Hey everyone, I'm located near Chicago and seeing the new issue makes me want to throw up. why you ask? your scrap yards look like our museums; there isn't a spec of rust in site for miles on end, bolts on junyard cars turn like they did at day one on the production line, and to find a GREMLIN in a yard around here??, HA!! you guys don't know how good you have it until you're paying $500 per fender and another $275 to ship em!!  (btw, know of any junkyards that have some cheap-n-clean 61-62 Cadillac fenders?)

 otherwise the magazine is a two thumbs up!! love the CC quickies section!

ALi

i love our junkyards. i live in SoCal and i hit them up as often as i can. i dont see many Cougars in them anymore though. bastards.

but well, i guess the point is, i DO see them.

Wish we had yards like that here.  Mostly for me its avoid rusty metal so I don't get cut up and dodge the copperheads that like to hang out under the cars (when the cars haven't sunk into the ground)  

Around here in SLC UT there is alot of rust, but  amazingly still a fair amount of vintage metal.  I have a small all Ford yard here, www.fordautowrecking.com (OK that was blatant advert...) 

BUT in reply to ritter's post I would call B&R Old Car Parts in Ogden, UT

they have alot of old cars!

Tell them Dane  from ford autowrecking sent you...

Also in Cali there is a junkyard in the town of Mariposa, in Central Cal,

It is North of Fresno, about an hour from Yosemite,

Piersons auto wrecking,  10 years ago I used to frequent the place alot. and he had caddy's plus alot of everything else.

O man pierson was old then I bet he's died now...

If anybody knows about it then let me know.....

DV

u think thats bad try winona minnesota we have 2 junkyards 1 only handels stuff 1990 and newer  and the other 1 is run by a bunch of *** who get mad if ur looking for something  they have an old lincon mkIII and an amc everything else is newer or a truck and to add to it the owners have a 60s pontiac in their backyard unregistered and they get away with it  if ur car gets impounded there the ones who pick it up and its easyer to get a new car then get urs back  the only other option is the crusher where most of the old stuff goes ive watched a 67 galaxie convertable a 74 nova a 57 fairlane a truckload of  40s cars and other things rusted beyond recognition  

yeah...  in 1994 I went home (lived the first 15 years of my life in L.A.) and my dad and I hit the self-serve yards for parts.  I found a near-perfect Rallye steering wheel, a set of Plymouth Scamp taillights, and a complete gauge panel for my '74 Dart for a grand total of $55.  Went to a swap meet in Orange County (Long Beach, if I remember right) and I found a grille for the '74 for $20.

Hey Ritter, I here you loud and clear. I live in the great WHITE NORTH and by that I mean Canada. Cars rust here sitting on the new car dealers lots. To us ,rust free and mermaids are the same. People talk about them, but no one has ever seen them. Keep the faith..  

Winona? Wow! I'm from Rushford! And I used to work at Elmers Salvage. You're right about the local yards. Elmers does have some old stuff, but it's nearlly gone (and they know how much it costs!). 

The funniest thing I ever seen at Elmers (except for my pay check) was this certain '72 Duster. Someone needed the rear end out of it. It had no wheels or tires on it, so it had been laying on the ground. We hooked the rear bumper, and lifted the car up. The WHOLE INTERIOR stayed on the ground!!! Seats, carpet, etc, just laid there!

That's what you call rust! The list of cars I haven't seen moving under their own power gets longer every year.

lol i always miss everything funny i know but theres still a good ammount of stuff laying around theres a farm that has an olds 442 infront of it a house with a mustang II a early 70s nova and an old dodge truck sitting next to it i know someone with a 76 eldorado rotting on his farm because it was his grandfathers i know another person with a 79 tbird with a late 60s 351 rusted to the ground i tried to buy it but the price changes every day and if it rolls back itll roll down a hill and smash into a large tree theres still a 70s grand prix rolling around town unrestored and the biggest smack in the face a late 60s early 70s el camino (burried too much to tell) down the street from my childhood home a 68 charger that the godd ol boys still havent found and a 66 charger with wisconsin plates in my neiborhood and they have a 79 malibu with a weird partial vinal top ? my 70 skylark came out of a garage that was falling appart on it it was owned by a wwII vetteran who was in a retirement home and died so it was sitting got it at auction for $800 58000 milles on the clock it was ordered with an am radio rubber matts (no carpet) and a clock in the dash u know the car ? the only history i have are service records from 1998-2003 mainly from speltz 66 i know from crawling uner it it was in an accident and the frame is twisted on the drivers side uner the Qtr i know the guys name was everett and it might of been a 6 cyl now a 350 v8 n e way ill shut up now and go away n e thing helps      

their is a junkyard about an hour north of Lancaster California.  That is still loaded with alot of vintage american iron..  It is off the freeway quite a bit and the cars are all most all complete the guy that owns it doesn't seem to know how to run a business so great buys..
 

how about it, whats the address, can you provide how to get there.

thanks, joe, digitfast10@yahoo.com

Mavbe he's talking about Pearsonville USA, the "hubcap capitol of the world".  It's on hwy 395 just north of the 14 interchange.  If they "don't know how to run a business" then how did they get so much money out of me? 

They have lots of great stuff but indeed can be difficult to deal with.  They are a little paranoid about all them city folks comin' up from Los Angeles and trying to rip 'em off and carry off parts without paying what they're "worth".  Probably rightly so.  Hey, it's your call as to what to pay, I was just damn annoyed that they wouldn't let me simply wander the yard, I was supposed to tell them exactly what I wanted and they'd tell me if they had it...jeez, I have twenty cars!  There was probably all kinds of stuff I wanted, I just needed to see it first.  Finally an employee hauled me around the yard in his own car, I tipped him five bucks and found some useful stuff.  Again, I paid well for it, but you know this ain't the seventies.  Once that stuff's gone, it's gone and they knew that.

FYI that was four or five years ago, things may have changed.  Anyhow, you can actually call 411 and ask for Pearsonville CA, and the wrecking yard, and get the place.  No there is no town, just the yard and a gas station, evidentally the wrecking yard guy must have registered it as a town and it has some history too as it's been there a while and they used to run some stock car races on a track off to the side when the owner was into it. 

My dad calls it cancer. My grandfather calls it rot and its all rust. My grandfather's 99 dodge van has rust on it and it sits in his garage. My 99 Ranger has rust. Rust is a huge problem in Pennsylvainia as well. My dad's 79 bronco is held together by duct tape, spay painted. a few months ago I saw a 2004 S-10 with rust on the front fenders. Rust free project? No such thing.

The only junkyard I found within  40 miles of where I live that had old cars in it was almost useless not only cause rust has eaten away most usefull parts, the weeds and bushes where taller then me. And I'm 6'4". The only AMX or Javelin was so rotted when I looked through the rear window I saw the front bumper. There was no floor, no engine. Going through that junkyard sadened me greatly. I nearly cried when I walked by Chargers, mustangs, camaros, ramblers, and on and on, sitting rotting away. I had to turn my head when I saw a 69 Camaro SS 396 with a tree growing trough its engine bay. The tree had grown around the engine and basicaly comsumed it. Combine that with the worst service I have ever had anywhere and the woman who owned not caring at all whether the cars rotted away or consumed by the trees and the rest of mother nature. I was like walking through a morgue full of freinds and familty I had accidently killed some how.

I live in Western NY and I went to the junkyard the other day to scrap some stuff,and I decided to take a stroll out back and see what was interesting out there. There's never anything you'd be able to use for a project,and rarely any useable parts,especially sheetmetal. I saw a 57 Chevy wagon with severly faded racing stickers and flames on the fenders,and a 50 or so chevy that must've been pretty cool before it was last registered in 1977! The old school 3 spoke wheel was still in it,and the quarter windows some cool looking speed stickers. I'm willing to bet it was a veteran of Niagara Dragway(niagara Falls),which closed in '74. There were 2 'Stangs,67&68,6 cylinder notchbacks,fairly complete and loaded with bondo and rust. The only mopars were from the 40's or 50's and Neons.It was definitely a far cry from the old days! I recall when I was 10 or so,and my dad had a '73 'Cuda he bought as a drag car. We went to a local ,rural yard that was seeming loaded with Challengers,Chevelles,Chargers and a few scattered and shattered 'Cudas. While walking up the laneway I spotted a black '68 Charger sitting on it's roof. Being that we had a 70 Charger R/T at home,I got all excited."We're here for cuda parts,not Charger parts " Dad said and kept walking! Of course all the cool stuff in that yard is long gone too.  

one nice thing about the NE rust is that when a hood of a car is pinned down by the car ontop of it you can take your altenater,  p/s pump, carb through the rust hole in the fender