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Old Car City on film
May 13, 2018 10:24:38 #
Old Car City in White, Georgia is a junk yard featuring 30+ acres, 6+ miles of trails, 4000 ish vehicles from '72 going back to the 1920s. The images presented come from Kodak Ektar and Fuji Superia, both ISO-100 films.
Buick by Paul Sager, on Flickr
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/969/40259456490_ddf33bb11e_h.jpg
Old Car City started as a small general store in 1931 and is still family owned and operated. It wasn't until 2009 that owner Dean Lewis -- who grew up on the property -- realized he could turn it into a tourist attraction because a lot of people shared his love of decomposing automotive carcasses.
Dodge
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/907/42022373912_ce7a440ecf_h.jpg
Many of the cars are mossy or half-buried in pine needles and leaf litter. Some have been lifted into the air by the trees that grew beneath them. Others have roots and branches erupting out of engine compartments, trunks, and radiator grills.
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/961/41166877505_d3fd85d1d6_h.jpg
Owner Dean Lewis clears the paths, but otherwise leaves the cars to the mercy of time and nature.
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/829/41166895505_fdd777f244_h.jpg
Most of Old Car City is in a forest. All of the cars -- over 4,000 of them -- are at least 40 years old
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/827/41347186744_46f8a35d53_b.jpg
The Mercury Cougar is a nameplate applied to a diverse series of automobiles sold by Mercury from 1967 to 1997, and again from 1999 to 2002. While most examples were produced as two-door coupes, at various times throughout its production life, the Cougar was also sold as a convertible, four-door sedan, station wagon, and hatchback.
Cougar
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/947/41347171244_b053d39909_h.jpg
The 1965 Ford Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A.
Ford Mustang
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/828/41347166024_43c22541f2_h.jpg
Buick is the oldest active American marque of automobile and was the company that established General Motors in 1908. Before the establishment of General Motors, GM founder William C. Durant had served as Buick's general manager and major investor.
Buick
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/825/42066993751_7e2e8cee82_h.jpg
Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the US in 1929.
Chevrolet
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Buick by Paul Sager, on Flickr
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/969/40259456490_ddf33bb11e_h.jpg
Old Car City started as a small general store in 1931 and is still family owned and operated. It wasn't until 2009 that owner Dean Lewis -- who grew up on the property -- realized he could turn it into a tourist attraction because a lot of people shared his love of decomposing automotive carcasses.
Dodge
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/907/42022373912_ce7a440ecf_h.jpg
Many of the cars are mossy or half-buried in pine needles and leaf litter. Some have been lifted into the air by the trees that grew beneath them. Others have roots and branches erupting out of engine compartments, trunks, and radiator grills.
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/961/41166877505_d3fd85d1d6_h.jpg
Owner Dean Lewis clears the paths, but otherwise leaves the cars to the mercy of time and nature.
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/829/41166895505_fdd777f244_h.jpg
Most of Old Car City is in a forest. All of the cars -- over 4,000 of them -- are at least 40 years old
Old Car City
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/827/41347186744_46f8a35d53_b.jpg
The Mercury Cougar is a nameplate applied to a diverse series of automobiles sold by Mercury from 1967 to 1997, and again from 1999 to 2002. While most examples were produced as two-door coupes, at various times throughout its production life, the Cougar was also sold as a convertible, four-door sedan, station wagon, and hatchback.
Cougar
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/947/41347171244_b053d39909_h.jpg
The 1965 Ford Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A.
Ford Mustang
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/828/41347166024_43c22541f2_h.jpg
Buick is the oldest active American marque of automobile and was the company that established General Motors in 1908. Before the establishment of General Motors, GM founder William C. Durant had served as Buick's general manager and major investor.
Buick
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/825/42066993751_7e2e8cee82_h.jpg
Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the US in 1929.
Chevrolet
These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
May 13, 2018 10:26:55 #
May 13, 2018 10:32:13 #
[quote=CHG_CANON]Old Car City in White, Georgia is a junk yard
Incredible shots; thanks for posting
Incredible shots; thanks for posting
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May 13, 2018 10:36:30 #
Thank you for the nice memories of old Detroit iron. My mom had a '65 mustang that I really enjoyed.
May 13, 2018 10:36:38 #
Thanks for the tour. Good images of some interesting relics.
will
will
May 13, 2018 10:38:24 #
Very nice photos Paul of years gone by thanks for sharing saying hello from Pittsburgh.
May 13, 2018 10:47:38 #
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May 13, 2018 11:01:50 #
Sad to see the condition that these cars have fallen into, too bad they can't find someone to save them before they deteriorate beyond that point!
May 13, 2018 11:40:43 #
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May 13, 2018 12:43:20 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
I like these quite a lot, those of close-up details in particular. That said, I wonder what the first shot --the Buick-- would look like with the other vehicles, the trees and the sky ghosted out to almost not being there, or everything that isn't Buick selectively converted to B&W, or cropped such that everything a little above the empty emblem oval is removed. That image has so many possibilities. Which is not to say it isn't pretty durned nice as it is. Overall, KUDOS!
May 13, 2018 13:17:55 #
Paul your photos are always a treat, thanks for sharing them and the informative history!! 
May 13, 2018 15:48:39 #
ejones0310 wrote:
Thank you for the nice memories of old Detroit iron. My mom had a '65 mustang that I really enjoyed.
Thank you Eric! A neighbor in the 70s have a brand new metallic green Mustang Mach II. The coolest car I'd ever seen.
May 13, 2018 15:49:35 #
jederick wrote:
Paul your photos are always a treat, thanks for sharing them and the informative history!!
Thank you jederick! I remember thinking I'd use the camera with film only for hood ornaments on the last visit to Old Car City. It seems after the first roll I changed to more general shooting. Glad you enjoyed.
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