History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

Holy sheep shit........

 

I remember seeing photo's of several concept cars in a Michigan Junkyard... the Yard owner was supposed to crush and shred the cars so that they couldn't be recognized or recovered.

But he carefully disassembled them and dispersed the parts around the yard so that when eve anybody would snoop around they wouldn't recognize the cars or the parts!

But they surfaced in the 90's and restored and are now on display somewhere....!

 

WingNutz, I remember reading about the yard you mentioned, man! There were no pix with the piece I read, but there was plenty of evidence it had been for REAL. Some companies, insisted on destroying rough mules & prototypes IN-house. Packard did that with anything they didn't want to see the light of day again.

I also remember some months ago seeing pix of what had been a "junkyard" used by Studebaker for experimentals they had no immediate use for any more. I'll try and find that site again.

 

This is a classic abandoned-car pic, posted by Twin-6 over on another thread, but I HAD to include it here because of the fab content and composition. I wish we knw MORE about this car!

 

1925 Peerless Touring...There is some neat stuff on this sight;

http://www.desertclassics.com/Linc32KAcc.html

 

SunRoofCord-Jim, wow, that really IS a desert classic!
Whoa, man. Imminently restorable, too!!! As is, it is
a visual masterpiece framed against the dry south-
western backdrop. Holy-moley, this car is 85 years old
-- and not beyond rescue! Kojack said at the top of this
page that these yards do make him sad. But this Peer-
less is WHY this thread lifts the optimists among us up!
THANKS for posting this. I want to go spend some time
on the whole thread you linked, buddy!

 

T-Head and Twin Six are pretty sure the car in Post 727 was a specialized Locomobile, extended WB to suit some car lover's ego. Looks like immediate pre-WWI to my untrained eye, but it's still one keen and unique car! Twin said he suspects the pic was taken in the '50s. Any help out in HAMBland?

 

And THERE is a Kaiser right up front! Thanks for posting, SunRoofCord. It surely would be nice to see osme MORE of this yard. I see a 'net link in the upper right corner, beginning "Jana Miller" and ending ".com." But I can't make out the rest of her name. Any help, buddy?

 

Hard to read because of being resized, but it says "Whitman Uranium Inc Robinson, ND"

 

Thanks or those artful pix, AntiBling! If Ansel Adams had been into this subject at all, HE could have shot stuff like those first five you posted.

 

Scenes like this in the boneyards I visit always make me cringe!

 

We have a bit more on this cool shot now.



This photo reeks with nostalgia and makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. But there's no imbedded info, and no one seems to know many hard facts about the pic, though one HAMBer thinks it may have been shot in the '50s. It's not so much a junkyard shot -- more like a barn find, it seems.

T-Head and Twin 6 over on the pre-WWII thread figured this for a Locomobile (about WWI era, I'd say). Tee said the wheelbase would have started at about a whopping 142 BUT was extended as much as a foot by someone who wanted to have the longest speedster in town!

As is, this roadster would have been pretty much a factory hotrod, as Locos of the era offered two butt-kicking mills. I'm wagging this for a 1915 Model 48, Series M5 with a massive 525-CID T-head engine of 5.5" stroke cranking 49 horses, backed by a four-speed. Coupled to a 3.5-to-1 differential, this should have been a pretty peppy machine 85 years ago! Yow, wish there was more info on this car AND what became of it! Any help in HAMBland???

 

1935 LaFayette
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Unusual story: This '53 Kaiser was rescued from
a Swedish junkyard and fully restored in Rotterdam,
Holland. Folks in Europe love U.S. VT! Mano Forsman
took this photo.​

 

A certain ghostly beauty to it. Sort of like a vintage-tin take on "American Gothic" ! HAMBer LowCat posted this rare shot on another thread, and I felt it surely fits this theme, too!

 

Old Car City (originally Lewis' World of Parts), White, Georgia.
Established in 1933, it's one of the world's oldest continuously
operated junkyards, and all in the hands of a single family!
Wow, wish there were more like this!!!

 

HAMBer LowCat posted these keen VINTAGE shots of a real
old-time junkyard in operation. I really had to make these a
permanent part of this junkyard-dedicated thread, because
these don't turn up often and are the original theme of the
thread, which quickly branched out to include any old pre-1966
cars in survivng junkyrads, as well. Check out the cars getting
scrapped! They weren't so "vintage" tin back then! LowCat
posted 'em on the thread, "Vintage Shots From Days Gone
by." * If you've never visited that great thread, you'll get
a jolt of nostalgia that won't quit! Highly recommeded.




Post #8018 *

 

UNREAL! When was the last time you found a second-year 'Vette
in a boneyard? This pic was posted at www.autofinds.com.
For more of a Corvette graveyard, see Post #569!

 

For HAMBers who live anywhere near Maricopa, Arizona, it
may be well worth your while to visit Hidden Valley Auto Parts.
It's a family-owned business, founded in 1961 by the Hoctor
family. Centering on cars older than 20 years, their earliest
start in the 1930s. They seem to be very customer friendly,
allowing free roaming to brouse the 600-acre yard. And they're
full-service, so you don't have to bring your own tools. Easy
to locate; click on their website, and directions and contact info
are the first things to come up, to wit: www.hiddenvalleyautoparts.com.
Here are a few pix of some DRY Arizona VT, just to lend a feel
of Hidden Valley.

 

A few more from Hidden Valley









Not somethin' ya see any ol' day in a boneyard, eh?
Looks like a one-of-a-kind creation!

 

Briscoe Scrap: It’s NOT a salvage yard

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Add air to the tires, and this 1955 Packard Clipper Super Panama hardtop appears nice enough to drive away. Only 7,016 Panama hardtops were produced in &#8217;55, and just 14,633 over the three years (1954, &#8217;55 and &#8217;56) the model was offered.

By Ron Kowalke

Let&#8217;s play the name game. How many different ways can a business that buys and sells damaged and/or dilapidated automobiles and their parts be described? My list includes: salvage yard, recycler or automotive dismantler, scrap yard and (the one that redlines my blood pressure) junk yard. All would seem appropriate to generally define the buying and selling of worn automobiles and being a supplier of donor-quality parts.

But, after spending the better part of an afternoon with Ronald Briscoe of Quapaw, Okla., owner of Briscoe Scrap in that far northeastern Oklahoma town, I&#8217;ve had to reconsider my thinking on this subject.

At first glance, Briscoe Scrap appears much like many salvage yards that cater to the collector vehicle enthusiast. Rows of restorable front the property and more are staged in an orderly manner within the business&#8217; borders. But that&#8217;s where the similarity ends.

Stacks of cars &#8212; both vintage and modern &#8212; destined to be crushed and shredded to make new steel dot the landscape of Briscoe Scrap. While this is a common sight in many salvage yards, here those piles of cars have an extremely short lifespan, quickly reduced in size and stacked on trucks destined for the foundry, only to be replaced by similarly sized piles of different cars.


Another rare and restorable Packard in the Briscoe Scrap inventory includes this 1952 Mayfair hardtop from the 250 Series. Needing cosmetic care, the Mayfair is otherwise roadworthy. Only 4,068 were built.

Briscoe explained to Old Cars Weekly that the core of his business is metal recycling, not salvage. Being an old car enthusiast himself, Briscoe comes across many vintage vehicles in his day-to-day search for scrap metal to process that he understands have value to fellow hobbyists. He crushes those old that he deems are too far gone to restore or supply parts and finds a spot on his property to store those he wants to sell to old car hobbyists.

Being from the Midwest and seeing the ravages of winter road salt on the salvage cars in the north central states, it was a bit alarming to me to see some of the more solid southern cars that were deemed &#8220;unworthy&#8221; to save and relegated to the crush lot. But the examples that Briscoe has saved for resale are, for the most part, prime candidates for restoration based either on their good condition, rarity or both.


One of several piles of cars to be scrapped is visible behind this 1955 Studebaker Commander Deluxe sedan. While the Studebaker has some rust-through on its lower panels, the white Oldsmobile Toronado near the top of the crush pile was rust free and full of donor-quality parts.

&#8220;We mainly buy out [salvage] yards and crush the hulks and keep the whole cars,&#8221; Briscoe explained. He stressed to Old Cars Weekly that he will only sell whole cars, not parts. He added that he has titles for some of his vintage inventory and for those he doesn&#8217;t, Briscoe will sell on a bill of sale.

There is no computerized inventory of the hundreds of cars Briscoe has for sale, but seeing the collection in person is recommended. Old Cars Weekly asked Briscoe about customers possibly obtaining parts from the vintage vehicles that are stacked on any of the crush piles. While he cautioned that the piles are refreshed regularly and vehicles don&#8217;t hang around too long, he didn&#8217;t say &#8220;no.&#8221; As a courtesy, permission first is a must, and having a yard employee obtain the part(s) is recommended for safety reasons.

Briscoe&#8217;s personal collection of cars includes an original 1947 Studebaker convertible and a &#8217;32 Ford hot rod. The latter elicits a painful memory from Briscoe: &#8220;I crushed a &#8217;32 Ford once, but it was rough.&#8221;

Briscoe Scrap is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon.

To contact the business, call 918-674-3090 (or toll free: 888-674-3090), or use e-mail address: briscoescrap@att.net or use postal mailing address: Briscoe Scrap, 4631 S. 620 Rd., Quapaw, OK 74363.


The B-O-P divisions of are well represented among the offered for sale at Briscoe Scrap. Two examples are this (above) 1957Chieftain Catalina four-door hardtop sporting Starlight two-tone paint and (below) &#8217;63 Buick Riviera hardtop. Both are complete and solid and could be returned to the road.

 

Jim, thanks for a good article. I wish all yard owners had such a clear -- and stated -- philosophy and policies. Refreshing.

I do prefer old-time "junk"yards, wherein customers can brouse to their hearts' content. But I understand why certain people have turned owners off to the extent that they will only sell whole cars -- divorcing themselves from the piecemeal business of parting out cars. Some people only see one side of that issue; I have been a near lifelong parts customer AND have had multiple friends in the auto-recycling and scrap-metal business. SO, there really are TWO sides to every coin.

If I may: HAMB member RustyNewYorker is both an enthusiast AND sells stuff occasionally too. He is as close to eloquent on the subject as us car guys get (maybe I should just say "straight forward").

 

Found these over at Rusted Hot Rods by Rod And Custom Magazine

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/techarticles/0606rc_rusted_hot_rods/photo_25.html