I need some body parts for my 55, and it's always good to know where the best yards are for general knowledge. I've got a few that I know of, but just looking to find out from the HAMB if there are any that I have missed. So tell me what you know - Thanks Justin
I was hella gonna say Big M too, John's the shit! (and occasionally after a 6er/12er, prices get flexible!) Oh, but it's actaully in Williams- (willows is off 5, but I think it's farther? Unless they moved [doubtful]? It's actaully been a few years since I was out that way now) website sucks but here you go www.bigmauto.com
actually there is a place in Vallejo...heading towards Napa, probably over 100 old cars...called Brian's....it helps to know the guy because he's pretty grouchy!
There's a place over in Richmond right over the richmond san rafael bridge that I drove by about four months ago, I didn't have time to stop but I did seem some gems peeking over the fence.
I talked to John at Big M right before I posted this thread and he was really helpful. He said he had a couple of 55 fairlanes on the lot so I will be heading up there this weekend. I've driven past that spot in Richmond too and I stopped in there once looking for a steering wheel. They didn't have the one I was looking for, but they had a bunch of old parts and some complete looking cars too. It was a while ago though so who knows... Great info so far guys - keep it coming
Last time I drove by there, there was a chopped shoebox for sale along with some other cool stuff...that was a while back and I was on my way to a job, so I couldn't stop to find out what their prices are like. Anyone know? Big M's is awesome. Bryan
Big M's is great. I used to stop on my way back to school in Chico. Actually there are still some CRAZY barn finds up in the Northen Sacramento Valley.
The place in Richmond is DEAL auto wreckers...owned by Ed Hagerty from the flathead streamliner team of Hagerty,somebody else and somebody else. I can't speak on his prices because there used to be a place a few blocks north of there that was really the shit....guy had a narrowed flopper body on top of a box van,tons of great old cars...til the Gov shut him down. Anyway I always spent my money there before I got as far as Deal. Then Ed fucked a good friend of mine out of a few hundred thousand dollars on a land deal...so I really don't spend my money there now!!(just don't want to deal with that type of guy)
Is that the place with all the truck beds and the green dinosaur out front made out of a VW bug roof? Never checked it out.
Geeeeze.....tell 10,000 people, or what It's been six years since I stayed in the bay area and I still remember that place is a secret......and so are the other two Is the yard with the Caddy's out in the tidal area on the inner bay (north of Oakland, cant remember the town) still there...........those Caddy's just made me cry
Yea I know...but he is a mean ol guy with lots of junkyard dogs and hard to find! The place you are thinking of with the caddys is the one by Richmond that was almost underwater every rainy season...Carlos' auto wreckers....environmentalists got him I think...too close to the water table and no epa friendly devices!
Carlos's.......Yep that's the one. I scored a 50's lincoln steering wheel there. It was in Jan/Feb (2001) and I had to wade around in foot deep water to get it. The caddies were just plain sad.........sitting in salt water for a couple of months every year had'nt done there private parts a lot of good.......poor old girls
Is Don's autos on Mission (north of the bay, near Union City from memory) still there ..........scored some trinkets and a set of rear window winders for my 51 Vicky from there.......his outdoor yard near the railway line and his "storage shed" a couple of suburbs further North were pretty amazing. There was a bar a few doors down that had ice cold Dos Eques and pizza by the slice ...... always dropped in there when I went to Don's Bloody tech wreck .......I'd still be in Silicone Valley if those idiot dot.com companies hadn't overinflated the market
I've been there a couple of times for newer stuff. The prices weren't great compared to Pick-N-Pull less than a mile away, and they were pretty reluctant to let me out in the yard to look. I must look too shifty or something in my greasy leather coat, trashes jeans, and two day beard.
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