Where I come from in Michigan, there are a lot of these type of yards. The newer stuff in cleared areas, but the older stuff gets overgrown with trees. I like it and can wander around in an old junkyard all day. Almost cathedral like sometimes, but a much more fitting setting for the old girls to find their way back to the earth..... One time when I was deer hunting near White Cloud Michigan, I found an old overgrown junkyard where the newest car was a 1937 Pontiac with 1949 Plates on it. There was a new 2" or so snow, and there were about 50 or so cars and trucks. It was so quiet in those trees, you could almost hear the stories the cars were trying to tell. I lost track of time and forgot why I was there for quite a while. The deer were most likely cracking jokes about the crazy guy. Many of the cars were just heaps of rusted, collapsed sheatmetal with some frame, an engine block and a couple of wooden spokes sticking out of the brush and snow, but many were also quite complete. Things like a 21 or so Model T truck with a green moss coating on the wooden roof, mid 30's license plates and headlight lenses aged to a light purple color. A Terraplane from about 33-34 that had steel artillery style wheels on it. I considered taking the nameplate from it with me, but thought better and left it where it was... I'd love to find that place again, but after many years, it has probably been picked clean and the cars scrapped.... I prefer to think they are still out there in the middle of the Manistee National Forest.
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