Exploring abandoned places sometimes leads to finding fascinating and strange things, often many meters underground. That’s what happened to Bob Thissen, an expert in visiting all kinds of remarkable abandoned places on his YouTube channel, Exploring the Unbeaten Path. And he has found a stash of cars hidden in a mine, abandoned in the Swiss mountains.
This is not the first automotive destination Thissen has visited (besides prisons, aircraft carriers or an international airport). Last year he travelled to the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, where he showed off some of the rare cars that were abandoned there after the nuclear accident. This expedition, however, tops it.
After navigating several dead ends within a vast tunnel complex, Thissen and his partner hit the jackpot: a large space filled with classic Volkswagens. A good portion of them are original Beetles, but there are also first- and second-generation Golfs, older Polos and Passats, and some more modern examples, such as a Mk4 Golf or a New Beetle.
The cold and damp conditions have not treated these cars well (their interiors have become mouldy), some of which have been abandoned not long ago, as, according to the stickers on the windscreens, they were in circulation in 2018. But why are they there in particular? In the video, they say that they are the property of a museum dedicated to classic Volkswagens and that they are spare cars… or simply examples for which the museum does not have space.
Autopian claims that it is part of the Volkswrecks Museum in the town of Saint-Sulpice… a place where the state of preservation does not seem to be the main priority. How they got there remains a mystery:
Via: Reddit, Autopian
