Forest Junkyard for Old Classic Cars in Georgia, USA

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Lots of old classic cars on this piece of property, wouldn't mind walking through and taking a look. More here.

Fifty miles north of Atlanta, a 34-acre compound houses one of the largest car collections in the world. But this collection doesn’t have polished Ferraris or Porsches under shining lights. There are no immaculate Mercedes or Bentleys proudly displayed behind velvet ropes. A rusty sign out front of the site reads “The world’s oldest junkyard jungle, here 80 years.”

Most of this collection is unsalvageable midcentury American steel, and it lays strewn about a forested property in rural Georgia. Over 4,500 cars – most of which are model year 1972 or older – belong to a man who spent his life saving some of America’s classic cars from the crusher. Sometimes-Interesting teams up with a fellow blogger to explore the what and why behind Old Car City U.S.A.

Old Car City began in 1931 as a general store, opened by the family of current owner Dean Lewis. Dean’s parents ran the store in the town of White, Georgia, and sold various items ranging from clothing to car parts, tires, and gasoline.

When the United States entered World War II, resources such as steel and tires became scarce as they were directed toward the war effort.

The Lewis family smartly followed the money and shifted the business into scrapping cars; by the late 1940s the general store had morphed into an auto salvage yard.


But Dean had a different vision for the business; rather than profit off the destruction of cars he wanted to preserve their legacies.
He recalls “My daddy bought me a ’40 Ford when I was about 12 or 14 and I just liked old cars from then on.”
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Reminds me of the back lot on my grandmothers farm, when we were little we pretended to drive in junk cars just like those, LOL!!!
 

I like to watch these "car restoration" shows on TV. It really takes some skill to turn a junker into a "like new" Classic....and 10's of thousands of dollars....but there is a huge market for those old cars that had some Personality. 40+ years ago, a person could identify a car at a glance....today, one has to look at the nameplate to tell if its a Chevy or a Cadillac.

A fully loaded 1955 Chevy Bel Air sold for about $2500 new....one of those fully restored, today, can bring well over $100,000 at a classic car auction.
 
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