Posted on 12/06/2008 2:46:38 PM PST by taildragger
Imagine a secret junkyard frozen in time somewhere around the 70's with every bit of vintage hardware stretching for hundreds of acres. Classic Mustangs, Camaros, Cadillacs, Hemis; you name it, it's here. But not for long: The law man's saying to crush 'em. Massive mega-gallery below along with the location and what you can do to save them.
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That satellite picturelooks like my neighbor’s back yard.
Here’s the low-res area for folks to take a look at. It’s loade!
When I saw the headline, first thoughts were P-51’s!
OTOH, these are good, too.
As to the noseys, I know a few places in Northern California & Southern Oregon that would get a few land owners in trouble, if anybody ever cleared away the blackberry vines. Those aren’t hillocks or hummocks making the lumps in the berry patches.
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dude has a couple million dollars of OEM parts there.
And not much imagination if he can’t figure out a way to capitalize on it!
From the ‘40 on, when there was a derailment on a major RR line, little or no effort was made to salvage freight, including automobiles. They couldn’t shut down a line for that long. There are dozens of sites where RR cars full of new automobiles were bulldozed into trenches and covered up. The insurance companies paid off and the cars are still buried in the middle of nowhere. Most were probably banged up pretty good but old RR hands told me that some were buried without a scratch. In arid areas, they probably still don’t have a lot of rust.
From the ‘40 on, when there was a derailment on a major RR line, little or no effort was made to salvage freight, including automobiles. They couldn’t shut down a line for that long. There are dozens of sites where RR cars full of new automobiles were bulldozed into trenches and covered up. The insurance companies paid off and the cars are still buried in the middle of nowhere. Most were probably banged up pretty good but old RR hands told me that some were buried without a scratch. In arid areas, they probably still don’t have a lot of rust.
Lots of vintage tin there.
There must be 100 pictures of the junkyard at that site.
Lot’s of junk, but some goodies there also.
A few 65-66 Mustang 2+2 GT fastbacks, a “Christine” car, a couple of ‘57 Caddies, a ‘56 Caddy, a ‘67 Camaro, a ‘40 Ford body, a ‘57 Chevy Apache pickup; some 30s and 40s pickups, a ‘58(?) Chrysler 300; a fairly complete ‘46 Chevy Fleetmaster 4-door in decent shape.
The work trucks and dump trucks would have parts that could be used on some pick-ups.
The cars are pretty much goners but could yield valuable parts or rear and front assemblies, fenders, hoods, grilles, etc.
Lots of junk that the owner should have scrapped earlier this year when scrap steel was high.
They’ll probably stage a portable crusher there and cube the cars and truck them away. There’s still a small fortune in scrap steel there.
Hard to imagine,but there was a day in the distant past when each of these vehicles were first driven off the showroom lot to the thrill of their first owners.
Most of these bodies are only good for parts
Cool photo with lots of cars. True: the parts are salvageable.
FDR had the CCC string them together to form sand dunes, flash flood channels, or something, out there.
Sort of balanced off the breakwaters he had built where it was wet.
As to this 'secret' junk yard; seems an enterprising state could contract with someone to collect and sell off the good stuff to at least partially cover cost of cleaning up the rusted out hulks.
(They are not all mustangs; some nice stuff in there; '46 Ford, IH Pickemup, some F100s, couple of Mopars, Torino and Gran Torino, some '49-52 Chevies, Econolines, at least one vintage trailer, etc. Even the 'stangs have good fenders, top bows and hydraulics, back seats ($500 for just the wires for a convertible) and other very hard to find parts - and all [yes, even Mustang] are better quality than any repop.)
And, someone wrote about where all those Mustangs went - NO BODY, in the entire world, Ford or Ford owner, thought ANY Mustang would last more than about ten years...they wren't built to go any farther.
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Recycling is old cars trucks and vehicle parts is conserving valuable natural resources and incredible amounts energy
Destroying them is wasteful and criminal
It requires over 15 barrels of oil to build a new vehicle
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Can someone check to see if there is a 1971 Metallic Bright Blue Mustang there? I had mine stolen in Detroit in 1980, and have looked at every one since. I still have the registration for it.
Isn't that like a significant portion of the state?
[Destroying them is wasteful and criminal]
The owner of this property lost a goldmine many years ago. I would think there are many salvageable parts in all that. Those who work on cars are well able to ‘rework’ parts, as you well know.
No doubt, now that it is on the WWW, there will be many trying to sneak in and see what they can get. Things like windows, that only fit certain old cars.
Working nights is fun, NOT!!!
Speaking of old vehicles, Sunday I went picked up a garden tractor for the oldest daughter. She wants to be an urban farmer :-) She only had to shell out $600 for it, so it's almost a can't lose deal.
So now I have something else to work on, yee ha
Picture of said beast...
Now if we can just find a front end loader for it!!!
Take care y'all
regards
alfa6 ;>}
Front end loader??
No, no, no, it needs to be a set of treads.
Yep you can get a factory front end bucket to fit this model of Cadet. It will haul about 300 pounds or so. Think of it as a motorized wheelbarrow for moving compost and such. The daughter is not much bigger than Bittygirl, well maybe a little bigger but not by much:-)
Now about them tracks:-)
OOO RAH
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Cool crawler!
Well, I know what I can do to the daughters tractor if I get bored, eh:-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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