In White, Georgia there’s an old junkyard full of cars. Think of Old Car City as a no-kill shelter for automobiles.
Old Car City bills itself as a photographer’s paradise – and for good reason! There’s forty acres of junkyard cars here, from the 1930’s up to the 1970’s. For $30 admission you can spend all day walking among the rusting hulks.
The cars are piled under tall Georgia pines, rusted and rotted, and magnificent in their decaying beauty. Older cars are at the front of the property, parked randomly, wherever there was space between the trees.
Wide trails lead you further into Old Car City, where the cars age into the 1950’s and 60’s and 70’s.
I find such beauty in these old automobiles. The styling and design of the great Detroit car companies still shows through the patina of time, rust, and moss.
How old paint fades and mutates over time is fascinating to me. I could make a whole study just of turquoise cars.
The days before safety glass … look at those shards! Some of these cars were in terrible accidents, which got me to thinking that injuries or even fatalities had occurred. It made me sad, so I avoided the worst of the wrecks from then on.
You can easily spend hours walking around Old Car City. There’s so much to see and appreciate.
On the way out, I stopped at the office to thank the owner. He was busy gluing matchbox cars to the wall, his personal project. The junkyard no longer accepts new cars. Now they are more of a museum than a scrapyard.
What a great place! Surprises at every turn.
Old Car City in northern Georgia. Worth a drive!
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Glad the owner was able to find/create a business that fits him so perfectly!
I’m going to guess he grew up there!