Topic: The Abandoned Thread

[faux fiddy]

Hey Terry I haven't time for reading but looking at this picture gives me much joy. Is it a postal box? I miss my maritime places in southeast Alaska so bad and he things and people I left behind that it hurt$

That's as much as I can express about seeing that thing that is so common in some places that you can drag them out of the high water mark apparently abandoned and make them run for the nest few years, with a bit of  wd fourty.  It was a Honda of course there the high tide line fo a few and finally my friend  risked his chance in court for any potential PO's against marine salvage laws.. It gave me incentive to buy all the Honda twins I could, 7.5 is slichtly different bore but the same. My scow (22" chapel design) needed the long shaft so I transplanted a palate box I was welcomed to .........had two long shjafts tor a backup.

Made 11 knots in the flat bottom scow regulary at slack tide, the boat had lee boards and tacking was like a wind surfer. Beached it wherever I wanted, but once someone said the saw it fall of a rock when I squaw anchored it and the tide wentout.Once wen it dragged anchor I went to take the new guy to the dock, he was replacing me on longlining. Found it in the binoculars and should have made them hang around to pull the anchor. I never felt so alone in my life than when that offshore wind blew me over and I was grippingthe rudder thinking I felt like I wa doing the right ting. I told the PO about nearls$hitting my pants and he asked if the sail touched the water. I said no, it did not.

He explained " Now you know." (?)

Anyway as much as we talk about bikes here I tacked in with the 10 hp Honda from the "80's. I  was a twin, I think it was 200cc, and the timing belt fix is cheap and easy, the coil is split /wasted spark that may work on the bikes and cheap like I never seen them for a bike even in Alaska islands.

Anyone else got anything  to say about the 10 hp twin outboard?

[Terry in Australia]

G'Day mate, yep, it's a postal (letter) box out the front of that deserted house. I drive past that place every other week and still want to rescue that letter box, maybe one day I will.

Speaking of old boat motors, we've still got my dad's old Chrysler outboard (4HP?) from around 1970 at my mothers house, my grandfather (Dad's father in law, who didn't get on well with my dad) built us a wooden boat and dad had to buy a motor for it, so he bought a new Chrysler, and we had ONE outing on that boat, we went up river around a mile I guess, turned around and came back, and that was it, it's been hanging in dad's shed for well over 40 years now, and has done maybe one hours work?

The old wooden boat rotted out many years ago and I'm no "boatie", but it'd be fun to try to get it running again...........

[USMC5811]

Ever heard orf Centralia. PA?

   In 1962, someone was burning trash and caught a vein of underground coal on fire. It has been burning since then.

 Here's a link

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/fire-history.htm

 Theres more links on the page with pics of then and now, history,etc.

You beat me to it!
Lots of creepy places in Pa and Ohio...


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[754]

Saw this just  a mile off 97  about 7 mile north of the US border.

[Sgt.Pinback]

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[dave500]

I took these shots years ago near my place,i had an old canon T50,you can see my blue holden through the windscreen opening of that ford truck

[dave500]

last time I passed that chevy the cab had all collapsed,i should do some update photos of the same trucks?my wife and I jumped a fence to shoot these,these are all at the same spot.

[dave500]

these Hudsons were also close to our place at Clagiraba rd,very very rare car in Australia and these were right hand drive!in the day ill bet a banker or big developer owned them?they are #$%*ed,i poked my head in one and even the speedo was rusted through!

[seanbarney41]

My dad had one of those Ford's when I was a teenager.  I recognize the remains of the flathead v8.  Was a serious heavy duty vehicle with 2 speed rearend and no syncro trans

[dave500]

super wasps?wouldve had a 308 straight six?mate who soughta knows him said the local council had him move them into his boundary as they were an eye sore and on council land,i cant see them though and we ride past this spot often.

[Terry in Australia]

Great pics Dave, I lived in Brisbane for 2 years and that humidity really fcuks car bodies, I'd never seen so many rusted out cars in my life before I lived in QLD!

[dave500]

ahh the old two speed rear ends!#$%* im glad those days are over,they always wore out as #$%*tards would try and drive em as a splitter all the time?then they either wouldn't come out of high or low or some #$%*?and go "CRUNCH' up or down?#$%*s of things,good idea but too fragile.

[dave500]

yeah terry if ya close to the ocean?i think new cars don't rust like older cars?back in the day youd see classified ads in the paper for 4 year old EH holdens stating NO RUST !for our overseas friends an EH holden was a 1964 model.

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah mate, modern cars don't rust at all, some of the Euro trash cars have sacrificial anodes installed so they can survive sh1tty Euro weather, but the Japanese cars (and recently built Aussie cars before the manufacturers abandoned Oz, the carnts) are much better than they used to be.

[dave500]

I buy a few sacrificial anodes once a week Terry,beer comes packaged in them,ive never had a corroded one yet,but then again I drink fast?

[BobbyR]

In the 1970's the Japanese cars sent here would rust quickly. They used recycled metal. The American cars rusted a bit slower. Here in NY they use a lot of salt on the roads in the winter. My Firebird started rusting in about 5 years. My Mustang rusted much sooner.  Tire outfits were refusing to lift Mustangs over six years old sine they broke in half a lot. The Japs got there #$%* together and did some serious rustproofing at the factory and cleared up their problem. American companies remained arrogant for a while longer until they could barely sell a car.

Today, my American cars have essentially no rust on them in 10 years. My current cars don't have any rust on them because I lease them and flip them every three years.

[dave500]

we don't get ever salt put on roads,you got a slack epa your way,whats the benefit?

[BobbyR]

In the NY area and others in the northern parts of the US we get snow and ice storms. We had two in one week which killed the power in many areas for 5 days so far. When a storm is  coming it is customary for them to spread a mix of salt and sand to keep the roads open. It is now more sand than salt. If is is a small snowfall this keeps the roads wet. If you have never driven on a icy road it is hard to imagine how hard it is to stay on the road. 

[dave500]

don't drive on it then.

[BobbyR]

Well Dave sometimes you have no choice. A storm comes up when you are at work etc.

[dave500]

#$%* that's easy,just don't go to #$%*ing work?

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, Dave lives on the Gold Coast Bobby, so it's T Shirt weather 24/7. I live in the coldest part of Oz (well, except from Tasmania, but it's not really part of Oz) but we don't get ice (apart from occasionally black ice, which disappears after a couple of hours) or snow here, so it's hard to imagine the need for salting roads, but I see TV shows from the US and UK where the undersides of cars not that old are completely gone.

When I was 16 I had a 1948 Ford Prefect and another one for spares. When I took what I needed off the spares car my cousin and I took it out to the "Salt Flats" a few miles out of my home town, as it had a broken chassis rail, there were the remains of hundreds of cars that were taken out there, after a few years all that was left of them were the roofs, the rest had just disappeared into the salt.  

[dave500]

I don't have much salt on my fish n chips Terry but still they disappear?

[Terry in Australia]

I don't have much salt on my fish n chips Terry but still they disappear?

Ha ha, it's probably the vinegar Dave, Vinegar's an acid.

[Yamahawk]

Here in Ohio and Michigan, they salt the roads and pepper them with potholes...
In 1977, I saw a 1974 Mercury Cougar, and a 1975 Plymouth Duster that had rust holes the size of your fist in the upper fenders, and the doors wouldn't close unless you lifted them a few inches, as the hinges had rusted nearly off... talk about 'planned' obsolescence... the cars weren't even paid off yet.
Charlie