If I was to ever single out one place as my ultimate happy place, this is it. Heaven really is a place on Earth and for me it's a place called Old Car City.
I've been desperate to get back here ever since I first visited in 2018, and I had planned to do so in 2020 before the world came to an abrupt halt. I had to wait two more long years for me to finally find myself there again, and it was just as incredible as my first visit. This place is the ultimate car graveyard, the largest known one in the world, with over 4,500 cars spread across a roughly 35 acre plot of land in deepest Georgia. It was in it's infancy during the 1920s the general store for the small town of White, around an hour north of Atlanta, and gradually changed over time to a fuel station, repair shop, and then an active scrapyard. During later years of it's life the scrapyard got seriously out of hand and grew to an enormous size, with the same family owners since the 1920s deciding to open it up to the curious and adventurous photographers, artists, and such like. Every vehicle on the land dates from the 1930s to the early 1980s, although the vast majority date from the 1950s through to the mid 1970s, and all have been left to nature, to slowly fade away on the sun baked land of the American south.
I could wax lyrical about this place for a long time, I went this time with two of my friends - one from Alabama and one from Texas - who had never been before, and they both were totally in awe and loved the place which, after me hyping it up to them, made me feel pretty happy!
No matter how long you spend here it isn't enough, I chose to try and hunt out as much of the areas of the property I'd missed in 2018 so spent the whole time wandering alone, in peace and quiet, and it was glorious.
One of my favourite cars in the entire place, a 1957 Lincoln Premiere - a very underrated set of fins.
A 1954 Kaiser Manhattan, another one of my favourite cars ever made. Only a shade over 4,100 were made and very very few survive today.
This car had previously been stored on the roof of this shed, when the roof collapsed the car went with it.
I tried to be ruthless in cutting the 200-odd photos I took down and it seemed to work!
Thanks for looking
I've been desperate to get back here ever since I first visited in 2018, and I had planned to do so in 2020 before the world came to an abrupt halt. I had to wait two more long years for me to finally find myself there again, and it was just as incredible as my first visit. This place is the ultimate car graveyard, the largest known one in the world, with over 4,500 cars spread across a roughly 35 acre plot of land in deepest Georgia. It was in it's infancy during the 1920s the general store for the small town of White, around an hour north of Atlanta, and gradually changed over time to a fuel station, repair shop, and then an active scrapyard. During later years of it's life the scrapyard got seriously out of hand and grew to an enormous size, with the same family owners since the 1920s deciding to open it up to the curious and adventurous photographers, artists, and such like. Every vehicle on the land dates from the 1930s to the early 1980s, although the vast majority date from the 1950s through to the mid 1970s, and all have been left to nature, to slowly fade away on the sun baked land of the American south.
I could wax lyrical about this place for a long time, I went this time with two of my friends - one from Alabama and one from Texas - who had never been before, and they both were totally in awe and loved the place which, after me hyping it up to them, made me feel pretty happy!
No matter how long you spend here it isn't enough, I chose to try and hunt out as much of the areas of the property I'd missed in 2018 so spent the whole time wandering alone, in peace and quiet, and it was glorious.
One of my favourite cars in the entire place, a 1957 Lincoln Premiere - a very underrated set of fins.
A 1954 Kaiser Manhattan, another one of my favourite cars ever made. Only a shade over 4,100 were made and very very few survive today.
This car had previously been stored on the roof of this shed, when the roof collapsed the car went with it.
I tried to be ruthless in cutting the 200-odd photos I took down and it seemed to work!
Thanks for looking
