TCracingCA

I love love love Corvette junkyard Photos!!!!

Revfan

ughhhh...

Can't bear to watch....

jbar1

What year were these photos taken and where was the location? I grew up in the LA area in the '40s and '50s and saw several junkyards like this around southern CA specializing in certain autos. Unfortunately, no pictures as gasoline was $0.18 a gallon and was more important than buying a camera.

John

rayvaflav

This is tough to look at ....

raypilot65

There's no such thing as Corvette junk anymore. I just see parts and gold in those pictures.

SIXTYTWO

I believe those pictures are of the old "Lincoln's Salvage" from the Seattle area. A great source of original C-1 and C-2 parts back in the seventies and eighties. They were sold to "Corvette Pacifica" I believe.

plaidside

This photo I took about 8 or 9 years ago.
Joe

csherman

oh holy crap.....
How many of those were lost? and how many were saved.....????
How many are numbers matching, never wrecked, fully documented.... LOL

66since71

Anyone remember the name of Corvette only junk yard (and body shop) in Grand Prairie Texas? It looked a lot like the one in the photos above from TCRacingCA?

Harry

Edit... Should have mentioned, it was in the 70's

Keith Carlson

Good photos and I remember places like that with lots of cool parts and cheap too!

tjstarduster

I was quail hunting 10 years ago about 50 mi. SW of Midland (when there were quail in West Texas) and we walked up on a 63 or 64 Corvette roadster. It had been sitting for a long time and was a basket case, but the engine and most of the other components were still in the car. It was cold (about 40 with the typical West Texas wind blowing) so we didn't stop for very long. Later I asked the guide if he knew anything about the car but he didn't know or care. I tried to find out who owned the car bur never was able to. We were hunting on a 6 section ranch and I don't think the owner even knew it was there. He was mainly interested in his oil wells! TJS

Old Vet

In 1990 a buddy & I bought a corvette bone yard in Colorado. If I remember right there was only one car that rolled! All the others were from cowl back, cut down the middle etc, probably 50-75 parts cars I total. Man if the internet & forums like this would been around we would have been the source.

Packed it all around to area swap meets for years, then sold remainder of lot to a guy on the western slope.

As is I have boxes of small pieces I should just get rid of as I don't need them and won't.

No pictures but I have a video on VHS that I should see if I could convert to video some day.....

MrPbody

the Washington sunshine kinda confirms it
They had a large indoor storage area also. I remember going there with friend who was looking for an inner door panel for his 57 (this was ~early 70s) and not expecting to find one. the guy at the counter just asked "what color?" they had them all. I've often wondered what ever happened to that place.

BTW: surprised no one has mentioned the 57 Nomad in the one pic.

Russ

TCracingCA

Yes I believe these are Lincoln!

Down here in Socal. We had JD Corvettes old lots. There was a guy over in northeast Anaheim close to Yorba Linda north of the 91 and west of Imperial that had a big yard. I even saw one of the Magazine cars junked in there. Then I wish I could have taken pictures of Dave's old yard (and I might have been one of the few to enjoy that visit and experience) and even the new building is super cool. I could roam around for a year marveling at stuff, if he would let me.

I consider them fallen warriors!!!! I think there is beauty in the photos. I really think I added some elegance to this thread with this last one!!!!! What do you guys think!

I have a vision of what if! Maybe that one was a ZR-1, an L-89, a Fuelie, a show car custom!

When I did a search of Corvette Junk yards-- it appears on the Digital corvette Forum, they have done this thread and alot of pictures show up.

Mike Geary

You were in good shape if you needed a REAR clip for your C2.

Wet roads+high HP+skinny tires=the above.

Bluestripe67

Seeing these is like seeing pics of barn finds. Dennis

ifitgoesfast

that would make a great museum... as is

steveale

first pic left edge looks to be a 76 cadillac, initially thought duce and a quarter buick, but tail light looks more caddy.

2nd picture, right side looks like an early 70's vette fender, probably a recent wreck.

so yep, mid 70's on those pictures...

TheGanzman

Back "in the day" there was a guy DEEP in South Carolina named Floyd Richardson who had a Corvette-only 'yard. He was a HUGE fat guy who lived with his VERY young wife in a single-wide trailer on the grounds. We used to walk that 'yard a few times a year back in the '70s & '80s; in-between breaths he would tell us the "story" on each and every car - MANY of them were crashes that resulted in fatalities. I remember seeing the speedometer needle PEGGED on what was left of one '68 BB Coupe - a frozen testament to an "Oh Sh*t Moment"...

paulywannafly

This is my junk yard

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/atta...1&d=1380060777