1,000 vehicle junkyard headed for crusher

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edited July 2011 in HUDSON
Anyone close enough to check this out?

1,000-vehicle Colorado junkyard is headed for crusher

This 1,000-vehicle South Park junkyard is headed for crusher
High on the remote Colorado plains known as South Park sits a few hundred acres of ranchland and a car collection of one man that numbered 1,000 vehicles. After years of frustrated selling, his widow has called in the crushers. Your move, hippies.
The collector, James Gardner, died in 2006, but not before spreading hundreds of old American cars across
his 2,700-acre ranch; the dots in the photo below gathered like ants along a trail of sugar are vehicles as seen from space. His wife Amanda Woodbury has made several attempts to interest collectors in pawing through the remains — building a blog, getting an article in Old Car Weekly, and taking a lot of photographs.

But Woodbury, who by her own word "is not a car gal," has found a lack of buyers willing to make the trek to western Colorado for whole cars, and doesn't care to be in the mail order pick-n-pull parts business. Hence the call to salvage teams and collectors, in an announcement best read in Eric Cartman's voice:

The owner has decided that enough is ENOUGH, and is conducting the Phooey Special! All vehicles, trucks, tractors, other items under 5 tons weight $1500 your choice. Some with titles, some without. CASH ON THE BARRELHEAD, no monkey business, no malarkey. Scrappers get lost, contract has been signed. HURRY! First come first served. As is where is. YOU LOAD YOU HAUL! Price goes DOWN to $1200 on August 15th, DOWN again to $900 on August 25th and bottoms out at $600 on September 4th. THE CRUSHER IS COMING and gets everything, that is EVERYTHING September 14th, including your favourite if you don't ACT NOW! You snooze, you lose. The cows want to eat GRASS, not iron!

The high point of Woodbury's site may be a mostly complete 1957 Oldsmobile Holiday Special, with a current bid of $2,300; hundreds of other old American vehicles seemed to have weathered the high plains with aplomb.

Comments

  • GrimGreaser
    GrimGreaser Senior Contributor
    Bugger! I just came through South Park last week... Didn't even know of such a place. I see another run up 285 in my future.
  • is there an inventory of the cars avaialble? I find it hard to believe that some car person hasn't done this yet.
  • Talk about a walk down Memory Lane!:woohoo:

    Love to spend a day walking around that place.


    Kevin C.
  • wano1949
    wano1949 Senior Contributor
    A friend of mine crushed out around 130 older vehicles here in Ky a while back. At that time they brought 250.00 per ton. They came and set the crusher in the yard & processed them on the spot.

    If you have a lot of cars the price gets better with the volume. A sad time when a lot of good parts cars getting gone.

    It's hard to turn down 400.00-600.00 per car.
  • After clicking on the link in your post and seeing the aerial image, my curiousity got the best of me... I noticed the dates of sale but no contact info. You would have thought they would have set up a website etc. (or as mentioned maybe an inventory)...

    So, I plugged in the street names annotated on the small image, town names (South Park and Fairplay) in mapquest and was unable to ID the terrain...

    Decided to try on Google Earth and was able to locate the ranch at a little better resolution (used my aerial photo interpretation training from a previous life)... lots of stuff spread out all over the place. Would be a great adventure just to wander around up there... couldn't make out or ID any cars due to resolution... You'll have to map your way into the place; and all the roads in the ranch are dirt or unimproved...

    At any rate if you want to have some fun paste the following in Google Earth box under "Fly To" tab to get there: 39°14'10.15"N, 105°47'56.71"W (Paste in exactly).

    I hope some folks can get out there and save some of these vehicles... it would be a doggone shame to send any of the restorable classic/collector cars or parts to be crushed!!!
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