I took a trip this past weekend and ran across a couple of old wrecking yards along the way. Theres still lots of old iron out there. Heres a few pics.
Oh Shit, you guys are fucking up my retirement.. I am moving close to that area in a year or two. I always say there is enough for everyone, so have at it. The starliner is cool. Always wanted one of those, 20 years before Kirk built his..but his is cool too. Not being a bandwagoner..
Nope, we went through on Sunday and no one was around. No phone # posted anywhere either. We should be going through there again in a week or two and will try to get some more info.
Those cars in Aspermont (my home town) are owned by Felix Calamaco. Any price he gives will be at least quadruple the worth of the vehicle. I'm waiting for him to die. His kids probably will be more reasonable.
we have a similar case here in Abilene... a has owned a tow yard since forever... keeps all vintage tin he finds... now he has a obscene amount, and noone will ever get it til he dies.
Dont wait too long, you might make the obits before he does. Then whose gonna get all the old iron your hording!
There's a couple of yards around the Lubbock area. One is on Hwy 83 between I 70 and US 82. Looks like some good stuff there, the other on Hwys 62/82 near Wolforth. Saw them last year, need to go back soon and walk them.
The last group of your pics were taken on Hwy 380 between Newcastle and Graham. That is not a wrecking yard, that is his "personal collection". Those cars are all owned by Mike "Bear" Young. A cantankerous old fart. Pretty much everything is for sale, but not a fair prices. He is a little different than you and I, if you know what I mean. I`ve always wondered why all the gripey old farts have the cool old cars ? Life is not fair.
I'm not hoarding all that old iron...just gettin' it ready for new owners! As soon as I get the junk cleaned out of 'em, get good pictures, and get title hearings started, you're gonna see at least seven of my project cars hit the classifieds ('36 Ford sedan, '38 Ford sedan, '46 Ford pickup, '52 Ford station wagon, '52 Dodge station wagon, '54 Lincoln sedan, '57 Pontiac station wagon). I thought I recognized that batch of vehicles. I stopped there years ago and tried to buy a Chevy II convertible sitting under his carshed. BTW, I'm not a gripey old fart unless ya have no sense and offer me $150 for a complete '50 Ford pickup or ask $3500 for yer '50 Pontiac six-cylinder sedan that has no title and ain't moved since 1976.
Last week I had to go to Waco for work and on the way back to SA I drove past some place that had a bunch of muscle cars on display in the front yard. I saw a '57 chevy and other stuff. What caught my eye was right next to it was a lot with '30s, '40s bodies all perfectly spaces out and arranged. I think I was in Temple but I couldn't get any pics or turn around cuz the jerk I was with didn't want to stop. Anybody know about this place?
Man i dont get it . I know a few old times who hoard shit and its just rotted right into the ground and they wont sell it to me . The town is giving them tickets and they still wont , Or they think its worth thousands it may have been but thats before it fell off the frame 10 / 20 years ago
I've been around some of the west tx guys and man they have got to be some of the hardest to deal with when it comes to sellin a car. Had one guy ask "what he hell do you want that for? I said I really like it and would love to fix it up (31 roadster on 32 frame) pretty beat car by the way. His response "Don't waste your time just go buy one" Then he proceded to tell me about his buddys that was for sale that had a 350/350 and a mustang II painted yellow on cragars that was "balls to the wall" I just left , what do you say to that?
Um, that sounds like the one off highway 190 just outside of killeen. Pink convertible '57 bel air? On the right side of the road heading away from 35? Yeah, it's been sitting in that field since I got here in '02. The top's been down for at least that long, and he wanted (memory serves..) 10 grand for it. I stopped out there once, he's got a lot of old iron out back. i wandered around for awhile, and went to ask about some of the cars. The guy was cutting the back end off of one '57 to weld onto the front end of another. No biggie right? He cut the whole damn car in half - frame, body, everything and welded it to the other part all at once. Says he specializes in restoring tri fives... scared the crap outta me. He thinks his cars are made of gold. joel
That pink 57 with the top down hell the hard top is just plain choppeed off that thing aint nothing but an old parade car that guy is out of his mind on complete cars but very reasonable on parts that place is called little valley auto ranch i live right by there the real savable stuff is in the back being parted out the rusted out shit is in the front being sold as whole cars they got it kinda backwards if you ask me