12 Most Amazing And Unique Abandoned Vehicles

not every vehicle that rolls off the production line is one of a series some of them are completely unique made to order and unlike anything else that's ever been built before often that uniqueness will be key to the vehicles value but other times it becomes a curse a unique vehicle isn't always a useful one and so someone off works become abandoned and forgotten about in favour of more practical models each vehicle you're about to see in this video has a story and we are here to tell it there are two important things that you should know about the HL Hunley the first is that it's the only surviving example of a Civil War submarine the second is that it was the first successful submarine in world history the vessel was built by the Confederate side of the American Civil War and her success should only be described as partial she managed to sink a warship but failed to completely submerge below the water as planned and then sank before she could return to base the 40-foot long submarine was built by Horace Lawson Hunley and Mobile Alabama and was launched for the first time in July of 1863 her final sinking was actually her third she sank once during a test run a month after she launched and again in October of the same year both times she was salvaged and repaired before being redeployed but couldn't be saved after the third sinking in February 1864 close to Charleston Harbor it wasn't until 1970 that underwater archaeologist ely spence managed to locate the wreck of the submarine in 30 more years passed before she was raised in august 2000 she's now on display at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center not far from where she was found almost 100 years ago in 1885 the class locomotive was dumped in New Zealand Southland River after being declared obsolete in January 2020 she was hauled back out of the mud and filth of the river and brought back to dry land one day the other locomotive that was dumped along with it will be dragged back out of the river too they were considered to be worthless junk when they were abandoned but they're now among the last surviving examples of their kind in the world under normal circumstances a train like this would be scrapped when it was no longer useful but the value of scrap metal was so low in the aftermath of the first world war that it became more practical to sink them in rivers as artificial flood barriers getting this one free was no easy task of the vehicle weighs 32 tons and it had acquired a further 10 tons of silt and mud during its 93 years in the river for now the second engine will remain down there because of a lack of funding to retrieve it but the first has been placed on permanent display in front of the lumsden railway precinct when a rare and valuable car is found in a barn and made available for sale in the United States of America or even in most of Europe it will be sold through a prestigious auction house in Russia they do things a little differently this fully functional tatra 600 is one of a very rare breed but it was sold through the internet with no more ceremony than your average chair or table after it was found in Kelowna close to Moscow in early 2020 the vehicle is a 1949 model made in Czechoslovakia during the first year of the country's Communist era and is especially rare because it's never been restored or otherwise tampered with every element of both the interior and exterior was there when the car was built including the engine by 2020 it had spent over 30 years inside its owner's barn and so he finally decided the time had come to sell it he was unable to confirm whether the engine still worked but in theory there's no reason why it wouldn't as for the price $35,000 if you wanted a military vehicle making in the Soviet Union you turned to the Minsk automotive plant in Belarus many of the multiaxial wheeled vehicles made there over the years are still in use by the armies of nations across the world to this day one of their most unusual creations was the Maz 7904 a colossal 140 tonne 12 wheeled chassis that was made as part of the secretive Salina project had the prototype worked out as intended it's thought that the vehicle would have been mass-produced as a missile carrier there was no need for vehicles like this to exist before the Cold War because the missiles they carried it didn't exist either in this case the necessity of design was triggered by the invention of the Soviet ICBM our t23 stiletto missile and the carrier was rolled out of the Minx Factory ready for duty in June 1983 at 100 feet long and with six axles it was quite a fearsome sight testing on its capabilities was carried out under top-secret conditions after dark but its problems quickly became obvious with a pressure of 60 tons placed on each axle it was simply too heavy to be practical having been deemed a failure it was hauled off to a hangar at the Baikonur cosmodrome and then abandoned all of us can probably visualize the shape of a Texaco tanker but probably not one that looks like this this is a highly rare diamond T tanker from 1938 also known as a stream liner tanker truck and although it was a common sight on roads during the late 1930s and early 1940s it's thought to be one of the very last examples that survived in one piece or close to being in one piece to this day right now it's in New Zealand being restored slowly and painstakingly one bit at a time not every feature and component of the truck has made it to the 21st century but it still has its original engine for section fuel tank transmission cab and even the majority of its branding albeit with a thick coating of rust it looks a little sorry for itself these days but when it was in its prime it was bright red and looked a little more like a firetruck sadly Texaco never thought that their vehicles would become historically interesting and so they haven't kept any plans or blueprints so the team working on the restoration of the tanker is having to go off of pictures alone the Cold War posed new challenges to the military of both the United States of America and the Soviet Union and those challenges sometimes led to unique solutions the Soviet m17 stratosphere seen here in pieces on the outskirts of the monney Moe museum was one such solution during the 1960's the Soviets were dealing with constant incursions over their airspace by American drifting balloons carrying out reconnaissance activities the high-altitude reached by the balloons made them hard to intercept and shoot down and so general designer Miasha chav was ordered to come up with a new kind of high-altitude plane to take care of the problem in 1967 it took them a while it wasn't until 1982 that the m17 flew for the first time and even then it wasn't a total success an M 17 was used to investigate the hole in the ozone layer in 1992 but by that point it had already been officially retired for five years even though one of the two M 17 units that were completed set a world altitude record of 71 thousand six hundred and twenty feet in 1990 neither one of them ever shot down a single balloon so little was thought of this one that it was simply left to rot in its current location not everybody has an enthusiasm for Land Rovers and Range Rovers but to some people they're collectors items that's why there was a lot of excitement when a whole collection of rare and valuable examples of the vehicles was found in Scotland in 2018 the collection includes not just Range Rovers and Land Rovers but discoveries too and even a snow track the oldest of the cars in the makeshift fleet is from the 1950s and is understood to be a one-off custom build that isn't the star of the show though that honor goes to a 1968 series to a Land Rover lightweight the first ever built by the company it's never been registered for Road use so it might even be the prototype there's also an early Land Rover 110 test vehicle and an SR v1 rolls-royce v12 airport vehicle the owners of the vehicles wanted to retain their anonymity after their collection was discovered by a film crew searching for remote shooting locations but are said to have been unaware of the potential value of their collection and are now considering offering at least some of the vehicles for sale if you saw this rusting heap floating by the shoreline of your local town or city you might not think much of it but you'd be missing out on a chance to see something special if you ignored it it's a to tower floating transport dock known as a 700 part of the LK 85 project and was built in 1966 it was built in Khabarovsk in Russia but these days you'll find it to king slowly and gently and Ozzy popskyy the reason why only one of these enormous vessels was ever built is unknown it looks like it would have been a powerful tool and ideally suited for its task at nearly 200 feet long and 50 feet wide and weighing over 650 tonnes it was somehow possible for this ship to be fully functional with a crew of only four people aboard as you might expect almost the entire length of the vessel is given over to the cargo dock and although it's a little rusty it still looks it could perform its duties today if it needed to someone would have to do something about the grass that's growing inside at first though they say that the site of Goa in India is a place that you can go either to get lost or to find yourself the oil tanker known as MV River Princess certainly got lost there 20 years ago and she stayed lost for a long time the 800 foot long tanker drifted away from our McHale port limits during a cyclone in June 2000 and grounded herself on candolyn beach as the region depends heavily on tourists arriving on that beach for economic reasons you'd have presumed that either refloating or otherwise removing the ship would be a big priority for local authorities but you'd presume wrongly it took 12 years for demolition operations to commence on the stranded Hulk of a ship and even then it was done extremely slowly by that point its mere presence had done extensive and possibly permanent damage to the coastline just by being there it effected sediment flow around it and directly contributed to coastal erosion a part of the problem was down to a lack of certification for the ship it should arguably never have been out on the water in the first place and so the question of who should pay for its removal raged on for over a decade while the local area suffered at least it's gone now while the tail of the river princess is a strange one we at least know what the ship was and how it came to be stuck on a beach in Goa the circumstances of the so called Savio sir on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon USA are far more mysterious the strangely shaped vessel looks more like a classic flying saucer than a seafaring ship which explains how it got its nickname it's a unique ship and local stories say that it was made by a unique man called Richard ensign Richard was apparently a doomsday believer and thinking the end of the world was nigh he made his concrete sailboat at the start of the 1970s to escape the chaos he expected to manifest on the land the 30-foot self-righting boat was an impressive creation for one person working alone its hulls were filled with foam for buoyancy and it could be powered by sails or by an engine the apocalypse never came though and the boat eventually became abandoned eventually floating away during a flood in 1996 and being deposited at its current location by the tides we're staying in Oregon for a moment because that's also where we'll find the Sumpter Valley gold dredge this gigantic piece of machinery has been proven to be a moneymaker twice in its lifetime the first instance was during its initial years of operation when it used its 72 one-ton buckets for ripping gold deposits out of the Powder River the second instance is right now because it's enjoying a second lease on life as a tourist attraction the whole town of Sumpter owes its existence to gold after deposits were found there in the 1860s the landscape was hard to work with and the weather was always cold but the potential riches made the work worthwhile there were once three dredges working in the river but this model was built in 1934 using parts of the first two and carried on working every hour of every day of every year until 1954 by that point it had extracted four million dollars worth of gold adjusting for inflation today that would be worth 150 million dollars it was saved from demolition by the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and now it's preserved as a state heritage area at what point does a disused and broken former piece of military equipment become reclassified as art perhaps you might be able to find the answer to that question by taking a trip to Culebra in Puerto Rico where you'll find the tanks of flamenco Beach these rusty shattered hulks were once used as target practice by the United States military but since they were declared to be beyond the point of use even for that purpose they've become steel canvases for the region's painters and graffiti artists the use of this area for bombing practice began in 1936 and intensified during the 1960s as pilots trained on targets in the era before being deployed to Vietnam unsurprisingly the natives were never happy with the military presence in the region and protested it for years finally succeeding in regaining ownership of the land in 1975 as the military saw no value and taking their discarded equipment with them the locals thought that they'd add a little color to them and make them appear a little more in step with their Caribbean surroundings subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you soon

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Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Fri May 29 2020