If what I saw on this lot was "the best" - I'm very reluctant to see "the worst."
I spied this lot full of old cars as I rolled down Highway 93 between Missoula and Hamilton, Montana. My eye caught the body of an early 70’s Trans AM in the line-up. On a day off I found my way back, and wandered through the lot. There has to be at least twenty five mid-late 1970’s Pontiac Trans Ams in various states of decay – plus a few other vehicles. But what captured my imagination is the white Trans Am. I don’t see it as the bleaching carcass of a muscle car baking in the Montana sun.
IMHO - the 455HO Trans Ams of this vintage are the most beautiful Pontiacs ever created - and the very embodiment of the assertion that "Pontiac Builds Excitement!"
Unless I am very mistaken - the only way that at least 80% of the vehicles on this lot are going anywhere is on a hook. Lot's of spares!
1930 Buick Pick Up Truck - 30 August 2009 - Kim, Colorado. We turned south at La Junta and drove through the Commanche Grasslands straight to a lonely, windswept little corner of southeast Colorado called Kim. It has the finest collection of 1920’s-30’s derelict iron I’ve yet seen. 
Norman Lewis Kincaide, PhD - my friend from our time at the University of Colorado and since.
Abandoned Homestead - Baca County Colorado - 28 August 2009
Waiting - Columbus, Ohio - 14 September 2009. I got back to Ohio after being in Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana for nearly a month. While waiting to be picked up - I stuck an ND400 filter on my camera - set the F-Stop to 5.6 and exposure to 30-seconds at an ISO of 400. Canon 5D w/24-60mm Sigma + ND400 Filter.
Lamar's Petrified Wood Building – 27 August 2009. The building started out as a gas station, built by lumber dealer W.G. Brown in 1932. The building walls and floors are constructed of large pieces of petrified wood over 175 million years old. In 1962, the service station became Lamar Tire Service. It currently houses the offices of Stagner Tire and a used car dealership... This place is truly hideous. Canon 5D w/24-60mm Sigma.
Concrete Silos - Cudahy Ranch - Olney Springs, Colorado - 31 August 2009. Two lonely concrete silos and a livestock barn are about all that remain of a cattle ranch that never took off in the early 1900's. A website gives a narrative of this windswept spot, southeast of Pueblo, Colorado.
Lotus and Lotii - October 2008 - There was that time I parked my 1972 Elan nose to nose with a 2009 Lotus Exige. The owner was very happy to show me around his car – but showed not a flicker of recognition of my Elan. Another member of that class of car drivers I characterize as having more dollars than sense. No sense or knowledge of their own vehicles' heritage. To be honest – I wouldn’t trade my Elan Sprint for his Exige under any circumstance.
Cleaning the grates prior to departure.
Positioning the engine prior to departure.
Moving Ahead - 06 September 2009. Just another gigantic, mid-fifties Cadillac land argonaut . . . until closer inspection reveals . . .
Oh Dear . . . This was too good to pass up - and best of all - I didn't have to Photoshop anything! There really is a Perkins CONOCO station in Rawlins, Wyoming. Panasonic LUMIX DMC LX2.
