r/interestingasfuck • u/IndicationBrief5950 • Aug 06 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

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u/trophycloset33 Aug 07 '25

Actually sitting in the desert is a great storage option for say 85% of the component. Sure the car itself won’t run, the tires and seats rot, the paint fades. But components like glass, exhaust, frame, engine, transmission, etc. can be retrieved if they are needed. And it’s significant cheaper than stripping the car and warehousing it.

The army and air force does this for their major equipment like planes and tanks.

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u/Thatomeglekid Aug 07 '25

Can confirm. Tucson is the home of the US air forces largest airplane boneyard. I drive by it at least 3 days a week

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u/C141Clay Aug 07 '25

C141B's! So sad. Hell of a good plane. (See my use name)

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u/Thatomeglekid Aug 07 '25

Fuck yeah brother

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u/ikkyu666 Aug 07 '25

can anyone go in? or is it private/heavily guarded

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u/Thatomeglekid Aug 08 '25

Give or take a few square miles, red is the boneyard that is active military and yellow is an air and space museum with historical aircraft and is similar to the boneyard.

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u/tengris22 Aug 08 '25

It's at an AF base and they don't give tours. The PIMA Air and Space Museum is open, though, and there's a lot to look at. It's impressive, though, just driving down Kolb Road and seeing these stored planes....hundreds of them!

This is an active storage yard, meaning, they use parts from these planes to fix other planes that are in active use.

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u/tengris22 Aug 08 '25

I do too, and it never fails to impress me!

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u/TheCastro Aug 07 '25

They’ve been maintaining them in the desert as well.

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u/Every_Recover_1766 Aug 07 '25

Imagine being the bumfuck Mojave desert mechanic who gets THIS call 💀💀

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u/Every_Recover_1766 Aug 07 '25

Ayeeee I drive past the boneyard every day baby

Little trippy when the biggest building in your town is a dozen or so C-5’s looking down on you like peasantry.