Turner Pics

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Took some pictures at Turner's today. Attached are some. Seems trucks are really picked over. Only one complete truck which he is fixing up to sell. Will send two posts. Didn't get any prices.

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He had two hoods. There were LOTS of little parts. Don from Palmdale, CA was there and bought some nice things for himself. Don please comment, you are much more knowledgeable than me. There was a nice '38 Ply front bumper. I need to downsize it to attach it. If someone is interested, I will attach that as well. The rear bumper was solid but will require new chrome.

It was an interesting outing, but disappointed that I didn't get anything for trucks, just nothing to shoot.

[Flatie46]

That's a junkyard truck... sure looks better than what we've been seeing for sale on ebay.

[BobT-47P15]

It does look like the dark colored P15 has a hood brace.

[dezeldoc]

It does look like the dark colored P15 has a hood brace.

Yep got to find one, I loaned a friend mine after his got wrecked and then he went and had a heart attack and passed. did not have the nerve to ask his mom for it back.

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The truck does look good. The tail gate is different than what I've seen. Here are both hoods. Central CA is bone dry so we do not get deep rust only sun 'surface' rust. The truck initially was green. The guys I was with commented on the hood "brace" and said 'someone' would want THAT! Always learn more when I go with someone who sees the items from their point of view.

There was a late 30's four-door sedan body there also, in quite good condition. It had the split rear window.

[Don Jordan]

It is a hood brace. I was thinking of getting it for myself but I managed to get other things and forgot. Talked to the owner and he is closing Sunday and going on vacation to Australia for 3 weeks. He was telling us about a motorcycle ride that sounded pretty ambitious for an 80 year old guy.

When he comes back in April he's going to decide what he wants to do. His choices are sell the land to industrial people or see if he can get someone to buy the whole yard. He's got 100 acres so he's going to save all the best cars and crush others. There are a lot of a lot of interesting name plates. In no order I saw some Edsels, DeSotos, Hudsons, Nash, Chrysler - too many to name.

I got some pictures but I left my camera in my car.

I found a stop light, needed to be re chromed, with the glass $50, the pieces I was looking for he was very fair. I didn't get the feeling he was out to get anyone. He's been doing this since the 60s and has a pretty realistic feel for the prices. I bought the top left chrome from the grill ($20).

I think everything there will still be there in 3 weeks. I'm going to call him in April when he gets back and see if he will consider some sales. There's a lot of chrome pieces, lots of glass, garnish molding. One of the problems for me is 2 of the cars are business coupes so the chrome is too long for my sedan.

I'll post some pictures tomorrow. I spent 6 hours in the car going and coming and 90 minutes in the junk yard. If I go back I'll try to take some pictures of something besides P 15s.

It's amazing most all the cars there weren't wrecked - they look like they were brought in whole so there are doors, hoods, one of the cars actually had a radio in it. Another had a spot lite.

I was like a kid in a candy story - It's going to be hard to see this stuff go.

I didn't take a lot of pictures - just some.

My wonderful wife just brought me the camera - I will download the pictures and post again.

Also in passing I would like to say it was nice to meet someone from the forum. Paul drove over and we talked. It was a very pleasant.

I will try to answer any questions.

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[Don Jordan]

I'm not the best photographer and my wife informed me when I got home that I can't wear sunglasses when I use the camera because the glasses are polarized.

It's all too complicated for me - I remember the old Brownie.

Anyway I was more interested in finding treats for me than taking pictures but I hope you well be able to get the general idea. There was still some good stuff.

[RobertKB]

Thanks to both members for posting pictures. Looks like a very intersting place and it appears to have lots of great parts left. That radio is certainly worth grabbing. Might be worthwhile grabbing the whole dash as it does not take long to pull it.