When a car doesn’t run anymore it will be repaired (fixed) so it can be used again. The same goes for tricycles, jeepneys and everything else on wheels with an engine.
The problem however is that the owner sometimes doesn’t have enough funds to have the vehicle repaired at once. Vehicles like that are just stalled along the street or on vacant lots, and sometimes wait a loooooong time to be repaired, and get rusty and get rotten to the core.
I spotted a few of this kind of vehicles. The picture is a truck with a car loaded in the back and some other scrap. I spotted this DUO the first time somewhere late 2008. Grass and trees are growing under it already, which is a sign that the vehicle hasn’t been moved for some time. Whole year 2009 it stayed on the same spot. It was flooded during the heavy Onday floods in September 2009. There was at least 4 or 5 feet of water at that time in this place. Last June or July I finaly took the picture shown here.
Just a few weeks ago when I passed the spot again, the truck and car were gone. Where …? …. I do not know. Maybe the cars have been destructed?
Maybe they are on the road again …. ? I would’n be surprised …..
Filipino time:
Sure a different situation than what we have in the United States, Jan. Abandoned vehicles along the road will be towed, and there are ordinances that forbid such vehicles from remaining on one’s property. Lot more personal freedoms in the Philippines.