O/T What is it???????

A fellow YTer was traveling and noticed these. Not all were the same, in fact he saw many models and styling. After his trip he wrote to me knowing I was familiar with the area where he saw these

It's the rear end of a '58 or '59 Edsel.

Sculpture. Someone's making a "statement", it's up to you to figure out what he's trying to say though.

Could be the """BIG""" mail box. The little ramp for the Postperson. That would even hold my moms Sears order from 1956! Jim

See, there are uses for a dead Ford!

HicksDale is correct on the model -- you might carefully check the trunk for missing persons.

I never have enough time. Somebody had too much. mike

Next time I would recommend parallel parking ?

Tom,
I say this humbily, but I could'nt give a fig what an artist is trying to say in his work whether visual or audio or written. The only thing that matters to me is what it means to me personally. And any artist worth his salt knows this going in.
Dell

Jimmy Hoffa?

Chris: I guess you and Jim come the closest, at least somewhere between your answers. LA in WI and his good better half were traveling in Nova Scotia. In the rural areas they noticed huge bins at the end of driveways. Upon his return he e mailed me suggesting these looked like they might be grabage bins. Lowell was right, they are garbage bins.

This system more or less evolved. First it was a case on individuals having their garbage torn open on garbage day by brids of prey or animals. Secondly everyone who tried it discovered if they took fresh garbage to the bin at the end of the driveway, each day, it kept rodents away from house and other outbuildings. A few folks also had encounters with black bears. One city couple turned part time farmers, awakened one night to have a black bear in their back porch. Bear did a lot of structural damage to the porch, especially the door he entered.

Next the municipality saw an advantage, no longer was there a need for scheduled garbage pickup. Garbage to be picked up was always at road side.

Then folks decided to beautify and give the bins some culture, even competitions for the best bin. What developed was very colorful bins, some with murals on them. Old iron guys would do a mural of their tractor. My cousin spotted this Edsel on the Cabot Trail. She inquired and sure enough it is the garbage bin. I didn't ask her if the garbage man had to carry the Edsel key.

Jim: Not sure who came closest, you or Chris. Not that your mom's 1956 Sears order was junk, the subject of junk mail hit me when you said mail box. I have had the mail man use it when he had an over size parcel. He'd leave a note in the mail box, quite confident looters would not discover the parcel.

They still give weekly pickup, just don't have to notify folks about day change due to holidys. If a truck breaks down, they know the garbage is secure until another day. The system works well, rural beautification picked up on the bins, thus there are some highly decorated bins, folks are big on murals, especially old tractor folks. This Edsel has attracted a lot of attention.

It was too nice for a wreck, and too usable for just deco. so I thought Mail. Trash does equate some though. thanks JimN

Looks like someone drove that old car "into the ground!" I gotta million of em! There is an Edsel down the road from me sitting in a grove of trees. It "wood" be a good car if it wasn't for the trees growing through it, ok that was a bad one. Knew a guy who made restaurant seating out of Old 59 Caddys. He did them for a guy who had retro style 50s restaurants all over the US out of a little shop in Strawtown Indiana. A lot of 59 caddys went through that place and never ran, but looked as good as new and had many more seats! I think he also made some couches out of the trunk sections.

Bob: Lowell was telling me about a guy in TX with 58, 59 and 60 Caddy's half burried in the ground, with the fins pointing skyward. I understand there are several of them in the group, looks like they all took a dive from sky.

The Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo has 10 cars.
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