Niedermeyer Wasn't Kidding About Oregonian Car Fungus
Published: July 23rd, 2009
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IMO, the Hornet and the Maverick never looked better. May the delivery trucks return from whence they came... How many who have watched this found themselves wanting one of them for a project? How many said "aww that's not that bad.." They are like pets aren't they?
Beautiful photographs. Something very zen about the whole thing.
I'll never forget a rainy February day (redundant, I know) driving around somewhere in Snohomish County, Washington while house hunting with the wife... winter of 1999. I was driving along a rural road and on a long right-hand sweeping curve at the base of a hill, obviously clear-cut some time in the 80s a flash of orange caught my eye. There, about 75' up this steep hillside was a Triumph TR7 with an alder tree growing right up through the middle of it! How the hell did it get up there? I made a mental note to come back on a dry day and photograph it, but I was soon distracted and forgot the location. I've driven just about every road in the foothills since trying to find that car. Given that it is now a decade later the car is likely completely overgrown and invisible. sigh. --chuck