Coolest thing you have ever found at a wrecking yard???

Hi All, just like to hear stories of cool finds at wrecking yards or yard sales. The best thing I scored so far was a pair of 15x10 Torque thrusts that were stashed in the back of a van, I ended up getting them for 40.00, that was sweet. I also found an old shoe box with some real interesting polaroid pictures. See ya, JOKER JASON

 

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Lets see the polariods?

 

A Browning .38 Super, old porn mags and a pic of some guy gettin' real freaky with his boy friend stashed in a small case between the quarter panel and the spare tire of a 1970 Monte Carlo.

 

Duuude, your definition of cool and my definition of cool are WAY different...

 

LOL, your the one with the name "Buzznut" and an open mouth smilie face...

 

I ignored a car all summer walking past it along one of the main paths through the junkyard. I knew it was a '53 or '54 Buick, but it was also upside down with the front clip off and the motor, trans, and front suspension long gone.

Finally right close to the end, when they brought scrappers into the place to clear it on out, I stopped to tie my boot and I see on the side of it a badge... Skylark...

Yep, a '53 Skylark. $100 later it was on a trailer on the way home to me. Even in crap shape I made a disgusting profit on that car.

 

a 69 440 6 pack engine + auto trans 300 bucks. a 67 gtx convert 300 bucks., 2 brand new never had fuel thru them 3361 afb 409 front carbs a set of 7/16 bbc rods that cost 10 bucks. a buddies father ran the junkyard and many times i had the run of the place no charge!

 

I found a 70 Hemi Roadrunner that had been rolled and in the junkyard for years. Motor and trans were long gone but all the vin numbers were in place. The car was repairable by todays standards so I gave $600 for it. Made one phone call to a Mopar collector and sold it for $5000 plus he paid me to deliver it.
I also saved a 34 Chevy Master sedan from a junkyard for $100. Even found and talked to the wife of the last owner who sold the car to the yard in 1961.
Found a $20 gold certificate in a book that was in the trunk of an old car.

 

a set of sbf sunbeam tiger v/c on a ford pick up.big surprise

 

The last set of firepower valve covers i picked up 2 years ago for $15

 

So I open this hood on a old Studebaker Hawk and there, sitting in the battery box, was the largest Group 24 brown rabbit I ever saw. I think I was more surprised than he was.

 

A '60 Dodge Pioneer station wagon.

Black with red and silver Buck Rogers interior.

I'm kinda weird...

(like this but less pink)

 

LOL...you got me there. It's good to see a sense of humor here...

Let's see, I've found an early 1900's Walking Liberty Silver Dollar, a set of closed chamber Mopar 915 heads in a trunk, one of the very first fax machines ever made, a Surfin' Safari 8-track, and a NIB Mitchel Garcia spinning reel.

 

A bottle of Yukon Jack and a whole box of condoms in the back seat of a 62 Studebaker Lark, The second coolest thing was a new 56 Olds 98 engine and trans for 50 bucks. that was back in the 70s.

 

Scored a 302 (Z-28) intake last weekend for 50 bucks on craigs list! The guy didn't know what he had. He bought a motor for his roundy round and didn't want this intake.

 

coolest thing i ever found in a junk yard (this is when i worked and lived at a junkyard) was a tweeker stealing shit after hours chained his ass to a rail sticking out of a peice of concrete
left him there all night about every hour went out and hosed him off it was 40 degrees out let him free in the morning figured he learned his lesson

 

use to set in this Bitch and dream of winning Indy...it was in Noe's junk yard in Russellville ky it's in the hands of Bill Akin know

 

I once needed a pair of '52 Buick wheel covers.

When I entered the salvage yard; on a huge pile of wheel covers,
five feet from me, were a pair of like new '52 Buick wheel covers!
$4.00 and 5 minutes later they were mine and I was on my way.

I hate searching for needles in haystacks!

 

set of 4 mid-70's Corvette alloys with good tires $100
set of 4 big-n-little original style Centerlines $75
new ZZ3 Chevy crate motor complete and running $350
misc bitchin stuff that is repro'ed today but was hard to find back then, sure made my day!

 

How about a 426 Hemi marine intake,with a Holley carb bolt pattern,buried in the sand at a yard north of me. God only knows what else may be out there,the place is pretty much closed up and cleaned out now. Sold that and bought some Max Wedge parts with the dough.

 

Some cool things

 

Many yrs ago while working in a yard, we found the remains of what looked to be a rather large rats nest of food wrappers,soda cans,beer cans, whiskey bottles and a assortment of odds and ends - but at the bottom of it all was human remains. Other times we found a old H.D. UL engine in the trunk of a '52 Chevy, a brand new set of finned aluminum heads for a flathead [still wrapped in the old cloth paper] in a old '49 Ford, an old 32 cal pistol under the seat of a truck,an old double barrel shotgun stuck in the back portion of a truck seat,all kinds of silver coins and even a small roll of old $2 dollar bills [50 of them] but I think the best out of all of the stuff was a complete Whizzer that we found mixed in with a dump truck loaded with old bicycles and parts which included some old Indian bicycles.

 

'51 Merc skirts in the trunk of a Merc piled on top of some other cars.

 

A foot! Buddy found a human foot under the brake pedal of a totalled 68 Dodge Charger. Eeeewwww!!!!!

 

when i was a punk-ass kid and driving my 1971 maverick(4dr!) i found a "Hooker Super Comp" 200 inch 6 cylinder header. things were 300.00 or so back then. 25.00 and i pulled it.

 

Stripped '67 Shelby GT-350. Tried to buy it and was told it had been sold. Backstory was that it had been stripped by the owner and reported stolen. Collected the insurance and bought the car back from the yard. Then re-installed all the stripped parts. I guess insurance fraud was easier then.

 

what yard are you going to??? The most I ever found was a corvair steering box for $20 and thought it was a steel.

 

48 olds grill $15, aircraft oxygen tanks $7 apiece (4), Model A frame $35, 32 Frame made into a farmers wagon $35, countless 94 carbs $5 ea., Alum. Buick drums $10ea, Old metal us royal tire sign $12, Old porcilen Texaco flange sign $10, Old Texaco sign@ 6' round ...FREE, countless 40's ford brakes and wheels $10 ea, yep made some money off the stuff I buy at the scrap metal place.

 

"That there is Contellini. And Contellini wants his foot back."