Due to the past weekend events, I would like to pose a question. What is the craziest thing, you've found in a junkyard. Kid in a Caddy video, so ya'll can see what I'm working on. The crazy thing that found ME in a junkyard in Dacono, CO. I'm actually breathing a little heavy because I've been almost jogging for 20 mins to get away from it!
That's exactly what I've been thinking. Me: "Go Away Donkey..." Donkey: "You guys like cars!? I like cars! Let me get in a car and you push me!"
I found the crushed "car" from the movie James and the Giant Peach in a junkyard in Florida. That's the craziest find. I've found a TON of cool stuff--Fenton head for flathead plymouth, external sunvisor for '54 Buicks, Ford truck/Pontiac Super Stock hood scoops, etc. etc. -Brad
I no longer have it, but the Arturo glass was the best thing I've found. I removed it from a junked Monte Carlo. It was the 'quarter' window that fit into the vinyl roof. It had been etched with a picture of a low rider wearing a sombrero, jeans, and a gun belt. Next to him was his woman in bell bottom jeans and a vest that was opened to reveal her very round boobs and surprisingly articulated nipples. She wore a bandana, and her jeans had a peace sign on them. Underneath it said simply 'Arturo'. I kept it for years and eventually tossed it. Now I miss it. There will never be another.
There was the 39 Cadillac hearse. There have been crazier things but I remember that one. I saw it last week. O ya one yard I go to has a giant crane with a straight eight Chrysler flathead engine. Saw a 47 Studebaker tow truck with a Cadillac flathead V8 in it.
I have found a shoebox ford with a caddy flathead in it, (apparently they didn't get the memo ) I have also found a early 50's jeep with a 303 olds rocket in it! have always longed to find an old kustom of some sort but alas I believe that ship may have sailed.
in a 'salvage' yard in Kodiak, AK (the proprietor - Smokey - would permit browsing and parting if you brought him a bottle of booze), we found a lot of typical stuff - HAMB-friendly GM/Ford/Mopar, etc. In a nest of tin and other stuff that was slowly being accreted into an excavated trench, we found a late 30s Pierce-Arrow 4dr sedan, crumpled, but identifiable for sure. There was also a lot of surplus/damaged military equipment, including navigator bubbles (Perspex?) that were probably from a PV2 Neptune. There was also a dump site out the road a ways. There we found the remnants of a crashed PB4Y-2 Privateer (Navy equivalent of a B-24 Liberator, albeit with a more conventional tail section). Instrument panel and all controls had been stripped, but two of those big-ass radials were in same location (but not attached). Fun to look in the parts of the fuselage that were accessible. That island is a treasure trove of military stuff - runways of Marston Mat for emergency landings, hollowed-out islands that contained ammo bunkers, pillboxes and gun emplacements around the perimeter, a large camp consisting of one very rotted out wood building (mess hall) and surrounded by twenty or more Quonset huts. There's way more to tell, but this is a hot rod forum....sorry to have wandered off the beaten path on this. dj
.............found an aluminum 20s caddy V-16 engine sitting on wooden shoring in a junkyard in Prineville, Oregon back in the early 60s
a '76 Mercury Capri that we had when i was a kid. still smelled the same, still had the "I shot J.R." bumper sticker.
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