History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

Buildy, did you have an I.D. on this old truck? Didn't come up on your post, buddy.

 

Alliance Member Senior Fried of Plano, TX, posted this one
on another thread about effects of moisture & the elements
on sheet metal. Yike! What's the creeping green? Kudzu??
The thread is worth reading. Just called "Wet grass rusting
cars?"

 

HAMBer Electron of Salt Lake City posted these cool shots from McBride Auto Parts on 11/2/09 on a thread entitled "Sitting and Rotting......picture thread." If you haven't already, you can spend HOURS on this one thread! Check it out. Unfortunately, Electron said that the yard is being steadily crushed for scrap. Sigh!!!

Hard to believe: A Cord in a junkyard???? Believe it!



Cool AUBURN detail shot. Can anybody ID the artillery wheel year?

 

Here are some shots captured several years ago by HAMBer DocsMachine
as he toured an Alaska bone yard scheduled for gradual meltdown. These
are just some of his fine detail shots that seem, to me, to epitomize and
encapsulate the many junkyards I myself have visited in my life. Doc's
a busy graphic artist and production guy and cannot be bothered running out
to this junkyard looking for trim parts for folks. BUT, if you would like the rare
opportunity to take a virtual tour of a great old-time junkyard in Alaska (how
many of us can actually GO, eh?), then punch up his thread, "Yet another
old junk yard going to the crusher- in Alaska!" Link is in Post #1.


Even in its declining years, Packard still showed its touches of class!


Given the Ford ballyhoo in '58, an ignominious fate for a once-flashy Edsel!

 

I'm leaning toward INTERNATIONAL. Guys & gals??? (early '30s?)

 

And more "Wild Alaska" shots by Doc. Reeks of nostalgia, eh?


Tight squeeze, Ethyl ! Gonna have to buy a compact cat next time!


Long time since there was FIRE in this Fireflite. Four-b intake, too!


You can IMAGINE the glory days when this flashy white Caddy was NEW!

 

Here is a premium ride on it's way to dust.

 

Here Jim....

 

Cords in Junkyards were not uncommon. My Dad pulled one out of a junkyard on the river bottoms in So. St. Paul Mn. in 1967. After stripping most of the parts off of it, he finally purchased what was left for $75.00. The remains still exist. Now, if this is a current picture, I would say it's not too common and it would be a shame to see it destroyed.

 

The truck above that you think may be an International is a Dodge, around 1931 or 1932. probably made from a 4 door sedan. The winged emblem on the radiator shell is Dodge.

 

even though this thread made me sick I still enjoyed all these pics..thanks everyone

 

Lunatic, I KNOW what you mean about SICK, buddy! I was just in an old-time junkyard last week with 5-W coupes, etc., rusted to nothing more than great phot fodder!!! YES, it hurts like hell. But these cars have been out in the elements for decades and decades. Gotta love 'em the way they are. I'm juts glad some survived the steel-scrap BOOM!!! -- Jimi

 

SunroofCord, THANKS!!! That truck has been driving me nuts! Now, THAT is one huge vehicle. Could it have been one of the truck the Dodge brothers produced while working for another comanp -- and before they went on their own?

 

Radio...I've been looking for that grille bar in your last pic. 51-52 Olds. If you go back up there, I'd be interested in obtaining that piece. thanks.

 

VintageRide, thanks for the pic. Usually, I can figure maskes, but
this 'vert throws me. Real wire wheels, too. Domestic or foreign?

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Old-car boneyard as ART??? Seeing is believing! THANKS, Frankie! Good to see you back on this thread. The Shorpy shot from Easton, PA, early on was a CLASSIC. AND you've done it again!

 

SunRoofCord: Yup, Electron of Salt Lake City said this old yard is NOW in the early stages of winding down. (That usually starts slowly, THEN suddenly ALL the yard is gone!)

 

That was a woodie behind my buddy Louie before it was crushed two years ago.

 

SunRoof: THANKS for ID-ing that truck as a '31/'32 Dodge 4D altered as a truck! The grille was oddly familiar, but it just wouldn't click in my old brain! Sedan? Don't disagree, but from the pic angle, it must have been a BIG car! Wow.

Lunatic: Thanks, including links to junkyard pix was one hope I had originally, along with sort of pulling the BEST photos from VARIOUS sources, so that someone can go to a central spot and spend HOURS taking a virtual TOUR of boneyards -- past AND present, AND from all OVER the U.S. and Canada!!! It's been a fun thread to work on, and I am tickled to death that others have enjoyed it AND voted blue stars (bringing even more viewers to the thread!). THANKS, everybody!!!

 

Cool shots there, KopperKart! Got any MORE???

 

Trying to be as good as my word here!!! Pulling together all links from the nine pages of this thread in ONE SPOT. Time-saver! I don't know about YOU, but I've spent countless hours chasing all over the 'net looking for old-junkyard pix. Well, HERE, anyone can do a one-stop virtual tour! How about voting a few more BLUE STARS (top of page) so we can draw more viewers to these cool old warriors, rusting in peace (or NOT!) all over North America!!!
LINKS to GREAT Virtual Junkyard Tours!

http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w...unk+car&m=text

http://community.webshots.com/user/novatattoo

shorpy.com

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...ke&view=videos

http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/explore.php?page=all (search for automotive)


Wyn's Auto Wrecking, Los Angeles c.1930 (courtesy LAPL)

USC Digital Archives (type in 'auto graveyards' in search window)

http://www.kameraarbeiten.ch/galerie_autofr_start.htm


http://community.webshots.com/user/s...host=community

http://www.damnyankee.com/page1/page64/page64.html

http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/caps4/00289.html

 

Thanks Jim, but I like the other one better, rooftops

 

This is my favorite shot tho..found it on the web there is a 46-48 dodge somewhere under all that nature

 

Hard to tell, but this used to be a 59 Biscayne.

 

Frankie, some people don't see the strange, mysterious BEAUTY
in something gradually returning to Nature. Myself, I think the
APPEAL is rather the VERY SAME as when an archaeologist peers
into GREEN and finds an Inca ruin!!! Same appeal people find in
old houses. It's as if the cars AND houses just have something
to "whisper" to those of us lucky enough to come upon their resting
places. Sorry, I don't mean to get all etherial, spritual and OUT
THERE!!! LOL (But, yeah, it's just like walking in a human cemetery.
There's a sense of reverence for something that was once living or
complementary to life.)

 

Frankie, SO did I, but I re-posted the one I thought MOST people would like. The one where the snow nearly overtakes the car roofs is keen, all on its own!

 

Emblem looks like a Dodge

 

Not too likely this particular truck was built before they went out on there own as they did that in 1914 and both brothers passed away in 1920.

 

OK, I will play. This is what happens to old yards in NY. Thunderbirdesq and I walked this yard earlier this week.