:

Trans_Maro wrote: I know a guy that cleared some blackberries and found a Jensen Healey. Shawn

I bet he was pissed, blackberries are worth more.

Easy, easy.

Now if it were strawberries, you might have a point.

Every time the name of the town came up, did you think of this?

I know a place, not far from me, where there's over 150 cars, all covered in Kudzu, from the 1920's up to the 70's. Owner is bat-E36 M3 insane and refuses to sell any of them. Some pretty rare iron rotting away under those Kudzu mounds, too.

Yeah, if you get out in the deep boondocks of SC you'll find some rather rare stuff rotting away. It's strange how that works.

One of my finds was a lump of bushes on the side of Hwy 378 about 40 miles or so from Myrtle Beach. I passed that lump several times and it just looked so weird that I finally stopped. It was in front of a tumbledown house that appeared to still be occupied which quite often means a shotgun or two are around as well so I made it a QUICK stop.

The lumpy bush turned out to be two Berkeleys and a CitiCar. Berkeley:

The two in the bushes were reasonably complete, they both had the 2 stroke engines which from what I understand made them pretty early examples.

Citicar:

These were weird little electric cars, sort of like a golf cart. I actually worked on one once upon a time, had to fix the electric contactors. It had a very primitive type of step controller, it was basically a roller cam with three micro switches, each switch controlled a contactor which ran through a big resistor to control voltage, it also would connect the lead/acid batteries in steps. So instead of smooth acceleration, you got three very noticeable steps; bam Bam BAM.

The lumpy bush has been gone for a long time now, never did find out what happened to the cars.

My aunt keeps finding my s13 in the lawn. Its her fault. She keeps dragging it around with a tractor.

Dacula is pretty close to where I work, and it's pronounced da-CU-la instead of DA-cu-La, in case you were wondering. So it reads more like the vampire guy than it sounds.

About 8 years ago, I'd been looking at a house out in the sticks where I found a three axled delivery van hidden under the weeds. The realtor literally didn't realize it was there.

This was about 4 years ago, right next to my office parking lot:

It's now completely enveloped by the grass.

I can still get to the passenger side of my Dad'sold ram in the yard.

Found a Triumph and a MG that were completely rotten in some weeds and log piles on a friends property. Too bad there wasnt much to save.