1951 Mercury. Note the lakes hubcaps, the shaved top. At one time, this was a hotrod. 
In 1946, Ford shifted gears from war production. This truck rolled off the line, and eventually into the desert. 
A 1938 Ford one-ton flatbed. it produced 85 hp in its V8 flathead. 
A custom job. This car started life as a sedan, but someone decided it would be better as a pickup. It appears to be a 1920-ish model T Ford.
Senior Junkyard Correspondent Harold Colson — “Tex” to his intimates — recently took a blue highway* tour of parts of California and Nevada. As always, he brought along his camera. His patient wife, Deborah, said nothing – Tex didn’t mention anything in his dispatches, anyway – as her husband pulled off the road to photograph another wreck.
And what wrecks! Sit back, dear reader, and take a look at what has been left in the desert. Randsburg, Calif., 2,124 miles west of Atlanta.
(More photos from Tex’s sunny sojourns will be posted in the coming days.)
*https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America/dp/0316353299
It Was Running When I Parked It 