{"id":1403,"date":"2007-07-30T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2007-07-30T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T16:38:49","slug":"dead-cars-along-the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/30\/dead-cars-along-the-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead cars along the trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once hiked six miles to see a single riveted shard of old fighter jet fuselage … any bit of wreckage gives me a bit of a thrill (sick, I know). While plane wrecks are rare enough to discourage getting carried away with this, car wreckage seems far more common along the Bay Area trails.<\/p>\n

Here’s one from a few months back:<\/p>\n

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This dead Beetle is along the Saratoga Gap Trail near Skyline Boulevard in the Santa Cruz mountains.<\/p>\n

Here’s an old dead truck at Grant County Park:
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These make me wonder: where have the rest of you seen discarded cars in the countryside?
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Many of the parks have old mining and logging gear, but a car left in the woods seems to have a story all its own. California has such a car culture, you can’t help wondering why somebody would leave on to rust somewhere (rather than, say, take it to the junkyard and glean a few bucks from its scrap value).<\/p>\n

So, please share your dead-car stories, if you have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once hiked six miles to see a single riveted shard of old fighter jet fuselage … any bit of wreckage gives me a bit of a thrill (sick, I know). While plane wrecks are rare enough to discourage getting…<\/p>\n

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