aircraft graveyard

[Rand Man]

I have some ideas for a '50's "jet age" style rod. Does anyone know where to locate a military aircraft salvage yard? I'd like to go look for some parts or inspiration.

[smittyshotrods]

There used to be a good one outside of Las Vegas. Maybe Gracie can get you some info on it since she lives there.

[wingnutz]

Davis Moffit in Arizona..., and if you can wait a few weeks there'll be alot of aircraft loosing their airworthiness certificates because of Hurrican damage!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

ebay always has interesting things..., I almost bought a destroyed cropduster for only a couple of hundred bucks.

How far do you want to travel because I know of quite a few secret "Wing yards"...?

Mark

[unclescooby]

I'm having flashbacks to the movie "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" here! Everybody wants cool WWII airplane parts! Can we take a HAMB field trip?

[wingnutz]

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Never saw that flick...?

But we can start the "Field trip" at Wright Patterson in Ohio... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mark

[Rand Man]

I'd like to make a nose cone that resembles a jet-engine air intake. I like the F-86 Sabre but the actual parts may be too out of scale to use. I'm not sure how far I would travel. Do you know of somthing in the middle of the US?

[Roothawg]

Lancaster air salvage in Tejas. The last time I was there it was mailnly civilian stuff.

[ThunderRocket]

Yup!

Just get a 61-63 T bird.
Then you don't have much to do. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Paul]

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I'm having flashbacks to the movie "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" here!

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or Steelyard Blues

[FORDY 6]

my cousin in Nebraska used to have a couple of F-86 drop tanks, probably still does...

[Hot Rod Ron]

Sorry to bust some bubbles on this topic but I work behind the Davis Monthon USAF and there are no WWII plains left. Most is late 60's and newer. The air force base it self does not sell parts. There are about four or five private dealers that sell parts depending on what you want. Alot of the "sheetmetal" parts are not that but mostly carbon fiber type material. You can buy seats but they are not like the bomber seats that everyone wants.

[RocketDaemon]

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I'm having flashbacks to the movie "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" here!

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or Steelyard Blues

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can't buy me love

[willowbilly3]

If any of you Texans are scrounging airplane junkyards, I am looking for some old wingstruts from a small plane like a cub or champ. I want steel, not aluminum. Also it has to be the airfoil shaped stuff. I want it to make a cool grill for my 69 F-250 crew cab. Now don't go stealing my idea until I get one built first.lol