History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

Ford Mainline 1952


Remains of a Buick Roadmaster 4 doors sedan 1949


Dash of a Buick Roadmaster 4 doors sedan 1949


Mercury Monterey 1954

 

that 49 buick has a little rust on it...nice pics

 

Chevrolet Styleline 4 doors sedan 1949 or 1950 and Mercury Monterey 1954


Chevrolet Styleline Bel Air Hardtop coupé uit 1952 and chassis of a Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe 4 doors sedan 1952

 

HA HA..I almost shed a tear on that one

 

thats marks place 300 old cars and for sale

 

Chevrolet Styleline 1949 or 1950




Plymouth Belvedere Club Sedan 1955


Opel Rekord Caravan 1957

 

Whooee! Those pine tree needles are surely HARD on sheet metal, aren't they! I guess that's a universal issue, whether you're in Belgium or Kentucky, eh?

 

Georgian thePolecat shot this Graham sharknose rusting
away in Louisiana, "a heck of a hike off any path." Can't
post the bigger pix; they're HUGE! This caught my atten-
tion because of the true story and remote location, explain-
ing how a darn rare car could still exist out there in this
kind of resto/roddable shape! WOW!

 

I never get tired of checking out the site of Lewis World of Parts (aka Old Car City),
White, Georgia. The myriad vehicles there fire the imagination!



'51 Chevy panel truck. Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.



Somewhere in there in the embrace of Mother Nature is a '62 Merc Monterey!
I wonder if it's got a 390 like the one our family had when I was a sub-teen.
Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.



'54 Nash, but that's about it, folks! Still, a cool photo -- SO typical of scenes
you find in a good, OLD boneyard!!! Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.

 

Another scarce one! '64 Merc Marauder. Check out the nice grille,
bumper & straight sheet metal! Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.



The tendrils of time have this '47 Kaiser Manhattan & an unidentified
General Motors in their grasp! Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.



'41 International K-1. Old Car City USA, White, Georgia.

 

This is in the south of Belgium and the wether is rain, rain and rain

Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe 1950


Austin A70 Hampshire


Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe 1950


Renault Fregate

 

Easton, Pennsylvania 1935

 

1941

 

Jimmie! I posted some shots of my 'back yard' some months ago and I've found another one - circa 1961. If you look in the back ground you can see the new Holiday Inn that bought out the yard next to us and did not appreciate us burning 12-15 vehicles in a pile to prepare to take them to the crusher in town. ... go figure

 

P1070079Mercury 1955 Custom or Monterey


Opel Rekord P1


Opel Kapitän 1958-59


Mercury Monterey or Custom 1952

 

Opel Rekord P2

 

Michel, again, NICE pix! Hard to believe a lot of this territory was a battleground in World War I. Maybe some people would think the old cars STILL make it look like a battlefield. Ha, ha.

I think you have the year of '52 right on this Mercury, but I cannot say what model it is. Maybe a Mercury nut on the HAMB can say, I hope.

 

SPEAKING of Mercuries, HAMBer RatRodDude posted this pic recently of a '55
Merc custom just sitting beside some railroad tracks in southern West Virginia.
Looks WAY savable, ya think???

 

Vintage44, SURE, I remember your humorous story about burning cars in a bonfire. But I wonder why the people at Holiday Inn would even build at that location anyway!?!?! Another thing that's really COOL is that you still had some coupes there in 1961! Awesome.

 

SunRoofCord: Jim, seems to be one of the most popular pix on this
thread there. People have posted it, now, about four times. I still have
a challenge out to folks to ID as many cars as possible. Walker Evans
took this pic, apparently from a railroad right-of-way, in late summer
1935 near Easton, PA, for the Farm Security Administration (later
renamed the Office of War Information). He, Dorthea Lang and several
others traveled all over the U.S. during the Great Depression photo-
recording the plight of poor and displaced Americans, battered by
the economy and the Dust Bowl. One of my fave junkyard pics, always
good to run it by again! Almost certainly, ALL these cars got scrapped
to help the war effort. BUT, Evans recorded an image for the ages!!!

 

More awesome pictures of American culture!

 

Really enjoy this thread, keep it going all.

 

Thanks, guys! I think you'd also enjoy RoyalShifter's great thread, "Sitting and Rotting ....... picture thread." It's not just V.T. sitting in junkyards. It's back yards, driveways, behind welding shops ... on and on. Cars that could be projects, if only cars/trucks could be hooked up with a loving "sponsor."

Hey, but if you like THIS thread, please go to the top of any page and vote us 5 stars in the rating box. Play with that feature a tad, and you'll see it's easy. THANKS again!

 

Hello Jimi,
I think you would say WWII; It is the battleground of the "bataille des Adennes" in december 1944.

An Italian Fiat 850




Ford capri classic


and Chevrolet Fleetmaster sedan 1947

 

SkidSteer of Mountaintop, PA, just put out the word yesterday
that Engler's huge '40s-'60s junkyard in NE PA is going to crush
out . BUT THE NEWS ISN'T ALL BAD! It seems they plan
a three-year program, so things will, apparently, be weeded out
gradually. That way, HAMBers can hopefully get in there and
get what they need or can save. I wouldn't wait too long
though, or what you need could already be gone!

Engler's is almost directly southwest of Wilkes-Barre, close to
Wapwallopen and very near I-81 (?). AT LEAST, we all have a
heads-up! How many times have you gone back to an old
yard and found bare ground! This situation beats that, right?
Here are two more pix posted from a late-'09 trip by our Power-
Shifter & Norville. More can be seen on the thread entitled,
"Black Friday '09 Junk Yard Day."

 

Engler's is actually southwest of Wilkes-Barre,
four miles west of the Nuangola Exit # 159, I-81.
Near the burg of Wapwallopen.
Yard is located in Dorrance Twp., 2 1/2 miles
off Route 81 exit 159 (Nuangola exit).

Hours: 8:30 am to 5 pm M, T, Th, F
8:30- Noon Wed and Sat

Mailing address:
Englers Autos and Parts
1768 Stairville Rd
Wapwallopen Pa 18660

PH: (570) 868-3990

 

Jimmie,
As far as the Holiday Inn building right next to us I guess whoever was in charge of researching the 'neighborhood' probably did not remain in that position for his full career! I'm not sure but about that same time the 'neighbor' on the other side of the HI was a pig farm that became a DOT site afterward. Believe me when the wind was right, that pig farm could make your nose hair fall out! Ahh ... the good old days ....

 

LOL. Dude, that has to be about THE funniest TRUE junkyard story on this thread. I don't know what gets (or used to) into some groups who see CHEAP land, then go harass the original adjoining land-owners! What -----ole would build a hotel smack between an auto salvage yard and a pig farm, I have to ask?

 

Standard Vanguard serie 2


Chevrolet Fleetmaster sedan 1947


Opel Rekord 1957