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Looks like we lost another local old iron yard. I drove by last week for the first time in about a year and found this '64 to be the only thing sitting where hundreds of cars used to be. From what I seen, almost everything was gone. The whole place has been reduced down to about 2 dozen vehicles. It seems there was zero advertising before scraping operations swooped in. The guy who had inherited and been running the place was a bit of a dick. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he just closed shop one day and said crush it all. It's either that or he died and his family immediately said crush it all. Too bad they did have a going out of business type sale.

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BlueC said:
Looks like we lost another local old iron yard. I drove by last week for the first time in about a year and found this '64 to be the only thing sitting where hundreds of cars used to be. From what I seen, almost everything was gone. The whole place has been reduced down to about 2 dozen vehicles. It seems there was zero advertising before scraping operations swooped in. The guy who had inherited and been running the place was a bit of a dick. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he just closed shop one day and said crush it all. It's either that or he died and his family immediately said crush it all. Too bad they did have a going out of business type sale.

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Money talks , he could make thousands from scraping them , unfortunately if he tried to part them someone would bitch that he wanted $200.00 dollars for a grille . He likely got tired of dealing with all of it. Who knows , maybe the county was on his ass for the environmental " damage " he created .
 
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BlueC said:
Looks like we lost another local old iron yard. I drove by last week for the first time in about a year and found this '64 to be the only thing sitting where hundreds of cars used to be. From what I seen, almost everything was gone. The whole place has been reduced down to about 2 dozen vehicles. It seems there was zero advertising before scraping operations swooped in. The guy who had inherited and been running the place was a bit of a dick. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he just closed shop one day and said crush it all. It's either that or he died and his family immediately said crush it all. Too bad they did have a going out of business type sale.

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What absolutely sucks is that once they're gone, they're gone...forever. :(
 
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What absolutely sucks is that once they're gone, they're gone...forever. :(
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That's where I'm at with it, which is why I really hate the people who bring in the crusher. There's good parts that just simply disappear when the scrap crusher is involved, and that drives the prices up until things are unreasonable, especially for the oddball, non mainstream vehicles.

That same week I rode by another local old junkyard about an hour in the other direction that has been partially cleaned out and reduced, too. All of these cars below are now gone. Like the other guy, these guys also inherited this yard from the grandfather, but had been operating it as a part time thing, basically a call-this-number operation. Knowing the area, I'm guessing these guys got an offer or the land from one of the corporate house builders like DR Horton. They still have some stuff on site, but there has clearly been a clean up operation happening.

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I just realized those were two of the three old iron yards around here.
 
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