Tucked in the back of the local pick a part yard here in Des Moines was a site you wouldn't usually see in a salvage yard. In fact I'm guessing it would have been a rare sight even "back in the day" Howz about 3 1950 something Nash Metro's hiding out in the Mopar section - & 1 is even a convertible! All 3 are pretty rough n rusty but we've all seen worse saved. I can't help imagining that conv. set down onto a new ch***is w/ a Hemi up front.... Sorry about the lousy cell phone picks but if anyone is interested they are at Wrench-N-Go in Des Moines, IA (515) 265-7509 Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Wow, cool ! "Hey Earl, what the heck are these? Not Chevies, not Fords.." "Dunno, throw 'em in with the Mopars." Wrench-N-Go...sounds like my daily routine.
Those came from Altoona. A local guy there was like a hoarder and he owned a few acres with some steel buildings he rented out. The convertible and one of the coupes were in an old rail road coal building on the property with nos parts in the packages stashed inside of them. The Silver looking one sat out side for a long time in a fenced in area. He wouldn't sell anything until his house was condemned and he was more or less forced to clean up the property and sell. I saw they were gone but I was told he was taking them to his daughters acreage in southern Iowa. Bum deal. Hopefully someone gets some good parts out of them.
Another "I'm gonna fix them some day" story. At least there are useable parts to be had. A lot of these stories end when the car rots into the ground.
Yeah, another "if I never get off my *** and build the car, I'll make damn sure nobody else gets the chance to either." If Iowa is like a lot of other states, once it gets sold to the wrecking yard, they can't sell you the whole car. Not that it's prime HAMB project material, but I bet the Metro finatics are steamed...
Yep, once It's in the yard they won't sell the whole car....unless you buy what you need 1part at a time. The other downside of this type of facility is they rotate their "stock" on a pretty regular basis.
If you can't cut those cars into quarter sections/roof and put them back together properly once home, I doubt you could have saved them anyway. At PaP prices those things would be a steal!!! If you wanted just one you could mix and match the best pieces, then sell the rest to people saving other cars.
yep....most likely from someone's stash....there's a yard here in Dallas that has 4 0T Continental converts from 65-68...had to come from one guys stash...
You're right, it does sound weird! They're so tiny that chopped would make them impossible to get into, or sit in, if you could get in.
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