Massive Secret Mustang Junkyard found in Rhode Island Forest

Jalopnik ^ | 12/5/2008 | Andrew Didorosi

[taildragger]

Imagine a secret junkyard frozen in time somewhere around the 70's with every bit of vintage hardware stretching for hundreds of acres. Classic Mustangs, Camaros, Cadillacs, Hemis; you name it, it's here. But not for long: The law man's saying to crush 'em. Massive mega-gallery below along with the location and what you can do to save them.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Looks like all are basket cases beyond the stage of restoration.

Sad, but it could have been worse - they could have been Corvette’s, the only true American sports car.

OK, the Dodge Viper counts as an American sports car, but doesn’t have the history of the Corvette and are still too new to be “classics”.

[taildragger]

I hate to bring politics into this but, Pelosi, Ried, Waxman and Obama all want us in an uninspired “peoples car’ and they would kill restoration and modification via Taxation if they could....

[freekitty]

I imagine that would be heaven to some.

[LS]

Wonder if they’ll find a few Iraqi aircraft buried there, too?

[Hot Tabasco]

I’ve been watching OverHauled all this afternoon........Wow, those guys would have a field day!

[the invisib1e hand]

1968 GT 500 KR BUMP!!! 1969 GT 350 BUMP!!!

bump indeed, but don't see those in the pic.

[taildragger]

Don’t know if any of that rare metal is their, but I did see one 68’ Torino. I wonder how many “big block” cars are in their.....

[edzo4]

it looks like there are way more out where the sat resolution is not as good

[RaceBannon]

There isn’t a whole lot of anything in Rhode Island, but there is plenty of forested land. The mansions near the beaches are quite nice, too

[Samwise]

Holey moley! Bookmarking for the guys.

[edzo4]

speaking of bacteria colonies check out this video of worldwide air traffic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2144199/posts?page=1

[Yo-Yo]

Salvage some of the chrome trim, lights and maybe some of the windows are still good. That’s about all. Otherwise it’s all junk

Amen. All there is of worth are a few trim pieces and the VIN plate. Literally everything else can be bought from Year One.

[Peter W. Kessler]

100 acres in Rhode Island is a county.

You could carpet the whole state for very little money. (Apologies to “Arthur”)

[Sparky1776]

This is where all the cars buried in the “Blizzard of 78” ended up, thankfully with Global Warming they can returned to their rightful owners, once their bodies are found too.

[Kirkwood]

That green fastback looks just like my first car.

[dr huer]

We will need those cars after the terrorist nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack, and all the essential computers in the modern cars are wiped out.

[KrisKrinkle]

Rhode Island has a forest??

[Viking2002]

Oh, God, just looking at that takes me back to high school. I hope someone can salvage some of that; it would be a travesty to see anything in restorable condition head for the crusher. Even saving spare parts would be a victory. I used to own a '73 Plymouth Duster and a '72 Chevelle. That Mustang fastback brings tears to my eyes.

[rightwingextremist1776]

I know someone who has been there....A crazy old coot owns all those cars. Most if not all of them are nothing but rusted out junk. You would have to put twice as much money in them to restore then they are worth....

[dangus]

I’m going to ignore the potential symbolism of finding a dream-like realm of tens of thousands of weather-savaged US autos.