Time for tea? Desert truck graveyard

Stills, not moving image for a more reflective Time For Tea?

Last week's Jaguar XKR-S Convertible trip had a pretty lunatic schedule but, credit due to Jaguar, the launch team certainly made the most of it. And our coffee stop en route to living out Top Gun fantasies makes today's slightly different Time For Tea? entry.

No moving images today but instead some stills from the incredible truck graveyard at the Motor Transport Museum in Campo, California. It's no secret of course that in the arid desert air vehicles rust differently from the way they do here, the weathered paint, faded logos and twisted, rusting panels all adding an incredibly atmospheric collection of vehicles. Whipped by a fierce, dust-laden desert wind all it needed was a mournful Ry Cooder soundtrack and the scene would have been complete.

Space and the gentle rate of decay mean some incredible artefacts, some dating back 100 years, some more recent. From workhorse trucks and tractors to the odd Porsche or Triumph that never made it home to the boulevards of San Diego or LA, the collection is as diverse as it is incredible. A lucky few of these relics are being slowly restored by the team of volunteers on site but most will never turn a wheel again.

If you want to know more about the museum you can visit the website here.