Whats the rarest car you've found at a junkyard?

[69bronzeT5]

I think this should be an interesting thread.

I havent really found anything rare...I have found a few muscle cars though. Back when I was a little kid, me and my dad always use to go to this one certain junkyard. Its usually full of newer cars but its had the odd old car time after time. The only old cars I remember seeing there was a 70-72 Skylark, a 71 Satellite (we got the windshield chrome off of it plus an emblem...I still have both items) and I have a Charger emblem around here somewhere. It came off a 73+ Charger...dont know what year though.


What bout you guys? Share your stories and pics (if yea have em)

[Drache]

I have a Charger emblem around here somewhere. It came off a 73+ Charger...dont know what year though.

If it has a "C" that looks over stylized its from 1975+, I believe all the Charger emblems before that were the same?

[69bronzeT5]

I have a Charger emblem around here somewhere. It came off a 73+ Charger...dont know what year though.

If it has a "C" that looks over stylized its from 1975+, I believe all the Charger emblems before that were the same?

it must of been from a 73-74. because we bought it for my 69 but it didnt fit on the sail panel

[JR]

I found the slant six 74 base Charger that I rode home from the hospital in as a newborn. Sitting under a tree with the windshield busted, but the rest there. Too bad I'm broke.

[Big Lebowski]

In 1991 I saw a complete '70 Charger R/T V code 440 Six-pack in a junkyard for $1500, it ran, it had a 4.10 Dana, disc brakes, minor Qtr. rust & a cherry front clip.

[TheGhost]

Either the Studebakers, or the late 50s Dodge sedan.  Not too many rare cars around here.

[69bronzeT5]

In 1991 I saw a complete '70 Charger R/T V code 440 Six-pack in a junkyard for $1500, it ran, it had a 4.10 Dana, disc brakes, minor Qtr. rust & a cherry front clip.

im guessing it got bought?

[dads_69]

'69 charger 500. I cut the roof off of it w/glass intact along w/trunk jamb. Sold it recently $$$. Car was complete supposedly when delivered to wrecking yard, missing 80% when I got a hold of it. Now its gone completely.
Mark
No photos, car was gutted when I pealed what I had taken off of it. It was a bronze color ext. and black headliner is all that was there.

[69bronzeT5]

Got any pics dads_69?

[gtx6970]

medium blue 1968 GTX hardtop, Hemi 4spd ,motor and trans gone, bought it for $150 , sold it for $1000 30 days later (this was about 1986 )

[Dodge Don]

70 AMC Rebel Machine

[hemi24]

Here's one for you back in 1985 i was at a tractor junk yard in Wichita Kansas off west street and i found a 1966 mustang GT 350 it was all striped out had all the right holes in the dash were the tack went had the large sway  bar  still had white and blue strips man i should have jumped on it didn't think it was worth being so far striped out..

[bordin34]

I found some old Camaro Z/28 race car it was blue and orange and was covered in sponsor stickers.

[Slowpoke]

Back about 1982-3 I found the stripped out shell of a Boss 429 mustang.
Rear end was hit hard but other than the hood missing rest looked good.
Syill had the Boss tag in the engine bay . The yard wanted 50 dollars but I
had no place to store it. 

[TK73]

Not incredibly rare but I was sad:

summer '88;  63/64 Galaxie 500 XL in an East St. Louis junkyard. 

Straight but faded paint, was only missing the carb, went back 2 weeks later and 1/2 stripped...

[bull]

1968 Pontiac Firebird in one yard back in about '93 and a wrecked 1970 Superbird back in about 1986. No, Cory, no pics.

[Brock Samson]

 o.k. I'll bite...
This one...

[Ghoste]

Probably a 69 COPO Camaro but there have been some others that came close.  A  Boss 351 Mustang and a 429CJ Torino are two that I don't think are that common.  I can't really recall the rarest Mopar I've seen in a scrapyard, isn't that awful?

[Todd Wilson]

A Dodge BigHorn

[Charger1970]

Found a 67 Coronet R/T and a 70 Charger 500. (both in the 80's)

Also a 67 HEMI Charger (no motor...for sale..$20,000) in 2001.

[Chad L. Magee]

Aside from some of the ones I bought and brought home, I have found a couple of rare ones that I (sadly) had to leave rot in their location due to the owner of the junkyard:
     One was a stripped Superbird that was in a particular Kansas junkyard sitting near the back row.  It was just a shell (faded blue paint), but still had the PLYMOUTH decals down the side and the mounting holes in the rear quarters for the wing.  I went back a few months later (this was the very early 90s) and it was long gone.  I wish I would have recorded the VIN.  I think I know where it went though....
     When I was going to college at Kearney, Nebraska during the mid-90s, the junkyard south of town had a few gems hidden.  One was a birght yellow big block Barracuda (4-speed) but it was rough as a cob.  They also had a triple black Charger RT that was missing the front sheetmetal, but I walked by it without realizing what it was at the time because it had no emblems on it and I was not into third gens much.  The doors for that one should have gave it away, but it took a week before it dawned on me that I should go after that one.  By then it was already sold.  There were quite a few rare GM and Ford cars in there that met their crushing date while I was visiting over the years......
     Then there is a particular yard that has crushed half a dozen 426 hemi cars over the past twenty years (restorable ones) as they bought them just to get the engine/transmission/rear ends for their street rod projects that they work on.  They heard via a friend that I had a hemi car and they tried to con me out of it by offering me a chance to pic some cars out of their yard in trade for it (No deal).  At one time, there was a wrecked Daytona sitting out in their side field, but it is now long gone to who knows where (that would have been the one car that could have temped me).  I found a 1967 Mustang GTA 390 sitting in the Ford section, but they would not even talk to me about buying it.  One particular row has fifteen 1969-72 Mach 1s with most of them being the 351-4bbls., and 390s with one being a 428 CJ.  They have a rule not to sell anything for less than about twice high market value on their old stuff, so alot of it just sits until the scrap metal prices get too high.  There is a particular 1969 Camaro RS/SS 396 convertible that is sitting with it's top down (as it has since it was parked there since the early 80s), but they won't sell it because it "is worth at least half of what a restored one is worth", which they believe is $300,000.  I don't even want to get started on the 1957 fuelie Corvette that used to rest there...............

[Big Lebowski]

In 1991 I saw a complete '70 Charger R/T V code 440 Six-pack in a junkyard for $1500, it ran, it had a 4.10 Dana, disc brakes, minor Qtr. rust & a cherry front clip.

im guessing it got bought?

  Yep I bought it. Then I spent $25k (not counting years of labor) restoring it, now I'm selling it for $50k obo.

[no318]

A little over a year ago, I was in a yard near here to get some 68 charger parts.  2 cars that were rough and stripped to almost nothing.  A few cars down was a 69 RR 4 speed, rough and stripped and a 69 Dart 383 4 speed.  Won't sell any of the cars whole.  Believe me, I tried.

[darkfiire5000]

I found a 1970 hemi cuda in mountain home idaho a few years ago to expensive for my so i bought my 1968 charger instead

[Magnumcharger]

The one in the back row.