Found this neat old '62 Galaxie at the junkyard today. It is very solid and straight. The car is a special order car according to the DSO (44-0370, Twin Cities, MN). The V.I.N. is 2D51Z110747, which decodes as a 1962 model year car, built in Dallas, TX, 2 door Galaxie Club Sedan (54,390 built total), 390 4V premium fuel engine, and the 10,747'th car scheduled for production at the Dallas plant in 1962. Car was a three on the tree car from what I can tell (trans code 1). I found service records in the car from where they installed new tires and had an alignment done in 1967. Sad that this car will be crushed within two months.
I was only there for about 25 minutes. Since I was already on the interstate, I decided to make a swoop down that way to double check that Comet on my way up to NC to get the parts to fix the '72.
Jamie - you need to buy that car and save it. You've got the room! I wish it was a 65, I need a few things.
straight looking body too. that looks like it would have been a great resto project before it got ripped up.
I wish I could buy it. I'd have that thing cleaned up and crusin' down the road in a month. I tried to buy a decent '72 Sprint they had there last year, and found that they do not sell the entire cars out of that yard for some reason. So I had to just get all the parts I could off the car and watch it go to the crusher. But not before getting the info off of it for Dennis' Sprint registry. There are two 65's there. I know for a fact at least one of them is a two door. I think the other was a convertible that had been on fire. Don't know what's left of them. What do you need? There is also a '63, '68, and '71 there.
There's always a way - it just may take more money than it's worth. Similar scenario - a salvage I go to won't sell whole cars, but will sell them by part. He will sell a car body if there is no drivetrain (engine or transmission). I thought, fine - I'll buy all of it. Then he told me I had to remove the drivetrain from the car and carry it out seperate (two transactions). I think that is a legal thing here in OKLA.
It is the same way here, I could pull the body off the frame, buy the rolling frame and body seperately and put them back together. More trouble then it's worth, though. There are no laws about it here as far as I know. It's just the yards policy.
Thats gay. What kind of yard doesn't sell whole junkers? Here all you need to do is offer the guy too much for it and it's yours. There was a 69 Dart GTS here a few years ago with the 383 still in it. The guy wasn't going to sell it but when he saw 10 $100 bills he let it go. It's a show car now.
Pull-A-Part on the south side at I-285 and I-675 http://www.pullapart.com/Inventory/SearchDetail.aspx
