Switzerland Car Wreck, 1969 (b/w photo)

A disused car stands abandoned at the edge of a Swiss wall — From the original legend of 29 July 1969 — “This car wreck, which spends its old age quietly, abandoned and forgotten on a cool edge of the forest, offers a sad sight. Like many other cars, he had to suffer the same fate, when his owner had left him as a disused and unprofitable car, which - very tidy - was parked somewhere on the side of a road, in a field or sunk into a pond. One would like to ask oneself how it can come to mind for a Swiss who has been brought up to order to simply deposit his “retired” vehicle somewhere in the “jewel” of the beautiful Swiss landscape. And yet, in 900 modern communities alone, there are no less than 34,000 car wrecks around...”