Re: Junkyard Packards

Posted by Wat_Tyler On 2022/7/8 6:43:07

Some of those old school junkyard proprietors were real characters, and I suspect they got into the auto salvage business because they didn't have to deal with many people, and the ones they did deal with were on their own terms.


In 1968, Dad bought a '41 60 Special and ran outta gas on it near the end of disassembly. There were a lot of reasons for that, but that's another story. Anyway, he was working at the Army base 25 miles from the house and he'd pass a couple of good old salvage yards. One had a couple of Cads in it, but the guy was unwilling to part with much of it. We went down there one Saturday when I was about 11 or 12, and I remember seeing a pile of model A differentials just sitting there. Literally, a pile of them. Dad always said that the old guy was "in love with his junk."


Hard to find a good salvage yard any more.