Coolest thing you have ever found at a wrecking yard???

Went to the local u-pull-it last weekend. There was a '51 Hudson. Got the Twin-H intake and the also the super power dome head. I just love that place.

 

Coolest thing I found was $500..My wallet fell through a hole in my coveralls.. Didn't know till I got home.. Went back and tried to retrace my steps.. 1 hr later, found it.. I was lucky.. Happened 25 years ago..$500 was really alot back then........

 

A finger...............

 

Love the old cars, but how did you get a picture of my ex-wife?

 

That was your wife? Sorry, I didn't know.

 

Maybe a bit off topic. But, this is the oddest thing I ever found in a salvage yard. Back in 1958 I went to Goldie's in Quincy, Massachusetts. This was a HUGE yard foreign and domestic. I wanted seats from a Healy or TR-3. I found a pair in a recently totally destroyed Triumph. I unbolted the left seat and as I lifted it out I found a foot!! A SEVERED FOOT!! Shoe and all. Kinda grossed me out...I was 16 at the time. I went to the office and told Goldie and he response was....
"That's another five dollars"!!
I got seats from a Healy 100-4 instead.

 

A 1965 Barracuda formula S, complete, down to the little chrome air cleaner, for $150.00 This was in the early '80s

 

This was not my score, but something to aspire to. Can you anagine? One of these days.

 

Cool thread, so here's mine....not very HAMB worthy....but still rare.
A 1977 cutlass factory 5-speed car with 31,000 miles. Not cared for at all but with a new fuel pump out of another car in the lot9just swapped them, didn't ask the yard) it fired up and drove out under its own power. A week later and a set of new tired it made a trip from north eastern washingtion down to Phoenix Az with not issues at all.

My favorite all time find was this '64 dodge D100 CSS truck (custom sport special). It was sunk in the mud up to the axles, on a set of A-body 15inch ralley wheel. Got the truck for $250 and sold the wheels for $300, had it towed out of the yard to a discount tire for the new wheels and tires. While I was waiting to get it in, walked next door to a Checker auto parts, bought a battery, some marvels magic mystery oil, a fuel pump and some starting fluid, picked up 3 gal of gas and the damned thing fired up like it had been parked the week before. Loved that truck, but sold it to buy a house.

 

i 9mm under the drivers seat,,,2 kees of blow in the trunk,,,a pound bag of week under the seat ,,delivered it back too hertz and went home,,,i was a repo man was spose to check all cars in and out but it was getting lite it was clean and we didnt care cause it would only be luggage only,,,,then a knock on the dor a 9..00 am now who had the balls to wake me that early,,,,the feds they wanted the stuff and all the details since the were casing the car for a few weeks it was a known trafficer ruined my pot at the end of the rainbow dream,,only got questioned for about tens hours and never got a taste

 

.........Back in 1967 or 68....I got a bee hive oil filter off a old 51 Ford for $5...........I still have it....its on my 36Ford truck......

 

John Downey gave me a guided tour of his salvage yard waaay back in 1961 or '62.
John asked me if I wanted to see his low tech security system.
"Sure John, bring it on" I responded.
John turns to his right and hollers as loud as a fog horn. "HERE GOOSE!"
Sure enough a grossly overweight goose ,standing about 5 feet tall , waddled from around the corner, walks up to us and pressed his beak into my face.
Scary frickin bird!

 

Now thats some funny shit!!

 

My '51 Merc for $375.

 

My wife.
went to a junkyard trying to find a part for my 49 pontiac. while standing at the counter, I glanced out into the yard at an old 57 chevy convertible sitting on blocks. out from under the back popped some beautiful legs with white go-go boots.
I didn't know at that moment, I was looking at my future wife.

 

Lots of great finds. It is getting so hard to find "Good"things these days.
Tom(Tired Old Man)

 

A 60's AFX Aurora AMX HO scale slot car with great Patina under the seat of a 68 International Pickup. Still one of my favorite cars It's hard to make artificial patina on plastic ...

 

nothing vintage, rare, or even as cool as some of the stuff in this thread,
nearly new 35" BFG mud terrain, mounted on a ford aluminum truck
wheel covered by floor mats, stashed under a van $15,
scrapped the wheel for $8

FS bronco tailgate (complete) and an extra glass i found under the
bronco i got the tailgate from $60

set of 4 15x8 cragar SST wheels, rescued before they hit the scrap
yard *Freebie*

set of 4.10 geared dana 30/35 axles, steering linkage, and front
springs rescued before they hit scrap yard $75

most of the real junkyards are run by crabby old bastids, no access to the yards at all. u-pull-it yards are about the only place to find anything, and nothing really cool is in them

 

just pulled a complete 64 wildcat nailhead with switch pitch trans on half price day for $250, also the alum drums.

 

i found that my car that i went out there to buy today was gone

 

Back when I was a teen in Ky. , I went to a junk yard in Louisville, I think it was called Cook's. There half way back under a tree sat a bone stock 40 Willys coupe, with the original front end. I ask how much it was and he said $50.00. It took me 5 weeks to get the money together, and when I went back to get it, he said it sold last week. Did score a Hurst 4 speed for $10.00 though.

 

about 3 years ago was parting out a 78 amc concord AMX and found a wallet under the rear seat with $3, drivers license and etc. oh and a big old pack of rolling papers!!!! no pot just papers(bummer)guess thats why he only had $3 left. I boxed it up complete and shipped it to the address on the license but never heard back from the guy.

 

in 09 i bought over 16,000 pounds of scrap metal for like $60 well it contained lots of car parts made couple hundreds off some parts i since sold but heres what i found
35 ford wire wheel
3 38 chevy artillery wheels
2 38 chevy standard wheels
31 model a wheel
a pair of rear 1931 ford truck fenders
2 ford model a whishbone/axles
2 plymouth artillery wheels
a texaco 5 gallon transformer oil can
a sinclair 5 gallon oil can
a uber rare 1941 chevy suicide steering wheel
a 1916 fairbanks morse z hit'n miss engine plus burr mill
1952 b&s model 23 engine
bunch of old leaf springs
a rare timkin bearing axle
50's chevy truck bumpers
an unknown maybe 40's mopar rear axle
model t rear axle and leafspring
a complete chassis and drivetrain of a 1928 chevy coupe which i unfortunantly had to take to scrappers as i couldn't take it with me! waaaaaahhh was in great shape!
and a few other things that i can't think of off hand

 

some friends and i found an old junk yard in the woods a few years ago. we found out that it was a junk yard in the 50's that closed down. it had a No Tresspassing sign but we just went in for a look. piles of parts, motors, and cars. among the cool finds was: Red Ram Hemi upside down in a stack of motors, a stripped and rolled 50 merc(this thing was mangled and tossed on top of a stack of parts). one of the coolest things was in a rooten barn on the outskirts of the yard. it was caged mini cooper that i believe was a vintage road racer. it didn't have motor, trans, or suspension. it was so lite that one person could lift the front of the car.

 

Believe it or not, my 49 came from a junkyard near Richmond VA about 8 or 9 years ago. Just getting around to putting the cab and (sectioned) flatbed onto a 95 Dakota chassis.

The USED PARTS sign came from a salvage yard right here in Newport News last summer after they sold off all of the cars & parts getting ready to close. This sign was jammed down behind a shelving unit that was now bare.

The dealership logos were on the inside of the back doors of a little bread truck that (I learned later) belonged to an upholstery guy who used to take care of small rips & tears on brand new cars at all of the local new car dealerships. He worked out of the truck and got the dealership logos as a souvenir. Fortunately it was one of the Saturdays that I remembered to bring my DeWalt cordless drill to remove the 70 or so rivets that held the aluminum panels to the back doors.

The lubester and the 56 Ford Sunliner convertible parts came from the same yard as my 49. The Ford was so incredibly rusted that these were the only things that I could remove from the rusted hulk

Slightly OT, but the Bluesmobile was in a junkyard in Virginia Beach last October!

 

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The other pics that didn't make it the first time! Sorry!

 

Somebody had a good find of my fancy Craftsman ratchet. The zipper on my backpack split open and dumped it in the snow. And they stopped making that kind.

And a few years later I left the cheap replacement on a fender.

I found many vise grips over the years. And once I saw bags of groceries in the trunk, with the change in one of the bags, about 5 bucks worth.
Still waiting to find that huge roll of drug money.

 

Please tell me the Blues Mobile is now yours!!
Doc.

 

Probably made into a bridge in Australia by now.-Weeks