Lost Wheels

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Interesting BBC item about photos of abandoned cars - who can name any of them ?

In pictures: The faded beauty of abandoned cars

Photographer Dieter Klein searched Europe and the US to discover cars lost to time.

www.bbc.co.uk

Link to the book

Lost Wheels · The Nostalgic Beauty of Abandoned Cars · Dieter Klein

teneues-books.com

 

[MercedesDriver]

Can't name any of those but was always interested in a story behind abandoned cars, especially the ones left to decay for decades on the side of the roads or in the middle of nowhere. There must be a drama behind each one of them. Even the simplest reasons like running out of fuel in some of the places must be very stressful and dramatic, but again raises the question why the cars were not recovered by the owners and what were the reasons.

 

[Deleted member 150136]

I think you'll find most of your answers here....

Båstnäs Car Cemetery

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

www.atlasobscura.com

Get Lost In Europe's Largest Car Cemetery Hidden In The Swedish Woods

Bastnäs is an ancient Swedish ore field hidden deep in the forest that’s famous for two things: the discovery of the chemical element Cerium in 1803, and the at least 1,000 cars that are hiding behind the trees there since the early fifties.

www.google.co.uk

I've been there a few times and its amazing.

 

[219]

I think you'll find most of your answers here....

Båstnäs Car Cemetery

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

www.atlasobscura.com

Get Lost In Europe's Largest Car Cemetery Hidden In The Swedish Woods

Bastnäs is an ancient Swedish ore field hidden deep in the forest that’s famous for two things: the discovery of the chemical element Cerium in 1803, and the at least 1,000 cars that are hiding behind the trees there since the early fifties.

www.google.co.uk

I've been there a few times and its amazing.

I would love to go there and photograph some of these cars - noted for a future holiday .

I would hope than any genuine owner of an old car , who desperately needed an elusive part to keep his car on the road , would be able to go and beg the owner to sell hm what he needs ..

 

[Deleted member 150136]

I have loads of pictures.
It's a strange place, it's near the Norway/Sweden boarder, then 20 minutes down a tiny road to the middle of nowhere, then you turn a corner and they just appear.
I'll see if I have any decent photos to put up.

 

[Deleted member 150136]

How do you add your media to a post?

 

[MercedesDriver]

How do you add your media to a post?

 

[Deleted member 150136]

Yea but how do you get the media url from "your" media on this site?

 

[MercedesDriver]

Yea but how do you get the media url from "your" media on this site?

Oh, you have to upload it to some of the clouds and share from there or to upload to youtube and again share.

 

[markjay]

I can name them, in order: Saab, Volvo, Volvo, Volvo, Saab, Saab, Volvo....

 

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[Darrell]

There is a section in Classic & Sportscar that does this.