Overgrown abandoned vehicles in my neighborhood? It’s more likely than you think, as this selection of leaf-encrusted leavings very vegetative-ly illustrates.
Stump The Brand
This forest-bound (not Forest Green) 1956 Ford F-series tanker truck was snapped “behind the post office in Tar Heel, North Carolina off Highway 87 in Bladen County.” In related news, there actually IS a place called “Tar Heel” in NC. Also, the tree growing behind the truck’s front bumper shows that VERY long term parking is available behind said post office. (images at top and above via Gerry Dincher)
RAMbushed
“Built RAM tough”… not so much the truck but the bushes it’s buried within! We may never know why this otherwise serviceable Dodge truck was so unceremoniously dumped deep in the weeds and y’know, maybe it’s just as well. To paraphrase the closing dialog from Chinatown, “forget it Jake, it’s Portlandia.” (image via jason wilson)
Mossed and Found
According to folk wisdom, moss only grows on the north side of a tree (or a stone, or a Honda). Generations of “folks” noted that moss naturally prefers moist substrates: in many instances, those angled away from the sun’s drying rays. Thus, we have here a car that does double-duty as a Compass without the drawback of being a Chrysler product. Bonus points awarded for the car being equipped with an “immobilser” since moss also does better in stable environments – and/or English ones where it’s usually wet on any side, all of the time. (image via spline splinson)
Rovergrown, part 1
Looks like it’s all over for this Rover… remove the “for” to be more precise. That said, you’ve gotta admit this abandoned Rover SD1 2000 is looking pretty good for a nearly-40-year-old vehicle. It would look even better without the nearly-30-year-old cloak of vegetation, just sayin’. (image via Charles)
Kurier & Ivy
Hanover fist, this long-abandoned Hanomag Kurier light truck has seen better days, even if those days date back to its origins in the late 1950s. Now relegated to a roadside in rural Greece, this overgrown transporter is gracefully receding into the foliage like a slo-mo shamed Homer Simpson on dry-rotted wheels. (image via Charles)
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