‘71 Fury Abandoned At Walmart

[SportFury70]

Just saw this video today. Poor car, it looks rough but saveable….

 

[65Port]

I wouldn't go putting my fingerprints on that car like he did.. God knows why that car is there..

 

[Turbo301]

There was a '70 Monte Carlo "abandoned" for over a decade in a strip mall parking lot I used to drive by frequently. It degraded considerably over the years but it never seemed to get vandalized, which was nice. I always wonder about car abandonment in general, but especially with classics.

 

[SportFury70]

UPDATE from my first post, the owner has been found and it was apparently sold back in May but never picked up….

 

[CBODY67]

Since May? Wonder that code enforcement didn't act on it? But if the title got transferred and it was not stolen, and had no flat tires, they'd have to wait from the landowner to complain about it, I guess.

 

[Snotty]

I sold a van to a guy who took it to Oklahoma upon purchase. Some three years later I got a call from the Bakersfield PD asking me why I had dumped my van on the streets and left it there? ??? Apparently the guy never registered it, then came back, after thoroughly trashing it. I told them I had mailed in the Release of Liability, so I didn't know why I was being contacted, then gave them the man's name and information, as well as his brother's name who was the contact on the sale. Never heard from them again. It's a shame he trashed it, because it was a nice van!

 

[71Polara383]

It's crazy to think no one noticed the car never arrived. Kinda hard to miss.

I know there's lots of folks that buy stuff and don't see it in person for months and sometimes years. But you'd think at somepoint, someone would start asking g questions

 

[73Coupe]

I'm going to manifest a full restoration thread of this car being on FCBO in the near future. With the "finished" photos to be taken in the same parking lot above.

 

[Rustyrodknocker]

Since May? Wonder that code enforcement didn't act on it? But if the title got transferred and it was not stolen, and had no flat tires, they'd have to wait from the landowner to complain about it, I guess.

I think code enforcement will pick back up after the scorched earth urban society we are living in is repaired here any day now.

I am involved in a similar situation myself. The property owner could not get a car removed after repeated complaints to the city and the local radio. It was pretty much "hey the world is on fire and there are untold 100's of stripped out cars and burned up zombie RV's across the city. We are sorry you are losing a parking spot..."

 

[Rustyrodknocker]

UPDATE from my first post, the owner has been found and it was apparently sold back in May but never picked up….

I'm guessing dude sold the car and the guy never picked it up so he said I'm moving to Walmart you can pick it up there..

 

[Rustyrodknocker]

It's crazy to think no one noticed the car never arrived. Kinda hard to miss.

I know there's lots of folks that buy stuff and don't see it in person for months and sometimes years. But you'd think at somepoint, someone would start asking g questions

Reminds me I sold a 56 International to a guy on the East Coast on Ebay 20 years ago.. He paid immediately. He was going to drive out and get it. I was like, 2900 miles one way? Aren't you going to drive past a lot of cornbinders on the way out her? He said he wanted to go on a road trip and asked if I could hold it for a while..
To be fair I bought it on Ebay and did a 600 mile round trip to get it...

After a year of excuses I told him I sold it because I needed it gone! He agreed I could get rid of it.

I asked the local International club if they wanted it. They replied yea if you deliver it..
I literally drove it on a trailer hauled it 20 miles one way . Drove it off the trailer and parked it in a line of cornbinders and handed the guy the keys and the title...The things I do for the sake of a machine....