My first thought is that someone's heirs took the easy, quick way out to dispose of what was once important to their deceased relative. I hate seeing that.
The B posts on that Pontiac wagon are what you'd need to make a 55-57 Chevy 4 door wagon into a 2 door Handyman wagon, that'd be the perfect donor. Looks like someone already got the doors though, and a bunch of other stuff. A little sad to see them go to the junkyard, but at least it appears they're getting stripped, that's still a much better fate than to see them get scrapped fully intact. They do look like they were solid, dry bodies though, you wouldn't see anything that clean get junked here in Wisconsin. The Nash is a 46-48, based on the grille end I can see wrapping around the front fender. I have an Edmunds dual carb intake for one of those cars, which is neat to look at, but I doubt many people are hot rodding them, and those that are, aren't likely to hop up the original engine.
I've been looking down here, but nothing. All that's left is Pick Your Parts, they swallowed the rest........AND got rid of the 40% off days during Covid (never to return). I take that back, I just checked and they revamped the website. Still a pain to look for eras, but the old cars are back at least in Onterible.
Maybe someone was "thinning the herd" and got rid of the undesirables or left overs. What you see might be all that was picked up by the Pull A Part. Then again, old car parts disappear pretty fast the few times they show up at our nearest pull a part.
Yes, but guys poking around or hop in to take something off inside is potentially a injury / lawsuit in the waiting with sitting on those wheels.....not stable by any means.
My pick a part uses wheels like that too, they are welded together. We will never see cars like that in the salt belt, they return to earth long before.
That`s a pretty darn safe way to do it. I have been in many hundreds of cars in U-Pull-It mounted this way. Was just in a couple yards this past Wednesday. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket.
A lot of stuff showing up at the U Pull-it here as well. I;ve been scoring some goodies lately. Seems like a bunch of not completed project cars. In the Borough I live, no unregistered, uninspected cars are allowed at all. The Borough will remove them at your expense. I received a visit from the codes officer this week as I put my roadster in the driveway under a tarp for a few days while I used the shop to weld up some dam gates for the Borough. My neighbor reported me the same day. Part of the current climate I guess.
At first glance I did not notice that those wheels were welded to the bottom base. While it certainly does help moving around in or under anything that’s not on wheels / tires on the ground is a risk. I think we can all agree to that.
Every car in every yard around me uses the wheels welded together to support them, and keep them off the ground. Never seen one here that wasn't rock solid and never worried about climbing under one and wrestling parts off them. Only issue we have is all the yards have 3/4 minus spread everywhere, so have to dig in trunks to find a trunk mat to toss down so your shoulders don't get eaten up laying on the gravel.
That shift lever on the '41 should be grabbed .. that's a Champ Items brand vacuum shift eliminator, & could get somebody back on the road ...
^^^^ On the side cover of the trans ..... Or, get the side cover complete. On the Nash, that's the R-10 BW OD .... get the whole cable - getting hard to find. You'd break the knob if you tried getting it off.
The upright wheel is welded to the one laying flat on the ground. Standard junk yard procedure around here and totally safe if the car is setting on them solidly. I have a pair here at the house that I use a lot.
Most of them look like they already did duty as someone else's parts car before they hit pick a part. At least there they get to serve as donors for other project cars. Who knows, they all may have been for sale with no takers for a while too. It seems that someone would have grabbed that Chevy coupe if the price was right though.
In Omaha Nebraska, it`s a 3 dollar admission fee. The older cars that end up there are complete rust buckets. Some look like they were projects that were way too far gone to continue with the build.
Nope, super stable welded together like that. One of our old yards did that. I TRIED to push over a Volvo after I pulled the Dana rear out of it for my HenryJ and it wouldnt budge These cars are from a "I'm going to fix that up one day" types
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