Nebraska seems to be a good place to find project cars as of late. First, an entire junkyard in Maxwell liquidated its inventory last month, and now we see that a collection of about 150 vehicles is going up for auction in Bennington, Nebraska, next month. According to the auction description, the collection was assembled over the last 35 years and includes vehicles from 1906 through the 1980s. From the photos, it appears they were simply put away or put out to pasture without much protection – presumably the collector was gonna get around to ‘em all one day.
The list of vehicles so far includes:
1953 Packard Caribbean convertible
MG Midget
MGB
Triumph TR7
Datsun 1600 roadster
Opel GT
Alfa Romeo convertible
1949 Cadillac four-door
1961 Jaguar four-door
1967 Ford Ranchero
1974 BMW
1960 Edsel Ranger
1933 Ford coupe body
1914 Carter
AMC Eagle
1982 P30 school bus
1930 Model A golf door coupe
1953 Ford Mainline 2-dr coupe
1929 International 6-speed special truck
1914 REO Speedwagon
1957 Chevy C30 with box and hoist
1947 Ford pickup
1959 Ford F100 pickup
1941 Nash Ambassador
1958 Ford pickup (parts)
1965 Corvair convertible
Hillman four-door
Several Volkswagens: Karmann Ghia, Beetle, Van, Kammback
1963 Falcon four-door
1963 Falcon Sprint convertible
1966 Dodge Charger
1953 Packard Clipper four-door
1966 El Camino (parts)
(2) 1950 Twin Fageol Propane passenger buses
1961 Olds 98 convertible
Model A , Model T and pickup parts
1949 Ford woody wagon
(3) 1935 Ford two-doors and one four-door
1963 Falcon four-door
Honda 750 4
1935 Ford convertible sedan
1950 Ford two-door
1955 T-Bird
Fiberglass 55 T-Bird body
1949 Ford convertible
1953 Mercury convertible
1940 Lincoln Zephyr
For more on the auction, visit AuctionSolutionsInc, where a more detailed listing and more photographs are forthcoming.
By the way, we checked with SEMA, and while Nebraska’s legislature did recently introduce a bill that would remove inoperable vehicles from private property after just six hours, it seems that bill has been shelved, so unless there’s some other force conspiring to rid the Cornhusker State of old cars that we don’t know about, we’ll chalk two similar sales in such a short time to coincidence.
