Very Very Very Sad

[PatS....]

This is a bit hard to watch:(

I wonder how many people offered to buy some of these and were chased away???

[dparksie]

Now that is rough. All those toys and no kids to play with them:(. Though if I had been there I may have had a battle at my house trying to find all the toys a home.

Don

[Oldguy48]

This is a bit hard to watch:(

I wonder how many people offered to buy some of these and were chased away???

That was truly a horror flick if ever there was one. Especially when that P15 was in the "Jaws of Death":eek:

[windsor8]

Wow!!!!! That video is a nightmare. What is the story, could the car have been bought?

[Rodney Bullock]

Hey Pats, At first I did not care until I saw those tractors:mad:nothing makes me mad as when I see a tractor not in use or abused. The guy operating that crane made it look like childs play. Let's be real you can't save all of them however it makes you really appriciate what you got;)now don't it. Alot of that stuff was gone anyway.

By the way, why is it everytime someone has a group of cars to be crushed there is a Studebaker or two in the mix:mad:now that really gets me all twisted. I bet greg could have used some of those parts.

What can you do:rolleyes:

[JIPJOBXX]

Yes but think how happy your wife would be when you dragged in one of those pieces of rust and placed in the front yard. I have friends that make that farm look like nothing and it a shame but he just lets them rust away. But into days world most young guys don't want a four door 56 Buick but a 2003 Honda Civic. Yep its a shame but our old cars are just relics of the past. Hay I'm also one of those old relics!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PatS....]

There's a worse one I didn't watch or post...search "Pearsons" on Youtube or look in the list to the right of this video. It's so bad it's a two parter...a cliffhanger I guess.

Beware...it'll cause nightmares.

[B-Watson]

That happened to a yard in Lavoy, Alberta, within the past few years.

When I lived in Edmonton back in the 1990's I used to travel out there and take a tour once in a while. The old fellow who owned the yard was a bit a recluse and hard of hearing. But if you respected him he would tell where the best cars were for parts you were looking for and even lend you a wrench or two if you did not have the right size.

Had friends who went out there and had no patience with him and were quite obvious with their attitude towards him. And he was in return.

I got to know him after his wife died. She ran a small antique shop in town. Which probably explains his reclusive lifestyle and attitudes.

Anyway, the yard had a few unique vehicles in there - Canadian-built 1951 Kaiser, a couple of 1953 Dodge Mayfair sedans, a Canadian-built Hudson, lots of Canadian Pontiacs, early 1950's and 1960's Plymouths and Dodges, a nice looking 1961 Valiant hardtop with the engine compartment full of dirt, and a 1949 Dodge long wheelbase sedan.

The Dodges mentioned are unique in that most writers claim there were never built. Tom McPherson in his book, "The Dodge Story", says the D43-3 Dodge were station wagons and not Dodge's version of the P24-3 Belvedere. Even though the later Chryco 1953 parts books list the D43-3 Mayfair and with two body styles - sedan and hardtop. I did take a couple of photos in the mid 1990's of a Mayfair that was missing its front clip.

The 1949 Dodge was parked in a back corner of the lot (you could spend half a day wandering through the field and trees around it) and was a Canadian-built model - "Custom" nameplates on the front fenders and not "Coronet". Never got a photo of it before I moved to Vancouver.

Made it back last summer and brought my camera to get photos of the 1949 Dodge. All the cars are gone, even his ex-Calgary Transit trolley bus filled with boxes and books of some sort and his shed of wheel covers.

Would like to know what happened to it all. I suspect the cars were all crushed but I would really like to know what happened to the contents of the bus and his sheds.

Bill

Vancouver, BC

[greg g]

My bet is if you went by there today you see a nice new WalMArt surrounded by acres of paving. doesn't look like they were very carefull with fluids. That didn't look like a junk yard to me, just a collection of stuff.

The fellow across the street from my dad's house, does that. He takes peoples non operational stuff and stock piles it, then when the price of scrap goes up he takes it in for the money. He doesn't care what it is, from appliances to bicycles, to cars trucks and farm equipment. He also does shade tree repais for folks, and if he has the right stuff around he will pull it off to use for repairs.

His place is a mess but since its zoned agricultural, the town doesn't do anything about it. by now its probably a brown zone with gas oil diesel and antifreeze all runing into the ground.

He had some vehicles put aside, a 56 Ford Convertable, couple mustangs a 61 Impala convertible, a GTO, a 442, Little Red Wagon and a couple others I can;t remember.

Few years back the snow overloaded the barn they were in and crushed it and the cars, they are still in the ruind of the building.

[48Dodger]

Makes me sick. I'm sure there were a few more options that would have been as cost effective......should be a crime to crush a vehicle older than 1970....should be a board made up of qualified auto enthusiasts who have the final word on wether a vehicle older than 1970 is sent to the crusher or whatever....just tired of seeing good cars who've survived this long get short changed.

48D

[Don Jordan]

How very sad. I couldn't finish watching it. It's sort of like the rain forest. People are cutting it down at an alarming rate. When it's gone - it's gone.

We're going to hell.

very sad.

[David Maxwell]

Did you see all the beautiful parts on that P15??? The loss of those bumpers alone made me ill!!

[JerseyHarold]

It was repulsive. The P15 even had a spotlight. And people have restored far worse cars than the '50 that they destroyed.

[BobT-47P15]

There's a metal salvage dealer about 25 miles from here who purchased an old

salvage yard about 60 miles north of Joplin. He has dragged a bunch of 40s and

50s cars to his business and they are for sale at fairly reasonable prices. All need

some amount of work, of course. Don't know how many he's sold, but at least he

is making an effort to save some. He probably crushed some of the worst ones, but

I don't know for sure.

Then, the bottom fell out of the scrap prices, his primary business, and he owed

the seller the second

half of his fairly large purchace price. Don't know how that has turned out.

A place called J & M Salvage, about 30 miles south of Joplin went out of

business a couple years ago, due to the owner's declining health. He tried

to sell the place in it's entirity, but no one could be found who would buy

it. So, he sold off some of the better cars, sold trailer and busses full of

assorted parts for $100 each and then they crushed the rest. Lots of

40, 50s and some 60s stuff. It's not always so easy to find a taker for

a big group of old cars.

[PatS....]

There's a metal salvage dealer about 25 miles from here who purchased an old

salvage yard about 60 miles north of Joplin. He has dragged a bunch of 40s and

50s cars to his business and they are for sale at fairly reasonable prices. All need

some amount of work, of course. Don't know how many he's sold, but at least he

is making an effort to save some. He probably crushed some of the worst ones, but

I don't know for sure.

Then, the bottom fell out of the scrap prices, his primary business, and he owed

the seller the second

half of his fairly large purchase price. Don't know how that has turned out.

A place called J & M Salvage, about 30 miles south of Joplin went out of

business a couple years ago, due to the owner's declining health. He tried

to sell the place in it's entirety, but no one could be found who would buy

it. So, he sold off some of the better cars, sold trailer and busses full of

assorted parts for $100 each and then they crushed the rest. Lots of

40, 50s and some 60s stuff. It's not always so easy to find a taker for

a big group of old cars.

While we don't have many auto wreckers left around here...new or old cars, the problem with trying to sell a yard that's old is the environmental hoops that a new owner faces that a "grandfathered" owner didn't have to face.

That expense alone makes selling or buying an older yard a financial nightmare.

It all comes down to money, and I guess crushing onsite is the most economical way to go.

Heartbreaking nonetheless

If a current, "grandfathered" owner is planning to sell a few years down the road, they should start bringing everything up to "code" now.

[BobT-47P15]

This P15 did sell for, I think, $100 right at the last before the crusher.

at J & M Salvage.

[RobertKB]

Ouch!! Very sad but today's reality all too often.

[moparbenny]

thanks pat now i'm gonna have nightmares....:eek: