Inside ‘Japan’s biggest car graveyard’ packed with Corvettes & iconic model

A CAR graveyard hidden in a massive rice field in Japan is home to dozens of classic cars, including iconic vintage Corvettes.

The site is the resting place of a variety of luxury motors that have been left to rust, and even some other vehicles including jet skis.

SAMMIT / YouTubeYouTuber Sammit found dozens of abandoned Corvettes at a car graveyard in Japan[/caption]

SAMMIT / YouTubeThis iconic Corvette C3 was one of the many hidden gems at the site[/caption]

The collection of classics was discovered by a racecar driver who goes by Sammit on YouTube.

While travelling around Japan, he uploaded a tour of the spooky fleet at what could be the country’s biggest car graveyard.

Captioning the video, he wrote: “I revisit where I found an abandoned C3 Corvette in the rice fields of Japan.

“But I discover that it was just the tip of the iceberg and uncovered a huge abandoned car graveyard and the biggest barn find of all!”

What were once lavish cars, most are now reduced to rusty skeletons overgrown by foliage.

Some of the other motors have had parts stripped off and left to rust alongside them.

However, if they were in good condition, there’s no telling how much such a precious collection would be worth.

Sammit’s subscribers spoke of how sad they were to see the gorgeous cars wasting away.

One wrote: “Some of the craziest cars I’ve ever seen just abandoned as if they were nothing.”

Another commented: “I bet it was an auto yard with shop that either went out of business or ownership died and it has been sitting for over 40 years.

“I bet there is a ton of undiscovered gems buried in that mess.”

A third replied: “So sad to see but at the same time so cool to see nature taking it back.”

This wasn’t the only car graveyard in Japan full of hidden gems.

It comes as hundreds of abandoned vintage cars including Porsches, Jaguars and luxury hearses were found inside Fukushima’s exclusion zone.

The remarkable discovery comes as urban explorer Bob Thissen travelled to Japan to explore the deserted region once showered in radiation.

In 2011, the northern city was laid to waste following an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

This disaster was triggered by an earthquake, measuring 9.01 on the Richter scale, which then caused a tsunami that subsequently destroyed the reactors at the plant.

As a result of the fallout, the Fukushima exclusion zone was created – with more than 160,000 locals being evacuated.

The 34-year-old documentary maker visited the exclusion zone after reports surfaced of old car dealerships that had remained intact.

The cars are reportedly worthless because the radiation levels in their metal has rendered them not fit for purpose.

Bob said: “It was a sad sight to see these collectibles in a bad shape.

“Especially when you know every car had an owner, who couldn’t retrieve their vehicle.”

SAMMIT / YouTubeAnother Corvette sat abandoned on top of a metal platform[/caption]

SAMMIT / YouTubeMost models have been left to rust[/caption]   

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