Salvage yard pics

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by mechacode, May 28, 2005.

  1. mechacode

    mechacode Well-Known Member

    "Where's the buicks??" you'll all say but there really wasn't any except for the g-body regals. It was pretty much early 80's and up, what's in the pics are most of the older cars they had. There was one mid 60's buick sitting right up front and it was in really good condition, probably a runner, almost zero rust and was parked in a row of cars. Didn't get a pic because I didn't know if camera's were allowed and since it was really close to the office where a huge biker guy was watching, I didn't risk it.

    White interior, looked really good actually. Must not have been sitting there very long. On the hood was "hands off" written in the dust over each opening.
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    The coolant tank was just so damn white for being on a 25+ year old car. Too bad it was smashed in on the corner otherwise it would have been mine.
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    It's kind of sad. What you see in the pic is what was left of it.
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    Wish I had this when it was brand new.
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    Was a 4 door.
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    Never heard of a "gold duster" before so I took a couple of pics.
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    There was a guy in a mattress suit waving to people. An easy job, all you have to do is watch out for the high schoolers with baseball bats.
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    All in all, I got an aluminum hood (some rare option), some very nice sun visors, the trim for the hood I currently have and needed and a fender brace to make a pair so I would call this trip a success.
     
  2. r0ckstarr

    r0ckstarr Well-Known Member

    Had a friend in highschool that had a gold duster. Pretty cool car, but his was a bucket of rust that never ran right.
     
  3. 73BuickGS455

    73BuickGS455 A Long Restoration

    Yeah, I went to a junkyard alittle while ago and no Buicks! But a few older cAMAROS AND tRANS aMS THAT WERE RESTORABLE. :Brow: :Brow:
     
  4. what yard did you go to?
    what are you looking for?
    maybe i can send you to a few i've been at
    Greg
     
  5. mechacode

    mechacode Well-Known Member


    I was given a tip that there was an aluminum hood for my cutlass sitting in this yard. Lots of g-bodies in this one, definately gonna go back to it. This one was around sullivan, don't remember the name, some huge biker guy with a large beard ran it though.
     
  6. was it jakes or on the west side right on 18 called south car and truck salvage
    both have big bicker guys
    jakes has a son of a b---h for a yard man, big mouth and i ended up telling him where o go
    the other yard was cool
    got lots of parts in there
    there was alot of skylarks and gs's in that yard and even a few wildcats and centerions
    one was a vert
    Greg :TU:
     
  7. mechacode

    mechacode Well-Known Member

    The directions I took were 26 into jefferson, left on 18 for 10 or so miles. Definately some interesting folk around that place, the one guy who helped us bring the hood/parts/us back was exclaiming about how lucky he was to have gotten a 12 pack of 40's of some cheap bear and he had been drinking them all day.
     
  8. thats the good yard
    there was a hotty in the yard the last time we where there :eek2:
    she was a bit tippy as well
    big hill all the way to the back of the yard
    took her yard car over the edge and smashed her face all to hell :3gears:
    we got her up out of there and friend went to the front for help
    the guy came back with a few beers and she poped one open and just smiled :beer threw the blood going down her face
    turned out to be one of the guys daughters :shock:
    the old man smiled at us and asked if we took a squise on her or not :TU:
    they be great guys but animals
    the 350/ 400 pound guy had funguse growing on his arms :jd:
    he was talking about taking a bath once :rolleyes:
    it was just a fun time that day
    i know they where all toast by the time we got there already :bglasses:
    parts where cheap and still are :laugh:
    Greg :grin:

    if you look in the junk yard jewels section
    you will find some pics of the skylarks and one or 2 of the centurion convert as well as other there
     
  9. mechacode

    mechacode Well-Known Member

    Yea, I did a double take when I saw some blonde in her 30's dressed in tight leather biker gear. There were two mean looking dirt covered dogs there as well, they warmed up to me after I let them smell my hand for awhile though. THe van driver said they were moving stuff around as well so I should come back sooner than later if I wanted to get parts off a car I remembered.
     

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