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Abandoned Automobiles at Big Bend
I wish I knew their stories
I do not know anything about vehicles. If you drive a white truck, it looks like every other white truck. Rich is trying to teach me how to tell if it is a Ford or a Chevy, etc. But the fact is, I really don’t care that much about what it is. Or at least I didn’t think I did. I find that I have an interest what the abandoned vehicles are. It is fun to find out.
I found some neat old vehicles in the Big Bend area and decided to try to find out what I could about them. I started out asking Rich, then I went to a brother, and ended up using Google’s photo search function.
This is a truck.
Besides making a great flower planter, as my brother suggested, the truck in the picture above looks to be around a 1940's International Harvester or Chevy pickup truck. Of course, this is a guess. I think it looks more like the Chevy. It has probably had parts added on over the years. It has good patina. Things rust differently in dry climates.
This is a car.
Possibly a 1950's Ford Coupe. I found out that things rust slower in the desert because…
