Here's a couple more "trees growing through old Pontiacs" photos, to match Cheesepocket's contribution.
I used to go to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 1987-91. After class and weekends we would go sight seeing. Way back then, I found abandoned halfway down a hillside, this 63 Bonneville. It is in the LaRue Pine Hills Recreation Area in the Shawnee National Forest.
Flash forward to Spring 2004, took my family to Southern IL. for a weekend getaway...stopped at the same park to see if I could find that old car again...mind you it had been maybe 13 years since i had seen it last, and for thel ife of me could not remeber wher it was. We stopped at an overlook, to check out he view, lo nad behold thecar was 50 feet down the hill, right in front of us. How it ever got there orignally I'll never know..but the hood, trunklid, engine and trans gone, the roof crushed and interior totally burnt out, it is half buried under rock sliding down the hillside over the years, and there is a sizable tree growing out of the engine compartment. It has some graffiti on it and has certainly been abused, but amazingly one tailight lens is still intact.
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