Wrecking yard for sale.

[JerryinTx]

Anybody seen this? No idea where it is located, but it would make for an interesting visit.

http://www.oliverscars.com/

[Plymouthy Adams]

tetnus shot required....sounds like a ton of old parts though...may take forever to part out the stuff in the field to make it worth while..the containers..well that be a different animal for sure..

[Guest restoringmy49]

I would love to take a couple days and walk through that. I emailed them to get more info on the yard. If they get back with me I'll let you guys know where they are located.

[JohnS48plm]

Just when you think all of the parts are gone something like this turns up. The photo gallery had thousands of parts and a lot of cars. JohnS

[PatS....]

If a person bought that and ran it properly, that's a gold mine. Environmental laws might scuttle something like that, though, sad but true.

[kevinanderson]

on www.impalas.net, there is a guy restoring a '61 impala convert he drug out of a ditch. u should see the pics. amazing

[Mr. Belvedere]

If a person bought that and ran it properly, that's a gold mine. Environmental laws might scuttle something like that, though, sad but true.

Probably not in Texas, now California, thats another story.

[woodscavenger]

What a cool place to spend some time! That could be a gold mine if run properly.

[Norm's Coupe]

If a person bought that and ran it properly, that's a gold mine. Environmental laws might scuttle something like that, though, sad but true.

That's probably why they are trying to sell the place. Probably cost more to clean up the soil than any profit you'd make off the place. To clean all the soil you'd have to dig down as far as the pollution went, have it cleaned, then replaced. That's an expensive thing to do. Otherwise, you could possibly get it declared a brown field for limited use, but then the property wouldn't be worth as much.

[TodFitch]

Given how people move around it is possible that the people selling it don't live in the same state the place is in. Having said that, the domain name is registered to someone in the California wine country:

Domain Name: OLIVERSCARS.COM

Registrant:

Piontek, Stuart

15850 Arnold Dr.

Sonoma, CA 95476

US

The background vegetation looks possible for some areas of Northern California but there are other areas in the west that would also fit. It will be interesting to learn where this place is.

[Phil Martin]

WOW! And they are not ate up with rust. Goldmine for sure!!

[Guest restoringmy49]

I was on a Ford truck site I belong to and it seems this yard is sturring up people alot. They said the site belongs to a guy in Ca, but the yard is in Oklahoma best that they can tell. Someway they looked at some of the pics up close and seen a sign. They said the guy doesn't answer emails or anything. So either he is wanting to show off his yard or something is wrong with there computer. I have no idea. It would be ashame to let the yard or the cars go to a crusher just b/c some one won't sell or answer emails.

[Norm's Coupe]

Here's my question, and I think it's a good one. Below is a quote from the junkyard home page.

QUOTE:

"Our grandfather purchased an existing salvage yard in 1946. He continued to grow the business another ten years, at which point he closed the doors to what is now a time capsule."

UNQUOTE"

If the grandfather only operated the salvage yard for 10 years, that means it's been closed since 1956. The big question is. Why did he keep the salvage yard and all those cars for all those years, and not make any money on it? Seems like if he didn't want to run the business since 1956 he would have sold the property, and either sold the cars for scrap or to someone to make his money back on it. After all, even though he wasn't running it anymore, he still had to pay taxes on the inventory and property for approximately 40 years without making any money off it. Something doesn't sound right when you think about it along those lines.

[builtfercomfort]

If you search for oliverscars.com on the HAMB you find that the place may or may not be around Enid, Oklahoma. Three selected posts from the HAMB:

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A few months back we ran a short article on this place on OldCarsWeekly.com.

We were never able to get a response from the e-mail address on the site and one of our guys even spent a couple of days when he was out in OK asking around about it without any luck.

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This thing was posted before on here with the same results. Several people I know had tried at length to contact someone with no luck. I think they are either fishing for ridiculous offers from crazy people with too much money, or trying to establish value for insurance, maybe? I say scam or **************.

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I am surprised that this is just making the forum. This site is almost three years old at this point. It comes up every couple of months on some random forums and every one gets their hopes up, a bunch of people will try to contact them and nothing happens. Me and a friend of mine that owns a yard tried to contact these people for about a year and a half and not once did we get a reply by phone or email. We tried everything. we even contacted the company that runs Hollander and the junk yard alliance and they said that it was probably a hoax. I hate that it is a fake but I am 88.7% sure that it is.

[Dennis_MN]

Given how people move around it is possible that the people selling it don't live in the same state the place is in. Having said that, the domain name is registered to someone in the California wine country:

Domain Name: OLIVERSCARS.COM

Registrant:

Piontek, Stuart

15850 Arnold Dr.

Sonoma, CA 95476

US

His e-mail from network solutions WHOIS

stuartpiontek@earthlink.net