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January 27, 2009, 08:16:03 PM

Just searching the web and found this. If i lived near La Grange, GA I would love to pick some up. The ones that caught my eyes are the 1987 Merkur XR4Ti, 1982 Ford EXP, 1980 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon, and a 1982 Ford Thunderbird.
http://flickr.com/photos/forwardlookguy/sets/72157602090321543/detail/

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Reply #1 – January 27, 2009, 10:48:08 PM

A few cars in there would be nice to snag up for a Rat Rod project. Cant really tell how bad off they are from the pics though.

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Reply #2 – January 28, 2009, 11:10:01 AM

i like the 53 fairlane...itd make a real nice luxury rod!!!!

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Reply #3 – January 28, 2009, 12:53:45 PM

Jeez, what a shame. I just looked through all 31 pages and might have seen a dozen that were salavageable. Most look like they came to a sudden and very violent end, and many aren't even recognizable. The best thing to do with that yard would be to bring in a mobile crusher...

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Reply #4 – January 28, 2009, 01:06:56 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;254104

a mobile crusher...

They make something as terrible as that? If someone had the money to buy everything, take it all apart, the sell the panels there [SIZE="5"]"[/SIZE]could[SIZE="5"]"[/SIZE] be some money in it.
I wouldnt quit my day job though.

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Reply #5 – January 28, 2009, 02:15:18 PM

if i owned that place id have a couple sick rat rods........

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Reply #6 – January 28, 2009, 04:32:04 PM

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They make something as terrible as that? If someone had the money to buy everything, take it all apart, the sell the panels there "could" be some money in it.
I wouldnt quit my day job though.

Yes, they do make a mobile crusher. I'm surprised you've never seen one. I saw one for the first time at the junkyard I used to go to when I lived in the city. I can still remember going there after buying my 88 T-Bird, hoping to snag an '88 Sport buttstuffogue cluster and seats that I'd seen a few weeks before. When I went there the crusher was there, and there was a stack of crushed cars. Somewhere in that stack was the Sport. They were feeding cars into it with a wheel loader with a fork on the front instead of a bucket. It was a neat, but terrible, thing to watch.

Wasn't a complete waste of a trip, though - I did snag the console out of an '83 Cougar, which I still have (in fact it is installed in my car).

I'm sure you could salvage a panel or two, or a pane of glass, or a bumper, but the vast majority of the value in most of those cars is s metal. They're not even rust free. Looks like some of them are broken into pieces (I seem to remember seeing an early 60's Falcon wagon that looked broken in half) and you can tell many of them were brought there after severe collisions. Others looked like they were dredged from lake bottoms. Like I said: Some are hardly even recognizable as cars, let alone what kind of car. It'd be an interesting place to walk through, but more for the history than the hope of resurrecting many of 'em...

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Reply #7 – January 28, 2009, 04:47:26 PM

And you thought my car had rust.

I've never seen so much rust in one place.
Must be the salt in the air. There are better looking cars in Buffalo, when I went looking last summer

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Reply #8 – January 28, 2009, 05:13:20 PM

Here's the Falcon I was talking about. Can you imagine trying to salvage this? It would break into pieces before you ever got it on a flatbed:

'Course it still held together better than this old Volvo:

How the hell did they even recognise what this is?

...Or this?

Imagine the sudden stop this one came to:

This Mustang didn't fare much better:

...and this Tempest must have really nailed something hard on the right front. Look at how that door and fender folded:

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Reply #9 – January 28, 2009, 05:46:04 PM

looks like a great place to find old vent windows. LOL

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Reply #10 – January 28, 2009, 06:32:48 PM

The '73 LTD didnt *look* like the body was in too bad of shape.....but you never know

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Reply #11 – January 29, 2009, 01:58:00 AM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;254154

Here's the Falcon I was talking about. Can you imagine trying to salvage this? It would break into pieces before you ever got it on a flatbed:

'Course it still held together better than this old Volvo:

How the hell did they even recognize what this is?

...Or this?

Imagine the sudden stop this one came to:

This Mustang didn't fare much better:

...and this Tempest must have really nailed something hard on the right front. Look at how that door and fender folded:

Ive seen my share of destroyed car both new and old but like you said some arent even recognizable. Now those where cars that where built to last, you took the beating and the car moved on. Todays cars take the beating and you move on. With that being said, how many people died in how many of those cars?

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Reply #12 – January 29, 2009, 09:16:40 AM

looks like my junk yard except the years dont go back and dominate the 40's llike that. My yard has the 50's on up.

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Reply #13 – January 29, 2009, 10:16:12 AM

There is a place near me very similar with the shape of the cars, except they are mostly T Birds, matter of fact when I was a kid we had a purple 64 Bird which I found one day while looking thru the place. The guy passed away last spring and I imagine the mobile crusher will be arriving there shortly as well. I was thinking of buying the guys place/shop/etc when we moved here but the town wouldnt have allowed me to keep all the cars there he had been grandfathered in for the towns code.

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Reply #14 – January 29, 2009, 07:17:30 PM

Anyone notice the '83 Bird next to the '82?