12 Most Amazing Abandoned Cars

Have you ever experienced the feeling of driving your car home after a long day at work, parking it, taking the keys out of the ignition, and then driving away, never to return to it? If not, it's like

most

people, not everyone thinks the same way. Although some people seem to abandon their vehicles wherever they want and to make matters worse, they often abandon truly beautiful and unique

cars

when they do, every car you are about to see has been used, abused and scrapped, but they all have a story to tell. This poor old cadaval 1950 Chrysler Imperial sedan has seen better days.

The images you see here were taken at the historic festival at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut in 2017, which was the first time the car had a chance to be appreciated by a wide audience in years to be more specific about it, it was the first time in just over 30 years that Chrysler had been under the care of a local car dealership when the dealership went bankrupt, no one took over the building the dealership was trading in and no one ever came to claim the

cars

behind it , that meant it sat in the grassy mud lands behind that store for three decades, to make matters worse, it wasn't just any Chrysler, the body work was done by Mexican coachbuilder Diem Nacional and the car.

It is believed to be the last surviving example of his work. Someone should have taken better care of it for that reason alone, but at least it's not past the point of being salvageable. Here's another Chrysler down on its luck. This one is a little newer than the. one from Connecticut, it's a 1953 luxury Chrysler Windsor, technically speaking it's not

abandoned

, it's just that no one pays attention to its maintenance and no one has performed any service on it for a long time, we're not 100% sure how long it's been It's been locked inside the Taters garage in this area of ​​South Salem in New York, but we know it's been at least 11 years, apparently the owners waited for a change in the market before selling it.

There is a bigger market for two-door Chryslers right now than there is for Ford or Chrysler. and this one has four doors, which may be true, but at least it couldn't be sold to someone who cares about it instead of keeping it hidden away, with no love or care, this car definitely deserves better if we asked you to guess when the manufacturers of automobiles began to experiment. with the idea of ​​electric cars, what would you think it would be somewhere in the '60s, maybe the '50s, at a push, wrong, think way, way back, go back to 1910, that's when it was built this incredibly rare electric Model D from Detroit and is back in business.

After spending years in storage after the museum owner forgot about it, the first car had a maximum range of 100 miles when fully charged, but was only capable of reaching 25 miles per hour at top speed for a brief period of time in the early of the 20th century. Cars like this were actually more popular than gasoline cars. Only when petrol models entered mass production in the 1920s did the shift in popularity occur. This model has not been modified or altered at all during its entire century of life, which means that it still has the same interior that it was equipped with the day it first hit the road.

We will present the following example of recklessly

abandoned

cars with a disclaimer. No one seems to be able to agree on whether they are real Formula One cars or Formula One replicas. The cars, if they are replicas, are the

most

convincing replicas we have ever seen. Thinking about it, a Formula One car is only useful for one season, as soon as the season ends the team that built it moves on to the next season's model. and the old car is no longer needed, they have to go somewhere, so it is quite possible that they were sold to a rich collector and then abandoned in France and are a rusty pile, perhaps the owner went bankrupt or passed away , assuming they are real, there is some incredible racing history here, the cars are all from the 1980s and 1990s and the Benetton model is the same one that Michael Schumacher drove in 1993, it could even be his car, racing fans Eagle-eyed racing might have spotted the Lotus and Ferrari racers coming together. rust here next to it, what a waste, the Lamborghini Miura is a car that is almost too beautiful for words and abandoning one should be a criminal offence.

However, we'll make an exception to that rule for the next story because the abandonment was only temporary and it happened. By accident, the 1969 Ora p400 had spent a long and happy life with its owner in Germany until he passed away in 2015, leaving the luxury cars stranded in a barn with just 18,000 miles on the clock, while the owner obviously loved it , but clearly not. He didn't drive very far and hadn't told anyone where he was. Someone finally found him earlier this year and was shocked to discover that he had never undergone any restoration work and didn't need any.

The Aria 4245 chassis still has its original. The paint job still contains its 3.9-liter V12 engine and distinctive sky blue interior. It's not just a car, it's a time capsule that takes you back to the late 1960s. No wonder it has attracted a price tag of 1.6 million. dollars when it was auctioned in October 2019, this next car, a Bentley Flying Spur, has been abandoned in Dubai for so long that it has become something of a landmark for civilians, many people have come to take pictures of it, but No one has ever shown up to claim it. As a result, it has an inch-thick layer of dust that gets worse every month, and its tires have gone completely flat.

You might look at this and think it's just another example of someone in Dubai having more money than they have since and treating their car with no respect. but that might not be the case, it is a crime to go into debt in the country, so citizens, and especially foreigners, who are on the verge of defaulting on a loan, often flee the country to avoid being accused Or imprisoned for their minor crimes that they cannot. they take their cars on the plane so they are forced to leave them behind, someone may have abandoned the Bentley because they don't care, but it is more likely that they have missed payments if you ever find yourself driving on the roads of Montana in the United States of America and you come across rows of rusty cars along the river bank, don't panic, you are not seeing the aftermath of a huge traffic accident, they are actually part of a well. significant but poorly thought out experiment from the 1950s back then we didn't know as much about river erosion as we do now, people actually thought that removing car engines and pushing them downstream would reinforce the bank, while it is true that In some cases, cars may have made the river more resilient.

Such an approach would likely violate current health and safety regulations; although it began in Montana, the practice spread to Detroit, where it became known as the Detroit breakwater because cars dumped in it are prone to leaking oil rust and water-borne paint. the practice is now banned no one seems to want to come and tidy up the old mess although we have all heard of barn finds but what about pond finds? We can't see the idea. If you notice, you have half the chance that a barn find will be in good condition to restore and hit the road again.

The same can't be said for a car that spent more than 15 years in a pond. Here's a tragic looking 1959 Chevy. Impala, to prove our point, only someone with unlimited money or zero cents would deliberately use a classic car as a pond ornament, but to be fair to the last known owners of the vehicle, that was never his intention. The car apparently crashed into the pond at least of its own volition when parked, we suspect the handbrake was left off and it immediately flooded, the owner never bothered to take it out again and the next person who bought the property decided to leave the car there as a topic of conversation, we assume that means it's not really abandoned, but we can't say we agree with what happened to it.

There are two things wrong with the following set of images. First of all, the owner of this car cannot drive. He bought a two million dollar Koenigsegg Trevita. However, they have cluelessly parked it in two parking spaces. The second thing is that, having parked it so badly, they have never come back to look for it. Who would leave a valuable car abandoned like this if they had to get away from it in a hurry? Only three examples of the Trivita based on the Koenigsegg CCXR have been built, making it easy to locate the owner of this one.

The parking lot is in Zurich and we know that one of the three owners of the car is a Swiss businessman living in the state of SWE. His car does not appear to have suffered any material damage and he is right where he carelessly left him. If he doesn't want to go back and claim it, he can at least sell it to one of many people. Who would love to have it? If you are someone who believes that supercars are nothing more than toys for the rich, then the history of this 1925 Bugatti Breccia Roadster will do nothing to dispel those beliefs that you can see by looking at it.

He has had a difficult life and that is because he spent 74 years at the bottom of Lake Maggiore on the Swiss side of the Swiss-Italian border. The car was built as a custom job for French racing legend René Dreyfus, who really enjoyed driving it. the roads of the Alps at speeds of up to one hundred miles per hour back then, which was extreme speed. Dreyfus made the mistake of getting drunk and losing his car to a Swiss millionaire playboy in Albert Bode in the 1930s, but Boudin never paid the tax. acquiring it, when presented with a bill in 1935, sank it to the bottom of the lake in an act of petulance.

It was 2009 when it was dredged again and now exported to California to become a museum piece when the Mercedes -Benz SLR McLaren was first produced in 2003, it was one of the fastest supercars in the world, it is still considered very fast now and could probably still reach 200 miles per hour if someone ever came to free it from its long abandonment in Chechnya. It may not be easy, although no one cares about him, but he technically belongs to the police now. The supercar was seized in 2011 as part of a complicated investigation into a vehicle leasing company and the case is still held up in the Czech courts until it is fully resolved, the car cannot be sold, move on or walk away, meaning which should be parked and left alone.

That's understandable, but what's less understandable is why they left him standing out in the open when he could be somewhere warm and safe. garage where it won't degrade as quickly the police should consider investigating themselves for the criminal treatment of a flashy car. There are some cars that just scream class and we count the 1939 Lincoln Zephyr coupe among that number. There's nothing fancy about leaving it in a barn for decades, but at least the fact it was covered by a tarp means it's in reasonable condition, with no damage beyond repair, the angular vehicle was considered superior to the Chrysler range when it was first produced, but today there are believed to be fewer than 40 left, meaning that even with the rust and dust this car accumulated over all the years it spent in the barn in Virginia, it is still extremely valuable to the Proper buyer, still has the same v12 engine. which it was equipped with the day it rolled off the production line and incredibly that engine is still turning even if it is not in running condition after being recovered, the car was headed to an auction where it was hoped a buyer could be found. take it as a restoration project, let's hope this is an abandoned car story with a happy ending subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you'll be the first to know when a new video comes out thanks for watching and see you in the next video