Posted on 12/06/2008 2:46:38 PM PST by taildragger
Imagine a secret junkyard frozen in time somewhere around the 70's with every bit of vintage hardware stretching for hundreds of acres. Classic Mustangs, Camaros, Cadillacs, Hemis; you name it, it's here. But not for long: The law man's saying to crush 'em. Massive mega-gallery below along with the location and what you can do to save them.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
Now that we've got that out of the way, this dream junkyard can be found here, which is in the forests of Rhode Island. If any readers decide to purchase some vintage iron from said junkyard, drop us a few pictures at tips@jalopnik.com. Happy hunting.
Bump!
Go to the link and see all the Iron, Oh my...
Does anyone know Jay Leno and how to get ahold of him? The qustion is whould he or someone of his stature champion this...
Are these parts cars or worth saving is the big question. Either way, they deserve saving.
Sacrilege.
Mustangs are unibodies. IF they’ve been sitting long enough for the chassis to sink into the dirt and rust away, then they are ruined anyway. Salvage some of the chrome trim, lights and maybe some of the windows are still good. That’s about all. Otherwise it’s all junk
Yes it is, and 100 acres of them to boot.....
thar’s gold in them thar woods.. be a shame to just crush ‘em if they’re salvageable ..used to drive my brother’s 65 2+2 Fastback 289, sadly long since eaten away by road salt and rust ..
Mustangs are awesome. Why did they let all of those great cars go to waste?
at the bottom of the pics page there is a google map link
zoom all the way in and follow brant trail and you can actually just see the cars in the woods
Unbelievable! Who knew that they still had forests in Rhode Island?
It’s too bad that they weren’t in the drier West, where they wouldn’t have rusted.
No doubt some good parts, but a whole lot of rust for many of the whole cars to be worth much.
Bookmarked
man there has to hundreds of them out there once you follow the brant trail for a while they are just scattered everywhere
insane
According to the Left, all cars should be scrapped. Or at least those made before 2004. Detroit’s big 3 agree.
True dat!
they just keep going and going they must cover acres
1968 GT 500 KR BUMP!!!
1969 GT 350 BUMP!!!
Looks like all are basket cases beyond the stage of restoration.
Sad, but it could have been worse - they could have been Corvette’s, the only true American sports car.
OK, the Dodge Viper counts as an American sports car, but doesn’t have the history of the Corvette and are still too new to be “classics”.
I hate to bring politics into this but, Pelosi, Ried, Waxman and Obama all want us in an uninspired “peoples car’ and they would kill restoration and modification via Taxation if they could....
I imagine that would be heaven to some.
Wonder if they’ll find a few Iraqi aircraft buried there, too?
I’ve been watching OverHauled all this afternoon........Wow, those guys would have a field day!
bump indeed, but don't see those in the pic.
Don’t know if any of that rare metal is their, but I did see one 68’ Torino. I wonder how many “big block” cars are in their.....
There isn’t a whole lot of anything in Rhode Island, but there is plenty of forested land. The mansions near the beaches are quite nice, too
Holey moley! Bookmarking for the guys.
speaking of bacteria colonies check out this video of worldwide air traffic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2144199/posts?page=1
Amen. All there is of worth are a few trim pieces and the VIN plate. Literally everything else can be bought from Year One.
100 acres in Rhode Island is a county.
You could carpet the whole state for very little money. (Apologies to “Arthur”)
This is where all the cars buried in the “Blizzard of 78” ended up, thankfully with Global Warming they can returned to their rightful owners, once their bodies are found too.
That green fastback looks just like my first car.
We will need those cars after the terrorist nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack, and all the essential computers in the modern cars are wiped out.
Rhode Island has a forest??
I know someone who has been there....A crazy old coot owns all those cars. Most if not all of them are nothing but rusted out junk. You would have to put twice as much money in them to restore then they are worth....
I’m going to ignore the potential symbolism of finding a dream-like realm of tens of thousands of weather-savaged US autos.
That satellite picturelooks like my neighbor’s back yard.
Here’s the low-res area for folks to take a look at. It’s loade!
When I saw the headline, first thoughts were P-51’s!
OTOH, these are good, too.
As to the noseys, I know a few places in Northern California & Southern Oregon that would get a few land owners in trouble, if anybody ever cleared away the blackberry vines. Those aren’t hillocks or hummocks making the lumps in the berry patches.
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dude has a couple million dollars of OEM parts there.
And not much imagination if he can’t figure out a way to capitalize on it!
From the ‘40 on, when there was a derailment on a major RR line, little or no effort was made to salvage freight, including automobiles. They couldn’t shut down a line for that long. There are dozens of sites where RR cars full of new automobiles were bulldozed into trenches and covered up. The insurance companies paid off and the cars are still buried in the middle of nowhere. Most were probably banged up pretty good but old RR hands told me that some were buried without a scratch. In arid areas, they probably still don’t have a lot of rust.
From the ‘40 on, when there was a derailment on a major RR line, little or no effort was made to salvage freight, including automobiles. They couldn’t shut down a line for that long. There are dozens of sites where RR cars full of new automobiles were bulldozed into trenches and covered up. The insurance companies paid off and the cars are still buried in the middle of nowhere. Most were probably banged up pretty good but old RR hands told me that some were buried without a scratch. In arid areas, they probably still don’t have a lot of rust.
Lots of vintage tin there.
There must be 100 pictures of the junkyard at that site.
Lot’s of junk, but some goodies there also.
A few 65-66 Mustang 2+2 GT fastbacks, a “Christine” car, a couple of ‘57 Caddies, a ‘56 Caddy, a ‘67 Camaro, a ‘40 Ford body, a ‘57 Chevy Apache pickup; some 30s and 40s pickups, a ‘58(?) Chrysler 300; a fairly complete ‘46 Chevy Fleetmaster 4-door in decent shape.
The work trucks and dump trucks would have parts that could be used on some pick-ups.
The cars are pretty much goners but could yield valuable parts or rear and front assemblies, fenders, hoods, grilles, etc.
Lots of junk that the owner should have scrapped earlier this year when scrap steel was high.
They’ll probably stage a portable crusher there and cube the cars and truck them away. There’s still a small fortune in scrap steel there.
Hard to imagine,but there was a day in the distant past when each of these vehicles were first driven off the showroom lot to the thrill of their first owners.
Most of these bodies are only good for parts
Cool photo with lots of cars. True: the parts are salvageable.
FDR had the CCC string them together to form sand dunes, flash flood channels, or something, out there.
Sort of balanced off the breakwaters he had built where it was wet.
As to this 'secret' junk yard; seems an enterprising state could contract with someone to collect and sell off the good stuff to at least partially cover cost of cleaning up the rusted out hulks.
(They are not all mustangs; some nice stuff in there; '46 Ford, IH Pickemup, some F100s, couple of Mopars, Torino and Gran Torino, some '49-52 Chevies, Econolines, at least one vintage trailer, etc. Even the 'stangs have good fenders, top bows and hydraulics, back seats ($500 for just the wires for a convertible) and other very hard to find parts - and all [yes, even Mustang] are better quality than any repop.)
And, someone wrote about where all those Mustangs went - NO BODY, in the entire world, Ford or Ford owner, thought ANY Mustang would last more than about ten years...they wren't built to go any farther.
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Recycling is old cars trucks and vehicle parts is conserving valuable natural resources and incredible amounts energy
Destroying them is wasteful and criminal
It requires over 15 barrels of oil to build a new vehicle
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