(Photos by Doug Garrison) – One of the reasons that we love our nationwide network of photo contributors as much as we do is because they are all as tapped as Chad and I are. Take Doug Garrison, one of our dudes from PA for example. Doug had been intrigued by an old 1939/40 Ford panel truck that had been living by the roadside for years in his local area. He noticed some other potentially interesting stuff set back in the woods behind the panel, so he got permission from the land owner to go exploring and he brought his camera.
What Doug found is eerily awesome. The remains of an old stone building, which once housed a business and what looks to be some sort of service bays for vehicles. He also found a 1950s vintage GMC 660 heavy duty truck and an far older REO dump truck which appears to date from the 1930s or slightly after. The trucks have literally been consumed by vines and trees (note in one photo that a fairly large tree has grown along the contour of the GMC’s passenger door!)
Doug also did some light exploring inside the crumbling building and there was some neato gearhead stuff inside those rapidly vanishing walls. While we’re always on a mission to save cool stuff, it seems that these two old beasts of burden are comfortably resting where they are and should be left to slowly return to the Earth. The panel truck needs to be saved, although there doesn’t looks like there’s a lot of original steel to work with. It would be el perfecto with a straight axle, 301ci small block and gear jammin’ 4-speed in it!
This is a very cool gallery. Big thanks for Doug for becoming Dora the Explorer for an afternoon to get these photos!
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Cool Stuff! I drive past that panel truck at least twice a week as it is literally around the corner and up the road from chez Grippo….I dream about that thing from time to time.
Bring a chainsaw . . .
On “Which of steel, bread, umbrella, robot or cupboard is edible?” Recalling “Two-Lane Blacktop” . . . .
“How much bread we got ?”
“We got three hundred racing bread. Twenty to spend.”
“No, I mean to EAT!”
if that panel truck is abandoned I want it
If you want to see lots more of these old cars, check out a place called Roadrunner Auto Sales on Route 741 just a few miles south of Hershey, PA.