Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards
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Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

In recent months, we have become accustomed to the fact that thousands of new cars are left to their own devices in different parts of the world. The reasons are different, but most often this is due to the huge production that cannot be realized, especially in the context of the measures against Covid-19.

However, there are many abandoned old cars around the world, some of which are perplexing. Here are 6 examples of mysterious car graveyards spread across multiple continents.

Volga and Muscovites in the desert near Mecca

Several dozen Soviet GAZ-21 and Moskvich sedans, most of which do not have engines, are the latest find of automobile treasure hunters. The strangest thing is that they were found near Mecca (Saudi Arabia), and all cars have the same light blue body color.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

Who and how threw out his cars remains a mystery. The fact that Soviet cars entered Mecca is also surprising, since from 1938 to 1991 the Soviet Union did not maintain diplomatic or trade relations with Saudi Arabia.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

It is possible that the cars were brought to the Arabian Peninsula by motorists. Alongside Soviet cars, several classic American sedans from the 1950s were thrown, as well as the rather rare BMW 1600.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

Unique "young timers" near Tokyo

An hour's drive south of Tokyo is an unusual car cemetery that was discovered by two British car journalists. More than 200 cars of different years of production have been dropped here, many of them are tuned.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

According to the people who opened the cars, these are donors of tuning projects that their owners have simply forgotten about. Not all of them are unique, but there are quite rare Alpina B7 Turbo S and Alpina 635CSI, classic BMW 635CSI, unique Land Rover TD5 Defender, as well as Toyota Trueno GT-Z, Chevrolet Corvette C3, BMW E9 and even Citroen AX GT.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

The rarest Alfa Romeo in a castle near Brussels

A huge red brick castle near the Belgian capital belongs to a local millionaire who left for the United States more than four decades ago and decided not to return to his homeland. The building was closed for almost half a century until the tenure expired, after which the authorities reopened it.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

In addition to expensive furniture and furnishings, dozens of cars of the rarest Alfa Romeo models produced in the middle of the last century were found in the basements. Although they were not outdoors, the low temperatures in the premises make the cars in a terrible state. However, several museums are ready to buy and restore them.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

Old car city near Atlanta

Old Car City is the largest car cemetery in the world and is the result of a family business. Back in the 1970s, the owner of an old parts store decided that the machines from which he stripped parts and equipment deserved a different fate. He began buying and storing them on a huge piece of land 50 miles from Atlanta, Georgia.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

For 20 years on the territory of 14 hectares, more than 4500 cars were assembled, most of which were produced before 1972. No restoration was done on them, since they were thrown out under the open sky, and under some of them there were even bushes and trees.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

When the owner died, his son inherited the strange collection. He decided he could make money from it and turned the Old City of Automobiles into an "open-air car museum." The entrance costs $ 25 and, more interestingly, the visitors do not disappear.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

Abandoned supercars in Dubai

There are several cemeteries of abandoned cars in Dubai, all of them are united by one fact - only new and luxurious cars are abandoned. The fact is that many foreigners, accustomed to living and spending, often become bankrupt or violate the laws of Islam, and then are forced to flee the region. They abandon all their possessions, including luxury cars.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

A special service then collects cars from all over the emirate and stores them in huge sites in the desert. It's full of homeless Bentleys, Ferrari, Lamborghini and even Rolls-Royce. Some of them are seized by the authorities to cover at least part of the debts of their former owners, but there are others who have been waiting for their new owners for years.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

Traffic jams from "old-timers" near Shotien

Unlike the castle near Brussels with the abandoned Alfa Romeo discovered earlier this year, this cemetery in the Belgian town of Schoten has been known for a long time. Dozens of cars have rotted in it for decades, and the reason for their appearance in the area is unknown.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

According to one of the legends, the American military kept the captured vehicles in the forest. They wanted to be deported from Belgium after the war, but apparently failed. Once there were more than 500 cars, but now their number does not exceed 150.

Rusty Millions: 6 Mysterious Car Graveyards

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