Barn Find?

"MAXIMUMVRM" (maximumvrm)
04/22/2015 at 18:14 • Filed to: None

I think I came across a barn find no one wants. Its like pitate booty, sunken.

Fury anyone?

DISCUSSION (20)

JR1 > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:20

Ehh not interesting enough for me.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:20

Hey, as long as the soil hasn’t stayed damp all the time since it was parked (looks like it’s the kind that drains well), it could be a diamond in the rough. Well, okay, the moss would indicate it *can* get wet and stay wet, and the fenders have some warning bells - that being said, I’ve seen a Rover come out of a semi-dry creekbed and its chassis was only partly boned, and that’s being made out of thin sheet metal.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1
04/22/2015 at 18:24

Only one sunken car at a time, eh?

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 18:26

It is already more than I can handle so yeah probably should just stick to one lol

lone_liberal > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:27

This one is currently going for $1500 and would seem to be better raw material. If you can get it, and get it running for a couple of hundred it might be a fun lark but I don’t think I’d go any further than that.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plymouth-F…

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:33

Grounded (in)to da’ Ground!!!!!

Brian, The Life of > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:33

Neat for a couple reasons:

It is an actual barn find and not “someone doed and their heirs are selling their old project car.

4-door hardtops are the bees knees

Stacked headlights are as well

MAXIMUMVRM > Brian, The Life of
04/22/2015 at 18:36

Definitely agree. I tried to find someone to talk to but the closest three houses were all empty. And it’s in the middle of nowhere farm land. But close to a road.

MAXIMUMVRM > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
04/22/2015 at 18:41

Would it be considered ‘slammed’ hahaha

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 18:44

It would, also “Shamed”

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 19:17

Not likely. If it sinks that far into the ground, the soil is probably wet. Crack Pipe.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > desertdog5051
04/22/2015 at 19:21

There are some kinds of silty sand that will let things sink in when wet but drain well. That would be the hope here - it doesn’t look to be that outright muddy. However, it looks to be close enough to the water table that it’s effectively a dry creekbed, and is probably damp every time there’s a real gullywasher. That brings up the question of PH: if it’s good limestone and other carbonate silt with silicates, then the metal’s somewhat protected. Leaf humus and rainwater with clay, this would be a writeoff for certain.

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 19:26

Drain well, but I have never seen a soil that drains well and becomes Sahara dry afterwards. If it is soft enough to allow something to sink, it is going to retain whatever moisture long enough to rot a piece of steel

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > desertdog5051
04/22/2015 at 19:41

Oh, there’s some rot, no question. However, that has its limits based on whether the soil did more corroding or protecting. Based on the Series II rover (older than this) we had from a creekbed (was in a “dry” creekbed well over a decade sunk to the frame), protection from air was a bigger thing than a little moisture being present or not. It’s not an ideal situation, but not as horrifying as one might think - it was much better off than the Rover that drove in salt and parked in the woods...

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > MAXIMUMVRM
04/22/2015 at 19:47

You should leave a note on it! Those cars aren’t worth much even restored but it would make a cool cruiser.

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 19:56

You may be right. My story: Living in a desert, I spotted a VW Beetle in an arroyo buried to half way up the doors in sand. This arroyo only floods maybe once or twice a year and drains very quickly then dries out. Myself and a friend went there with shovels an dug around it to see what it was all about. The buried parts of the VW had severe rusting even though the sand was quite dry.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > desertdog5051
04/22/2015 at 19:58

That might have been a case in which the sand didn’t prevent the free flow of oxygen, but did provide shade and some moisture holding. The worst possible situation.

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 20:01

Doesn’t oxygen promote Oxidation?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > desertdog5051
04/22/2015 at 20:11

Well, yes. The standard rust process, though, to get really pernicious needs the thin coat of iron (III) oxide on the surface to form a crystal substrate with water, which then expands on the surface, doesn’t stick firmly, and promotes water holding on and in the surface, which oxygen can dissolve in and react with the iron. Oxygen doesn’t have that great an ability to permeate steel without some help. Iron (III) oxide stuck to the surface in the dry doesn’t do that much on its own - things rust once and are done to a degree if there’s no moisture.

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/22/2015 at 20:28

Well explained RR. I did not know the intricacies of the process. Thank you for the explanation.