Fate of the Greenwich RI junkyard?

A few years back this was all over the internet/ news. Not much current on it. Is it gone? There was no shortage of mopars in there.

spoolinhard said:

A few years back this was all over the internet/ news. Not much current on it. Is it gone? There was no shortage of mopars in there.

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A good number of older yards crush out these days when steel peaks. Between regulations, vandals/thieves, insurance, and no one to pass the business onto, it's pretty easy to take the money and retire.

I really miss the days of hunting, and finding rare parts for a reasonable price. RUSTY GOLD as Mike and Frank put it!

2 yards closed this year in upstate NY,they were gold mines for mopars.

One of the largest air cooled junkyards in the country... many many acres. Desert Hot Hods I think the company was called. They sold off there final acre last year... had to scrap lots of cars but luckily some big buyers bought thousands of the cars and body parts they had right before shutting down. Towars the end I went out and bought a mostly complete 67 bug that was hit in front for a couple hundred bucks. Used it for parts to fix mine.

Are you referring to the one located at
60 Weaver Hill Road
West Greenwich, RI
perhaps?
Was a big story about a decade ago. Sites like Jalopnik buzzed with folks who had visited.
The story was the government made them clean it out I think?

moparedtn said:

Are you referring to the one located at
60 Weaver Hill Road
West Greenwich, RI
perhaps?
Was a big story about a decade ago. Sites like Jalopnik buzzed with folks who had visited.
The story was the government made them clean it out I think?

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Yes, that's the one. I heard that the owner was working on it. Wasn't sure if there was anything left. I heard that the owner was difficult to get along with and didn't like to talk/deal with people. Therefore not much got sold.

Local yard in southern Indiana is about to go down, owner is in his mid 80's, says he can't pass it on to his son, says it all has to get crushed when he dies. He has crushed a few times throughout the years but still has probably 3-400 cars, about 40-50 mopars left, nothing super rare, but tons of glass, trim and odds and ends . I've got up there a few times this year trying to get as much as I can .

I went on a tour of that yard about 12 years ago,and let me tell you,it was like a scene out of Deliverance! There were people who lived out there that came out of the woods! My friend was looking at a jack that was in the back of a truck that looked like it had been in the same spot for thirty years,and this shirtless hillbilly in Farmer jeans came out of the woods and started screaming in my friends face,then got in the truck and drove away. Everytime we tried to look at a car that was off of the guides planned route,the guide would say Junior's not gonna like that! Junior was the owner,that had a screwy eye,and rode around with a bucks head in the front seat of his truck. He wanted crazy prices for any parts or cars that we asked about. The little Mopar stuff he had was picked over by a local Mopar parts vendor,who must have figured out a way to deal with the misfits there. He had Mustangs by the hundreds,and another guy I know bought a rusty but complete Rambler Scrambler from him. He bought a mint Rambler from out west and drilled out almost every body panel to save the Scrambler. The place in Rhode Island to buy Mopar parts from is Halls Garage in Scituate. Harry still has a couple hundred of them. He had around 800 of them years ago. I bought about ten cars from him over the years.

spoolinhard said:

A few years back this was all over the internet/ news. Not much current on it. Is it gone? There was no shortage of mopars in there.

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I remember seeing that video,and the first part was at Junior's yard,and the other part with all the Mopars was filmed at Halls Garage. I don't know what ever happened to Juniors yard,I never went back.