Amazing what once was junk is now pure gold. There are some cars in those stacks that would now be worth more than the whole stack. Thanks for bumming out a Saturday....
You will never see piles of cars or junkyards like that ever again...there is nothing as constant as change...!!! R-
When I was a kid there used to be this huge recycling yard in town that didn't really sell anything, they just took in old cars, stacked them up sky high and set them on fire. Huge stacks like those in the photos burning in the open with billows of black smoke from the burning tires and upholstery. They burnt them all out and then crushed them. Now that part of recycling I am glad is gone for good. Nasty practice.
As a kid we had a huge junk yard on the outskirts of town,,,long before the crushers started coming in. I vividly remembers rows and rows of old cars,,then all of a sudden they were gone. HRP
gawd, enough to make an old fellow weep! But back in the day the average junk yard didn't hold anything sacred. My first hot rod was a '47 ford tudor, 283" chevy mated to stock driveline. I wanted to put a '39 toploader in the car so went to junkyard. This would have been '61 I think. There was a nice '39 pickup that had just been dropped at the yard. I remember thinking wishing I could buy that and put my 283" in it, cooler than my tudor. But anyway guy says I'll have a trans for you tomorrow. Yup you guessed it, rolled that nice truck on its side, cut out the xmember with a torch and there was my '$20 ******. probably the whole damn truck could have been had for $50.
I am old enough to remember seeing Model As in the junkyards. If I only knew what was going to happen...
Forty years from now, some current teenager is going to look a pictures of Civics in similar condition and have the same feelings. I remember friends being able to pick up running, drivable old cars for maybe $200 or less. The same ones now, not running and more rust than metal are going for north of $10k.
When I was in my teens could get good running cars for under 40 bucks and you could get all the parts you needed at local wrecking yards drove home a 53 Chevy for 5 bucks. Needed a clutch
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