Thread by @iowahawkblog

You can run but you can't hide from the #DavesCarIDService Halloween Automotive Graveyard of Horrors Spooktacular

This is of course the eponymous 1958 Plymouth Fury coupe from John Carpenter's "Christine," based on the Stephen King novel, and for my money the best satanically possessed automobile movie ever made. 14 identical '58 Furies were destroyed in its filming.

Today I will abandon my usual cheery upbeat car identification duties to focus on the macabre. The grotesque. The mangled, rusting, disemboweled corpses of cars that took a wrong turn.

So stick around as Coroner Dave attempt to identify the remains.... IF YOU DARE. BWAHAHAHAHA

Was it Ed Gein who dismembered the wheels from this 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook in the Northwoods of Wisconsin? The look of horror on its face says..... maybe.

https://twitter.com/norm_ray/status/1317825952441946114

Only the supernatural can account for the death position of this ill-fated 1917-22 Ford Model T sedan. <cue theme from "The Exorcist">

https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1322196523636187137

Behold the frozen death grimace of a 1950 Studebaker Champion in its dusty cobwebbed crypt.

https://twitter.com/Triptafari/status/1320371972979757063

Get your barf bags ready for this shocking cadaver of a 1958 Oldsmobile coupe, its head transplanted with a 1970s pickup box camper. <screeching violins>

https://twitter.com/GRonaldSmith/status/1322519258266554369

Yes I am typing all of these tweets in a Vincent Price voice

A 1960-64 Chevrolet Corvair, crushed and ripped to shreds by a pack of desert chupacabras

https://twitter.com/andyandrist/status/1319677955262406658

I shall temporarily suspend my "No 1957 Chevys" rule for this 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air coupe rotting in the spooky woods of Maine.

https://twitter.com/tancona1023/status/1319747911924764672

The ghouls had a field day dismembering this 1946-48 Pontiac.

https://twitter.com/JHuttle/status/1318970723747069952

I too shrieked in terror as the beautiful 1934 Ford Tudor was pulled to its watery doom by the Bayfield Flood Creature

https://twitter.com/hiawathajohnson/status/1317838153143750657

I can only conjecture what kind of vehicular monster Doctor Pappastein intended to reanimate from a 1940-ish Farmall A tractor, 1958 Ford F100 pickup, and two 1960-64 Chevy Corvairs

https://twitter.com/StephenABell/status/1317803249211183105

This 1955 Chevy station wagon and 1953 Ford F100 pickup wandered too far into the Georgia backwoods and suffered a Deliverance-like fate.

https://twitter.com/brettbannor/status/1322529770014449665

the squeamish are warned to look away from what's left of a late 50s-early 60s VW Beetle, with evidence that it was subjected to a reinforce frame for duty as a dune buggy or kit car.

https://twitter.com/HeavySig/status/1319059970449526784

These lil' monsters screamed with delight upon finding the carcass of a 1957 GMC panel truck in the Jersey woods.

https://twitter.com/6mccarth/status/1322548130341158913

Dad seemed just a little toooo happy about the "accidental" demise of his beautiful but petulant 1953-56 Austin Healey 100 BN1/BN2, after walking away to collect the insurance money

https://twitter.com/criminal109/status/1317810984447320064

The neighborhood gossip erupted after Dad immediately went out seeing other cars.

Kentucky's dreaded creeping kudzu monster claims two more victims, including a 1980ish Chevy Citation on right; the victim on left I can only conjecture.

https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1305971689621254151

Another chupacabra strike, this time nearly devouring a 1917-24 Ford Model T

https://twitter.com/BTMcLaugh/status/1322557747179802624

*I stand corrected.

https://twitter.com/JeffAllen2143/status/1322561620049088521

Yet another 1960-64 Corvair, and this time with the real life horror provenance of being abducted by the Manson Family.

https://twitter.com/Adam_InLALALand/status/1322554696830054401

Odd factoid: the Manson Family was arrested at Spahn Ranch on Aug 16, 1969 for running a car theft operation. The Tate murders had taken place a week previously, but were still a mystery at that point.
cielodrive.com/archive/police…

The ghost of a 1966-69 Ford Falcon convertible in this Iowa Field of Screams.

https://twitter.com/ted_tc3/status/1322536125383278592

Your gruesome discovery in the woods is a 1940 Ford 1 ton truck.

https://twitter.com/LoriZucco2/status/1322534770732138496

I could be mistaken, but I believe the corpus delecti here is a rare or custom coachwork circa 1933 Auburn; if so I think I'm gonna have a quick hurl

https://twitter.com/Sideshow_JaneV3/status/1322211614662209537

That's all the automotive horror I can stomach today, back soon to return to my normal heartwarming family album car IDs. Happy Halloween to all, and enjoy Vampira at Carpenter's Drive In LA in 1954, inside her 1932 Packard phaeton.