Get your tissues ready. Vintage Tin in Oklahoma

wow... thats some serious tin

 

What am I gonna do with this boner now?????

 

If that is the stuff I think it is, rumours have been floating around here about an auction for the last year at least. Not sure when the pics were taken but a lot of it has been moved to another location. I'll post the location and time if it actually ever happens.

 

I have access to a boom truck I can rent. Just say where and when...

 

Ratmotor...You really need to ask that question??

 

A lot, I used to fly and maintain them for the Army Guard in Alaska. They will pick 21,000 pounds dead lift. Ours were Sikorskys. CH 54B models, they had the bigger engines, easy to recognize as the B models had dual tires on the main gear. Not cheap to fly!!
Later, Dave

 

Too bad your not double jointed.

 

WOW I like this shot ready for the lift

 

Sniff, Sniff.... Reminds me of this place.


s.

 

Holy Sheet!!! I spotted a Packard in amongst the crowd.

 

...can someone PM me and tell me where this place is? I'm 10 miles from Claremore. I might be able to scrape up a few bucks and maybe a trailer or ten!...

 

Auctions don't always end well for everyone.
A local machine shop auctioned their equipment in lots, most of the lots were won by metal scrappers.
Numerous Bridgeports and milling machines are now being transformed into steel pipe in Chekoslovakia for resale in the good ol' U.S.A..
I would suggest going to the auction with enough dough to purchase 8-10 of those specimens.
God-Speed

 

Yeah, I think a big bunch of guys should go to the auction, collude a little on the bidding so you don't blow all your money - usually by the end stuff goes for pennies on the dollar. Even if scrap guys show up, they want to make money too, so it won't go super high. There was an auction like that here 10 years ago, my friend was telling me you could buy entire rooms of old car parts for $5 or $10 out of this guy's house - he'd been hoarding for 60 years or so at that point. A junkyard did an auction like that a couple years ago, too, scrap guys were buying whole sections of cars for a couple hundred bucks. Just buy everything that's cheap, stash it somewhere and list it on here for everyone else - mark it up and make a little money on it while you're at it. Maybe you'll have 30 days to get it out of there, just need one guy with a farm or big lot to stash it on while you sort out what to keep and sell the rest off.

And if anyone finds a 40-42 Hudson short wheelbase car hood, I could use one, they don't grow on trees so... for that matter, a top skin for a '39 Chevy, either coupe or front half of a sedan, would be nice too.

 

Reminds me of the dam they built around here with 30's and 40's iron from junkyards that wanted "newer" vehicles.....

 

I was bored so I stroked it.....

 

This 34 5/W looks like a honey of a project,.......... look at those wheel wells !

 

I will second that. I would NOT mind buying that 34!

 

Paging Mr. Ryan.............your trim that you have been searching for........

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=242732&d=1163513919

The sad thing about it is, most of the stuff will be bought up by someone with a lot of coin to drag it to the crusher. That happened a couple of years back with a junkyard auction in Lebo, Kansas......70% of the cars sold for $65 dollars and got crushed after two weeks. My pops and I went down there for two weeks straight pulling Carbs/F1 shock mounts/body trim/ 2x2 intakes/ and taillights and headlights and driving to the guys house and getting most of it for a song.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

i have 9500 lb winch on my 3/4 ton 454 powered 4x4,200 feet on extra cable 100 foot strap.2 snatch blocks.25 foot of 3/8s chain.hand full of clevices.assorted prybars.tiedowns.two 12 footlong 2X12s, floor jacks .trailer can be hooked to the front of the truck for easy winching..if i can get it out it aint coming out...