"A car that’s spent the past half-century as a lawn ornament could be worth a half-million dollars.

The 1962 Aston Martin DB4 has been rotting away on a Massachusetts property since it was brought there from California by its second owner in the 1970s, according to Worldwide Auctioneers. Trees grew around it as it settled into the soil and its engine bay filled up with leaves and weeds over the years.

One of just 1,113 DB4s produced, the four-seat coupe is largely original, save for the new engine and paint job it appears to have picked up prior to its trip east. "

Rotting 'yard find' Aston Martin DB4 worth a fortune | Fox News

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shame. Wish my rotting cars could produce that kind of money.

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

There's a '64 Falcon out there somewhere, just waiting to be discovered.

I wonder if my wife will believe me now about the CD next to the barn...

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95 E300D working out the kinks
77 300D, 227k, station car
83 300CD 370k, gone away
89 190E 2.6- 335k, no more
79 VW FI Bus- 145k miles, summer driver
59 VW Beetle ragtop- 175k miles
12 VW Jetta- 160k miles

The frame on that Aston might be rusted away. i suspect its aluminum body since there is no rust showing. the frame will be steel though.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

The body should be aluminum. Tubular steel frame. Aluminum doesn't rust, but it suffers its own for of corrosion, and will become hard and embrittled with this sort of exposure. Should make for a very expensive restoration, but auction prices arecsky high.

Oops...I thought it was a DB2. DB4 had a pressed steel frame with aluminum bodywork.

As long as the serial number nameplates are intact, they could virtually reproduce a new DB4 around them and still come out ahead financially.

Sweet cars, aren't they?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I'll Go If I Don't Have To Talk - Episode - Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld

In Texas, and I would bet in most states, the 'car' for legal reason is the part with the VIN stamped on it.

For instance Mercedes. There is a VIN plate on the radiator support but that is just there to make it easy to read. The real VIN in a lot of cases is stamped on the cowl. And from that cowl you could build a car.

I don't think a lot of W110's are going to be built around a cowl, but I do know someone who is doing just that with a 280Se Coupe that was in a flood. The car was trashed (and I mean flood car trashed) but they are betting that when they finish with it no one will care about the salvage title.

Yes, probably. ..and yes definately.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.