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Barry

Barry

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At rv camp in Bryson City, NC.
On Tuckasegee River.
This is across from our site so did the best I could with some pictures.
These are full cars pushed over the embankment and look like the early to late sixties.
Some cars have 2 and 3 cars on top, can get to them as the hill is solid poison ivy, and I'm sure you would be a snake dinner.
Cars look to be a few 40s mostly 50s and a few early 60s.
For two days I wanted to cross the river but thought differently.
My guess is just in a quarter mile 50 or so cars.
 

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common in texas/oklahoma. salvage cars were used to divert creeks and stop washes. usually, wrecked 4dr cars
 
I saw those pictures and immediately thought about one of our past trips to the Smokey Mountains. I looked up Bryson City, NC. and it's the same place that I saw them. I didn't realize what they were used for though.

If you take the road on the back side of the Smokeys be prepared for a very crooked road.
 
66FBACK said:
I saw those pictures and immediately thought about one of our past trips to the Smokey Mountains. I looked up Bryson City, NC. and it's the same place that I saw them. I didn't realize what they were used for though.

If you take the road on the back side of the Smokeys be prepared for a very crooked road.
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We had been on the dragon's tail twice, once with a vette then we were dumb enough to do with 57 bird.
A crotch rocket came around a curve and had to be doing 60 and nowhere for me to go, missed my mirror by inches at best, and never again.
 
There's an area along the Swannanoa River about 10 miles east of Asheville where a lot of junk cars were deposited in the 50's and early 60's. Not really a stabilization project but rather an attempt to gain land between the river and a major highway as they backfilled with dirt over the cars. Someone built a convenience store on the highway and the back side of it is on the junk car fill. Now I guess they're all rusting away to the point where the land is sinking and the back side of that store looks like it could fall into the river at any time.
 
Barry said:

Bryson City, NC - Automotive Riverbank Preservation Wall

Visit reports, news, maps, directions and info on Automotive Riverbank Preservation Wall in Bryson City, North Carolina.
www.roadsideamerica.com

My wife found this link and I thought people just rolled down the hill to get rid of it, du"
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"Preservation wall"
I guess they wouldn't like it if we all went in there and started digging out the parts we need for projects.
 
Years back someone's idea of art was to bury cars along a shopping center parking lot. This in a neighboring town where I live.
www.roadsideamerica.com

Ghost Parking Lot (Gone), Hamden, Connecticut

Road report and review of SITE's strange environmental art, twenty cars half buried in a parking lot and covered with asphalt. (Destroyed in Sept. 2003.)
www.roadsideamerica.com
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They covered the cars with asphalt. It deteriorated quite a bit as the photo shows. Looked stupid years ago when they originally did.
 
Jerry Bruckheimer's wife had this done just out of Bloomfield, Ky. It's probably about ten or so miles from me.

 
Barry said:
We had been on the dragon's tail twice, once with a vette then we were dumb enough to do with 57 bird.
A crotch rocket came around a curve and had to be doing 60 and nowhere for me to go, missed my mirror by inches at best, and never again.
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Next time drive a F350 with a snow plow attached. :) That will make quick work of those jerks.:)

Are you catching any fish? What is in the tuckasegee river? Smallmouth bass? Any trout?
 
When I was riding a bunch of back roads around the Fontana Dam area up there we saw what looked like broke down cars, boats with no trailers just sitting on the side of roads. Looked like that stuff had been there 50 years at least.
The wife and I came to the conclusion that locals just left it there and that was the Appalachian way of life.
 
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