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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!
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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.More »
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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]
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]
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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.
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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]
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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.More »
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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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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. 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?
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More Jalopnik-Approved Home Decorating Tips: Junkyard Mirror Icons
My house has a funky 4-foot-wide room that used to be a porch back when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House. Other than insulating the rest of the house from the noise of drunken fistfights in the street when the local dive bar closes, it isn't a very useful room. It does get lots of light, however, so I've filled it completely with office plants left behind by laid-off coworkers during the decline-and-fall period of the dot-com boom. But something was missing... ah, yes, the Junkyard Touch™. I've got the '56 Chevy hood ornament on the wall, so it makes sense that I'd start grabbing icons dangling from the mirrors of junked cars and hang them from the light fixture. Am I the next Martha Stewart or what?
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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.
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1973 Plymouth Satellite Readies For B-Body Afterlife
A supporting actor in countless Malaise Era cop movies and TV shows, the 4-door early-70s Plymouth Satellite has just about disappeared from American streets by now... and now the number of street-driven Satellites has been reduced by one. I found this example (painted in the Malaise color I'm going to call Diminished Expectations Blue) in a local self-service junkyard. Can you just imagine this thing with a gumball machine on top, screeching through turns in a frenzy of understeer during pursuit of a sideburn-sportin' perp scumbag in a Chevelle?
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Cadillac Northstars Finally Appearing In Self-Service Junkyards
I remember a time in the early 1990s when small-block Chevy HEI distributors finally started showing up in large numbers in the cheap self-service junkyards; those of us driving Chevy-powered heaps could rejoice at being freed from the misery of ignition points for a mere ten bucks. Now that point has been reached with the Cadillac Northstar engine: an aluminum DOHC V8 available for your personal engine swap madness for just $100 complete (on Half Price Day, that is). Here's a '93 Eldorado I found at a local junkyard not long ago. Hmmm... wonder how hard it would be to fit this engine in a Cavalier?
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When I saw the junked '71 Eldorado last weekend, I said the same thing to its engine-displacement emblems that (ex-schoolteacher) Chaim Witz said to 16-year-old Christine when he saw her walking home from school: I got to have you! Of course, I didn't mean quite the same thing by my statement (you hope), but the upshot is that I've got a companion for the Super-Malaise Cadillac V8-6-4 emblem now stuck on my office bulletin board. Apparently The General's marketing types felt that the British "Litre" spelling would give the Eldo added style; we can also see this philosophy on the '73 Grand Am.
No Room For The Cadillac Engine? Get The Emblem!
When I saw the junked '71 Eldorado last weekend, I said the same thing to its engine-displacement emblems that (ex-schoolteacher) Chaim Witz said to 16-year-old Christine when he saw her walking home from school: I got to have you! Of course, I didn't mean quite the same thing by my statement (you hope), but the upshot is that I've got a companion for the Super-Malaise Cadillac V8-6-4 emblem now stuck on my office bulletin board. Apparently The General's marketing types felt that the British "Litre" spelling would give the Eldo added style; we can also see this philosophy on the '73 Grand Am.
