Rhode Island junk yard getting crushed

I hope this isn't a repost, I did a search and came up with nothing. There's a lot of HAMB worthy cars there.

http://www.mustangforums.com/forum/...d-nobody-knows-of-is-crushing-everything.html

 

Little late to crush the yard. Scrap is worth ZERO now. Should have done it in July.

 

i just checked it out on google earth, good god, it will snow there soon so i cant see them doing alot till spring.

 

jebus cripes!!! anybody have a car carrier i can rent?

 

While we are on junkyards of Rhode Island...
I remember a really big and really old one I saw in about 1965. Huge. OLD cars, not 392's and musclecars...1920's, 1930's.
It was on a secondary highway...when we traveled, I worked hard to divert my father from the big roads and onto the smaller parallels just so I could look for old cars.
The most memorable feature of the yard itself was a big plexi ball turret from a WWII bomber up front by the building, then acres of cars disappearing into dense woods. The same highway, I remember, had a big rock formation painted as a looming dinosaur...
The man let me roam a bit. I didn't ask about buying anything, mostly because I couldn't have afforded a lugnut.
The cars were wildly varied, representing the hundreds of obscure makes that died out in the '20's and 30's. I only had a short time, and everything was hard to see in the jungle of undergrowth and decades of leaf buildup. Most of the cars were really already beyond any use, as sitting through decades of weather while filled with rotting leaves eats every thing, but most still held their basic shapes and appeared as cars. I think most had been scrapped after their races became extinct, as very few parts were gone, and by this time it would have been hard to find anything repairable anyhow.
It was absolutely awesome; this stuff was long gone from normal junkyards by 1965. I think it was basically stuck in the early 1930's, just like those Walker Evans depression junkyard pics except for the jungle.
Someone here a bit older than me must surely remember that place!

 

Well I dont think he's crushing for money, I thihnk the state is making him.

 

Bill's Junk Yard in RI was a once a year trip my dad and I would make. Bill used to let my dad go out in the yard alone since he'd been going down there since the early 50s. The place was full of pre-1940 cars. There was a big warehouse full of the really good stuff. I think the whole thing went away in the 80s.

 

Good gawd is right!! A lot of acreage there for sure. I wonder what his poison is... bring him a case and have at it.

 

Well thank God for Big Brother! Who else would protect us from such desperate criminals?

"We know now that there must be a single purpose! A single norm! A single approach! A single entity of peoples! A single virtue! A single morality! A single frame of reference! A single philosophy of government! We must cut out all that is different like a cancerous growth! It is essential in this society that we not only have a norm, but that we conform to that norm! Differences weaken us! Variations destroy us! An incredible permissiveness to deviation from this norm is what has ended nations and brought them to their knees! Conformity we must worship and hold sacred! Conformity is the key to survival!"

Rod Serling
The Twilight Zone: The Eye of the Beholder

 

i think the state should mind there own business. if we all bught one we could save them

 

Holy Shit !!...... I didn't think Rhode Island was that fuckin big

 

anybody want to plan a trip out there? i got a truck and a trailer, i'd love to get that 40 merc!

 

Good lord, if you hit the satellite view and follow "Brant trail" you can see some of the cars, damn amazing.

 

Looks like a lot of mopar stuff, I'm in...

 

I know that yard, and have been in it. The owner would not let me walk through the place. He drove me through, and was worried about people stealing vin and trim tag plates. If you don't tell him exactly what you want, he turns you away.

 

Damn...1,000 miles from me, and 16 hours of driving.

-Brad

 

Damn, that's alot of cars. Using the scale at the bottom of the map and going west the area of cars you can see is at least half a mile long.

I wonder what that paranoid old guy would think if he knew a bunch of gearheads were scoping out his stuff from space?

 

I think its Jr Carpenters junkyard located off rt 3 .ya get off exit 6 & drive south on rt 3 till ya see a underpass that goes under 95.Ya go thru it & drive up about 1/8 mile, entrance is on the left.
i've been thru it & there is a unbelievable amount of stuff there that is "going back to the earth" He's been nice to me but he is known for being a unreasonable person.I think his prices are alittle steep.
You can't beleieve the size of this place, & the things you see there.Its a rodders wet dream
jimV

 

Wow never in my life have i seen a scrap yard that big i wish i lived closer.

 

Am I the only one who thinks there is a definite difference between an actual JUNKYARD and a yard, (or field) full of JUNK?

 

Looks like civilization has gotten to close to him. Damn city people moving out to the country and messing with how things have been for generations. Sucks that the govt can force you do what they want on your own property. The only good neighbors are other car guys.

 

The NE isn't a prime location for finding pristine vintage tin. Sitting is a forrest for decades doesn't help either. After viewing the Google Earth map I don't see anything around the old man's place that would cause the state to come down on him to scrap his "business" inventory. Wouldn't one consister that infrinement on the man's rights? Or, is it because the state can't figure out a way to tax him for his inventory?

As far as his prices go, he's narrow minded, sure they don't make them anymore, he might think, (too bad he's wrong in many instances as far as parts go) so he charges big bucks. If he were wise and sold at a decent price he'd have a steady flow of business and would have been rotating his inventory. By doing so he'd end up saving more tin just by the activity of moving inventory around to fill orders.

Such a shame.

 

The google earth view blows a guy away with all the iron there, like others have said tho, it's probably too far gone to save.

 

I don't know about that, that 46-48 Plymouth 4 dr looked good, there were good parts on others. The 41 Ford sedan had a good RR fender and RF one looked good. I dare say, there are still some good tin in there considering how large the acreage is. Now those are some early pieces. I didn't go through the Mustang site's photo album.

 

ya have to figure that maybe 10% of the people are "car guys" 70% are 'green" people & 20% don't give a shit.
Like i said before i've been to this junkyard & it is a shithole, theres stuff there that never sold & never will. It really is a eye sore ina area of RI that is still pristine woods.Still alot of hunters in RI & i imagine there at the other end, bitchin that is killing the hunting around there.
Sad to say but ya can't please everyone.If he was reasonable on selling things he would have been"rotating" his stock & it would be all new stuff.
Someone mentioned Bills & that was a good yard at one time but now hes a busines & even though you can still walk around he sells new stuff & does pretty well at it, everyone has to eat.
JimV

 

That's an understatement Full-Classic Peirce Arrows, Packards, REO Royales, Lincolns from late 20s-early 30s....plus all the normal brands. I thought it was crushed out in the early 80s??

 

yep that looks like jrs yard ...i bought a lot of parts from him in the mid 90"s...he had a lot of good stuff then...and he got to be at least 70 now...shit i remember going to his dads old yard on hoppkins hill rd...when i was a little guy in the 70's....cool dave

 

Exactly. People here are amazing. They'll buy a house next to a Farm, because they get it for a good price (who wants to live next to a stinky farm?). Then, they complain about the stink, and pressure the town to pressure the farmer about the stink.... more pressure.... more pressure..... Then one day the farm is gone.

Truly amazing to me.

 

I feel your guys pain. There was a yard here in the N.W called munsons the old dude was crazy as a shithouse rat would not sell parts and wanted a quarter mil. for it all in the 90's. He died not too long later and the kids sold it. I was there before it went away and got some stuff all the sheetmetal was gone I yanked a merc tail lite from the fender without unbolting it. SAD I did get a cool wrecked police car door for free but I had to pack it out a mile

 

A few years back there was a junkyard in Southern Indiana that got started just after WWII. The old man who ran it liked us guys and sold his parts at a reasonable price. He would let you find parts yourself but you had to get permission to remove anything. He wanted to price them first just to be fair. He was in his late 80's when he died. His grandson tried to run the place after grandpa died but it did not work out. The old man's daughter had always seen the land as prime real estate for high dollar new homes. Without warning she put a lock on the gate and sold the hundreds of 50's and 60's cars for scrap metal price to a crusher. The least she could have done was had an auction by advertising in car magazines.

Here's the kicker. After all the cars were gone, she tried to get the land developed for a subdivision. The EPA came in and condemned the land. They said the topsoil would have to be scraped something like 10 feet down over the entire property. Today the land is still sitting bare while new houses are being built all around it.