History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

Hey there, SunRoofCord! I heard a reference to the Cord used as a road sign, but no one had the photo. Great. Where was this? When was it taken down. Any idea what became of the Cord?

As for Oldsmobile, I didn;t realize they even made many woody wagons!

 

Ignominious end for a once-proud "high-pockets" Packard
-- now woefully down on its luck! But, an artful photo from
WebShots, should someone want to buy a hi-res copy to
frame for the wall!





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Yup, they did. I photographed this one in a southern Minnesota Junkyard that no longer exists, I thought it was a '40 but it may be a '41

 

Some more from HAMBer Joe Grippo's wanderings at Flemming's yard.


Hey, now we know WHERE Hernando's Hideaway is !!!


One you just don't see every day, eh?!?


Okay! Let's play name that mill!

 

I don't know about you, but I am a sucker for great "detail"
shots. And HAMBer BlackBaron of Finland (yes, Finland!)
took these keen pix in his homeland, where he says there
is a fair amount of U.S. cars around, too.

 

Time for a JUNKYARD THREAD UPDATE, folks!

Since this thread started, we have taken a virtual gander at vintage tin hiding in bone yards, back yards and behind barns most everywhere around the world! We've had car bon fire pix, WWII scrap drive pix, cars holding back eroding river banks, a pedal-car junkyard, and cars used as business signs!

This thread NOW contains old-timey cars in EVERY U.S. state EXCEPT for:

ARKANSAS
HAWAII
LOUISIANA
NEVADA
NORTH DAKOTA
MISSISSIPPI
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
WYOMING

So, you guys & gals in these states, if you know of places where abandoned and neglected cars and trucks are, PLEASE send pix of 'em on in so YOUR state can be represented!

Enthusiasm for keen old cars with potential extends to HAMBers in numerous other countries, too! We've got junkyard pix from:

CANADA
MEXICO
AUSTRALIA
DENMARK
FINLAND
ITALY (Slovenia border)

MOST Canadian provinces are now represented with photos, BUT we STILL NEED pix from:

QUEBEC
LABRADOR
YUKON TERRITORY
NORTHWEST TERRITORY
PRINCE EDWARD ISLE

Jeez, junk-yardin' is ADDICTIVE! But then, I've been doing it all my life!!! LOL (And from the input on this thread, it appears OTHER guys and gals feel the same way! I can't wait for the weather to warm up a bit, so I can get out with a camera again! How about you?!?)

 

The location of this yard is a small mystery. I've heard Belgium or Finland. I'm sure someone here knows. Looks like there is a 1958 Fury in there.
http://s524.photobucket.com/albums/cc323/AudioMobil/autofriedhof/

 

Only one Fiat 1100 sedan, which was the big brother of the Topolino.

 

Rich, that's cool. Just one year? What was the year? Any idea why the made so few?

 

No, no Jimi...you're reading my post upside down. Only 1 shown in all the photos of that bone yard. The 1100 series was produced through the same period as the Topoliono 500, 1936 through 1948. They had 1100cc engines and were built is many different body styles including trucks.

 

Okey-dokey, Rich. I just missed it! LOL Thanks for clarifying it for my left brain!

Hey, though we usually only show junkyard shots here, do you have a representative pic of a nice 1100? Sometimes, I think it helps greiving HAMBers to see the cars in either original or restored/rodded shape, instead of rotting away somewhere, ya know?

As much as a lot of guys & gals "get" the attraction of old boneyards, some people actually find threads like this depressing, so maybe it IS good to show something sitting and, then, a nice pic of how they SHOULD LOOK.

 

Just ask and ye shall receive. The 1100 has a longer wheelbase, stationary grill shell with a 2 piece hood and a center hinge like early Fords.

 

You could say it's like a train wreck, you just can't look away....I wonder what the psi was on those lines? And he's in a no parking zone!

 

From a north Texas junkyard, a pretty varied collection of unusual
and HAMB-friendly stuff. These were posted by FNG GTOnly70
of Fort Worth. To see the rest of his virtual junkyard tour, just search
for his thread, "Scenes from an old school junkyard," that he
posted last November.

 

Since we had a pedal-car scrap yard last week, I thought this keen shot
I ran across while surfing would be an enjoyable addition. This photo
was snapped by one Ms. Mecomber at a salvage barn in Madison, NY,
and posted on the site Photo Hunters (notated in this instance as Photo
Hunters: Broken). This is on NewYorkTraveler.net and was apparently
taken in the Adirondacks region. Ms. Mecomber, your eye is good!
The kids' wagons and the coal bucket reek with nostalgia!!!

 

For a breath of fresh air (meaning junk & abandoned cars NOT all rusted to
oblivion!), there's always HAMBer Sled's thread, "Mexican Junk . . . What I Found." If there's anybody in HAMBland NOT familiar with Sled's popular and long-running thread, do your self a favor (BUT, don't start on a Sunday evening, or you'll stay up all night & miss work on Monday! LOL). Sled is ONE cool dude! And I don't think there are many HAMBers who wouldn't love to be in his shoes, in Mexico where the dry clime super-slows rust, even on cars sitting out in the middle of fields and stuff.



As of May '06, Sled said these two were basically sitting totally abandoned.




'37 Chevy coupe in another location

 

Okay, gang, here's one of those dry southwestern junkyards that just defy Mother Nature (meaning RUST!). These are getting scarce anywhere -- and are pretty much EXTINCT east of the Mississippi.

These were shot in southeastern Nevada by Jalopnik Contributing Editor Murilee Martin who goes by the screen name "57Sweptside." This yard lies along a lengthy stretch of U.S. Rt. 93 between Kingman, AZ, and Hoover Dam. If you like these examples of unspoiled early iron, you can enjoy 57Sweptside's entire PhotoBucket by dialing up the Jalopnik site, "Uncounted Treasurers Sleep in Desert Junkyards"
(link: jalopnik.com/5211045/uncounted-treasures-sleep-in-desert ).
And if you just wanna BS with Murilee directly or send a TY, the direct
email is: murilee@jalopnik.com.

 

Lessee name that mill-
239 or 254 Y Block

 

A few of my old rusty's I have found cruising south Texas.

 

Clipper Super 2DH in a North Carolina boneyard in Wilson County





As Packard wound down in 1955 and 1956, the company vainly tried
to spin off the CLIPPER as a stand-alone make of its own. They were
good V-8 machines, but the Packard luxury mystique was gone and
the public didn't respond in show-rooms. A ship's wheel was the
Clipper's mascot, and the only reference to Packard parentage was
a small Packard nameplate, bottom-right of trunk lid.

Quick update for the HAMB junkyard posse: The ONLY U.S. states
we don't have pix of VINTAGE TIN from represented on this thread
are down to SEVEN out of 50 ! So, if you have a fave surviving bone
yard near you, please post pix from these few states:

1. Arkansas
2. Hawaii
3. Louisiana
4. North Dakota
5. South Dakota
6. Tennessee
7. Wyoming

 

Ya got MY attention, KnuckleHead29! From the side trim, that looks like a New Yorker, which only had the FirePower 331. AND a hardtop, too! Good car for a project, 'specially if it still has the Hemi!

 

Hey Jim, you asked for a woodie, here are some pics of the 36 Ford that I bought in CT last year and then later sold to Sawzall on the H.A.M.B. The first pics are scans from old Polaroids that the guy whom I bought it from took while the car was still in the field (check out the snow). The last one is a pic that he sent me when I was thinking about buying the car from him. Not really a “barn find“, more like a “chicken coop find”.









The car didn't really look a whole lot better indoors.

Here is a link to a whole bunch of pics of the car before and after I bought it.
http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/foghron62/36 Woodie/

 

Yo, Foghorn! THANKS FOR THE POST! Yeah, she's seen better days, but anybody with a good eye can see that she has potential to be brought back. As much as I like the bone yard pix, it's ALWAYS good to see cars that LOOKED doomed, until somebody took the trouble to give them a home and put them on the long road to recovery.

I think this and OTHER photo threads show clearly that almost all '20s stuff is gone, especially if it's sat outside. And '30s/'40s stuff is rusting down or damn picked over. Except for barn and shed finds, looks like pre-1950 project cars are fast fading from the scene, and decent '50s stuff keeps getting scarcer by the day.

So anybody who CAN had probably better rescue what he/she can, before they are all gone.

 

You’re probably right, although there is still hope. I took these pics during my first visit to VT back in 2002 somewhere between Burton, and Orleans. I don’t remember exactly where they were, and I have been back through the area many times since then but haven’t noticed these cars. I wonder if there is anyone else on this thread that has been through northern VT and seen them.

 

Found in a Swiss Junkyard

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411168

 

Great pics. I think some junk yards were born where folks started to drop off their old cars. My dad in the late 40s left his 37 Cad at a junk yard because it started to overheat. He said he thought the thermostat was stuck and V-12s were a pain to maintain. He also said didn't care for dual side mounts, running boards or the grandma's parlor type interior. One of his friends used to rebuild Model T trans at a junk yard and told us if you put in one of the gears in backwards - forward high/low would become the reverse high/low. He did that only once when a guy dropped in the rebuilt and backed his T in a pole. He was fired.
My dad had a repair business and we salvaged many parts from junk yards. The Rambler yard was one of the most popular in the late 60s and 70s as a parts source for discontinued brands (Stude, Packard, Nash, and others). All the yards are gone due to environment, less rebuilding and redevelopment.
If you have a pre war car, enjoy it more, most cars were scrapped/crushed during WWII for the war effort. And as manufactures started building hundreds of cars a day, the old ones would eventually loose out. Too bad. It makes me appreciate my jalopy and the work I put in it. Can't wait til Saturday and workin' on the carb!

 

Some good points there, FjordIver. Decades ago, the wasn't much of a system and few local regulations, SO people ditched cars in a LOT of wild ways!! I have heard first-hand accounts of guys just pushing Model As, etc., "over the bank" into some ravine. Anything to get a "useless" car out of their hair!

On to VT again: Newbie HAMBer Ibcd posted these shots in November from near Dubois, Wyoming, on the Wind River. Jeesh, ya GOTTA love the dryer climate west of the ol' Miss, eh??? Nice work, Ibcd!




Not surprisingly, he said this one, above, was gone last time he checked.

 

Some more HAMBer Ibcd posted last November from Wyoming.

 

Some Montana vintage tin!


1937 Pontiac


'41 Chrysler


'48 Fireball 8 with Stude Hawk behind

 

!920,s Junk yard Dodge 4dr in back ground