Gold Dragon

Found this on the web. Neat photo of an old bone yard. Anyone wanna take a guess what year it was taken? If you look close, there are a few C-3 s on the left. Reminds me of when I would take trips to the wrecking yard with the old man. He would be hunting for old Ford parts that would work on his British cars. Not my thing. I just enjoyed looking at the old American muscle cars, hoping to find a souvenir like a shift **** or an emblem. Dreaming of the day I would have cool car.

Ray

Easy Mike

I've seen the pic before, possibly in a Corvette News article.

Aerovette

Corvettes do not appear to get rear-ended often.

v2racing

That's what I was thinking as I looked at this photo.

Mike

Aerovette

Far left, halfway down.

Bet someone "created" and all original SWC.

RMVette

I've seen that picture before too. I wonder what happened to all those bodies?

raydog9379

And most of the engines are gone because XYZ car over there is now powered by a "Corvette" engine. Might be some truth to that saying when looking at this pic.

oldgto

Good catch! I`ll bet you`re right!

Alan 71

Hi,
What an interesting photo!
Push bar and roll bar?
Regards,
Alan

Why one 57 sedan in the mix???

raydog9379

Yeah, this guy might have the only 64 split window in existence with some kind of BS story. Or they pieced together a 63 with parts from a later car and parts of this chopped 63 rear body and all is "original"

John 65

That's a great pic, thanks for posting it.

I see a little custom work there at 9 o'clock.

Go Vette Go

Picture reminds me of many trips to Contemporary Corvette in Bristol, PA years ago! Kind of sad but a great source for original parts for my 76!

tokim

That was my first thought also.
I used to go there when I was about 18 (44 years ago).

So I'm going to guess around 1975.

midigike

Looks to me that most of those Corvette owners should have been driving straight six Novas instead

JETS C3-C4

My guess the picture was taken in the late 60's or early 70's. I see a C3 coupe rear clip against the fence. The good ol' days and cheap parts.

bazza77

the extra tail lights ?

also is that a swc under the stem of Alan's yellow arrow ?

540 vette

Upper far right in the corner is the mythical all steel corvette that everyone's friend, uncle or cousin owned back in the day.

car junkie

Wrecking yards like this were never open to the public, at least none that I've seen or heard about. That many wrecked Vette's in one spot must mean this was a Corvette specialty operation. Most of those car are fairly well stripped which tells me a pro operation, KEEP OUT! It ain't no pick-a-part.

CraigH

I have seen the picture before as well.

Am sure it was in a HotRod or Car Craft magazine in the late 70's

Went and found a couple of their Corvette special edition magazines from that era but could not find it.

I Have both mags from that era bound for a few years so I could have it with more detail.

Was in my late teens but still kept a few issues over the years.

car junkie

This

Hot Rod Magazine May 1978 Vette Mania