SPACE JUNK 2006
The space-age cockpit of a 1960 Plymouth Custom Suburban station wagon. Shattered and filthy, it hurtles through the cosmos, ancient and futuristic. Sent to the crusher in 2007, this car no longer exists.

 

FLIGHT ENGINEER 2007
The flight deck of a KC-97 Stratotanker coated with a layer of Mojave dust at Aviation Warehouse. These prop-driven aircraft based on the B-29 were the first air-to-air tankers, going into service in 1950. They were all decommissioned by the late 70s.

 

VALVEMANIA 2008
From the Brakeman's seat of the 1920s vintage 2472 steam locomotive at the Niles Train Museum.

 

CHOPPED CHOPPER 2006
British Westland 30 helicopter at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California, a Mojave Desert aircraft boneyard that services the film industry as well as recycles aircraft parts.

 

NIGHT SHIFT KNOB 2008
The front office of a 1976 Grand Prix at the Pearsonville,
California Junkyard.

 

DECO DASH 2006
A pair of thirties Dodge pickup trucks, forgotten in California’s High Desert. Kramer junction glimmers in the distance in the crystal clear winter air.

 

DASHBOARD 2008
Control panel inside the engine room, deep in the dark bowels of the S.S. Independence ghost ship.

 

RED WHEEL 2006
Steve's 1966 Corvette Stingray.

 

FILLIGREE   2006
The shell of a jet airliner cockpit at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California, a Mojave Desert aircraft boneyard that services the film industry as well as recycles aircraft parts.

 

HEADACHE  2006
The interior of "The Patrician"; a top of the line '55 Packard, at the abandoned junkyard at Hodge, California. Hauled to the crusher in 2007.

 

ANTENNA ACROSS THE GRAIN 2008
1966 Ford Fairlane abandoned at Dunmovin, a remote outpost along California's Highway 395.

 

 

HERCULES 2006
The cramped cockpit of a C130 Hercules at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California, a Mojave Desert aircraft boneyard that services the film industry as well as recycles aircraft parts. Still over 90F shortly after dusk, it was like a sauna inside this plane.

 

LOST AT SEA 2006
Early 50s Packard in a sea of junk cars at Antelope Valley Auto Wrecking, Little Rock, California.

 

CAUTION / PELIGRO 2006
Dashboard of a mutilated early 70s Ford pick up, dead in an abandoned junkyard in Hodge, California. West of Barstow on Route 66.

 

COMET 2006
1961 Mercury Comet spending it's final days at an abandoned junkyard in Hodge, California, a largely vacant Route 66 town near Barstow. This car and everything else in the Hodge junkyard is now gone.

 

FIREMAN  2008
The 2472 steam locomotive from the 1920s at the Niles Train Museum. A flame spitting, steam spewing monster.

 

SENECA 2008
1960 Dodge Seneca at the Pearsonville, California Junkyard.

 

GAUGELESS  2007
Stripped Bell 222 helicopter cockpit at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California.

 

FULL STEAM AHEAD 2008
The bridge of the S.S. Independence ghost ship, a derelict mid-century ocean liner.

 

 

STEEL DASH  2007
Spider-filled cockpit of an abandoned White Freightliner at the Niles Canyon Railroad Museum.

 

SPACEWALK  2006
Gutted DC6 at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California.

 

JETBIRD  2006
A gutted mid-sixties Thunderbird spends its nights waiting for the final ride in the crusher at Antelope Valley Auto Wrecking, Little Rock, California.

 

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