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Interesting 1910 Cadillac find, with lots of T parts and goodies sprinkled about. I bet there’s a lot of places like this still waiting to be found.

https://youtu.be/50CjW1kH060?si=piaYNpi6pqDOAYB1

Neat find. It should be left just as it is.

Yes...they are everywhere...and sadly, steadily disappearing.

In my own case, my wife's family old homestead/farm is still in family hands, which had a house built in the 1860's, and two barns, all of which were full of stuff from the 1800's on...from furniture, wagons, trucks, equipment, tools, parts......
The family was the classic Georgia dirt road racers 40's thru 60's, where the barn was full of old Ford flathead V8's, as well as a '51 Shoebox. Few years back one of the barns collapsed, and the old oak tree dropped a limb on the house. The current (young generation) owners bulldozed it all away, no attempt at any salvage. Just the heartwood pine in all the structures alone was worth a fortune, let alone all the contents. Sad.
We managed to save an old handbuilt heartwood table & chairs from the 1800's, a cousin pulled out the old Fordson, but Lord I wish I'd had the opportunity to excavate the contents of that barn.that nobody wanted.....

A good lesson to be learned here. Don’t collect so much junk that you are unable to work in your shop or even find anything you are looking for. That is probably why it was abandoned. Whoever collected all the stuff did not do restorers any favors by not labeling anything as to what it is or what it goes to and what is the obsession with so many lights. Most of the stuff is unidentifiable. Even if someone wanted to restore that car (whatever it is), so many of the parts have been misplaced or lost, it would be an almost impossible task. Sad. Jim Patrick

When Chickasha was still going on several years ago there was a guy who brought a trailer load of all kinds of old car parts and pieces, old frames, rims, axles and you name it. And like the post above there were a few identifiable Ford parts but the rest couldn’t be identified for what they were. The frames were head scratchers for most of the people checking out the trailer. It’s to bad that most didn’t sell and no telling what happened to the majority of the load.

One of the first things that caught my eye was a model T hub puller on the top shelf on the left just after the door was opened !

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:38 pm

Along with all the "lanterns", the few Model T items and the Boyco running board cans caught my attention. Will it all be bulldozed, or auctioned of for pennies on the dollar? Lots of good stuff is destroyed by people who don't know that they have.

Sad but true.

Haven't been here much lately but I'm glad to see you up and active once more.

It always seems to go dark.

I see opportunity. The videographer seemed amazed and intrigued with what he didn’t know about what he was looking at. Maybe his hobby just found him. Maybe he now has that son/daughter project he was thinking about. Maybe it’s the start to his new antique Cadillac business. And the list goes on…

What I didn’t see was excavating equipment lined up ready to send it back to the earth, or scrapers ready to get paid by sending it to the shredder to become your next imported kitchen appliance.

The lesson I see is I am glad someone collected all this so called “junk”. this hobby has depended on that fact for its survival.

Thanks for sharing the video. the thoughts that sheds and barns still exist like this give me hope that one day it will be my turn to find one.

Bryant

One can only speculate as to what happened here. The car was disassembled who knows when in a space that you almost couldn't work in. Guessing the hoarding developed over time as the car sat and became unaccessable. Plenty of $ stuff there but plenty of junk too.