"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
07/09/2020 at 23:57 • Filed to: POStal
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
07/09/2020 at 23:57 • Filed to: POStal | 3
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Depending on your point of view, you should either pour one out, or breath a sigh of relief. When David wrote his article about it being found in a Chicagoland junk yard, there was a lot of joking about rescuing it or people traveling to go see it.
This yard isn’t the kind of place where vehicles sit a long time. It’s a small but high volume yard. It’s the only one around here. The next closest yard is 30 miles away, and in a dicey area.
As a result, Victory Auto, famous in the area for it’s cheesy commercial that ran ad nauseum for literally decades, crushes things pretty quickly.
When a vehicle gets put out there for people to pick, the clock is running. I don’t know how long they’re out, but it’s a small num ber of weeks. Once the time is up, the vehicle is crushed no matter what is still on the vehicle. Gotta make way for fresh meat.
It was only three weeks ago that I went to see the Jeep DJ, and it didn’t look like anything had been pulled off of it yet. Now it and everything it shared a row with is crushed. They crush a lot of vehicles here.
I walked the fence line hoping to see POStal’s remains, but didn’t. I did see some crushed classic metal though. I may have audibly gasped when seeing it.
I had to smile at this LeSabre. One of my best friends in high school had one just like it. We had a lot of fun in that old Buick.
I also saw this sweet AMC wagon outside the yard.
I’d post more pictures, but I’m too lazy to credit them. Blame kinja.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 00:04 |
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Sad!
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shop-teacher
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/10/2020 at 00:06 |
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Honestly ... Nothing of value was lost. It was shockingly bad in person.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 00:08 |
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I don’t get the desire to try to resurrect a heap of rust. I tried once and said to myself never again.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 00:09 |
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It was kinda a fun idea, but it’s for the best.
The little jeep is finally at peace, free from the tyranny of Tracy making it do things it grew out of.
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shop-teacher
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/10/2020 at 00:17 |
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Its time for that metal to become a toaster or something.
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shop-teacher
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/10/2020 at 00:17 |
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It was really really bad in person.
fintail
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 00:27 |
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That oldie almost looks like a prewar car. But in that condition, it’s scrap too.
This car crusher Youtuber (from WI, I believe) has some videos with really old material being crushed. When scrap value exceeds demand, there we go:
https://www.youtube.com/user/1964corvan/videos
i86hotdogs
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 00:27 |
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Between this and the Eagle Man, best local commercials out there. I burst into laughter when that door just collapses to the ground.
You live a lot closer than I thought to my hometown (Park Ridge) . When I had to give up the Caddy due to a blown trans, I limped that thing to Victory and actually MADE a profit* selling it to them.
*it was free, the previous owner got it for free, and I think the previous previous owner was the first owner.
Jim Spanfeller
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 00:40 |
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I can’t watch those videos, they make me want to cry. It may be silly, but that’s the way it is.
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shop-teacher
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 00:49 |
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It was almost certainly prewar. Hopefully the rest of the shell was as bad or worse as that front fender clearly was before it got crushed.
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shop-teacher
> i86hotdogs
07/10/2020 at 00:51 |
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I live 6 or 7 miles from Victory, so yeah I'm pretty close to Park Ridge. I junked the RallyMetro there and got $40 more than I paid for it.
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fintail
> Jim Spanfeller
07/10/2020 at 00:54 |
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Just try to think the cars were beyond redemption, and any useful parts had been salvaged.
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shop-teacher
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 00:59 |
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I'm trying!
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Jim Spanfeller
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 01:00 |
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I almost always think of a use for them, and they rarely seem too rusty to salvage for at least a hot rod. Even when they’re clearly too far gone, I just see wasted potential...
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fintail
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 01:02 |
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The shape made me think maybe 38-40 or so Ford, but pretty impossible to tell. As so much is reproduced for some of those cars, as you say, hopefully the rest was bad and anything useful was claimed. I can imagine r usty body panels are the least desirable parts.
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fintail
> Jim Spanfeller
07/10/2020 at 01:04 |
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For that particular uploader, when rust clouds are emitted by the cars or they are so rotten they bend on the forklift, they are too far gone. It’s the rare trim that makes me cringe, but I have to think it gets salvaged. Hope, anyway.
Aremmes
> i86hotdogs
07/10/2020 at 01:06 |
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Starred for Eagle Man reference. I only know it from the interwebs, but that’s some funny shit.
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Aremmes
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 01:09 |
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That junk yard is cleaner than some parking lots around here. The junk yards around here are dirty and waiting for the slightest chance to cause someone to get a tetanus booster.
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Jim Spanfeller
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 01:12 |
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Yeah, I was lucky in that the previous owner of my car had already gone to the trouble of finding any missing trim so my car is complete. Tracking that stuff down is a pain... The worst IMO is if a piece of door trim is missing so it breaks a continuous line...
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fintail
> Jim Spanfeller
07/10/2020 at 01:24 |
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I can relate, I have a car from the same era. I can find anything mechanical, much of it can be ordered direct from the dealer even in 2020 - but some little trim pieces are virtual unobtanium (the fin edge chrome clips have been a special wild goose chase). If I had land, I’d have some parts cars.
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Jim Spanfeller
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 01:47 |
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Yeah.. this is the real reason why hot rods go for that “clean” look ;)
Derpwagon
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 02:27 |
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Good riddance.
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shop-teacher
> fintail
07/10/2020 at 08:22 |
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That’s my best guess for what vehicle it was too. I hope the useful bits all got pulled first. This yard crushes them when their time is up, and whatever is still on the car goes with it. Hopefully the scavange rs, and there are lots of them as it is a very busy yard, had stripped it down already.
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shop-teacher
> Aremmes
07/10/2020 at 08:30 |
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It is really nice now being fully paved and with such high turnover. It used to be a terrible yard. When I first went there looking for parts in the late 90's, they had the cars stacked in pairs. The bottom car would be on the ground, with another car on its roof. If you needed a part from the top car, you had to climb up there, and if you needed a part from the bottom car, there was another car on top in your way. If you needed a part off the bottom of either car, forget it . It definitely wasn’t paved then either.
It was a good 20 years before I went back to junk the RallyMetro, and was shocked how nice the yard had become.
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shop-teacher
> Aremmes
07/10/2020 at 08:31 |
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“Oh, look at those low rates!"
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shop-teacher
> Derpwagon
07/10/2020 at 08:32 |
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You're not wrong. It was turribad.
Gone
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/10/2020 at 09:13 |
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Resurrected a CJ-7 w/cancer. I just cut most of it away and left it like that, only repairing the floors. Never again though . I tried to build a rock buggy out of a scrap heap CJ-2A that I got as a trade for some wheels or a dead 232 maybe (so long ago) , but threw it out (pretty much). But then some pre-David Tracy type person gave me money for it f or some unknown reason. The frame wasn’t even worth it. Props to that guy though bec au se instead I made a tube buggy and he paid for 75% the DOM tubing I needed lol...
MM54
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 12:24 |
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Plot twist: you couldn’t find it in the crushed pile because someone came in an bought it.
It’s always a shame to see cars crushed, but of all the old cars to crush, that old mail jeep was pretty well due.
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i86hotdogs
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 15:51 |
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Since it was “running” when sold, I got $300 for that behemoth of a Cadillac.
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shop-teacher
> MM54
07/10/2020 at 17:28 |
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Nothing comes out of that yard alive.
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shop-teacher
> i86hotdogs
07/10/2020 at 17:29 |
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Nice! The RallyMetro drove into the yard, but it had a LOT less metal in it :)
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i86hotdogs
> shop-teacher
07/10/2020 at 17:41 |
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You could probably fit the it in the trunk of this Caddy. Packaged deal!
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shop-teacher
> i86hotdogs
07/10/2020 at 22:53 |
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Probably!