Black & White Wrecked Old Car

Wrecked Old Car · **1 Like**

First time uploading any of my images here!

Here's my favorite from my last roll of FP4+ that I developed a few days ago. I just got a 4490 really cheap, and I like the scanning results so far.

Based off of how much vegetation and trees are grown around the old road, this has been there at least 30 years.

alltatts · 07-17-2013, 08:45 PM

really digging this image.

**fretlessdavis** · 07-17-2013, 09:01 PM

Originally posted by alltatts

really digging this image.

Thanks! I want to try to make it up there in better lighting one of these days (it's conveniently about 5 minutes off the trail to the highest point in AZ). It's hard to tell with the direct sunlight, but within a few minutes I was being pounded with hail!

scratchpaddy · 07-17-2013, 09:29 PM

Scary! Makes you wonder how this boat of a car wound up on its roof beside an old mountain road. Must've been serious!

When you said that car had been there for 30 years, I thought, "must be in Arizona." Anywhere else, and it would have rusted away to nothing by now.

It still amazes me to see cars driving around here whose paint has been stripped off by the intense sun, but there's no rust!

slowpez · 07-18-2013, 06:27 AM

Bet there is a good story behind that old car. Nice shot.

**fretlessdavis** · 07-18-2013, 07:51 AM

Originally posted by scratchpaddy

Scary! Makes you wonder how this boat of a car wound up on its roof beside an old mountain road. Must've been serious!

The history of this area is pretty cool. This trail(road) opened up in the '30s as a toll road up to the top of the San Fransisco Peaks. If you've been to N AZ, you know how rocky it is and how terrifying this road would've been in any vehicle of that era. The car looks like it's from the 60s, which would've been after the road technically shut down. Must have been one rough accident!

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07-17-2013, 08:45 PM	#2
alltatts Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 43	really digging this image.

07-17-2013, 09:01 PM	#3
fretlessdavis Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Port Angeles, WA Photos: Gallery Posts: 505 Original Poster	Originally posted by alltatts really digging this image. Thanks! I want to try to make it up there in better lighting one of these days (it's conveniently about 5 minutes off the trail to the highest point in AZ). It's hard to tell with the direct sunlight, but within a few minutes I was being pounded with hail!

07-17-2013, 09:29 PM	#4
scratchpaddy Pentaxian Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Phoenix Posts: 3,361	Scary! Makes you wonder how this boat of a car wound up on its roof beside an old mountain road. Must've been serious! When you said that car had been there for 30 years, I thought, "must be in Arizona." Anywhere else, and it would have rusted away to nothing by now. It still amazes me to see cars driving around here whose paint has been stripped off by the intense sun, but there's no rust!

07-18-2013, 06:27 AM	#5
slowpez Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: South Carolina, USA Photos: Gallery Posts: 18,461	Bet there is a good story behind that old car. Nice shot.

07-18-2013, 07:51 AM	#6
fretlessdavis Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Port Angeles, WA Photos: Gallery Posts: 505 Original Poster	Originally posted by scratchpaddy Scary! Makes you wonder how this boat of a car wound up on its roof beside an old mountain road. Must've been serious! The history of this area is pretty cool. This trail(road) opened up in the '30s as a toll road up to the top of the San Fransisco Peaks. If you've been to N AZ, you know how rocky it is and how terrifying this road would've been in any vehicle of that era. The car looks like it's from the 60s, which would've been after the road technically shut down. Must have been one rough accident!