06-10-2018, 04:51 PM | #1 |
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This place is a well known legend but some people now would rather scrap it for much less than lots of people were offering, I would say alot of it is junk but there are parts witch could be saved. there were good engines in the sheds. the old guy was a hoarder and collected everything, one shed is full of sticks and another full of wooden pellets, the sheds were full of junk and the good cars left out in the weather, they would have been good about 25 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTS43pdEisc&t=23s I talked to the brother of the owner and he let me have a few things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxvHEKS910&t=48s One guy reckons he is taking all the engines and wouldn't let me have anything, I made the videos, |
06-10-2018, 06:14 PM | #2 |
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Wow ,A long time ago they would have been "good". I haven't seen rot like that since I was up in Nova Scotia ,right on the Bay of Fundy . Yep .What a waste is right
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06-10-2018, 06:24 PM | #3 |
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My guess is that metal was wasted long before 25-30 years ago....Not that it matters.
I've seen sights in the midwest and Mo. that were similarly disgusting.
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06-10-2018, 06:42 PM | #4 |
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I am from the Southeast USA where rust is a moderate problem and I didn't know that cars and trucks would rust that completely unless they were under saltwater. Amazing.
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06-10-2018, 06:46 PM | #5 |
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I suspect that the engines are just as bad inside as they are outside. A shame, but one that has been repeated many times around the world. I agree that this has been beyond redemption for a long, long time.
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They'd have been fairly rust free 10 years ago but once the leaves start rotting on them into acidic compounds they deteriorate fast.
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06-10-2018, 06:53 PM | #7 |
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I want those jail bar fenders, too bad they're flat and on a ship to china now...
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50 years too late.
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06-10-2018, 07:09 PM | #9 |
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And that gearbox with the crack in it! i want that for the bellhousing (you can cut that part off & re-drill it )
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Caption under the second video > "About 76 old cars and trucks being scrapped, mostly American, I have been asking about buying stuff for a wile but now its going to another hoarder and most of it to the scrap, one guy was taking all the v8s even tho they had been outside in the rain for 50 years."
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I tried for yrs to give good money for okay parts to a guy. Tons of stuff, nothing real special. He always made a point of telling me when they'd junk "in the good old days" they'd stack model A to 30s frames upright around the big truck bed so they could put more parts in the bed. Guess he got off on it, he was a real bore of a guy.
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06-10-2018, 09:47 PM | #13 |
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Where these cars and trucks are the conditions are brutal, high humidity and lots of rain, south pacific tropical zone, the sun will strip the paint off a late model car in a few years, and it can brake down tires to dust.
But serous 25 years ago they were pretty good, people broke the windows witch speeds the decay up pretty fast. And Dumb person has seen them for him self so has a pretty good idea, he has been there a few days ago. |
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There used to be a wrecking yard in Norcal in the city of American Canyon. It had been there since the teens. The owner (son of original) had many pictures of cars stacked as you mentioned. It was a fun yard to get stuff from in the 80's. Gone now to make way for houses, I think |
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