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Please keep the photos coming. I enjoy a good junk yard tour. Some stuff makes me sad, some stuff makes me smile, some stuff I wish I had! Thanks for posting!!
My latest junk yard visit
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Sad and cool at the same time.
Mindshark, I think you are spot on. My Dad's uncle had an old time gas station/general store across the road from our place. He was a hoarder and held on to lots of brand new really old stuff. Pickers would've gone nuts there. When he closed it, he just closed it, and it remained nearly untouched for decades. Also had several very old cars in good original condition, including a Ford Model T. When he died his son moved in to his place and kept it all pretty much the same. He died just recently and shortly after he did, his wife had a big auction and sold all they could. Then the bon fires started....and are still going on with some regularly a year later...
Mindshark, I think you are spot on. My Dad's uncle had an old time gas station/general store across the road from our place. He was a hoarder and held on to lots of brand new really old stuff. Pickers would've gone nuts there. When he closed it, he just closed it, and it remained nearly untouched for decades. Also had several very old cars in good original condition, including a Ford Model T. When he died his son moved in to his place and kept it all pretty much the same. He died just recently and shortly after he did, his wife had a big auction and sold all they could. Then the bon fires started....and are still going on with some regularly a year later...
70bigblockdodge
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Tri-five, that's how.
C Body Bob
Old Man with a Hat
He had several tri fives in the yard & a really nice one in the garrage
69 300 vert
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That's a '53 isn't' it? With Power Glide I think it's a 115 hp rating, more than the Ford flathead.
Newport 66
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I don't get why you'd get beat up over the Rambler pics. Nothing you can do or say about where, why or how.....
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
That just bolsters my point. It's like Chevrolet did not exist before the small block.
Chevrolet people are strange breed.
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Like the other opened minded folks on this post I think these photos you took are a fabulous walk down memory lane. Thank you C Body Bob!
I'll 2nd that "ATTA BOY" BOB. I've only been in Wilmington for 5 yearz but I had no idea their waz a Bone Yard like that within striking distance of me? I know of a similar yard like that in Centeral Michigan but that guy waz selling partz(part time) when we moved south in '14. Anyway, A BIG THUMBS UP AND POST 'UM UP ANY TIME. A very nestalgic trip, Jer
It's a '53 or a '54.
Can't tell which one.
300rag
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Those stickers on the bumpers of the Rambler are in great shape still.
mikedrini
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Man that chaps my ***. I know it's the dude's right to do what he wants, but just letting those things sit there when so many of us would be willing to buy/restore them. Ugh...frustrating. Like rescue dogs, give those puppies a new home! Someone who'll take care of them!
Old Mike
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That Marauder is Elwood Engel for sure. You can almost see him approving that design before he walked out the door on his way to Chrysler.
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great pictures. Thanks!
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