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01-11-2022, 04:21 AM | #1 |
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What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies.
What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies. |
01-11-2022, 05:11 AM | #2 |
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Re: What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies.
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Same difference, PLUS 80 years! DD |
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01-11-2022, 08:20 AM | #3 |
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What models will be desirable some 80 or 90 years in the future? Probably anything that requires constant driver attention and is powered by an ICE. That is if gasoline is even available 90 years out.
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01-11-2022, 09:35 AM | #4 |
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Re: What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies.
Possibly MEDICINE BOW MOTORS in Missoula, MT 70's-80's ?
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01-11-2022, 11:00 AM | #5 |
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Re: What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies.
Might be Antique Auto Rosemead Ca. junkyard in late 60’s.
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01-11-2022, 11:48 AM | #6 |
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01-11-2022, 12:04 PM | #7 |
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Re: What a waste of good thirties Ford bodies.
What a waste of good wagons.
Traded horses for horsepower.
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01-11-2022, 04:57 PM | #8 |
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As V8COOPMAN said in Post 2, things have not changed. Desirable XF Falcon Ute in Australian Scrap Yard. Hope someone saves it before it is crushed. |
01-11-2022, 06:01 PM | #9 |
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3ARDUN2 if you're talking about Gene Scotts' place in Rosemead, the yard was really out in Irwindale and that ain't it anyway.
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01-11-2022, 07:47 PM | #10 |
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Before they become collector cars, they are just another used car
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01-11-2022, 09:33 PM | #11 |
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i think thats my 3w dead center in the picture
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01-12-2022, 02:57 AM | #12 |
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More scrapped vehicles in the forties. A 1937 Ford Tudor Sedan on the right, plus a Packard. |
01-12-2022, 10:18 AM | #13 |
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Something else to consider is that cars became obsolete much sooner in those days. I became quite aware of cars around 1960 at age 8 or so. I don't think I ever saw a model A or anything resembling one driving on the road except maybe a parade. Woulda been a 30 year old car. I still see plenty of cars and trucks from early 90's on the road every day. I understand road salt kills them early in many parts of the country, but they are fully 'modern' and useable.
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01-12-2022, 10:20 AM | #14 |
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I guess on the positive side it makes the survivors worth more. The one that always catches my eye is this scene in "The Dead Cars Place" on YT where a forkift drives it's forks through the windows of a good looking 53 Merc, much like mine. Man, I need that drivers door glass!
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01-12-2022, 04:47 PM | #15 |
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I know grown old guys aren't supposed to cry but all those "primo" coupe bodies pretty near bring me to tears ! BTW, where in the Hell are all the old stock cars that I watched in the "50's" hiding now ? There have to be some a guy could restore ?
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01-12-2022, 04:51 PM | #16 |
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1953 Mercury Sedan being picked up by a Forklift - RalphG |
01-12-2022, 04:52 PM | #17 |
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Junkyard in the Sixties. Look at all those great cars being scrapped. |
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01-13-2022, 11:11 AM | #19 |
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When I was 8 or 9 I use to go to the Junk Yard on Saturday when the crew at the Junk Yard was not working. I would sneak in the back of the Junk Yard to see what goodies I could find. I would look under the seats, pull the rear seats and sometimes I would fine money, a dime or nickel and pennies. Once I found a small tin box with 4 dollars in it. But the big price was a gun. It was a 32 loaded in a oily rag under the seat. I still have it. I kept it hid for several years. Sometimes I would fine some small tools. Then one day I seen a man in one of the cars. He had turn black being dead for a long time. After that I was afraid to go out there junkin we called it. Hobo's we called them back in the old days. The railroad went pass the yard and that where the Hobo's came from.
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Hmmm ....Do ya reckon that he's still there in that car? I mean ....did ya call the authorities, or did ya just run-off and leave him for dead? DD . |
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