71DeuceAK
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For those of you who watch A&E's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" in November there should be an episode airing about a house in Fairbanks, Alaska, with hundreds of vehicles in the yard. It's a local landmark I literally used to refer to, as I live maybe a mile from it: "The house on Farmer's Loop Road with 400 dead cars in the yard".
Recently, "Hoarders" filmed a 2 hour episode on it and cleaned up a bunch of it. Mostly non vehiclular stuff.
With that and passing by it hundreds of times and the leaves falling off, I spotted what's definitely at least the cab of a Deuce (or maybe 809 or 39 series 5 ton). It could be more, but behind other vehicles and junk I can't tell if it's just a complete cab or a complete truck.
I'm having the insane of idea of trying to maybe talk to the guy and rescue this thing. The Borough has started to crack down on the "illegal junkyards" (Read: people who are efficient packrats) so I suspect in a couple years this place will be scrapped.
Let's hear the absolute worst case scenarios for rescuing a Deuce and what people have gone through to bring one back, besides the obvious "Don't do it".
Can't be seen behind bushes but on Google Street View here's the place, I zoomed in: https://www.google.com/maps/@64.881...=203&h=100&yaw=46.635296&pitch=0&thumbfov=100
Recently, "Hoarders" filmed a 2 hour episode on it and cleaned up a bunch of it. Mostly non vehiclular stuff.
With that and passing by it hundreds of times and the leaves falling off, I spotted what's definitely at least the cab of a Deuce (or maybe 809 or 39 series 5 ton). It could be more, but behind other vehicles and junk I can't tell if it's just a complete cab or a complete truck.
I'm having the insane of idea of trying to maybe talk to the guy and rescue this thing. The Borough has started to crack down on the "illegal junkyards" (Read: people who are efficient packrats) so I suspect in a couple years this place will be scrapped.
Let's hear the absolute worst case scenarios for rescuing a Deuce and what people have gone through to bring one back, besides the obvious "Don't do it".
Can't be seen behind bushes but on Google Street View here's the place, I zoomed in: https://www.google.com/maps/@64.881...=203&h=100&yaw=46.635296&pitch=0&thumbfov=100