Junkyard treasures

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Dartnut said:
If you are referring to my yard, you're welcome!
For the record, i have been trying to sell parts for years and have sold some small items....the problem is that nobody seems serious about paying any reasonable money for them.
Maybe it's the location. They are on my property in south eastern B.C. about 50 miles north of the Montana/Idaho border. Not exactly a hot bed of mopar activity!
For example, the blue '73 dart sport 340 auto car is only missing the engine, trans, and scoop. the floorpans and frames are good, it needs quarters, some rocker patches, and interior work and has a clear title in my name and i can't sell it for $750, so there it sits. I'm even hard pressed to get $250 for a complete '73 and up bbp front disc brake changeover package including the k member, prop valve, and master cylinder.
I don't think i'm asking too much.
I did get some of these cars from a junkyard in town that was crushing about 12 years ago and 50% or more of them have been saved from that fate at least.
I did not intend on posting these pics as a selling tool, or as a fishing expedition, i was just replying to the thread!
Tom.
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Wondering what the "story" is on the Greeen Demon? Looks mostly complete? How much rust is in it? Just don't find many complete bodies around here like that. f[email protected]
 
I know where those cars are. All I am going to say is they are somewhere in Carroll County, Georgia nustled not far from University of West Georgia !! I loved that yard when I lived there.......
 
O MY GOD
if that was by me id be all over half that stuff theres noting by me besides
s10 cavalers escorts
 
Is it wrong for me to admit that after looking at those pics I am aroused?
 
StrokerScamp said:
I'm gonna tell Nick you made him look like Madusa. LMAO
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he knows, I already showed him LOL.

He fella's it's a public yard and it's no big secret.

Good luck getting parts out of there without a solid appointment though unless you want a whole car then you can probably buy one or two or three but the owner is never there, and don't really like to sell parts off of them, very hard to track down and not really into haggling.
It's a great yard for a reason.......more like a museum.
 
It's too bad they're all going to get squished one day. In the mean time, I'd love that set of 67 notch fenders! And maybe that Dodge Sweptline grill, and maybe a set of reverse lenses/housings for the 67 Barracuda.. yeesh there are so many 'still restorable' cars there.
 
From my sources > " Like Cudaspaz stated "... there is 2 junkyards in Carrol Georgia ... one person that is holding onto most of his vehicles and does not really sell ... one other does sell to the public ...
 
Having a wet dream right now , pulling in on a warm spring day , Cabover camper , with large trailer behind , tool box , ice chest full of cold brews , .... ahhhhh .... i better stop .....
 
fastnos said:
Wondering what the "story" is on the Greeen Demon? Looks mostly complete? How much rust is in it? Just don't find many complete bodies around here like that. f[email protected]
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The ''story'' on the green Demon is as follows:
I bought it in the fall of 1990 from a friend of mine who got it in a junk yard for cheap and was going to sell a few parts off of it and then have it squished. I bought it from him as is and how it looks now for $300. I bought it because it was a green '71 Demon and it looked a lot like the one i had when i was a teenager and thought i would fix it up and recreate the car i had then. It was very similar except it was a column auto with a green interior, and my old Demon was a 3 speed std on the floor with a black interior. Otherwise it was identical. Both were 318 cars. The bonus is with this car is it's a sizzler and my old car was not.
Fast forward to 2011.
My plans for the car are as follows: I am going to keep it original looking other than convert it to a 4 speed (which i have) and put the snorkle scoop hood off of a '72 Demon i used to own, build a mild 318 with a b-body 8/34'' rear, bench seat, and green/green paint and interior. As a lot of you know, i love green cars with green interiors. I will keep the stripes and the sizzler theme as well as upgrade it to bbp discs and rallye wheels, 14'' fronts and 15'' rears. I am building it as a cruiser, not a race car.
The car is not very rusty, it needs a little rust repair on the bottoms of the quarters and a very small patch on the passenger rocker, that's it. The floors are perfect, as is the trunk floor, inner fenders and frames.
I already have 99% of the parts to do this car and have been selling parts and trading stuff to start on it, and will start on it in the fall.
I held off for all these years because i was waiting for the title and fender tag from the previous owner and i finally got it 2 months ago!
My friend's ex was holding it for ransom for all of these years and she finally let up and gave it to him.
(why do people do this?)
I would not swap vin numbers etc. on this car because i knew someday she would relent.
Who said persistence doesn't pay off?
Hey, it's my bucket list car! That's why. lol
No, it's not for sale if that was what you were asking.
Thanks for the question,
Tom.
 
Dartnut said:
If you are referring to my yard, you're welcome!
For the record, i have been trying to sell parts for years and have sold some small items....the problem is that nobody seems serious about paying any reasonable money for them.
Maybe it's the location. They are on my property in south eastern B.C. about 50 miles north of the Montana/Idaho border. Not exactly a hot bed of mopar activity!
For example, the blue '73 dart sport 340 auto car is only missing the engine, trans, and scoop. the floorpans and frames are good, it needs quarters, some rocker patches, and interior work and has a clear title in my name and i can't sell it for $750, so there it sits. I'm even hard pressed to get $250 for a complete '73 and up bbp front disc brake changeover package including the k member, prop valve, and master cylinder.
I don't think i'm asking too much.
I did get some of these cars from a junkyard in town that was crushing about 12 years ago and 50% or more of them have been saved from that fate at least.
I did not intend on posting these pics as a selling tool, or as a fishing expedition, i was just replying to the thread!
Tom.
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Give me a little time and I'll buy the disc brake changeover thing. I live in WI though.
 
Muad'Dib15 said:
Give me a little time and I'll buy the disc brake changeover thing. I live in WI though.
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That's the problem i have, the shipping to you from Canada would almost be what the parts are worth.
For some reason, the shipping from here to the U.S.A. is outrageous.
I am investigating maybe driving to the U.S. and shipping from there.
It's a 50 mile drive one way from here so that's not too bad.
 
That yard Cuda put out pics of has always been a bear to deal with. I tried to buy a rusted out white 72 challenger from him years ago and he was asking for like 3 times the going price on one the same condition. He has all those cars in there just to get people to come in and drool over. Another time he got a sweet green 70 4 door valiant that was literally driven in there and I tried to buy it but he refused to sell it. Old man McKenzie....what can I say. Every old car nut in Douglas, Carroll, Coweta, and Harrelson counties knows him.
 
but I still loved to go down there just to walk around.......lots of nice cars and not just mopars.....He used to have cows in that field with them cars...watch out for cow patties while lookin....
 
Marland:
Yeah, they were o.k.
The story is, a friend of mine bought this car in 1971 in Vancouver B.C. and brought it back to Cranbrook B.C.
It is a early build '69 Super Bee, 383 magnum, 4 speed, bench seat, buffed silver, with a blue interior. He had a fender bender in the winter of '72 in it and the dealership replaced the hood, grille, filler piece, front bumper, and passenger side door with new parts. Then he had them paint it in a funky custom '70s paint scheme that was common then.
Him and a friend were coming home after a night shift in the fall of '73 at a local pulp mill, (about a 25 mile drive) and he fell asleep, hitting the ditch at about 70 mph. The car hit some big tall stumps on the passenger side hard and rolled a few times into some trees. I guess the trees absorbed the impact pretty well and both of them got out of it with minor injuries. He said they were wearing their seat belts.
I'll bet that woke them up pretty quickly!
The car went to the auto wreckers then and i bought it when they were going to crush it. There is not a straight panel on the car except the hood, it only has a few superficial dings in it. Even the 8 3/4'' diff is bent.
I think i have a few more pics of it i'll post.
Tom.
 

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Wow, I would have been wrong, thought surely someone had perished in that Super Bee.

Who said they didn't have energy absorbing designs back then?


Love the salvage yard pictures. I used to travel Kansas for a living, and would stop in all of them, as it was my favorite thing to do. There was a yard up in chase county loaded with Super Bees that had hit a tree or bridge, at least a half dozen of them 20 years ago.
 
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