These are awesome! I can relate to that sickening feeling you talk about after a place like this gets outed and destroyed. At least I can understand the motives for people that scrap and steal. I even get the tagging to some degree I guess, but I just cannot for the life of me understand what anyone gets out of vandalizing and destroying places and things - especially historic and/or valuable places and things. I'm pretty certain that if I did something like that, I would feel like shit. I'm always surprised at how many people out there must feel the exact opposite since it's such a common problem.
Anyways... this location reminds me a lot of one here in North Texas that I visited a few months back. I haven't been to a lot of car graveyards, so it was definitely a unique treat (and it was winter, so I didn't have to worry as much about the bees, bugs, and poison plants as I would in the summer).
I love seeing the ones like in your photo (#12) of the car with the tree growing out of it! This always puts the chronology in perspective for me and makes it that much more awe-inspiring to see these relics being taken back by mother nature. Chronological clues are always one of the first things I look for when exploring, whether it be calendars, objects that define a specific bygone era, or the approximate age of a tree growing through the hood of a vintage car.
Nice work!
Here's one from Texas with the tree included:
Montague Relics by
Dee Ashley, on Flickr