salvage yard

[nicolasconnor]

I have taken a job at a salvage yard for something to do and I must laugh... there are no old mopars to be seen.

Then again that may be a good thing so I don't become a hoarder lol.

 

[chargervert]

I have all of them.

 

[ckessel]

As a geared, I figured owning a yard could be fun. Especially when the good stuff shows up. Even then, there are neat goodies you can harvest off many newer rides. Like the underside clips for plumbing, wiring etc.

 

[chargervert]

I remember going to the local junkyards back in the early eighties, there was so much cool stuff!

 

[Richard Cranium]

I remember going to the local junkyards back in the early eighties, there was so much cool stuff!

You're right & part of the adventure was finding all those junk yards with simple verbal directions.

 

[chargervert]

I got lost more than a few times. The hunt was part of the adventure. Long before you could build a Mopar with a catalog or a website.

 

[DeltaV]

there are no old mopars to be seen.

Do not despair!

1: You will be there when an old and interesting one is brought to the yard. Who knows, you might be there when someone calls about picking one up from their house/farm/barn.

2: You're now in "the network"...you'll hear about old mopars that need rescuing.

 

[chargervert]

I remember climbing up on a stack of crushed cars with a hammer and a chisel and chopping off the rear valance corner pieces on a crushed 68 Charger because they were not rotted out. There were no fancy battery powered cordless tools back then,it you wanted structural metal pieces, you chopped them out like a caveman! I still have the valence corner pieces on my 70 Charger R/T.

 

[hemi71x]

I at times get a personal e mail from the manager of the Pick-N-Pull wrecking yard in Richmond, California.
He tells me the only old cars that come into his yard, or other PNP's is if someone is clearing out property and the old car has been sitting there for years and years.
And if someone has died, and the offspring don't wan't anything to do with the wreck.
All that is very true, in this modern world, day and age.

 

[Tony Tee]

I remember when arriving at a junk yard with my 70 r/t se charger . I down shifted and my flex fan augered into my radiator. Green coolant and steam everywhere. So i went in and easily found a good radiator and clutch fan. And fixed in the parking lot. And drove home . Ahhh those were the days. Junkyard mopars were plentiful back then.

 

[chargervert]

I saw a B5 blue 69 318 Charger going the other way on the highway on a Friday afternoon on my way home from work. The next morning I went to a local junkyard and that Charger was sitting there with no plates on it. I asked the guy if it was for sale,he said I want $75.00 for the car. I knew it ran and drove so I couldn't give him the money fast enough. He said I'm keeping the battery,so I took the battery out of my yellow 70 Charger R/T shown earlier in this thread. I took my plates and drove the car home. I told the guy that I would be right back and not to sell my car while I was gone. I was the guys first customer when he opened his yard,he always gave me great deals on cars and parts. I brought lots of friends to buy stuff from his yard. The previous owner junked the Charger because the alternator failed,and the apartment complex where he lived told him it had to go. He was probably driving it to the junkyard when I passed him on the highway. The grille was mint and the hidden headlight doors worked too!

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I saw a B5 blue 69 318 Charger going the other way on the highway on a Friday afternoon on my way home from work. The next morning I went to a local junkyard and that Charger was sitting there with no plates on it. I asked the guy if it was for sale,he said I want $75.00 for the car. I knew it ran and drove so I couldn't give him the money fast enough. He said I'm keeping the battery,so I took the battery out of my yellow 70 Charger R/T shown earlier in this thread. I took my plates and drove the car home. I told the guy that I would be right back and not to sell my car while I was gone. I was the guys first customer when he opened his yard,he always gave me great deals on cars and parts. I brought lots of friends to buy stuff from his yard.

This must not have been recently.

 

[chargervert]

This must not have been recently.

1983

 

[RR Fan Dan]

1983

Great score

 

[chargervert]

Those were the days,if we only had more money and knew what cars to buy!

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Those were the days,if we only had more money and knew what cars to buy!

Ain’t that the truth. I was young and dumb in 1983. Fresh out of High School driving a 73 olds cutless supreme but wanted a 78 IROC Camaro or a mustang. Didn’t even consider a Mopar. Thought they were mostly ugly except the 68/69 b bodies. I remember thinking Plymouth dusters were junk. And don’t get me started back then on AMC’s.

 

[chargervert]

I have one of those American Motors cars.....It only seats two.

 

[thehemikid]

1983

When wing cars could still be bought for less than original sticker price.

 

[RSMS]

I grew up in a ford new car franchise store and you wouldn’t believe the cars I use to get for less than $500 (many times $100-$200) on trade ins in the early to mid 80’s. A $1000-1500 would get you a really nice “gas guzzler”. I once bought (6) 1st gen Camaros out of a trailer park for $750 and one was a 69SS 4spd, none ran but were mainly complete. Salvage cars were basically free if you hauled them away, someone gave me a 69 Charger with a running 440 if a hauled it away from a rental property they bought.

 

[Dakar Timm]

For many years we had a scrap yard near here ,called Wild Bills . The more beer you brought ,the cheaper the stuff was .
Wild Bill had 6 or 7 refrigerators full of beer . He always wore the same dirty grimy striped insulated overalls . Whenever you gave him your money ,he would pull out a huge wad of hundreds to add your donation. Many of us would go there after working third shift to drink and wander through the yard pulling whatever we could hide in our pockets .
He knew and didn't care . There were thousands of cars stacked 7 or 8 high for miles .