very early chevrolet

naturegirl · Dec 12, 2009

This is our humble offering for the day's hunt. We saw this hillside earlier this year and thought it was a dump. It turned out to be an early chevrolet all in pieces and almost gone.I think the whole car must be there, all scattered about. Here are some pics, didn't get one of the front of the car where the emblem was at one time. Finding a bit of the rubber tire with the wheel and fender was neat. The canapy holders help date it. (I think)
naturegirl

Ifoundit69 · Dec 13, 2009

I guess back then when they quit running people just left them there ,for us to find .I had a site I hit one time and on the edge of the lot the old main road used to run in madison virginia and I guess someone in a model T ford ran off the road and just left the car there in the revien .When the owner told me there was a car there I really didnt beleive him becuase you couldnt really see it until you where just about on top of it ,it had become part of the stream and water was actually running through it ,kind of neat I thought .

But since you found the automobile maybe theres a home site close by or a mill.

Good luck

nova treasure · Dec 13, 2009

Very Cool,
like already stated, it could have been stuck and left. It is another good history lesson to show how things were so different back in the day, when getting to town was alot harder and many times a horse or mule was still the only way to travel.
here is a pic of a mule trying to pull out a car in the 1940's.

Nova Treasure

Woodland Detectors · Dec 13, 2009

That's cool! :hello:

naturegirl · Dec 13, 2009

Thanks guys! Around here the Osage Indians were notorious for just abandoning cars and going to get a new one in the 1920's. They had just come into all that oil royalties money, with no experience in handling it, trying to make a transition to white man ways. Could very well have belonged to one. We were looking for a house foundation because there is a water pump, and an old animal pen right above the hill. There is old oil field activity in this area also, the rusted bits of iron are everywhere. Got to have a newbie learning experience with the detectors, got very different sounds on both detectors, but quit digging at 3 ft. Have to figure out what was going on with that. Found a jar that might pre-date WWI, around here that's old. White man didn't show up in great number around here till around 1880.

naturegirl

DigginThePast · Dec 13, 2009

Cool find. A little wax and some touch up paint and you'll be riding in style.

ammo_u · Dec 14, 2009

Naturegirl, You are from my part of the world here in Osage Co Oklahoma I take it. I remember people in Pawhuska telling me the very same story. I also remember seeing a picture of an Osage family with a huge house living outside in the backyard in traditional housing.

West Jersey Detecting · Dec 14, 2009

I have come across at least one very old automobile. The tags were still attached and were dated 1910. It was a rusted mass and still remains where I found it, on a hilliside.

naturegirl · Dec 14, 2009

Right Digginthepast, I just need some goggles and a scarf.

Yes ammo_u, "The Osage" it is. And everything about this county fascinates me, from the nature to the history. I find it an exciting place to live. But then, it doesn't take much to amuse me :wink:

Neil, did you get the tag off that car? Wow, I need to go back and look for the tag on this one. I actually want to see just how much of this one I can find.

thnx for looking
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GopherDaGold · Dec 14, 2009

I hope you find more identifying pieces to that old car. Would be neat to find out exactly what it is.
In the field directly across from where I'm sitting now are the rusted remains of a very old combine/harvester. I'll be kicking around over there as soon as the weather breaks.

Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.) · Dec 14, 2009

Thats cool, I myself have run across vehicles way back in the woods and thats why they were left...they were to far back in the woods to begin with :laughing7:

hodge · Dec 14, 2009

I think it might be a bit too late for a peroxide clean...!!!
all the best for Christmas everyone.

kenley · Dec 14, 2009

Naturegirl.
Speaking of which..When my mother was 10 yrs old, an Osage family had bought a big touring car, the kind where the driver sat outside and the passengers rode inside with curtains on the windows. They wanted to go to Nebraska to visit relatives one Summer. The problem was that none of them knew how to drive. So they hired my 10 yr old mother to drive them. They stopped every night and made camp. Mom says she doesn't remember much traffic on the road. Sometimes they had three flats a day, and Mom fixed the flats. She said they had two spares on each front fenser and two tied to the back. I want to say it was a Lincoln, but I could be mistaken.
I finally got out the 2500 yesterday and got a nail apron full of clad. No silver, no jewelry.
Were there any station stops on the Pawhuska-Sedan rail line?

naturegirl · Dec 15, 2009

Hi kenley, that's a great story! And yes I think there were cattle stops on that line, I'm a little fuzzy right now. Let me talk to Buckshot. Stations like Blackland, Nanos, but those two were different lines. Gotta go to work now, more later

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