Anyone have any neat stories? I go to the scrap yard just about every weekend looking for goodies.

I went to a junk yard in the late seventies, there was a Sunbeam tiger with a
HO260 Ford motor in it, there was a pinto sitting on top of it, but it was still quite saveable.

Anyway, I was there to look at a 327 for my chevy truck, found it worked out a price, left my money, the guy took my address for my free delivery.

When I came back three days later, because my motor never showed, that junk yard was gone......... Empty, flat. The place had been full of cars a few days prior????????????

I got a diff for $70, which I later traded for another diff, which I then traded for a set of wheels, which I sold for $1050...

Mazda RX-7 black leather bucket seats which after some modification (shortened, leathered and embroidered with custom logo) bolted nicely into my '97 Ranger custom lowrider.

There is a out of the way junkyard in campobello sc owned by CJ Norris. Look him up. He hordes awesome shit an won't let go of it. Including a couple of the original general lees from the Dukes of Hazzard pilot episode filmed in Ga. They are sitting there right now rusting into the earth. Jackass won't sell. Figures.

Posted by jeepdave There is a out of the way junkyard in campobello sc owned by CJ Norris. Look him up. He hordes awesome shit an won't let go of it. Including a couple of the original general lees from the Dukes of Hazzard pilot episode filmed in Ga. They are sitting there right now rusting into the earth. Jackass won't sell. Figures.

That is so damn sad. Those cars would be museum pieces now, like Smithsonian Museum of American History pieces. They just acquired a ton of X-Files stuff in the past couple weeks and I'm sure considering the impact that that particular TV show had during the late '70's and early '80's...I'm sure they would have jumped at having one of those.

Shael

I live near an old guy who has approx. 300 cars from the 40's-60's in his fields, it's INCREDIBLE... he won't sell much, but he has let me wander around and take some pics before.

i know of a half dozen cars that are either rare or noteworthy and none of them are for sale... they just sit there, rusting into the earth

The best (dumbest) story I've ever heard... about 10 miles from my place, a guy has a '63 Beetle sitting in his driveway, returning to the soil.

I stopped to ask about it, and he pointed to the Wolfsburg crest on the steering wheel and asked if I knew what that meant. I explained it was the crest for the city that Volkswagen was founded in. He explained that it ACTUALLY meant the car was one of Hitler's very own fleet. (So apparently my '83 Scirocco, which had the same crest was also Hitler's)

What a fucking moron...

When I was 4 or 5, my father who at the time was restoring a 240z. He took me along as he traveled to most if not all the salvage yards in Northern NY looking for parts.

I remember while he wanted me to find I think it was a door handle or something (yes, my father let me roam through the yard to help him and I turned out fine!)I found a row of consisting of the famous Ford Model T in the truck configuration that looked like they still were alive and kicking.

Haven't found anything particularly unsettling at any junkyards, but there's been plenty I've found that I really wish weren't in a junkyard. In my favorite local yard, there's two '67 Firebirds, a '67 Camaro, '58 Buick Roadmaster, '61 Lincoln Continental, '71 Chevelle, '67 Ford Galaxie 500, '69 Ford Torino convertible, a '62 Bel-Air, four VW Microbuses, the list goes on.

And then there's a collector that lives way out in the country near me with an impressive field of mostly Mopars...'69 Super Bee, '69 Coronet R/T, two '69 RoadRunners, a few '72 Dusters, plenty more...And he's recently added a Firebird Formula, a few '71-ish Camaros, etc etc. He won't sell anything, and everything is fixable with the exception of the Super Bee. Though my dad has sweet-talked him enough over the years into maybe trading the Coronet R/T for some bodywork and paint on one of the others.

Also bandi, nice quote under your picture. I'm seeing them in concert Saturday.