Six old cars and trucks have managed to find themselves on a piece of property in Battle Creek, Michigan. Half are lucky enough to be indoors, while the others are out in the brush. The seller would like to make someone a package deal but may consider individual transactions. If you’ve been looking for a particular Chevrolet, Dodge, GMC, Oldsmobile, or Toyota, perhaps this is your lucky day. Check them out here on Facebook Marketplace where you’ll have to contact the seller to get details and pricing.
We don’t know how these cars and trucks came together. There appears to be no connection because the makes, models, years, and body styles share nothing in common, although half of them are trucks. As best we can tell, here’s what’s there:
Chevrolet C-10
This one is part of the C/K series of trucks that GM built, and it looks to be from the second generation of 1967-72. While it’s indoors now, it may have been relocated from outdoors as there is a fair amount of rust along the rocker panels. There also appears to be a complete spare bed sitting upside down on top of it.
Dodge D/W
An outdoor dweller, this long-bed pickup is from the D/W Series of Dodge trucks and the third generation built from 1972-80. Its viability is also in question from being in the brush where rust is visible from the ground up. The ‘72 D series was featured in the TV show Emergency! where a D300 chassis cab was the paramedic’s rescue squad vehicle.
GMC Flatbed
I can’t make out the roots of this one. It looks like it could be a diesel built to haul heavy objects and the styling looks like the 1990s (?), which would make this the newest vehicle in the collection. It, too, has been outdoors for some time and mildew has begun to creep in.
Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
From the fourth generation that ran in 1981-88, these cars would consistently be some of the best selling in the U.S., sometimes hitting the #1 spot. This 2-door looks to be painted black and in decent shape, but it’s trapped inside the barn with lots of dirt and dust all around it. Could be a V6, be it might be a V8, too. No telling the last time it may have run. I had an ’83 and it was a great car.
Oldsmobile Cutlass
This is a 4-door sedan from the same era as the Cutlass Supreme. Sadly, it’s outside where most of the flora and fauna have nearly consumed it. This allows the car to rust from the bottom up. It used to be burgundy in color and that’s all we know from what might now be a parts car.
Toyota Celica
Something of a 4-seat sports car of which the second generation was produced from 1977-81. This brown/copper edition is from sometime during that period. Fortunately, it’s also indoors so hopefully the body and interior have survived. They were available with a variety of 4-cylinder engines, depending on model year.
That is probably a great little Celica if the mice did not wreak too much havoc inside and under the hood. I’d like to know more about the motorcycle hiding in the rafters.
Good luck trying to sell these vehicles as a package deal, unless the seller has a very attractive price for the lot. The seller gives zero details about any of the cars and trucks, and the pics are barely adequate; they just show what the vehicle is, more or less. The C-10 might be restorable but the pickup bed on top is for a different truck, not for the C-10 under it. Offer them separately with more pics and a detailed description and the seller could probably move all of them assuming he prices them fairly.
The ad says the price for all is $1,215,181. What a deal!
I’d talk him down $81 to make it a nice round figure:-)
The black Olds intrigues me the most from this collection,.
Those GMC medium-duty trucks with the van-based cab are from 2004-09.
One thing for sure,,as shown here many times. It’s a BIG country and a lot of pole barns,,,there’s a lot of drek out there. Oh, once in a while, these”collections” yield a prize, but usually, it’s just someone’s crap they accumulated over the years, and wouldn’t dare part with, for whatever reason. Most the time, not transferable to anyone else. These are all projects, and as we all know, these “projects” are getting less and less wanted, and nobody with the zing to save this stuff.
Still, it’s a crap shoot, and sometimes a cool find is found, but it has to be extra special today as interest wanes. I think most of the cool stuff has already been found, and this is what’s left.
I too am interested in the motorcycle in the rafters. It looks like a KAWASAKI GPZ.
The only one buying these as a package is the local scrap metal dealer.