A few pics of a trip through Mojave Desert...

[Angry White Male]

Just a few scans of a few 4X6 pics I'd taken while parked in the Mojave Desert a few years back.  This place was a little ways off a main highway, and wasn't visible from highway.





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[Angry White Male]

Not sure if some dude is buried under there...  Didn't want to lift rocks to find out.





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[Angry White Male]

An old International wrecker...





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[Angry White Male]

Old GMC.  Notice the California black plate.  These were issued up until 1969.  A few of these vehicles still had their plates on, and they were all black plates...





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[Angry White Male]

Old International.  Not much rusts in the desert!  Also notice not a huge amount of vandalism...  most of the glass is still intact.





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[Angry White Male]

Then I had to get the hell outta there.  This was in the middle of summer, and this white boy cannot handle the desert heat.

[Bricktop]

I would have thought those old classics could be restored. I've seen worse abandoned wrecks come back to life.



Great pics!!! Well done.

[Angry White Male]

I used the shitty disposable camera that we kept in cab for taking pics of accidents, should we have one.



I think the desert is littered with little sites like these...  Not being visible from the main road, very few people would have any need or desire to travel down dirt side roads in the desert.



The vast majority of traffic through the desert is simply people from LA trying to get to Vegas and back as quick as they can.

[Angry White Male]

I'm considering a road trip, maybe this fall (far too fucking hot in the Summer), down to in and around Death Valley/Mojave...



I'd like to give myself enough time to really explore around the place...  something I never really had when I trucked through there.



This time around I'd actually take a proper camera.

[Bricktop]

Go for it. Take lots of pics.



But stay out of it in summer if you don't like heat...it will burn you to a crisp if you don't take sensible precautions like full cover clothing and LOTS of water.

[Bricktop]

Couldn't resist...its a good shot, but I could see a great B&W there as well. No disrespect to the original...

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[Bricktop]

Or sepia...



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[RW]

Sepia is better IMHO.

[Bricktop]

I agree.



Hope Mel likes it.

[Angry White Male]

Pics look good!



And I know just how hot things can get there...  I trucked through there enough times in Summer.



That Kenworth you see was fairly new at that time, and only in that desert would temps reach their limit...  Engine coolant, axles, transmission (temp gauges for all of these components)...



There is a reason that Kenworth still produces trucks with large hoods/grills...  And this is simply to increase radiator area...  Probably why many Australian road-train trucks haven't went the sloped hood hood/aerodynamic route.