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down on the junkyard

The Junked Cars Of Limerick, Maine

We like to see a sampling of junkyard wares from around the world, and Slantsick has added to our Rusty Iron Grand Tour by photographing some of the more interesting vehicles at C.I.A. Salvage of Limerick, Maine. Make the jump to see the whole gallery and read Slantsick's list of vehicles.


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4:00 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Murilee Martin
997 views, 34 comments

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Here In California, We're Crushin' Thunderbirds!

You guys who tear your hair out when you see a nice, easily restorable old car heading to The Crusher in this series... think you can work up any tears for this beyond-basket-case '59 T-Bird? I spotted it at the same East Bay wrecking yard that gave us the '69 Renault 16, and it looks like you might be hard-pressed to find many usable parts on it. Still, the engine is still there, and the front bumper looks like it might be salvageable.


3:00 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,102 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Here in NY, that car would be called a "decent driver" and it would be for sale for about $6k firm. You California people are so spoiled, You can't walk a few feet without tripping over a great classic T-Bird. I love more »

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Proof That No Car Is Immortal, The Eyesore Pimpin CRX Heads To The Crusher

Just finishing a single 24 Hours of LeMons race can mean a one-way trip to The Crusher after the race is over, as was the case with the Team Come From Behind Probe. After all, a couple days of metal-crunching, rod-throwin' action tend to be rough on a sub-$500 car. That's what makes the glorious career of the Eyesore Racing CRX so great; Soichiro's little 2-seater not only finished three races, it placed 7th at the October '07 Altamont race, 7th again at the December '07 Thunderhill event, and took the coveted People's Choice award (along with a respectable 18th-place ranking) at the May '08 Altamont race. However, even a Honda can't live forever, and team member Wrappedinbacon sends us this photo of Eyesore Pimpin's dearly departed race car. Jump to read his description and see the entire Eyesore CRX Greatest Hits gallery.


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4:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,827 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: it's earned it's seat at the table of heros in Valhalla....damn shame about that damn carb heater,damn it more »

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24 Hours Of LeMons Veteran Awaits Crusher In Long Beach Junkyard

Is it better for a car to go out in a blaze of glory on the racetrack than to die an ignominious death of a thousand minor failures? We can all ponder that question as we study the corpse of the Team Come From Behind Probe, which didn't finish in the top 50 at Altamont but hung in there for most of the race despite some broken parts. Yurikaze found the Probe- roll cage still intact- at the Ecology yard in Long Beach, and was kind enough to share his photos with us. Make the jump to read Yurikaze's description, plus see the entire gallery (and a bonus gallery of the Come From Behind Probe during happier times). Yes, that's the Vanilla Pride Little Tree air freshener I handed out at the race!


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3:00 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,431 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: @acarr260: Actually it was a 0% junk added car, though the actual junk content was probably about 80%, more like 180% when Colin drove it (he's the one to thank for all of the critical damage save for the wheel, that more »

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AMC Concord Crusher-Bound, In Spite Of Landau Roof

With the optional VW/Audi four-cylinder (same engine as the one in the Porsche 924) under the hood and its snazzy faux-convertible landau roof, you'd think this '78 Concord would be worth keeping on the road. Apparently not, as I spotted this very solid-looking AMC being prepared for a stint on the stands at a local self-service wrecking yard. After that, it'll be Crusher time.

2:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,310 views, 33 comments

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Doomed Datsun 610 Remembers When People Drove Small Japanese Wagons

It was Half Price Day at the local self-service yard last weekend, and I had my eye on a Porsche 928 that had been there the week before, thinking I could buy that purty Porsche intake manifold to hang on my wall. Sadly, the 928 had already gone to The Crusher, so I decided I might as well check for other interesting stuff... and, sure enough, here was a super-rare '74 Datsun 610 wagon. The L20B is still there, and so is the factory 8-track player. Well, the 8-track was there, since I felt compelled to grab it. After buying all those 8-track tapes for the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox, I need a backup deck!

2:00 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,758 views, 22 comments

Latest by brandegee: @DannyBN: Remember the first-gen. Hyundai? My GLS 16v was painted in something called Chameleon. It was almost impossible to determine if it was brown or gray or a hue of purple. It was the color of cooked liver. I've never more »

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Super-Rare Dodge Sweptside Bides Its Time In Arizona Junkyard

A pickup truck with fins? The aptly-named 57Sweptside sent these in quite a while back, and now we can all bask in the junkyardy goodness that is Arizona. Make the jump to read 57Sweptside's description; once you're done looking at the gallery, head here to see all the photos.


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4:00 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,140 views, 24 comments

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Every Peugeot 504 In California Now Crusher Bound

I owned a 504 of this vintage in the early 90s, and they were a not uncommon sight back then. However, I haven't seen one on the street here for at least ten years... so why have I found two of them in East Bay self-service junkyards in the last few months? Where are they coming from? Hopeless Hell Projects finally ousted by enraged spouses and/or landlords? This one has plenty of good parts left, from trim pieces to the Problematique transmission, but it seems unlikely that anyone around these parts will claim them. (At this moment, a reader in Senegal is clawing at his computer screen, attempting to will those rust-free Pug parts around the world to his garage.)

4:00 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,224 views, 21 comments

Latest by SuperCarnitas: And as if on cue, a 2-fer deal on 504s appears on SF Craigslist. more »

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This American's Rambling Days Are Over

Remember that Rambler engine block that was so much fun to identify last week? That wasn't the only shot I got of the Crusher-bound '64 Rambler American; in fact, that wrecking yard currently has two Ramblers (in the Ford section). This one still has plenty of good pieces (well, it had them last week, when I took these photos), so let's hope that more than just the cylinder head gets rescued for use in surviving cars.

6:20 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
752 views, 30 comments

Latest by larsenf: @larsenf: well i admit that it wasnt much room to spare and it was scary as hell. more »

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A Case Of Junkyard OCD?

While I can't claim to be a junkyard photographer of Lost America's caliber, I do my best to capture junkyard images that tell a story. The other day, I went to the local yard... More »

6:20 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
4,526 views, 59 comments

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A Little TLC Will Get This Honda 600 Back On The Road. Well, No.

You don't see any Honda 600s on the street these days, although they didn't sell too badly back in the early 70s. You see them at car shows, and that's about it. That leads me to wonder where this example I spotted at an East Bay self-service wrecking yard has been hiding all these years. It looks like the interior is packed with engine parts from several other Honda 600s (or maybe Honda motorcycles), so maybe this was a "last resort" parts car that was finally used up by a 600 freak and discarded like an empty sake bottle. Not many parts left, but a few bits and pieces might be worth salvaging.

3:00 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,281 views, 29 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: @sos10: Wow, I remember that dealership but I don't remember that ad!If you were anywhere in the reach of Metromedia channel 5 in DC take 30 seconds to check this: anyone from that area knows this Joon Rhee by heart. more »

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Pearsonville Junkyard Erased, But Not Before Lost America Captured It On Film

We love junkyard photographs, and Troy Paiva, proprietor of the Lost America site, has shot some amazing ones at the now-defunct Pearsonville Junkyard in the Mojave Desert. There's no Photoshop trickery here, just long nighttime exposures and colored lighting. Make the jump to check out the whole gallery, at which point you'll probably want to spend the rest of the morning checking out Mr. Paiva's other work. [Flickr]

10:40 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,813 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: What once was and will never be again. Todays cars and trucks all look the same, no style or personality and those that went retro such as Chevys SST or Toyotas FJ are missing alot and are not affordable and more »

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Hardtop Or No, This Galaxie Is Crusher Bound

Hyperocky's DOTS '67 Ford XL 2-door hardtop looks great, but we must remember that not all big Fords of its era are quite so nice these days. Plenty of beat-to-hell examples manage to clank along for decades before their date with The Crusher's jaws, as was the case with this extremely rough '66 I spotted at an East Bay wrecking yard last weekend. It appears that the dashboard and quite a few interior bits have been salvaged, so at least some of this Ford will live on in other cars.

2:00 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
592 views, 16 comments

Latest by Searcher: @Mad_Science: Sorry, but definitely a Windsor. The core plugs on the ends of the heads are the first giveaway. FE's have none. The FE intake goes under the valve covers, this one does not. Last, the FE water pump is SBC-like in more »

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Swiss Junkyard Actually A Museum

That crazy Arizona wrecking yard had some cool stuff, but the forces of darkness have conspired to erase that yard from the face of the earth. Not so at the Historischer Autofriedhof Gürbetal in Switzerland, which keeps a big yard full of moldering Opels, Studebakers, and who-knows-what-all. You can't buy any parts there, but you can (apparently) shoot all the photos you want. Thanks to SOS10 for the tip! [foto.blick.ch, Flickr, Autofriedhof.ch]

3:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,204 views, 23 comments

Latest by Stuntdriver: @Miscellanea: can`t find the picture... i`m seriously wanted those porsches.. they bring tears to my eyes... how a classic purebreed can end his life that way??? more »

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Caddymino Longs For Escape From NorCal Junkyard

Since I haven't needed to buy any race car parts for a few weeks, I've fallen behind on Junkyard Find photos. Fortunately for us, car-graveyard aficionados such as Maymar, Yurikaze, and now Armand, Star-Spangled Pedant have stepped up with their own junkyard finds. Here's a one-of-a-kind Caddymino that Armand found in a Willows junkyard; make the jump to get his story.

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3:00 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,625 views, 19 comments

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Citroen DS Coupe Sleeps In Toronto Junkyard

Since we're in a Canadian Citröen mood today, let's take a look at this unusual machine that our Canadian friend Maymar photographed at a junkyard in Ontario. As far as we know, Citröen never made a DS coupe, but Maymar seems to have sleuthed out the likely ancestry of this machine. Make the jump to read his description.
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6:00 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,209 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: [www.flickr.com] Here is the car, It is FAKE.look for yourself, the owner wants 2000$ more »

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Serious Patrol: Welcome To Long Beach!

Back when I lived in Southern California, I spent a lot of time in the junkyards in the Long Beach area. Fine junkyard town, Long Beach, with oil refineries providing a nice backdrop to the rows of parts-donor cars. Yurikaze feels the same way, and he's photographed some interesting stuff in his Long Beach junkyard travels. To use Yurikaze's names, how about that customized RX-7? Or the Creepy Ice Cream Truck? Or the Death Ordered The Free Summit Catalog Hearse?

2:00 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,699 views, 28 comments

Latest by TheTooth: @fodder650: NO HOLE IN THE HOOD! YDMF! more »

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Volvo 1800S Joins Its Amazon Brethren At East Bay Junkyard

Not long after undertw rescued a bunch of parts from a Volvo Amazon featured in this series, another old Volvo has been put out on the same yard. This is no run-of-the-mill Amazon, however- we're looking at a genuine Volvo 1800S (I'm going to say it's a '63, based on the grille) with plenty of good components ready for the picking.

2:40 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,611 views, 67 comments

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