Simpson Farm Auto Graveyard, Talmo, GA
My good Russian friend and I visited here today (4.24.2017). My friends not quite as sharp as his contemporaries, but I think sharp enough and full of color!
Fire Truck Row!
A lot of red all lined up in a row!
Cadillac .. an old mans toy
Looks like someone primered this old boy right over the dents and the chrome!
General Motors Truck
This just screamed patina!
Vintage GMC
Clyde forgot his car. Bonnie was still sleeping in the back. Ha!
GMC Patina
First time I'd ever seen this style GMC logo. Pretty cool!
GMC Patina, with all its aged color!
Here! Hold the wheel a minute
GMC - General Motors Truck
This ole General had seen some better days!
Early 50's Ford?
Can anyone identify this shapely beauty for sure? We think its a 51 Ford that someone changed the rear lights on!
This old Olds is not so 'Super' anymore!
Such a beautiful old car without all the wrinkles and rust!
Oldsmobile Super ... 88?
One day way back when, I'm sure it was everything its nameplate says it was. Can anyone answer why it just says Super and not Super 88?
Old-Slow-Mobile not looking so good!
I am told that bullet bumpers of the 50's like these helped influence the womens bullet brassere fad also of the 50's. Or was it the other way around? Hmmmmm
Dodge .. of the V8 (Hemi??) variety
Now turing itself into Dodge Art I think! This may be a 1954 Dodge Royal. A 54 Royal 500 was the pace car for the 1954 Indianapolis 500. Wonder if there's a Red Ram Hemi lurking under there?
See The USA!
Such a beautiful old truck here. I love the colors that come out in the patina as they oxidize and rust. Would love it better if it were fully restored to its original glory though!
In Your Chevrolet!
Man if this old truck could talk. Really would be nice to know some of the history and doins of these old vehicles. The stories they could tell ... some of them would probably curl our toes.
Can you say beautiful Studebaker Truck?
I knew that you could! The color on this guy even with the rust beginning to come through was just magnificent. Beautiful red color you'd just want to bottle.
Rescue Me!
Rescue me
Take me in your arms
Rescue me I want your tender charm
'Cause I'm lonely And I'm blue I need you And your love too
Come on and rescue me
Va .. Vaa .. Vaaa .. Vooooooom!
Don't anyone check Gamut on this. I wouldn't want you to unnecessarily get hurt!
55 Crown Victoria Hood Ornament
I was able to identify this hood ornament by this website that had this great chart with lots of hood ornaments identified per car make and model.WhooHooooo!
http://www.pbase.com/mgrove/hood_ornaments
1941 Dodge Luxury Liner
I'd never heard of a car called the Luxury Liner till I walked up on this one in the Simpson Farm Auto Graveyard. I liked the grill!
Fleetwood .. of the hand painted variety!
I can't tell you how much it vexes me that I missed focus by about a half inch on this. Still its not bad and came out very much like I had envisioned. I wanted to run focus sharp from the top all the way down through the Fleetwood lettering and then have it transition to soft at the bottom edge of the image. However, the sun was full force directly at me causing such a direct glare that I couldn't see anything in the camera viewfinder. I finally just made a calculated guess .. at which I got real close but not totally capturing the Fleetwood in focus. But I still like it ... it did exactly what I was hoping for.
More hand painted Fleetwood!
I especially like the cross hatch brush strokes. The guy had a nice touch I tell you!
This should come with a color warning!
Gear on hose wheel
This was a gear on the end of a water hose reel on a very cool old fire truck. The truck was (guessing) from the thirties and very rusted out. Lots of good photo shots still in it though.
Old 30's Fire Truck
This truck was beautiful but unfortunately almost completely rusted out. Someone needed to save this one about thirty years ago!
The Old Fire Truck, Me ... and some self indulgence!
1949 Studebaker Truck Hood Ornament
My favorite pic in this graveyard series!
Thunder Chicken!
Pok, ba bok, ba bok, ba baaaa!! Thunder Chicken!
This was a 64 or 65. I always have wanted a 62 or 63 retromod. Maybe one day still?
4 Wheel Drive BABY!
Jump in ... we'll go Off Roadn'!