Rarest or Coolest Find?

What is the rarest or coolest car you have ever seen sitting in a junkyard? E.G. Anyone ever seen a Z-16 or Daytona or such? :3gears:

 

A 1970 Eliminator!!!

Now go get that car you nut!!!! :laugh: :laugh:

 

Here are some found in junkyards and owner's front and backyards!

http://www.buickperformance.com/buicksrough.htm

 

The rarest cars I ever saw in a junkyard were a GTO Judge ? year, 65 GTO 389 3-2bbl car, 69 Boss 302 Mustang, 66 Mercury Cyclone, and believe it or not a completely rotted out 66 442 W30.
Duane

 

Not exactly a junkyard anymore, but I know the resting place of an Apollo White '70 GSX (I will most likely be dragging it home once we dry out around here) and right next to it is an Orbit Orange '70 Judge convertible. He also has a boat load of Chevys, older SS's one of which is supposed to be an LS-6, an SS 454 Monte Carlo, probably 7 or 8 S-3 Laguna Chevelles and dozens of beat to death second gen Camaros, many appear to be Z-28's (he was into circle track racing). About 15 years ago there was a yard in Apple Valley in Southern California that I saw a 1969 Trans Am and '71 Judge convertible. He was going to fix them up someday. The land is now a bunch of cookie cutter houses and the cars are long gone. This is the same yard I found my '70 GSX steering wheel in.

 

At Leon's in Culpepper, VA was a 70 yellow GSX 4 spd.
When I saw it , the only thing remaining was the chassis,body from the firewall back no int, fenders, bumpers hood etc, just a shell with the stick shift pedals hanging from the dash metal. They wouldn't sell it but it has been removed from the yard. This car was complete when it came in with a bad engine !

 

At a "local" yard I found a 70 Cougar Eliminator, 70 Cyclone Gt(still had the 429 in it!!) a Boss 429 and a shell of a hemi cuda(had the big letters HEMI on the side of the car) and 2 67 GS's, 1 a vert and the other a hardtop, all this at one yard and for the prices he was asking for parts no wonder they were still there!

 

1967 Chevelle SS

Around 1988 I visited my folks who had moved to Alabama and across the street from their home on the mountain there was a 1967 Chevelle SS with a 396 and 4 speed sitting near some woods. The front clip was off and sitting beside the car. It was there 4-5 years and would you believe I didn't even make a contact because of my financial situation at that time. A year later....it was gone with the wind as they say. Never let that happen again! ou:

 

Rarest and coolest find was at a local yard in my area that had a '70 cutlass SX. The sx's are pretty rare, and this one had the console floor shift automatic w/ stock oldsmobile 455. That was maybe 2 to 3 months ago. Also found a 3 70-72 skylarks, although 2 of the 3 are missing engines/and tranny's.

 

I've found a few interesting bone yards in my trucking travels, but I'm going to keep them secret for now. :laugh: :laugh:



Actually, I've forgotten exactly where some of them are. o No:

There's one in Colorado along Hwy 287, never stopped to check it out, but had 30-40 cars from 40's, 50's and 60's, just parked in a field. This was about 5 years ago, haven't been back that way since. :ball:

There's another on either I-15 or I-25, which had about 15-20 55,56, and 57 Chevy, mostly wagons, can't remember which town, only went by it once.

Haven't found my holy grail of a junkyard find yet.

 

I just, about three weeks ago, had an opportunity to buy a 1969 GTO. And car did document up as an actual Judge. It was totally in pieces. I mean body off the frame (shell), no rearend, no trans (was a 4-speed), but 400 engine was there as well as most of the exterior for............$400.

I passed because I knew what would happen to it. Someone is going to just pull the VIN plate and title and put it on a LeMans and sell it off as an original. And I just didn't want to get involved in that kind of deception.

 

best find

one time I was exploring around Mena, Ark and there behind an old service station was a 1965 Ford Thunder bolt. No engine but the rest was there.

 

Red '74 Apollo GSX in my local pick n pull. Pretty sad shape though. :ball:

Saddest thing I've seen was a boneyard about 75 miles from me loaded with old gold. This yard was a time capsule back to the '20's cars with rumble seats. Management there was old school and didn't know what they had. We visited many times over about a 4 year period and got parts off all types of cars. Here's the sad part..... yard crushed everything in it in about 2 months at crush weight of about $88 per car! They could have stripped them, warehoused parts, and made a fortune on ebay. I really thought I was going to cry when we discovered them in the process of crushing on a visit. Only about 1/3 of the yard was left then. So sad! :ball: :af:

 

Rarest I ever seen was a 66 Olds tri-power (L79???) Not sure if thats correct.But it was red and had the funky aircleaner that had pieces that went down to the lower front of the bumper. I have seen pics of these cars,but didn't know the signicance of it at the time.I am thinking it was a W30 as well.

 

I know the place you are talking about and it is on I-25 but not one of the cars is for sale.. the guy keeps them all to himself.

 

what ive seen

the rarest things that ive seen in a junkyard was a pair of 68 gs california edition, along with a 57 bel air in one yard, and a 69 mach 1, 70 gt torino, 340 71 cuda, 69 sc/rambler ( with that really funky hood), 72 gs 350, 69 road runner, along with tons of other not-so-high name muscle cars, ie cutlass, skylarks, mustangs in another. all in tucson,az. imagine that (little to no rust).
the second yard is where my step-father got a rear decklid spoiler for a 68-69 skylark gs!

buickbert

 

my dad bought a 72 gs 350 out of a junkyard here in tucson for 600 bucks also picked up a 69 gs 350 4speed out of a junkyard

 

finds

late 70s early 80s i did a 5yr tour in a wrecking yard.we crushed a 70 71?stage 1 :ball: i poped the stage 1 badge 30min before,still have it.also 69-70 boss 302,bought the wing for $25,put it on my wifes 72 lemans GT.also speedway had a 70GSX for $500,boss wouldnt give me the time off to go get it :ball:

 

I found a 69 442 sitting next to a 69 Judge outside Hunsville Al. once, tried to buy them but the owener of the junk yard was storing them for someone else and lost his # I left him mine but never heard from them. Also found a 69 rs/ss camaro in a junkyard outside Chattanooga Tn., same case here the guy was hiding it from his wife during a divorce. No luck ever finding the owner of that one either. As well as a taledaga cyclone in Trion Ga. but its gone now.

Mitchell
69 442
69 cutlass convert.
Hopefully to be finished one day