{"id":10807,"date":"2012-02-29T01:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2012-02-29T01:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:11:12","slug":"giulietta-ti-109107-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2012\/02\/29\/giulietta-ti-109107-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Giulietta TI 109107 RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin sent me these pictures along with a brief note that he had picked this car up and now had a shed full of spares from it.\u00a0 The story is one I’m familiar with, and maybe you are too.\u00a0 Guy who owned it rolled it outside a number of years ago to make room for some of its rarer cousins.\u00a0 He is asked to sell repeatedly back when it was a viable used car, but refuses.\u00a0 Ages go by, the elements reclaim much of the iron from it and ultimately what you see here is all that remains.\u00a0 The old man dies, and the car goes on the market for parts -a needlessly dead thing.<\/p>\n

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Must be a bit of moisture in the area!\u00a0 Note how the body just broke between the doors.\u00a0 Must have been a chore digging this out of the vines.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I say it’s a familiar story because I owned a 69 GTV a while back that had been left to rot inexplicably.\u00a0 Old man owner held on to it like some vestige of his youth was stored in the trunk, then finally sighed a resigned sigh and decided to let it go.\u00a0 Trouble was, 15 years in a moist area, with a sage bush growing over the drivers side rear corner had seriously rotted that area.\u00a0 Car started, ran decently, interior wasn’t too bad etc etc, but you could stick your hand in the hole under the rear windows on that side.\u00a0 It probably survived, but just.<\/p>\n

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Looking at this I’m forced to wonder how long it took to go from neglected grocery getter to corpse.\u00a0 Again -must be awfully moist in this area or right on a salty coast.\u00a0 I visited a lighthouse on Hawaii’s Kona coast that reportedly had a bunch of scrap cars parked around it.\u00a0 Never found much there except badly corroded engine blocks and the occasional tire.\u00a0 There was one spot however, where an early 70’s Japanese compact had been parked.\u00a0 The metal from the car was gone utterly, but all the plastic doodads from the doors, dash etc were present and presented in this weird car shaped presentation.\u00a0 I guess that’s where this car was headed.
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<\/strong>I’ve heard a lot of stories like this -the guy in the SF bay area with a bunch of 50’s and 60’s microcars sinking into the mud in his back yard, a guy who was going to give me a Fiat 600 that he abandoned on a guys property a number of years ago, but suddenly felt the need for payment -even though it was, and had been belly up in someone-elses back yard for decades.<\/p>\n

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Foliage doesn’t help, in fact it’s a >1 coefficient in the corrosion balance equation.\u00a0 This car was RHD.\u00a0 A pretty rare thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Apparently column shift is hard to carry over to a RHD conversion, so someone came up with this VW based (?) work-around.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Is there a point to this post?\u00a0 Maybe not -or maybe it’s just to say: respect the machines in your care!\u00a0 Got a decaying Sprint in your back yard you don’t want to get rid of but if you were honest with yourself, would admit you’re never going to get to?\u00a0 Pass it on to someone who will save it.\u00a0 I say this knowing full well that yes, it’s your car, and if you want to fill the rocker cavities with salt and pour battery acid all over the floors, it’s your prerogative, go for it, but in the grand scheme it’s just kind of petty and selfish to think this way.\u00a0 It’s just a chunk of metal at the end of the day, and in the long view it, and the rest of the planet will be swallowed by the dying sun, but that’s no reason to not allow it its time.\u00a0 These are neat objects, hearkening back to simpler days, but you know that -that’s why you’re here reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin sent me these pictures along with a brief note that he had picked this car up and now had a shed full of spares from it.\u00a0 The story is one I’m familiar with, and maybe you are too.\u00a0 Guy who owned it rolled it outside a number of years ago to make room for … <\/p>\n

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