Event Coverage Walk through the junkyard yesterday

My kind of salvage yard. Thanks for the pics. I'm thankful to still have access to similar places in Oklahoma.

 

Great photos, but you have to think that someone will decide that sitting there for decades is not making the money that crushing them would bring with a lot less liability. Hope this one hangs around.

 

Holy crap, is this place reasonably priced? Unknown? I know it's off topic but I can't believe there's a Road Runner hood in there still on the car, and the cars look pretty un-picked as well. The hood on that Imperial looks better than the one on my car, although I see the hinges are sprung, which it seems like they all are.

I agree with Harpo1313 about that wagon quarter. I think the car is way too far gone to fix and probably not famous enough but damn it's a shame to see it just laying there, would make a great garage wall hanger.

There's yards with lots of old stuff around here in Wisconsin but every year a few more are gone, I know several that are slated to be emptied this year, and me and a friend of mine have been picking them clean for years of anything that can be resold or should be saved. A place like this would be a multi-year project!

 

There is vintage stock car material for dirt or asphalt vintage racing . Maybe biased.

 

You don't know how close you are. Kaiser actually used Shoebox suspension on various models like my old Henry J

 

I used to always enjoy trips to the local junkyards when many old cars were still there.
Thanks for the memories..............

 

I likes old stuff!!

 

Does anybody look at old cars in a yard like this and imagine that DAY.
You, know when the guy wearing a sport jacket and tie pulled into his driveway and the family comes out to climb all over it and the neighbors have to come over and check it out.
The dude is standing there all proud and happy.
Just 24 months and that Kaiser is all his.

 

Nice trip down memory lane. There's no yard's left like that in my part of the world. When scrap got high a few years ago, that was the end of it. A true car guy loves the salvage yards for the sights, smells and the dreams of the future projects, often not touched by reality.

 

Thanks Mark….Great Stuff there!

Some of my fondest memories are spending afternoons rummaging around in old ‘junk yards’.
Did that for decades as they gradually went away…….

Ray

 

Sneaking around with the Wolfman

 

Come on Mark, you can admit it, you were looking for 66 Chevelle parts, right!

 

Depending on how the floors look, they're not in bad shape. Anything I've sen sitting in recent years has at least fist sized holes in most panels.

 

Neat junkyard with lots of good stuff left. I spied an OT "beep beep", they are fun cars.

 

Boy,,,,,a lot of old Mopars in there .

Tommy

 

Looks like there’s the makings of a vintage super stocker and a ramp truck to haul it with. Very cool.
I’m sure there has to be some poor guy out there who needs parts for his Frazer restoration.

 

Thanks for the tour Mark
I spent many a hot summer day scrounging for some old car part in yards just like that in my youth.
Sadly they are all gone around here too.

 

Thanks Mark. Reminds me of a yard I went to a few times in Wisconsin probably 10 or more years ago. It was a few hours drive for me, so one Saturday when my wife was working early I headed up there about 5:30 am. As I got closer I hit some really heavy fog, to the point you couldn't even see the buildings along side the road. When I finally got there the fog was just lifting, and in the middle of the junk yard I ran across a few deer standing in the path between the cars. Real surreal.

Then my cell phone rang and put me back into reality.

 

Awesome pictures. It shows what is out there now, today. A year from now when the yard shuts down and scraps the remains, nobody will have an excuse that they “would have saved them all had they known”…….
Start shopping people!

 

people who own yards like that must be complete morons. if they were not morons they would have got on the computer and sold parts on ebay before ebay began to suck about 15 years ago. I parted several cars on ebay as well as bought parts at swaps and sold them. I have even bought a whole swap meet space from guys before.

now the part sellers are few and far between because they screwed the search function up and people never see your parts.

 

Maybe its just me, but when I see pictures of that many old cars sitting in a jy for what appears to have been many years, the first thing that comes to mind is: That guy would probably never sell anything, but if he did, there is no way I could afford to buy anything because he thinks everything is worth the price of gold.

It would be neat to walk the place and reminisce about how all the old junk yards used to be, but also sad because of the fact that those old cars are still there, in that yard, instead of being someplace being loved on.

We haven't had a yard like that around here in 20+ years. Anything that sits in yards here for 90 days gets crushed out.

 

There is a local yard with the back half dedicated to old vehicles. He doesn't crush them cuz, "they don't make 'em anymore." The yard guys get rough with them, unfortunately. Have spent many happy hours scrounging. Planning another visit soon. Across the highway is a smaller one, with fewer but old vehicles. He saves them as well. Anything is for sale, however.

The first yard sponsors a few hobby stock roundy-pounders.

 

Your just in the wrong state but seriously you got a great one on I 5 .

 

Great stuff Mark. I recently lost my yard, and going through withdrawal. I miss the peace and quiet of walking through the yard with the slight breeze in the trees and discovering a "new" find.

 

That is one weird looking car...it looks like it has a hatchback with a tailgate...

 

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1951-frazer-vagabond

...and it is a carpickup...

Thanks for the rust fix @Moriarity...

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Memories from the past
Of even older times past
Have passed

 

@Moriarity does the yard sell complete cars?

 

Prototype of the El Camino