When a Brooklyn garage was closed to build apartments three forgotten classic cars were pulled out
- Classic cars have been pulled from a Brooklyn, US, garage
- The iconic parking site had been there for 92 years
- However, it was being destroyed to make way for apartments
Published on Aug 15, 2024 at 2:58 PM (UTC+4)
by Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Last updated on Aug 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
Three mysterious classic cars have been pulled from a Brooklyn, USA, garage during demolition to make way for new apartments.
The 92-year-old Auto Baby Sitters parking garage is something of an institution in New York.
However, nobody expected these forgotten classics to emerge.
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The classic cars
In September 2023, developers moved ahead and began clearing the iconic Auto Baby Sitters garage to make way for a 79-unit apartment building.
They may have been dusty, but some notable classic cars were pulled from the back of the shop.
The forgotten finds included a 1959 Cadillac, a Pontiac Fiero, and a Checker Marathon.
Seeing them lined up at the curb at 827 Sterling Place was an impressive and unusual sight.
That wasn’t all, as the garage began to clear, another two-door mint green coupe Cadillac with New York plates was discovered.
Its tailfins and headlights suggest a 1957 model.
There’s more, a 1970 Volkswagen Beetle and a 1970s white-with-woodgrain Jeep Wagoneer Limited were pulled out.
Perhaps due to flooding combined with the dry air of the city over the years, the cars were all coated in mud and dirt to some degree.
Some cars, including the two-door Cadillac, Wagoneer, and the Checker, were thankfully more sheltered from the elements.
The bottom line is that nobody really knows how they got there or why they were left and forgotten about when parking there costs upwards of $500 per month.
Other abandoned classics
If this story got your detective juices flowing, you might like to hear about the 10,000 unrestored American classic cars discovered lying in an Arizona junkyard.
Meanwhile, YouTuber, Kenny Kaplan, discovered a separate collection of European classic cars and motorbikes in Connecticut, US.
Across the Atlantic, an unreal hidden treasure trove of 175 classic cars was discovered in a warehouse in London, UK.
There were several cars made by Mercedes, BMW, Land Rover, and it’s hoped that all the cars will eventually be restored and sold.
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