Wrecking Yard With 1,000 apps Cars About To Be Crushed - LOTS of Fuselage Cars!

[73Coupe]

I have hundreds of pictures. There are more cars on an adjacent property. We worked our way towards them several times and someone started shooting from the genral direction. Apparently some of cars were over the property line. There was also a barn FULL of air cleaners and other tin that was eventually cleaned out. Most of the cars in the yard are missing the air cleaner assembly.

For out of towners- Happy Camp, CA is not a place to go sight seeing. Many of the locals are hostile and there is no local law enforcement presence. There are lots of cold case disappearances in the area. If you must visit Siad Valley my advice would be to find someone familiar with the area. There is still a cross section of nice people that would you would expect in a rural community.
Be aware that Happy Camp and Siad Valley are generally known as areas to avoid.

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From the pictures and description I wouldn't even think of trying to get to this "secretive" location. It would be a big waste of time. It's over 1.5 hours from a remote part of Hwy. 5 if it is indeed in the town of Happy Camp. Forget it.

I don't understand why folks hoard cars, and even try to "hide" them whilst letting them decay (or burn) into worthless heaps of shite. Mental illness...

 

[Jeremiah]

From the pictures and description I wouldn't even think of trying to get to this "secretive" location. It would be a big waste of time. It's over 1.5 hours from a remote part of Hwy. 5 if it is indeed in the town of Happy Camp. Forget it.

I don't understand why folks hoard cars, and even try to "hide" them whilst letting them decay (or burn) into worthless heaps of shite. Mental illness...

The yard is 100 yards off of the paved road. The cars go up the mountain and there are heaps ofarts and other good stuff. If it's worth it to go to of that trouble IDK.

The story I got was that the owner was a drag racer/entrepreneur from the Whittier CA area. He owned the local car shop/towing service and held the towing contract with Caltrans through the 70s-80s. I assume this is true because many of the cars are wrecked in some form. The owner was an intelligent guy with good taste given the impressive disaster he created. I say this because the cars are somewhat organized but they are PACKED in there. The cars I ended up with were only present because of the difficulty in retrieval and also cpntending with two narrow, steep hills with buildings and vehicles packed together at the bottom. Steep as in the car wants to get away from you with four flat tires steep.

Unfortunately all of the titles and other paper work burned in the old house that next to the shop with the coupe. That happened after the owner unexpectedly passed away.

I hate the thought of the place getting crushed but it's a loss
leader considering the logistics and inventory.

This could be one on pf the last great collections of the West. Ironically the OP and I were both present at the Charles Kee auction circa 2012. That was a surreal place out in the high desert.

 

[cuda hunter]

I did not see any ebodies. Did I miss some?
Parts sheds like those are where I want to look for the M46 scoops.

It appears that the cars do not deteriorate via rust in that location compared to most yard locations across the States.

 

[Jeremiah]

The only e body (to my knowledge) was a 383-4, fc7 1970 Challenger non R/T car. It was wrecked hard. It can be seen in the picture I posted in post #16 ( my yard) and post #20 ( as found).

It has the original drive train, fender tag etc. which males for gopd conversation. It will likely be yard art for the rest of it's days. I titled it just in case I get delusional enough to start such a project.