Best mixed junkyard I've ever seen....

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Dave, mostly just surface rust if the car is from the inland areas, the beach areas can be hard on cars. I used to haunt junk yards all the time but there aren't so many in Yucaipa. I have a few friends though that hit them all the time in the valley.



Harry

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hey, all you junk yard doggz, like me. 3 days no reply to e-mail, i got the bug reading rod&custom in the 60,s . i was the only kid in grades 6,7,8. and talking 1967,- 1970, that had a subscription delivered and soon as i got my hands on it i went to back pages to vintage tin section. cars sittin by the road! theres gold in them there hills it would print, how true 38 years later. look at the prices free-1968 vs. 1 million 2008. wish i was smarter then than i think i am now. lol . dermott.:cool::):D

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there are a LOT of old cars sitting around Calif. in the Central Valley esp. in the Fresno, Bakersfield general areas. There used to be several HUGE junkyards in Fresno, right beside Rte. 99, one specializing in older cars - not sure if they're still there, but if you go out into the countryside (small towns), a lot of "old iron" still there.

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I think I'm going to copy those guys you see on TV travel shows that take groups of people on tour. While they're off touring Europe, my group will be touring wrecking yards out west. LOL

SamJ

Hudsons in this yard...

SamJ

And another...Oklahoma?

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Yes, that is a 1942 Commodore Eight 2-door sedan and yes, I want that car. Can somebody find it for me please?!?

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hudsondad has a few junkyard videos we shot in the early 90's. If he ever gets me copies on DVD, I will configure them to post them on youtube, or something. I think you all would like them.

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Harry, Crazy Bobs Cars Along The Tracks Are All Gone, The City Made Him Clean Them Out. He Is In A Rest Home With Alzheimeres And Dssnt Even Know What An Old Caris Now. Moral Of The Story Restore One And Sell The Rest To Finance One, Enjoy It Before You Check Out, I Do 3 Or 4 A Year And Checkout Time Is Getting Closer, Bill Albright

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Bill;



kind of sad but I agree with restoring them and not hoarding them. It always seemed a waste to me that he was sitting on all those cars and never doing anything with them. Do you have any door glass for a 55 Hash? I would like to find some OEM glass instead of just replacements. I have one good door glass so I need three.



Harry

bigboy308

There's a fellow VERY NEAR me that has a "collection" somewhat like this--Many 1940's, some fifties, lots of VW K-G's, couple of Porsches. He drives a Lincoln Mark III around here. He won't even consider selling a part, much less a complete car.

He has two Hudson p/u's that I would like to get hold of, I can't even get him to answer a phone call or a letter!! Apparently he is well-known in the area for these cars, but everyone has same story---NO SALE.

Best time to see the cars is in the winter---most of the berry bushes, weeds, and trees are pretty barren, cars can be seen from the road. I did get into the yard once, couldn't take any pix, but would have loved to take four or five of the rarest home!! (Hud p/u, 1939 Dodge cpe, '58 Porsche Cp, '41 Buick Cvt, '40 Ford Delux Cp, still with a full-race (Four 97's intake!) flat motor under the hood!

They're still out there, even in Car-Crazy CA!!!



P.S. He also has a barn full of motorcycles---No way I was allowed to see them, but he did have an original H-D Panhead with a factory sidecar sitting under a tarp alongside the barn.

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I agree with Bill and Harry - I can probably write a book about all the times i've knocked on doors only to be told the cars are not for sale (in many cases that they were going to be fixed up soon). Well, some of those places are untouched 15 years later, and now the carts are rusted beyond repair and they can't give them away. I know of two places where there are rare big body late 60's 4-speed amcs that are just wasting away......meanwhile, one of the guys complains about money and has 10-15K in sellable cars sitting on his property but refuses to part with them. I'll bet his kids/grandkids will have no problem getting the cash for them within a short time of his paassing.....



Mark

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I once saw a 53 Hudson rear sticking out from some trees. Then I noticed there were 25-30 other cars in the trees also. I found out who owned the cars and tried to talk to him but NO, He would not even talk to me. A couple of years later his wife was having a yard sale before Christmas so the wife and I stopped. While she was looking I noticed the guy in the garage and walked over and said " I see you've got a Hudson out in the trees" He said " Yeah, and I'll tell you right now that all the cars belong to me and are NOT FOR SALE. If it wasn't for my wife having the sale I would have told you to get the hell off my property." I told him I was sorry to have bothered him and got my wife and left.
Couple of years later and someone told me they thought he had died. I went back by his place and the cars were gone. I knocked on the door and his wife answered and after an introduction and a short chat she told me that she had had all those old cars crushed to clean up the woods so that she could sell the property.
All she could remember of the cars was that there was a Hudson, a Packard, a Chrysler 300 and a couple of Mustangs, one of which must have been a cheap model because it had PONY on the interior I don't know much about Mustangs, but I do know that the Pony interior is desirable, within 6 months of his death, ALL the cars were crushed....She confirmed 28 cars. Guys, this was NOT a junkyard, just a cantankerous old man that wouldn't sell a car. Mainly just because he did not want anybody else to have it.

Bob

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Bob,



I guess the lesson to be learned is to talk to the guy's wife the next time you run into something like this. After all, they're always ready to get rid of our 'junk." Sad that this guy's wife didn't know the value of that junk.



I think you've hit on the reason why these guys don't let go of the cars. They have something you don't and you're not going to get it. Sounds like a small child that is stuck in the 'mine' phase.



Dave

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[url]www.carsinbarns.com:):):[/url]) dermott. :eek: have fun looking here, any hudsons i did not spot yet, check dates, some older pic and stories. enjoy!.

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The GST on the wall was actually GSTU which is a Genstar Container Corporation shipping container. I tried looking up the humber of the container to see its last location but was unable to pull that up from home. I am sure that the area is not anywhere in Canada, not too many bootleggers running cars around up there. The buildings and the town you can see look like Guthrie Oklahoma

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With the HUGE wildfires that were in Guthrie and the surrounding areas in '04 and '05, I seriously doubt it's Guthrie - I live but 20 miles from there. If that yard were THAT close to Oklahoma City, people here would know it.



Might look like Guthrie, but I'd bet $$$ it isn't.