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ANYBODY GOT ANY JUNK YARD STORIES

EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I have been involved in Auto Wrecking for over 30 years.Anybody got any junkyard stories? Good,bad,or funny.I probably have seen it all.Where i worked for a good friend in Kalifornia,we junked anything.Cars,boats,motorcycles,tractors,trucks,mobile homes,windmills,and more.Once we got some new Dodge landing craft engines.I once picked up a Cadillac engine that had been in a tank.We also got some movie cars after filming.Watched my friend beatup 3 guys that had been breaking windshields out in the yard.Use to have shooting matches when it was slow.Got to drive a lot of old beaters that still ran.(Derby time)
Dr.Evil
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Toolbabe might tell you about our backyard.
    TOOLS
    P.S. Do you have any big block Mopars? Need one for Toolbabe's 79 shortbed stepside.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i could use a 1st-reverse shifter or whole tranny for a 430 case gas tractor.
    once bought a 58 chevy from a wrecker & found a gold ring under the back seat.
    i thought they ALLWAYS checked there.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    awwwwwwwwwwww! (Envy)! .........




    JD (The depressed)

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • RancheroPaulRancheroPaul Member Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No stories, but I do have a "Junk Yard Dog" that you have to throw a crust of bread at in the morning so he'll let you out of the bedroom. Problem is.....keeping the bread with you all night so he doesn't eat it before you need to leave.....

    If You Can't Buy a Pair, Get a Spare!
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember back when I was about 14 or 15 years old my friends and I would visit the junkyard outside of town. We would spend the whole day there picking up parts for our bush buggies, one of which was a 50 Chevy sedan.Way in the back of the yard were rows of old cars, like 32 Ford and Plymouth coupes, some model T's etc. Boy,if I knew then...

    Bartman
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Local salvage yard operator became a hero once.....seems this guy was on foot running from police and ran into the junkyard, one of the big forklift operators saw him jump into an old wrecked car. Operator took the fork lift over and picked up the car, raised it as high as it would go, until the police got there. The crook was screaming and hollering to be let down.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A kid I went to high school with's grandfather had a large salvage yard and he and his brother would start some of the old cars and floor them to see how long they would run before seizing or blowing up.

    They had a barn for an office and I can remember two new old stock 32 Ford grill shells hanging from the rafters.

    Another kid had a 32 coupe and was chasing coyotes and knocked the oil pan off and blew the engine. He wrecked it out and made a trailer out of it.

    ....................
    AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The old stuff is at the yard i use to work.Still very good friends with the owner,and his wife.They went to Reno with me,and wife a couple of weeks ago.If you are looking for old,weird,cars,trucks,fire trucks,old hit and miss engines,windmills,or whatever.Call Brians Salvage and Junk.
    2580 GreenIsland Rd.Vallejo,kalifornia 1-707-252-1409--1 707-642-5408--
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    During my very brief experience with private security, I worked at a scrap yard, and found a really cool knife. I was trying to catch a kitten and while moving junk around trying to get to it, it jumped out at me.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • RancheroPaulRancheroPaul Member Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's what is known as a "Junkyard Cat!"

    If You Can't Buy a Pair, Get a Spare!
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I have overcome the envy stage ....
    Now with the stuff at that junk yard you can built some interesting machines like this one......

    And maybe who knows ,a spaceship were you can put this stuff to work.


    JD


    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was sweating my butt off one day, trying to get a core support off an '89 Subara to repair my mom's that she had just wrecked. I had all the tools I needed except a 10mm socket and could NOT get at one of the last bolts need to free the thing. An old fella strolls up and after listening to my ranting for a couple minutes offers the use of said 10mm socket. As I went to work to get the core, he said "What a terrible thing, isn't it ?" I said what, that I don't have a 10mm socket. He looked at me in disbelief and said "How long have you been here ?" The day was Sept, 11, 2001 ... The whole world knew about this, except me. Never was much on current events ...
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Yeah, we had a yard near my house that had a dog who protected it named "Chopper". The owner had trained it to "sick balls". Well, we met up with ol Choppy one day and he turned out to be this little mangey mutt,....oh I am sorry, I was thinking of the wonderful Rob Reiner movie "Stand by Me" L.O.L!!
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    interstatepawnllc you ment seek or sick .......

    well if as "original" a little bite and infection sets in......

    well is academic..... sick balls....

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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