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Ranchtruck

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I see a fair bit of stuff go through for scrap.
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56 f600 with a Yblock.

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Extended cab longbed.

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Before & after of a 67 camaro.

Todays culls a couple of v6 camaros and a Monte SS:
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64 coupe deville with a 429 & 1 year oddball th400 with a factory adapter plate. A guy cut the nose & tail off for wall art but I've been sitting on the rest of it for a bit.
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VW Samba bus my neighbors demolished
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48 international KB8 that I ended up rescuing and getting the red450 unstuck.
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No brakes yet but I do put it to work.
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Ranchtruck said:
I see a fair bit of stuff go through for scrap.
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56 f600 with a Yblock.

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Extended cab longbed.

20240828_155541_2.jpg

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Before & after of a 67 camaro.

Todays culls a couple of v6 camaros and a Monte SS:
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Are we just posting AI pics?
Cause the green Ford is AI for sure
 
Giant old Insley excavator that I nearly rescued but it was just too big for my needs.
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Ran great, v8 cummins 903. The control cable for the left track valve block was seized but it drove around. Undercarriage was in good shape. Needed a couple hydraulic hoses but the boom operated. Only 1800 hours on the clock. I ran it around a bit and tested it out. Hooked a chain to the bucket pin and the drawbar of a d8 and it could lift the ass of the bulldozer up no problem. It would have been too wide to fit down my driveway so I let it go by.

When they cut it up he did tell me the paint inside the hydraulic tanks was peeling off so the pump inlet screens would have clogged if I had used it long. And to clean the screens you had to drain 200 gallons of hydro because the access plates were on the bottom.

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Is this your yard? Where are you located? The shipping container pad looks familiar like I’ve been there
 
BUCKLAND said:
Red Chevy has a Fitchburg emblem on the door
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That had 60k miles on the 6.5 and they parked it because of a bad ground connection to the block. Then kids smashed the windows out and they scrapped it. The engine lives on in a tow truck, rest is gone.

Pics are from a yard I visit & from one I work at part time. Call it the Fitchburg area.
 
Steve300xcw said:
At a certain point its just old shit. If they were worth fixing, somebody woulda already done it
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Sometimes shit sits on the woods forever and then someone who doesn't know what it is decides to get rid of it. Happened locally with an Aston Martin that some "barn find" hunters swindled a wife out of for a few grand and then auctioned it for hundreds of thousands.
Plenty of people knew about the car but the guy would never sell. The story I heard was these guys got to the wife while he was in the nursing home and she had power of attorney.
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Is Farm Find The New Barn Find? This Aston Martin DB4 Makes A Strong Case

Can you imagine what it would be like to find a DB4 parked in your neighbors yard?
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Aston Martin found abandoned in woods for over 40 YEARS to sell for over £350k

A DILAPIDATED Aston Martin discovered after being abandoned in woods for over 40 years is expected to sell for more than £350,000 at auction. The DB4 was left exposed to the elements throughout fiv…
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KungFooMASTA said:
This thread makes me sick.
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Yep. If I thought i would ever have the skills or money to save them Id have dragged that fastback mustang and fairlane home. But instead I am certain they will rust to the ground or be flattened. That thought makes my stomach turn. More than the thought of most people catching one to the brainpan to be honest.
 
As mentioned several times, sucks to see. Arse would call us faggots.


So Ranchtruck , whats your junkyard (your property) look like? :grinpimp:
 
Mikenike said:
The mustang and the Fairlane make me :frown:
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This place was 61 acres. Guy had been in business from the 60's to 80's. We originally found it hunting for a 428. Guarantee he had 100+ 64.5-72 Mustangs. He told us he didn't have any 69's. We found 11. When he died, his son cleaned the entire place out basically for scrap. My dad's neighbor owned the biggest salvage yard in our area at the time and he bought most of the Jeeps, broncos, and scouts out of the place. We were never able to come to terms with the guy on the 428 we found but ended up buying one from the neighbor afterwards that was in a 67 Thunderbird he got from there. It was unreal. I went back several times just walking through the place.
 
Curbkrawler said:
This place was 61 acres. Guy had been in business from the 60's to 80's. We originally found it hunting for a 428. Guarantee he had 100+ 64.5-72 Mustangs. He told us he didn't have any 69's. We found 11. When he died, his son cleaned the entire place out basically for scrap. My dad's neighbor owned the biggest salvage yard in our area at the time and he bought most of the Jeeps, broncos, and scouts out of the place. We were never able to come to terms with the guy on the 428 we found but ended up buying one from the neighbor afterwards that was in a 67 Thunderbird he got from there. It was unreal. I went back several times just walking through the place.
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Yeah that is wild. Makes me sad to know i was right though and it all got flattened. I dream of a 67 fastback. If i won the lottery I would have a pair of 67 gone in 60 seconds clones built. One to be nice and one to beat the fuck out of daily on my way to work every single damn day.
 
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