Lost treasure (Junk Yard Find)

WOW I didn't even noticed them, next trip I'll keep an eye out for pintos and comets. I don't know when my next trip to the boneyard will be but it will be in seguin tx --John's Salvage Yard. I was thinking of taking my vidcam to photograph in 360degree.

 

I have not seen a good salvage yard in years. Most won't let you in the yard and the ones that do don't have $#!t. When I was young I would just go walk around the yards even if I didn't really need anything. There was some cool stuff in the 70's and 80's. Now it's all been crushed or rusted away. I wish I could find a good yard around here.

You are lucky.

 

At John's Salvage Yard in Seguin TX, he only has old cars dating from early 80's and before. The last time I was there about 3 years ago I found an old late 30s to early 40s roadster of some kind with an inline flathead engine that had more than 8 spark-plugs. I have only gone about 6 times total and usually stay about 5 hours walking around and I have not yet finished seeing everything. This place is huge, many 30s-50s vehicles even old buckets. This is the place where I found an Offy high-rise dual 4bbl intake for my 390 f-series big block for only $150. That last time 3 years ago I went with an acquaintance of mine that was majoring in photography at UT Austin and she took many photos, she was going to send me copies but I haven't seen her in some time, she moved to Houston TX At the end of that semester. Here is the website, not much of a website though. Thousands of hidden lost treasures in that bone-yard. http://johnssalvagecompany.com/

Just google it, you will see that he is among many people's list of boneyards to go visit.
http://www.amxfiles.com/resource/junkyard.html
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Johns.Salvage.Co.830-303-9300

This place is in the middle of nowhere and I learned about there location from oldschool retired hotrodders. we were in search of an old 2dr 1949 coupe and could never find one that was not a rust bucket. We finally went to some junkyard north of austin close to taylor TX and the owner was an old rodder drinkin some brew with his buddies and one of them asked if I had tried John's, I responded no, where was it located. He gave us the address, we drove to it the next morning and we were ammazed. We found what we were looking for, a complete 1949 chevy coupe with all trim and chrome complete with only surface rust. Better yet, it was a police interceptor that was still running. We didn't want the 3??cid corvette engine and transmission, my buddy already had the GM 400cid setup for it. We took it for $600.

 

My last MIG was a Lincoln 175 that ran on 220V single phase with variable adjustments. Portable and strong. This machines was one of the best machines I've used for fabricating. Welds up to 7/16" carbon steel with .040 mild steel wire. I used that one to build my RX7 trike. I also used it on stainless steel and aluminum using nonmixture Argon.

 

John's Salvage Yard web site- boy that old bone yard, i could walk through that for hours looking at all those cars - wow. What a mix . Yeah they don't show too many cars on their site but still pretty cool!

 

We were luicky (a friend of mine and I that own Pintos) to find a salvage yard near Dallas that advertised a car (a '78 Pinto hatch, fully optioned) on Craigslist. Across three weekends, we STRIPPED that car to almost nothing. We took all the body panels, the dash, the rear end, and LOTS of other stuff.

What is left is the engine, tranny, seats, and body - pretty much everything else is gone. For those wondering, NO, there were not any Mavs/Comets in the yard. The yard is FULL of modern vehicles, we just lucked out on this particular find.

Another one dies for the good of others....

Chris