Re: Junkyards again

Posted by RedMF40 on November 12, 2018 at 07:09:58 from (74.92.145.113):

In Reply to: Junkyards again posted by Southern Ray on November 10, 2018 at 06:02:49:

I have a soft spot for junkyards, like to think of all the rusted and twisted cars as they once were--driving off the lot brand new. And of course picking through the useable parts as I often did.

A couple of stories: Camping in the high desert near Lone Pine, CA one year, I was driving back through an area called Red Rocks, if I recall. On that same highway was a salvage yard full of some really old rust-free but sun-baked cars. I had to stop. I made up some miscellaneous part I could use for my Honda back home, and the woman had it there and let me take some photographs. She liked fancy hats. That was her thing. In fact, as I was paying for my part, her sister came in with a package just arrived. Yep, another fancy hat. She tried it on and I have to say it sure was fancy!

Fast forward few months, back home out east. I turn on the evening news and what should I see but the woman junkyard owner being profiled in a human-interest piece. I guess a reporter had stopped there and got the same idea to look around. It was a few minutes of talking to her and showing off her fancy hats and looking at the old cars. Funny collision of events--turning on the tv and seeing the place I'd visited on a whim.

Locally there was a junkyard I remember as a kid. On a stretch of Route 1 just south of Baltimore, looked to be a few acres of cars that never seemed to move. Right along the road was a row of medium trucks--IH, delivery vans, box trucks, road tractors. I was mesmerized. The trucks were there for years. As I got into tinkering with old stuff, I went there on three different occasions over a pretty good span of time. They never sold me anything, even though they had the part. There were a few MGBs among all the old cars, and I needed a wheel for a spare. Nope, someone might come along and buy the whole front clip, they said. They weren't gonna fool with no stinkin' wheel. So everything sat, untouched. Last time I drove through the place was gone, just a big grassy expanse where all the old relics waited to be hauled off to the shredder.

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