Famous Detroit-area junkyard Warhoops sold

Hemmings Motor News ^ | 8/17/13 | Daniel Strohl

[Impala64ssa]

You could probably buy up half of Detroit with what those cars are worth even in their current condition.

[Norm Lenhart]

I’m a Ford guy but that idiot should be severely abused for leaving those cars to rot as he did. That was a crime against automotive history.

[Gaffer]

The worst crime against the automotive industry was the Chebby Volt. This, followed by Imam Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program.

[Norm Lenhart]

Don’t forget the shipping of so many old (and RARE) cars to China for conversion into Wal Mart products.

Side note A few years back I did a frame off on a 79 F250 and was shocked as to how limited the pickins had become since my last project around 2000. Here in AZ those trucks used to be like water in a lake. Perfect rust free bodies/running gear with sun rotted interiors. Now they are all but gone.

[Gaffer]

If Obama and crew really wanted to improve small business, particularly for used parts retailers, he would allow them to work through some sort of clearing house that connected car owners in Cuba with used parts retailers here in America.

[Norm Lenhart]

“If Obama and crew really wanted to improve...”

A logical impossibility ;)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

TTIWWOP

[Hot Tabasco]

I drive right past that place several times a week and I always thought it was just an old junkyard......LOL!

[eartick]

.....moved to Roswell, Georgia

---

Moving from one infested (caint use the descriptive word)area to another. Way too close to Atlanta. Should have tried for northern part of Georgia.

Oooo, well it his monies from his dad’s junk business that he rode through his life.

[cripplecreek]

A little interesting Detroit area history.



Michigan legislative action thread

[cripplecreek]

Actually those are in incredibly good shape for being in a Michigan Junkyard.

[Norm Lenhart]

True. I think the only reason they were not brown spots in the dirt is the 2 in thick steel they made the bodies out of ;)

I’m a native of upstate NY. I know exactly what you mean.

[cripplecreek]

On my first trip to Texas, I thought the junk yards were used car lots.

[Norm Lenhart]

When I first got here to AZ in the 90s I had the same impression. The Ideal thing back in NY was to take a motor that the car had rotted away from before it hit 50K on the odometer and pair it to an AZ sourced car that had 200,000 on it with no rust. Lots of muscle cars still up there came from out here. The ones their not garaged are but fond memories.

When I did the frame off mentioned above, the cab sat sanded to the bare metal for months and developed no rust (no rain and about 2 percent humidity.

[WomBom]

I love that vintage

[Norm Lenhart]

Best trucks ever IMO. 73-79. Almost entirely without electronic BS, Bulletproof drivetrrains and a unique look.

Sure the new stuff has more power and whiz bang whatever. But they are more car than truck. At 10 times the cost.

My baby was a 77F250 Camper Special W/460/C6/Dana 60, but I have owned several of that vintage. All were stellar..

[moovova]

Hemmings...now there’s another worthy antique.

[bk1000]

“....moved to Roswell, Georgia”

I’ve been living in Roswell a dozen years now and really like (most of) it.

[Liberty Valance]

[Impala64ssa]

The worst crime against the automotive industry was the Chebby Volt.
Yes, GM made some boneheaded blunders over the years, like selling the Buick 215 V8 to British Leyland (the engines in the Range Rovers are based on this 50+yr-old design) and of course the Vega. But at least with the Vega you could use the original engine as a boat anchor and drop a good built-up small block in it, beef up the drivetrain and have a nice bad-a** street rod. But GM outdid themselves with the Volt, and I've always sworn by GM, sometimes swore AT GM, but when they screw up they do it big time.