The Ford Barn

Dave Mellor NJ · 08-24-2016, 01:00 AM

Here is a pic from the golden anniversary issue of Antique Automobile. The originally posted pics are better

asapguy · 08-24-2016, 01:21 PM

Growing up in the So. Calif. area in the late 50's & early 60's there were many wrecking yards in the L.A. & Gardena area that had many Model A's. I got my 1st 30cp. in 58 when I was 15. I remember one wrecking yard in Gardena that had lots of Model A's including a tudor with around 10K miles. The owner told me the elderly lady who owned it rear ended someone. It would have been an easy fix but he wouldn't sell it. I bought an orig. horn for $5 off another Model A. I went back about a yr. later & he had sold every Model A to a club south of L.A.

Neil Mylar LakewoodCA · 08-24-2016, 01:47 PM

asapguy,
I think you are referring to 'Classic Cars' in Gardena.
I always wondered what happen to that place. Now i know. I remember in the late 60's, buying the upper half of a three window standard coupe body and putting it on my special coupe that had bad upper back wood.

Someplace I have a picture taken in the 1970's of an old farmer, maybe in Arizona but probably in Utah that had a field full of Model A Ford's. My wife and i were on vacation. The farmer was in his 70's and from his porch he told me that none of the cars were for sale. He planned on restoring them all. I often wondered what became of them.
Neil

Russell in Tulsa · 08-24-2016, 10:19 PM

I remember in the fifties as a young-un, going to the lake on old highway 51 there was and still is a train track and past the trees there was a mile long auto salvage yard. The cars were stacked possibly 8 to 10 cars tall and there was not one car that had paint on it. A's T's chebys all sorts of cars.

Fast forward to the 1970's and when I reached that stretch of hi-way I looked at the roofs of the two story houses that set lower than the stack of cars that used to sit there and felt bad about all of those cars that could have been gold for us today.

08-24-2016, 01:21 PM	#22
asapguy Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Snohomish Wa. Posts: 389	Re: Who wouldn't love to go to a place like this? Growing up in the So. Calif. area in the late 50's & early 60's there were many wrecking yards in the L.A. & Gardena area that had many Model A's. I got my 1st 30cp. in 58 when I was 15. I remember one wrecking yard in Gardena that had lots of Model A's including a tudor with around 10K miles. The owner told me the elderly lady who owned it rear ended someone. It would have been an easy fix but he wouldn't sell it. I bought an orig. horn for $5 off another Model A. I went back about a yr. later & he had sold every Model A to a club south of L.A.

08-24-2016, 01:47 PM	#23
Neil Mylar LakewoodCA Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Lakewood, CA Posts: 1,346	Re: Who wouldn't love to go to a place like this? asapguy, I think you are referring to 'Classic Cars' in Gardena. I always wondered what happen to that place. Now i know. I remember in the late 60's, buying the upper half of a three window standard coupe body and putting it on my special coupe that had bad upper back wood. Someplace I have a picture taken in the 1970's of an old farmer, maybe in Arizona but probably in Utah that had a field full of Model A Ford's. My wife and i were on vacation. The farmer was in his 70's and from his porch he told me that none of the cars were for sale. He planned on restoring them all. I often wondered what became of them. Neil

08-24-2016, 10:19 PM	#24
Russell in Tulsa Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Tulsa Oklahoma Posts: 298	Re: Who wouldn't love to go to a place like this? I remember in the fifties as a young-un, going to the lake on old highway 51 there was and still is a train track and past the trees there was a mile long auto salvage yard. The cars were stacked possibly 8 to 10 cars tall and there was not one car that had paint on it. A's T's chebys all sorts of cars. Fast forward to the 1970's and when I reached that stretch of hi-way I looked at the roofs of the two story houses that set lower than the stack of cars that used to sit there and felt bad about all of those cars that could have been gold for us today.