{"id":49663,"date":"2022-12-08T21:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49663"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:05:09","slug":"a-gigantic-graveyard-with-more-than-1000-classic-cars-disintegrating-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/08\/a-gigantic-graveyard-with-more-than-1000-classic-cars-disintegrating-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"A gigantic graveyard with more than 1,000 classic cars disintegrating in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far we have seen here great cemeteries of classic cars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/19\/an-atypical-graveyard-of-50-classic-cars-and-a-plane-in-the-middle-of-a-forest-in-germany\/\">Germany<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/07\/kalvia-an-unusual-museum-with-a-collection-of-300-classic-cars-in-terrible-condition\/\">Finland<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/28\/an-abandoned-farm-with-dozens-of-classic-cars-languishing-inside\/\">United Kingdom<\/a>, but there is one that surpasses them all.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/19\/an-atypical-graveyard-of-50-classic-cars-and-a-plane-in-the-middle-of-a-forest-in-germany\/\">An atypical graveyard of 50 classic cars and a plane in the middle of a forest in Germany<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/07\/kalvia-an-unusual-museum-with-a-collection-of-300-classic-cars-in-terrible-condition\/\">K\u00e4lvi\u00e4: an unusual museum with a collection of 300 classic cars in terrible condition<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>That cemetery is located in <strong>Sweden<\/strong> near the border with Norway. <strong>It has more than 1,000 classic cars and was founded in the 1950s:<\/strong> At that time, importing cars into Norway was not easy, but spare parts for cars could be easily imported, he explains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Simply_Adventure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simply_Adventure<\/a> channel, so <strong>cars were disassembled at this location in individual parts and were taken to Norway to be reassembled or used as spare parts<\/strong>. From the images, it was a thriving business set up in a wooded area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the mid-1980s, the business petered out<\/strong> when Norwegian import laws were relaxed. Also, the owner of the car graveyard passed away, and <strong>decades later the place has become a curious mix of moss, trees and cars that are slowly disintegrating<\/strong> due to the harsh weather in that area (very rainy and snowy in winter). <strong>The video posted by that channel is impressive<\/strong> (the video is in German, but it has English subtitles; you can activate them in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gigantischer Autofriedhof in Schweden - Lostplace alles voll mit Oldtimer!\ud83d\ude31\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0IgbRjj4_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below some screenshots that show only a small part of what is seen in the video. <strong>It is surprising to observe how nature is relentlessly recovering what was its own...<\/strong> The downside is that, from what they say in the video, there is a river nearby, and one wonders if the fluids from these cars they could not end up seeping into the waters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52551230006_3410e21dc9_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52551701460_2dfacce825_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52550774377_8b43288c2c_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52551774333_5f3e86b9c3_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52550774437_34cd5d6622_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52551701775_31716a3c1a_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52551701825_c2a20ba646_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far we have seen here great cemeteries of classic cars in Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom, but there is one that surpasses them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16877],"tags":[10383],"class_list":["post-49663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-ruins","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}