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Saturday morning Kristi and I were traveling the back country roads of
Florida to visit her parents near Ocala when we happened across this
row of dilapidated cars on a piece of property near Stark. Very cool
1930's and 40's Buick's, Packard's, and Studebaker's.
This was too incredible of a photo op to pass up, so we made a u-turn
and drove through the “trespassers will be shot” signs, parked and I
walked up to three men working on a race car.
Being the polite person I am, I asked for permission to take some
photographs. The owner, who was a shoe-in for a bubba-of-the month
award told me that I had to pay him before I could take any photos.
He, of course was about 275 lbs, wearing overalls, while sporting a
beard and shoulder length hair that would make ZZ Top proud.
Bubba, Cooter, or whatever his name started to tell me that these cars
are famous to people that want to take photos of them and he often
catches them trespassing in order to capture a shot. Then went on to
tell me that he charged them $20.00 just to drive out alive! I then
offered him $10.00 and he said “that’s just the amount I had in mind”.
Now for the real story. He went on to tell me that if he had any
problems with trespassers, he would use these, and pulled two (2) 9mm
pistols out of his pockets, and if that didn’t work..pulled two more
small guns out of the breast pocket of his overalls. But hey, that’s
not all, he pulled up his pants leg and you guess it, a 32 cal. pistol
strapped to his leg! 5 frick’in guns on this guy!
Again, being the now very polite person that I am, said, “it must be
pretty dangerous around here” and turned to Kristi for a $10.00 bill
who was sitting in the car not wanting to make eye contact with the
Cooter dude.
After taking the photos, Cooter had one more weapon to show me. A
switch blade!
Anyway, enjoy these $10.00 photos
erogde, dketchum, cebrinia, andychilton, and 18 other people added this photo to their favorites.
rmb_fe 64 months ago | reply
great story and some awesome shots.
dawickham65 [deleted] 57 months ago | reply
That looks great in HDR! Nice work!
erieyrose 57 months ago | reply
how brave! old cars always seem to look awesome in HDR. great job! love the story!
I found this photo in 1-2-3 HDR
Punchup 57 months ago | reply
I found this photo in 1-2-3 HDR
great find
Skinned Mink 54 months ago | reply
Great pictures. Thanks for making these creative commons.
TerSan Photography 53 months ago | reply
Great find! Great story. Nice photos. My son was telling me about your photos, he is the one wanting to do a painting. It is a rare find to see this many vintage cars together in this condition of non-repair.
lir1 49 months ago | reply
Love this photo!
lir1
Junk Cars
Noah's Art 2009 42 months ago | reply
I like Ilike the older the better