Ohio Junk Yard Pics from 1950's

[41 C28]

I was going thru my archives(junk drawer) and came across these photos. An old car friend of mine gave them to me a long time ago. They were taken on Manchester Ave. in Middletown, Ohio in the 50's so don't go looking for them.

[monzadood]

those are cool as hell. thanks for sharing those.

[31modelo]

Thats funny I don't see any junk.

[Bobby Green]

Can you give me an exact address. My time machine is almost finished.




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[31modelo]

An old hot rodder I know was telling me Sun. about the days of buying a 40 ford coupe from down the street for 35.00. Those are gone

[Royalshifter]

It is funny what they concidered junk in the mid century.

[Junkyard Jan]

Awesome cars. Thanks... In Youngstown, Oh, there is a big yard called Cleveland Auto wrecking. They're into late model suff. But in the late '60s, a buddy and I walked the quarter mile or so to the very back of the yard and found a big cache of stripped Model A's, '30s Chevys, T pickups, etc etc. These cars hadn't been touched in years from the look of things but many appeared buildable. Like a dumbassed kid, I didn't ask about them that day. Later they started denying access to the yard. I wonder often if they're still there.

When spring comes, I'll take the camera and get some pics from the 4 best boneyards around here. One is buying up '50s-'60s cars like hell! I had just finished looking at a Nailhead in a new arrival, a complete '61 Buick Invicta to see a tilt bed haul in a '69 Caprice.

Jan

[Mudslinger]

Thanks for the pics.

[rebstew187]

Originally Posted by 31modelo

An old hot rodder I know was telling me Sun. about the days of buying a 40 ford coupe from down the street for 35.00. Those are gone

yeap they are gone. my dad told me once that when he first started driving he had an old model A. he got it stuck on a big rock and told the junk man to take it. he gave him $15.00 for it but my dad had to help him get it off the rock. nice pics thanks for posting

[MR. FORD]

Awesome pics--Thanks.

[HOTRODSURFER]

looks more like a used car lot-cool pics

[Trucked Up]

Just imagine the stories those vehicles could tell............

[tub in da dirt]

no wonder its so hard to find model A decklids... they were missing back then too
tom

[sodas38]

Ah man seriously, thats not fair.

[MattB]

In the bottom picture on the left, what car is that on the left? I've never seen those "solid" appearing wheels before? Desoto? Neat pics!!

[raven]

Wow.
Some of those cars still have a shine to the paint...
r

[MIKE47]

Can someone tell me what this is? The car you see most the f. end of in pic. 2.

[Petejoe]

To have that choice of junk to choose from. Cool pictures.

[Squablow]

Originally Posted by tub in da dirt

no wonder its so hard to find model A decklids... they were missing back then too
tom

You beat me to it. This is photographic proof that Model A and Model T trunklids were all abducted by aliens sometime in the 50's never to be seen again.

What happened to all the trunklids? Why were they always missing?

[41 C28]

Originally Posted by MattB

In the bottom picture on the left, what car is that on the left? I've never seen those "solid" appearing wheels before? Desoto? Neat pics!!

the car on the left is a Packard maybe a 28-29