Yard Find 1951 Hornet

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
This past spring I toured a yard near Lapeer MI that was auctioning off its stock. The yard had cars from the early 30's to the 70's. The attached images are of the lone Step-down, 1951 Hornet coupe, single carb. Surrounded by Packards and buried beneath her kin, the time in the yard had not been easy. Note the millage of 53,000 I dought this was the second time around.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    That Hudson must have been there for decades.



    I never understood the logic behind yards stacking cars that they want to sell parts from.
  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    What a shame.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Dave53-7C wrote:
    That Hudson must have been there for decades.



    I never understood the logic behind yards stacking cars that they want to sell parts from.



    Seeing these pictures reminds me of a Hudson that came out of the middle of a stack of cars. Several decades ago a California friend purchased a Hudson convertible from a yard where the cars were stacked. That particular car was spared a lot of damage due to the top being down and the car being in a pile location which resulted in the header being pushed over but the hood a trunk spared. My friend had the car extracted and after a few hours of prep... the car started and drove! :D



    I once toured a Texas scrap yard where the cars were placed on two steel pipes which were part of a welded A frame support. Three cars were stacked without touching one another. An all terrain fork lift placed and extracted the cars. While this eliminated the top crush, there was little care taken to save the body panels.



    Today, the high cost of steel, has created barren scrap yards, even the local pick a part yards are sparsely populated and much of the rusting Oil patch steel has been policed up and sold too
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    WildWasp wrote:
    Seeing these pictures reminds me of a Hudson that came out of the middle of a stack of cars. Several decades ago a California friend purchased a Hudson convertible from a yard where the cars were stacked. That particular car was spared a lot of damage due to the top being down and the car being in a pile location which resulted in the header being pushed over but the hood a trunk spared. My friend had the car extracted and after a few hours of prep... the car started and drove! :D



    I once toured a Texas scrap yard where the cars were placed on two steel pipes which were part of a welded A frame support. Three cars were stacked without touching one another. An all terrain fork lift placed and extracted the cars. While this eliminated the top crush, there was little care taken to save the body panels.



    Today, the high cost of steel, has created barren scrap yards, even the local pick a part yards are sparsely populated and much of the rusting Oil patch steel has been policed up and sold too





    Yes, it all went to China, who, by the way is has the leading manufacturing country in the world. For that matter, do you know how the US ranks in steel production these day?



    How about 7th. 7th! It doesn't seem possible, or reasonable, to me. We just no longer make anything here.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    RL Chilton wrote:
    Yes, it all went to China, who, by the way is has the leading manufacturing country in the world. For that matter, do you know how the US ranks in steel production these day?



    How about 7th. 7th! It doesn't seem possible, or reasonable, to me. We just no longer make anything here.



    And who can we thank for that. :(
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    The price of scrap has dropped somewhat, since the Commie Chinese were buying our steel to build o lot of the Olympic venues and such, but they are still buying it, nonetheless. Their own domestic steel is utter and complete crap, exported to us as crappy Harbor Freight "tools" and WallyWorld lead-painted toys and cheapo kitchen utensils. The good stuff from us? They use in their military hardware!
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