I happened upon this no-name abandoned car cemetery while driving the backroads in the Palouse Hills of SE Washington state. for a photographer like me who has an affinity for old sheet metal, this was the near-equivalent of finding the holy grail. I spent more than an hour poking about at will, trudging through wet tall grass. luckily, no one was around, no snakes, and insofar as I could tell, no survelleince cameras. although the representation of brands was mixed, it was heavy on Chevrolet sedans and international trucks.
to my amazement, one of the vehicles i found was this Crosley. a total of roughly 84,000 units were produced between 1939 and 1952, when the cincinnati, Ohio-based company finally shut down. i have visited many salvage yards, and this is my first Crosley encounter. although there are no hard figures on how many survive to this day, there is, believe it or not, a Crosley car club, which purports to have 800 members. before venturing into automobile production, Powel crosley, the namesake founder, made a name for himself selling low-cost radios and refrigerators, the first containing shelves. he also ran a radio station based in cincinnati. this Crosley was but a shell, as the interior had been gutted save for steering wheel and dashboard.
