Traffic Jam Stuck In Belgian Forest For 70 Years

[6milPhil]

http://www.demilked.com/chatillon-car-graveyard-abandoned-cars-vehicle-cemetery/

[matthais-mouse]

Now that is a place I would have liked to explore. You could have even filmed a short film there I should think  

[Furt]

That's eery... 

[6milPhil]

Another article and a video, although the video is more a slideshow and seems to feature George Dawes...



http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/12/chatillon-car-graveyard-in-belgium.html

The story about ww2 reeks though, as most of those cars are way after the '40s.

[Wyrmalla]

If these were owned by US troops the how did they manage to nab a hold of them in the first place? Presumably they just stole them off of the street. So by my reckoning its more like a bunch of guys stole a load of cars and hid them away in the forest so nobody else could have them. For the price of buying a new car in the US, there'd be no point in shipping one of those across the ocean unless someone was particular fond of a European model. Yeah, could anyone identify any of those cars that aren't from the early 40s? It just seems rather odd that nobody would've come along and looted those things, as five hundred cars in decent condition seem like an odd thing not to notice. Meh, strange things happen.

Anyway, yeah I seen a news report of these a while ago and totally forgot about them. It is an interesting concept for countries with a wetter climate than your typical dry American setting. Perhaps not one set a decade after the disaster, but a generation or two (I don't know how long it takes for a tree to grow to a few floors in height though). It'd be an interesting board to play on which looked like that, though I don't know how practical it would be (I play pretty terrain heavy boards, but all those trees would make actually moving anything a bitch). Actually come to think of it there was a mod for Fallout 3 which changed a single common type of rock into a tree turning the whole game into a forested wasteland (along with changing the weather and other things). Pretty cool to see cars woven in amongst thickets of trees, and other things that you wouldn't notice until you stopped and started having a proper look.

[Calimero]

...The story about ww2 reeks though, as most of those cars are way after the '40s.

Maybe these cars were in fact owned by US army personnels after the war...some look more like 1950s or even early 1960s models...

[6milPhil]

Maybe these cars were in fact owned by US army personnels after the war...some look more like 1950s or even early 1960s models...

Exactly. Although the nearess current US bases are over 75km away, one near Mons, and one in Brussels. These cars were down near the Lux border.

[zizi666]

Alas, internet killed that site.
Aparently the mayor wasn't too pleased with the internet publicity for it and had the site sanitized.
more here (in dutch) http://drivr.be/2011/02/14/chatillons-publiek-geheim/

Too bad. Only learned of it through another abandoned places thread on this forum and would have loved to visit it 

[grant]

I feel like I'm late to the party