Found a roof of an old truck in my backyard...

[Sidekick]

I'm guessing the aliens only needed it for landing and left it to save weight for takeoff. Looks like a flying saucer anti gravity thingamajig . Saw one on ALF

 

[GrassLakeRon]

When I moved into my current house I pulled close to 6 tons of metal out of the yard. Not fun cleaning up someone else's mess.

 

[John T]

When I moved into my current house I pulled close to 6 tons of metal out of the yard. Not fun cleaning up someone else's mess.

I was working for a distribution/trucking outfit years ago and they were building a new Warehouse...

They had to build a retention pond.....
According to the plan it Just happen to be where the old man buried about 10 B-model Macks years ago......

 

[Hugo Habicht]

I'm guessing the aliens only needed it for landing and left it to save weight for takeoff. Looks like a flying saucer anti gravity thingamajig . Saw one on ALF

@nerwin: were there a few cats disappearing suspiciously a few years back?

 

[nerwin]

So I did some more poking around now that it has thawed up. Still some frost present and pulled out a bunch of stuff, part of a door frame for an old truck and possibly a bumper. I also dug out what appears to be part of the chassis frame, it's very heavy and thick metal.

Anyways...I dug out something even cooler and recognizable.

How cool is that?! A really old electric iron, gosh this has to be from 1920s. I been trying to find one that looks identical but it's deteriorated enough to be rather difficult to get a definitive match.

Either way...really cool! But I think I'm going to have to stop digging if there's an entire car down there because then I'll have to get rid of it

I am pretty sure I stumbled upon someones old junk pile.

EDIT - I found it.

1910 General Electric Model F-36

I'm really confident this is it.

 

[NCL4701]

So I did some more poking around now that it has thawed up. Still some frost present and pulled out a bunch of stuff, part of a door frame for an old truck and possibly a bumper. I also dug out what appears to be part of the chassis frame, it's very heavy and thick metal.

Anyways...I dug out something even cooler and recognizable.

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How cool is that?! A really old electric iron, gosh this has to be from 1920s. I been trying to find one that looks identical but it's deteriorated enough to be rather difficult to get a definitive match.

Either way...really cool! But I think I'm going to have to stop digging if there's an entire car down there because then I'll have to get rid of it

I am pretty sure I stumbled upon someones old junk pile.

The upright electrical connectors on the back look a lot like an early Sears Energex.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/987606...3112&msclkid=79fb8c3a9ba11bbfc616ebe648bc56c3

Edit: Looking at the back closer, it even looks like there might be the remnants of the “X” on what’s left of the nameplate. Probably can tell better in person.

 

[nerwin]

The upright electrical connectors on the back look a lot like an early Sears Energex.

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/987606...3112&msclkid=79fb8c3a9ba11bbfc616ebe648bc56c3

Edit: Looking at the back closer, it even looks like there might be the remnants of the “X” on what’s left of the nameplate. Probably can tell better in person.

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That one also looks close but it's missing the middle piece under the handle.

I circled the areas that I noticed to most that seem to match the GE mode F-36 I found.

 

[Sidekick]

Ours doesn't have a cord. Sits on the woodstove ready to use. Found in in the barn of our first house that was an old potato farm.

I dug many tons of old potato plow blades, disc's, and worn cultivator teeth up behind the old chicken coop. Back then a ton of steel would buy a case of Schlitz dark beer . One thing about piles of old steel is when they get hot in the summer, big old snakes love to hide in them so junk them when cold.

 

[John T]

They make good door stops also.

 

[nerwin]

They make good door stops also.

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Or nice paper weights! Except for mine though...you stub your toe on it and you'll get tetanus

Just thought it was interesting. I got a whole bunch of scrap junky metal so I wanna see what the iron cost at the local scrap yard is and if it's worth making the trip... probably cost as much in fuel than it's worth lol.

 

[Sidekick]

Or nice paper weights! Except for mine though...you stub your toe on it and you'll get tetanus

Just thought it was interesting. I got a whole bunch of scrap junky metal so I wanna see what the iron cost at the local scrap yard is and if it's worth making the trip... probably cost as much in fuel than it's worth lol.

I have spent more getting flat tires fixed then I received twice at the local junkyard. Now I pile it by the road with a free sign and it disappears on its own. Depends on what you have.

 

[nerwin]

I have spent more getting flat tires fixed then I received twice at the local junkyard. Now I pile it by the road with a free sign and it disappears on its own. Depends on what you have.

That's a good point haha. It's just junk rusted metal. But someone who is scrapping will take it I'm sure.

 

[Dead Ash]

We moved into our new home about 5 1/2 years ago. While talking to one of my neighbors they asked if I had found the car abandoned in the woods?

I didn't know what she was talking about so she pointed me in the right direction and after making my way through heavy brush of pricker bushes, and basketball sized groundhog holes I came upon it.

The developer purchased the property from a farm and put a road in with about 18 houses. Ours is the first from the main drag so the side of my lot butts up against the neighbors back lot, and that is where I found the vehicle. My guess is that way back when before it was sold for our development, the owner had this car, probably ready to junk it and just drove it far enough from the road where it couldn't be seen and left it there. Then when the land was developed it ended up being in my yard.

I was unable to find any markings/nameplates and am not too good with identifying old vehicles but was hoping to find something out about it. The only thing one approximately 60 year old resident was able to tell me was that "yeah when we were kids we used to play in it".

It has no interior seats and is full of dirt as you can see in the pictures. It also appears to have a few bullet holes as if it was used for target practice. If any of you recognize anything I would like to hear it. Thanks and I hope the pictures are not too big.

 

[jaxs]

We moved into our new home about 5 1/2 years ago. While talking to one of my neighbors they asked if I had found the car abandoned in the woods?

I didn't know what she was talking about so she pointed me in the right direction and after making my way through heavy brush of pricker bushes, and basketball sized groundhog holes I came upon it.

I was unable to find any markings/nameplates and am not too good with identifying old vehicles but was hoping to find something out about it. If any of you recognize anything I would like to hear it. Thanks and I hope the pictures are not too big.

Based on memory of grill,rear fender/tail light, I'd say it's a 1949 Chevrolet. Defiantly not earlier year. There is a trailer fender mixed in the pile.
If it turns out to be the one I had, do not believe one word of what the backseat says.

 

[fried1765]

So when I moved here in the 90s, I was just a little kid but I remember seeing this metal object sticking out in the woods. My dad always joked saying it was an old car someone buried there a long time ago. Over the years we tried to get it out but it didn't budge at all. Kinda just forgot about it until I got a tractor and suddenly it popped in my head...maybe I could fulfill a curiosity I been holding into for years..however the tractor wasn't gonna be appropriate tool for the area, too muddy, too risky with uneven ground so I didn't attempt it.

But I decided to cut some trees around it today to make some room and I kicked it and the whole thing moved. I'm like woah? So I grabbed my shovel and a sledge hammer and starting working at it and I managed to get it out of the ground. Luckily it was just a roof, not an entire car! Kinda anticlimactic but cool nonetheless...felt the inner child of mine excited to finally see what it was.

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I been trying to identify what truck this was from. Clearly someone back then cut the roof off for some reason and what's really cool, I found some paint that was STILL there and it appears to be orange. It has a rather small rear window and not a very large windshield

The only identification markers I could find is the lines between the rear of the cab and where the roof meets, they are pretty distinctive. Also the distance of the rear window opening to the roof can give you an idea. Also the way the A pillars are is also another clue. I believe it might be from the late 40s to late 50s maybe.

It was pretty mangled, so I tried to bend it back the best I could. If anyone here might know what truck it was, I'd love to know. I have a feeling it might be a Chevy, but could be a Ford, could be a dodge even or heck a Willys. I'm not entirely sure.

Just a fun day, wanted to share! Its crazy the amount of things I found here over the years. Wagon wheels to old farm equipment. Makes sense.....way before there were any residential houses here it was nothing but farmland.

You should take that to your local body shop, and see if they can fix it up for you.

 

[William1]

Many years ago, my grandmothers septic system failed and had to be redone. Turns out, the 'tank' was a Model T with a window cranked down just enough to let a sewage pipe in.....

 

[nerwin]

I'll get right on that!