History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

Wow!
I'm not picky...send me whichever one you don't want!

 

Guys, I wanna respond to your posts in more detail, and I think I speak for all HAMBers that NEWS about WHERE potential HAMB material is AND the threat status (as to crushing) is very welcome.

To that end, ANY time you can show pix of HAMB-friendly cars that are still there in these yards you mention, I'm sure lots of guys appreciate the info. Otherwise, a guy can waste a whole lot of gas on a wild goose chase, ya know? AND EVERYBODY ALWAYS LOVES PICTURES, 'CAUSE THEY'RE WORHT A THOUSAND WORDS.

Finally, I recycle metals, so I see scrap metal values headed back up. I hope it doesn't mean more OLD yards being crushed out . . . BUT, it usually DOES!

Let's get out there this year, shoot pix AND share locations on remaining yards, guys! Remember, even if a car is sunk down in the ground, there may be hard parts and/or stainless (or rebuildable cast) that could be precious to a rodder!

Thanks for the posts!

 

Toby! Good to see you here again. man, if I had DOUGH, I'd drive half-a-week to come and take either (or both) of those roadsters off your hands!!!

 

That looks like Highway Auto Parts on Weaver Hill Rd in West Greenwich RI. Lots of cars but very rusty

 

These are at Bernardston Auto Wrecking in Bernardston MA

 

Blanchard's Wilton NH

 

Meilke's Auto Parts Sheffeild MA

 

Man, fmc56, you've REALLY scouted 'em ALL out, out your way! Any rodders
in NH, MASS. or RI, this is da man to point the way, if you're looking for parts
or project cars.

 

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More from HAMBer ScrewShiney's photobucket:
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Sure, not much to look at now. But in her day, she and her brothers dominated NASCAR for over three seasons!


Wonder what year this Dodge Poly is sitting in?


Oops! Guess '56 is the answer!

 

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Probably a 1952 Packard Caribean.

 

33-Chevy, very close! It's a '53 Caribbean.

 

Here are a couple of keen shots by HAMBer JunkCollector82
up in Canada, just across the border from North Dakota. I guess
that would be either Manitoba or Saskatchewan?

Stays generally drier there, so (like a lot of Canadian cars), these
are in better shape than Rust Belt stuff east of the Mississippi in
the U.S. He had a few more on his mid-November '09 thread, if you
wanna see his virtual junkyard tour at thread, "Went for a relaxing
Junk Yard Stroll..here's some Pics!"


Subtle sunset scene with Model A Fords


Shoe box Fords, badge-engineered for Canadian sale as "Mercury METEORs."

 

Sorry, folks, those got HUGE! Don't know WHAT happened!

 

I found an artsy fartsy Chrysler for ya Jimi!

 

Hiya, Frankie. Yeah, it's amazing to ME that something utilitarian like an automobile can be "used up" and YET, be something beautiful. And I mean that in the same sense as that indefinable gut feeling you get when you see an old abandoned barn or homestead, or when you happen across some old, overgrown stone canal lock, or even when you look at a rediscovered Mayan pyramid on the Yucatan Peninsula. Same damn thing. At once, you feel sorry for an old warhorse, but you STILL remember how it MUST have been when new!

I used the analogy of the old dead horse, and I think it's apt and appropriate when you see an old car too far gone to make much difference anymore, but -- in Mother Nature's arms -- somehow, it seems as if a car loved by SOMEbody once is just going back to its base elements. Not so bad after all, and HAMBers like "The Dude" have expressed similar feelings on this thread.

Like the cars, YOU guys have made my life cooler, 'cause I feel as though a bunch of us car lovers are on the same wavelength about these poor old beasts rusting down, try as we might to save usable parts & put them back on the road!

Damn, I love the HAMB.

 

Visiting my Dad in the farmlands of S.E. MO a few years ago, I came across this place. It had been an operating salvage yard that had shut down and was surrounded by high fences and very prominent No Trespassing signs. I couldn&#8217;t find anybody around to ask if I could look around, and I was headed to the airport to catch a flight home, so I snapped these pics from outside the fence and promised myself that I would return soon.
It was about a year later when I got back to find nothing but the old house, and a couple of folks raking the ground for loose parts. I asked the guy what happened and he told me that he had sold everything to a scrap dealer up state.

 

More of the same place

 

Hey there, Foghorn! You say this was in SE New Mexico? No sooner did I express some "junkyard sentiments" in Post #437 than YOU come up with more pix to illustrate the points made -- I think, pretty much the way all car people feel about once-great cars and trucks whose better days are long behind them. Downright POIGNANT photos.

 

Sorry for the typo, Actually, they were in Missouri, not NM. I agree though, I love the pics. Often, when I come across something like this I feel like the best that I can do is to take some pics and the let it R.I.P. It’s hard to resist the temptation to dig it out and drag it home though. I’ve seen some guys do some amazing things starting with worse.

 

If that is Weaver Hill in West Greenwich that is were my 1966 Fury went. I called a few years later to inquire, he said it was gone. Probably to someone that could take care of it. I know he don't crush the old mopars.

 

what an awesome thread i love this stuff!!!!

 

Welcome JRsAutoGrafX & The Machine! Always glad to know people enjoy this thread. We ALL love seeing cars in great shape, but this thread is one that sort of shows "the other side of the coin" !!!

 

Sorry, I'm off my game. Can't REMEMBERwhere these pix came from, BUT they're pretty cool.

 

Jimi, I'm sure that I know that place. It's uuuuuhhhhh, well uuuuuhhhhh, dam, it's hell getting old.

Memories may be hazy, but pics are still clear. Keep taking those pics.

 

Hold the presses, guys & gals. Old School HAMBer Dog427435 just posted a thread theme last Dec. 18, and it's SO popular that it's already gotten nearly 123,000 looks and almost 1,500 posts! You'll SEE why, if you search for thread, "Vintage shots from days gone by!" If you've enjoyed seeing old vintage tin and abandoned cars, you just may dig seeing those cars BACK IN THE DAY, still on the streets and driveways of the '20s thru '50s, etc.!! Warning: You can spend a TON of time enjoying the pix on Dog's thread!!! Below are just a few pix as a sample!

 

And now, BACK to our scheduled program, ladies & gentlemen. Old vintage tin !!!

 

A car can seem pretty innocuous sitting in a junkyard, right? The '56 DeSoto here is a 4-door-hardtop, and these accounted for only 1 in 12 DeSotos, or 8 percent, of DeSotos made that year (the also-scarce 2-door hardtops amount to about 1 of every 3.5 DeSotos made that year, or 29 percent of total production.

So, while the 2DH is highly sought after, there were nearly four of those made for every single 4DH body. And the 2DH figures INCLUDE the ultra-rare Adventurer.

Food for thought! A person could do much worse than rescue a '56 DeS 4-door-hardtop from the boneyard!

 

BTW, to put that in perspective, there would hypothetically be available, on average, about two four-door-hardtop '56 DeSotos PER United States county. So, they're pretty rare. Compared that with nearly eight 2DH per county.

If you've ever ridden in a 4DH, it's pleasant. Just as airy as a convertible, but way better when the rain falls & you have to roll the windows up!

 

Hey Jimi, WOW what a awesome thread!!!........I'm fairly new here and have not posted to much yet, but I had to let you know how much I enjoyed spending the past couple of hours traveling back in time and down memory lane!.....in our modern so called society that we do our best to live in, it's a welcoming breath of fresh air and hope for the future that there's still a bunch of us left, who are'nt in such a "hurry" to get rid of the past and are doing our best to preserve what's still left, even if it's only 1 vehicle at a time! Growing up in the nw suburbs of Minneapolis Mn. area, there were alot of ol' boneyards that I use to frequent, but sadly like alot of them around the country, there all gone now........I, like you and many of the other's here wished I'd had the forsight at the time, to bring a camera along.......even during my 30 plus years of trucking all over this great country of ours, It didnt dawn on me to take photo's of all the vintage tin and yards that I came accross (to busy working)
The one yard that I've allways enjoyed going to and is still operating is French Lake Auto Parts.......it's about 1hr. west of Mpls......I was out there approx. a year or so ago with my brother, to p/u some parts for his project truck and we were there for well over 8 hours and only saw about a third of what's out there (I'm guessing approx. 25 plus acres) everything from the early 20's to 80's, parts and whole vehicles forsale. The original owner who started the business back in the 50's, is a way cool "old school" kinda guy and just loves to see the old tin get ressurected!!
Anyhow, just wanted to say thank's to you and all the other's who have posted on this thread.........LONG LIVE ALL THE VINTAGE TIN!!!........Here's a link to French Lake's web site for any who may be interested:

www.frenchlakeautoparts.com

Later, Doug