Salvage Yards Disappearing

And when NOS and FACTORY AUTHORIZED REPRO parts sources dries up, you will be buying one another's car for parts ... :eek:
 
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I have most of what I need for my Model A restoration. But I don't know what I need yet for my 57 wagon restoration. Hopefully I can find it (whatever it is) when I need it.

Mike
 
Mike, if you haven’t stumbled across them, here’s the link to All American down in Vancouver WA. Been some time since I’ve done business, but they’re still there. If you want more info, you might pm Bandit Billy over on the HAMB. He’s a Vancouver guy.

https://www.allamericanclassics.com/
 
I live between Buffalo & Syracuse NY. There is nothing left around here that I know of.
Many of the decent swap meets never came back after COVID. Thank God for the internet!
 
And now with the new tariffs, CHI-CON SLOPPY-COPY PARTS are going to be even more expensive.
 
56sedandelivery said:
If it means getting quality parts instead of chi com crap that doesn't work half the time I will pay it.
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Any imported part, whether OEM, quality or CHI-COM will be subject to the tariff.

So any well inventoried salvage yard will start making the big bucks (along with UPS).
 
I remember CTC's ads in Hemmings. Most of the junkyards in my local area (northern NJ) are gone now. Not to mention large wooded areas where cars from the 40s & 50s were abandoned back in the 60s & 70s. In the 80s I had a '62 Comet which needed a new rear bumper. I found an abandoned Comet in the woods and unbolted the bumper and installed it on my car!

Fortunately, eBay, Craigslist, etc. are your friends. It's actually easier now to find rare parts now than it was then. I have a '58 Ford Custom 300 4-door that needed the anodized gold trim strip for the rear door. Where you gonna find that? Someone in Minnesota had one and sold it to me. I also got a POWER BRAKE pedal for a '62 Mercury Monterey from someone in Canada! And a '60 Dodge speedometer face from someone else in the midwest. Pre-internet, such reach would be impossible.

I still can't post links or photos, but if you google search "Curbside Classic Touring Jurassic Car Park Last Resting Place Of Extinct Dinosaurs" you can see one lost junkyard that was a few miles from me (now gone).
 
I remember CTC's ads in Hemmings.
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HEMMINGS, SUPER FORD MAGAZINE and there was a weekly circular that included used and abused auto parts locally.

But then again, yards were more available and everything hadn't been picked over and rusted.
 
It certainly isnot the beginning. These yards have been disappearing for the last 15 to 20 years, maybe more. Except for the rural areas in places like upper New England and Pennsylvania, yards in the northeast are essentially gone, especially for old stuff. .
 
Urban sprawl has done away with a whole lot of yards. Back in the day there were three salvage yards within a mile of me. Now this was in the 70s so long way back. But twenty years later when I moved they were all gone. Converted to housing tracks for homes or condos. Locally here we just had a new pick a part open up but it is out in the boonies and do not have any old stuff anyway.
 
Well, you also have the FED and STATE/COUNTY EPA, property and personal property taxes and liability insurance, not to mention labor costs. But pretty soon, it is going to be the only source of quality replacement parts as new parts (incl OEM) are pure junk.

Usually, the larger yards would take a salvage in and completely part it out (incl lubricant, coolant and fuel drainage to be recycled $$$) and crush anything left non-sell able.

For example, if a body shop needs a take-off replacement power door, and the yard only has a manual door, they would rebuild the door with other take-off components.

Huge differences in classic yards and late model production yards.

As for personal property taxes, here in WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA you pay taxes on a vehicle even if not tagged. They operate heliocopters to fly over say a farm or industrial area to find any non-tagged vehicles.

PAUL? Your take on the subject?
 
many a fine time I have had over the years, youth to adult... roaming, scrounging and traipsing in and around junk yards! usually full of plenty of sad stories that the 6 pm news confirms continues daily... never walked the dusty, muddy roads and off shoot lanes of stacked wrecked and banged up cars, etc, and not found plenty of interesting things to see.

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We don't have property taxes on vehicles.




KULTULZ said:
Well, you also have the FED and STATE/COUNTY EPA, property and personal property taxes and liability insurance, not to mention labor costs. But pretty soon, it is going to be the only source of quality replacement parts as new parts (incl OEM) are pure junk.

Usually, the larger yards would take a salvage in and completely part it out (incl lubricant, coolant and fuel drainage to be recycled $$$) and crush anything left non-sell able.

For example, if a body shop needs a take-off replacement power door, and the yard only has a manual door, they would rebuild the door with other take-off components.

Huge differences in classic yards and late model production yards.

As for personal property taxes, here in WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA you pay taxes on a vehicle even if not tagged. They operate heliocopters to fly over say a farm or industrial area to find any non-tagged vehicles.

PAUL? Your take on the subject?
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