Seen this at the local recycler, they cannot sell any car that comes across the scale(when I first seen it did not have the car on it) got a few pieces from it that where inside but guess it will soon become a Toyota or Hell now adays parts for the big 3 made over the pond.
I've got a buddy that runs a s**** yard and he can't sell any car that comes across the scale either. He does stop guys before the scale if he sees them and works something out before they become s**** if he can
Why is it that alot of these yards "cant" sell anything once it's in the yard? Our local s**** yard here will sell you anything you wanna pay for, but you pay their prices, not what the going rate is. However, the yard 30mi away cant (or wont) sell anything that comes in. a friend of mine recently found a 1945 Plymouth in a u-pull-it yard locally. Owner gave him some line about how he couldnt sell whole vehicles anymore since the cash for clunkers deal....?! Instead, he told him if he was willing to dis***emble the car and remove the top he would sell it, just as long as it went out of the yard in seperate pieces. What gives?
That's a '55 Caddy... Don't believe "Mopar" made " '1945 Plymouths." Last year was a '41...then a '46 after the war. R-
Our recycling yard will sell you anything you want that they have in their yard, prices might be steep but I don't know since I haven't bought anything, but I do not belive they have any rules on not selling after the scales.
They cannot sell once it crosses the scale as they do not have a license to do that, has to be s****ed and as far as pulling major parts its a insurance liability not gonna happen.
Maybe an abandoned project The mottled surface appearance almost looks as if it had once been sandblasted? Perhaps it was a parts donor for someone's hardtop, coupe or conv. restoration as the bumpers, tailights, some stainless, etc. are gone. (is the engine/trans, dash also MIA?).
Im only 19 but ive seen a bunch of old cars get crushed and it kills me everytime I see one at a s**** yard. saw this 58 chevy apache truck at the local junk yard and they were loading it in the crusher.... Was a sad day.
I saved my 55 chevy from an unjust fate, local farmer was havin a crush a thon and I picked it up for 300 bucks. Sat in that field for 30 years waitin for me.
Cant get much sadder.I used to deliver to a s**** yard here and they said if they screwed the blades down real tight they could grind a caddie like that into pieces no bigger than a quarter. It might need new blades right after, but thats the machine. I caught a guy before he even got to the yard with a 60 T-bird on the rollaway. I didnt want it but I gave him my number and a want list.
Nothing new.Back in the 70's there was a s****yard in Rochester MN that once anything was inside the gate it was crushed.That was a s****yard...not a junkyard. I was working at a gas station 2 blocks away on the only road to the place and used to run into the street to stop haulers and buy old stuff before they got to the s****per
I think because it is a 4 door, the previous owner had a hard time selling and that is where it would up. I agree that someone pulled the parts off they wanted and the rest was not needed. S**** metal yards in Michigan are the way they are, once in the gate, they get s****ped. In a junkyard, the owner would want more than you would offer and it would rust away. Just the way it is.
Too bad you can't cut the dash out of it, I would nab one of those if I had the chance. But he'd have to unstack it and let you go at it with a sawzall probably (maybe they unbolt, but still faster to cut off the column and cut braces and **** with the saw), plus half of them it's way easier to knock the windshield out to cut it. No air cleaner? Those are a big deal. But it reminds me of my '57 Pontiac 4-door - it's solid and the body all there, but it's a 4-door, and I found out later two different guys had used it for parts before I got it, which is why the motor, trans, steering column, and entire factory air setup were gone. Plus they cut out the lip the gas door mounts on. If I remember right one of them had one that had been hot rodded and he used this one to put it back stock. Anyways, I kind of think someone used that as a parts car for another car too -
40SD, I thought '55 also until I saw the factory holes in the quarter panels for the '56 side mouldings ! It is a 1956 Cadillac and I think it is a 60 Special ! Good Luck, Sonny
Same thing I thought when he told me. My buddy says his research turned up that there were seven hundred and some change "1945" models built. There were also some 1942 models built. I havent put any real effort into researching the numbers myself. BTW your Caddy turned out awesome.
Our s**** metal dealer here in the Lansing area has an area out back called "Useables". Anything coming in the front door that has use can go out the back door by weight. Of course they make a little on the deal too. I junked a bunch of different s**** metals back in September and while i was dumping that stuff off I spotted a 60s Gocart ch***is with the wheels, tires still on it. I asked and the guy helped me load it up and I drive it back to the Usables scale and for $25.00 it was mine. This place has been known to us as the "Metal Mall" for years. They has all sorts of good sometimes know structural steels, aluminum of all types, stainless, sometimes coppers and br*** alloys. Works out great for us.
Rog Did Chrysler manufacture vehicles for the war effort or was that mainly Ford and GM? I don't recall ever seeing a MOPAR staff car in the movies but I have managed to miss a lot. A good friend has a '55 Stude that he found laying on its side at a s****per in So MO. But that would have been in the '90s they have really changed a lot of the laws or maybe just started to enforce them. In missouri legally you have to have a ***le to s**** a car, but you can still take one to the shredder in kansas no do***entation whatsoever.
I seem to recall seeing DeSotos in military trim. It makes sense that a car popular as a taxicab would make a good staff car.
My thoughts exactly, even has the 56 scoops. But one thing bothers me...the 56 exhaust came out at the level of the side spears through the bumper. This one cannot have the exhaust come out that way. Sheet metal styling where bumper meets prevents it.Looks like it was going through the bottom(like in 1954-55). Maybe some "restorer" wanted a '56 Fleetwood, but had a '55. Or maybe, the 60 specials simply did not have the exhaust come out the bumper?
I don't think the year of the car is really the point, but it definetely has '56 side trim. The horizontal bullets on the upright trim piece on the rear door are much more pronounced on the '56.
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