Just sprinkle a little Chevrolet on that and it will grow like crazy…

Posted byPatrick LambPosted inUncategorized

There’s something strange going on in southeastern New Mexico.

I’ve discovered a disturbing trend where trees have started growing up in the middle of abandoned cars found in a Roswell auto scrap yard and on a ranch southwest of there on the Rio Penasco. Like my recent post about truck parts being highjacked around my part of town, I have photographic evidence of this phenomenon.

A late 1960s Chevy pickup on a ranch near Roswell
Same truck a few years later as I prepared for fishing adventure on the ranch
Also on the same ranch, this classic 1959 Chevy with a small tree growing between its bumper and the trunk, dangerously close to its valuable and increasingly rare “cat eye” rear taillights.

My interest in the “trees in cars” phenomena occurred when I was stumbled across a website with photos of a bunch of old classic cars in a Roswell automobile scrap yard. (Yes, I know only nerdy gearheads like me look at stuff like that.)

So I found these two examples from that location.

This is a late 1940s era Chevy truck in the Roswell scrapyard with a tree growing through the engine compartment
And here’s a 1952 Chevy Sedan with tree growing through the engine compartment. If you look carefully, you can see some of the engine parts in the tree branch above the car.

So what do all these have in common (other than my suspicion that the seeds were planted by aliens who first visited the Roswell area in 1947)? First, I believe all of these cars have been sprouting elm trees. And secondly, all of these vehicles were Chevrolets.

The conclusion is that if you want to grow an elm tree, have an alien plant the seed and use a Chevy for fertilizer.

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