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Never going to be fixed, sold, or saved... owners are sometimes bastards to the cool cars in their yards

All found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/565525893463925/

the abandoned locomotive in Bolivia, intriguing, but not as incredible as the abandoned locomotives in Greece

I don't recall where I found the above image, but you can see many more like it, and the below image of the abandoned trains in Thessaloniki Greece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334761/Its-oh-quiet-The-eerie-abandoned-towns-left-rust-gather-dust.html

'Happy End' - a Photo-Book about Miracles in Aviation History,

'Happy End' is a photo-project about miracles in aviation history - 15 airplanes that had forced landings but ALL on board survived and were rescued from the remote locations. The planes remain abandoned in nowhere since 10-70 years.

photos from http://www.thecoolist.com/happy-end-photographs-by-dietmar-eckell/ and http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/happy-end-a-photo-book-about-miracles-in-aviation-history

THE BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE !

With the help of crowdfunding the book was printed and is now available for online purchase. If you are interested in the 96 page hardcover book with facts, stories and 53 large pictures of the 15 planes:

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With Paypal you can pay with your credit card even without having a Paypal account. Please allow 2-3 weeks for overseas shipments. With the purchase of the book you will also get access to the 'making of' pdf files with location, links and how i got to the 15 planes.

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the plane in the lake is a Bristol Freighter http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-channel-air-bridge.html

There is a B-17 getting restored, that was found in a junkyard

Today there are approximately 43 B-17s left in the world. Of these, there exists numerous F and G models, some of them still flying. There is only one B-17D model, that located at the Smithsonian’s Paul Graber Restoration Facility. Two E models exist along with 5 P-38s under 260 feet of ice in Greenland. There is also a derelict E in Bolivia, as well as one in New Guinea. There is one more E model, serial number 41-2595, and it is currently undergoing restoration near Chicago, Illinois.

This story is of the rare B-17E located in Illinois. Its rarity may have been its salvation. As the F and G models were being phased into use during the war the older E models were pressed into other services. On August 17, 1943 serial number 41-2595 was taken to Patterson Field in Ohio to be converted from the standard E model to a cargo carrier as part of the C-108 program. 41-2595 was the second B-17 selected for the program to becoming a XC-108A. Modifications included stripping armor and armament, taking out the bomb racks, sealing the bomb bay doors and putting a floor over them. Other changes included moving the radioman and navigator behind the pilot and copilot in the area where the top turret was previously located, opening up the bulkhead door in the rear of the bomb-bay leading to the former radio room. Hardware was added for litters, cargo or troops.

The most obvious extermal change was in the addition of a large hinged door that lifted upwards where the left waist gunner previously fought. The conversion was finished and was ready to enter back into service March 2, 1944. In late March 41-2595 was sent to India. It returned to the U.S. via the North Atlantic ferry route in October 1944 to Dow field at Bangor Maine. After service at Dow field it was authorized for salvage. For most of the WWII aircraft this would have been the end of the story. For 41-2595, however, it was just the start of a long dormat stage.

The owner of an auto junk yard nearby Dow Field was the successful bidder for salvaging the B-17, as well as a B-25, a C-47, and an O-47. His kids went at the B-25 and cut it up into small pieces. Presumably the C-47 and the O-47 met the same fate, as there was no evidence of their prior existence. The B-17 started down the same path, but for some inexplicable reason the effort was abandoned. It is not known whether this was due to the to the heavy construction of the B-17, or the XC-108A modifications. It sat in this state, forgotten for over 35 years.

The B-17 survived reasonably well in several large pieces, due in part to the fact that the forest had obscured the plane from view. Most of the airplane was comprised of seven large pieces, the forward and rear fuselage, a nose section that made up the bombardier and navigator compartment, and outboard and inboard wing sections (2 each). The plane and all of its parts eventually made their way to Gault airport in Illinois. It sat again for several years while extra parts and equipment could be rounded up.

info from http://usaaf.com/b17/index.htm
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/b-17e-desert-rat-restoration-project.html
found on http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com/post/62325171857/warhistoryonline-b-17e-desert-rat-restoration#notes

Whoa! This is a stunner! Hidden under the Waldorf Astoria is the railcar that FDR used, a secret railcar elevator from Grand Central... wow

Lying forgotten two hundred feet below one of America’s most iconic buildings lies the closely guarded secret of one of America’s finest presidents - rusting away when it could be a monument to his greatness. Hidden under the Grand Central train terminal in New York lies a vast area that was unknown to the outside world until the late Eighties. It houses the power network that is responsible for the electricity that runs the entire station - and was a key target for Hitler during the Second World War. But there is also the little known Waldorf-Astoria platform, which is known by Grand Central staff as the Roosevelt Platform. And there is parked the decaying hulk of the train the four-times elected president used to hide his disability, the paralysis from the waist down which forced him to use a wheelchair in private.

In such difficult times, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not want anybody to know of his own problems and arranged to journey in and out of New York via Grand Central in a personal armoured train. ‘The platform is directly under the Waldorf Astoria and after Roosevelt’s 6000 horse powered diesel train would pull up on the tracks it would let his personal car out of the side,’ said Dan Brucker, 52, spokesperson for Metro North, the company that runs Grand Central Terminal. ‘The car would then drive off the dark and secret platform into an elevator which would take it directly into the Waldorf Astoria garage. ‘This served to protect Roosevelt’s safety and protect his disability through polio from the public at large.’

Constructed as part of the redesigned terminal in 1913, this colossal top-secret area ten storeys deep - known as M42 - was left off all blueprints for the station and its existence was only officially acknowledged by the station owners in the late 1980’s. Accessible via a lift that is almost 100 years old, M42 is still one of the most closely guarded areas. The exact location of M42 is still classified information,’ said Mr Brucker. ‘Its history is one of denial and subterfuge, as you can imagine given its importance not only to New York City today but in the war effort during the 1940’s.

http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com/post/66750149028/destroyed-and-abandoned-fdrs-secret-armored#notes

this one might be too far gone to help

found on http://rhubarbes.tumblr.com/post/59663435708/via-solo-piel-t-1 via http://pielsolo.blogspot.be/2011/12/t-1.html

interesting photos from Outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com

I think these bomber photos are just great

these are just the cool vehicular photos, this site has a lot of other cool stuff http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com

very old vehicles that are decades into an infinite state of neglect

above from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/image/52078012154

above from http://sketchy-vans-and-other-vehicles.tumblr.com/post/52467850451/jakexp-i-count-13-they-must-have-been-there-a

a gullwing Mercedes found in Cuba, severely rusted and basically junk. Once a wonderful car... until a part broke and it was scavenged to keep others on the road I suppose

Also in Cuba are other very rare and incredible cars like a 1926 Rolls Royce Phantom I. Its coachwork has been recognized as the handiwork of Letourneur and Marchand of Paris. http://caristas.blogspot.com/2012/11/rich-relics.html

farther into the archives of Caristas.blogspot I found

and among other Vettes, this 1954:

http://caristas.blogspot.com/2012/10/cuba-correct-corvette.html

and I just learned... there is a car museum in Havana.. the Depósito del Automóvil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dep%C3%B3sito_del_Autom%C3%B3vil
and inside it are :

1905 Cadillac
1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I
1953 MG TD
1920s Fiat Alfa Romeo roadster
1970s Daimler
1980s Chevy replica of a 1957 Maserati used by Juan Manuel Fangio
Cadillac V16 1930
1959 Oldsmobile, owned by Commander Camilo Cienfuegos
1918 Ford T
1930 Baby Lincoln
funeral carriage
1977 Ducati 900SS owned by Fidel Castro
1915 Mack AC. Chain drive

the personal cars of Fidel and Raul Castro, as well as the Chevrolet Impala of Che Guevara, Mr. Maestre said he would like to secure what is perhaps Cuba's most important car: Ernest Hemingway's Chrysler.

The best online photo gallery is http://www.flickr.com/photos/riveranotario/sets/72157633360600664/with/8683984605/

Eduardo Mesejo Maestre, curator of the Depósito del Automóvil, the country’s official antique car museum arranged Treasury Department permission for Tom Cotter to travel directly to Havana from Miami on cultural exchange visas. Call it spark plug diplomacy.

We were told of the country’s dire economy, where street sweepers and doctors make the same wages. So auto repair for the island’s vintage cars becomes a creative endeavor: shampoo is used for brake fluid; iron pipes are cut up for piston rings; Coca-Cola is used to loosen rusty bolts; and cars are painted with sponges, then buffed with toothpaste.

“We call it the Cuban way,” Abel Contreras de la Guardia, our translator and tour guide, said. “We do anything to keep our cars running.”

Depósito del Automóvil is at Oficios No. 13, Habana Vieja, C.P. 10100, La Habana, Cuba. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/automobiles/03cuba.html?_r=0