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.

[FJMG]

    Is that a Turbine car Magnumcharger???

[darkfiire5000]

A what???

[hemi24]

looks like photo shop add on to that picture to me good job of it though...

[Magnumcharger]

looks like photo shop add on to that picture to me good job of it though...

Meeeebeeeeee.......

[Brock Samson]

the turbines were crushed...

[69DodgeCharger]

the turbines were crushed...

Not all of them. I think there are 4 running examples left.

[hemi-hampton]

Not sure anybody could top this find. Value on each one of these would have to be at least 3 million+ if the Buick Version gets 3 million at Barrett Jackson. I found a one of a kind Harley Earl Prototype/concept 1952-53 4 door corvette. Probably worth 3 million+ nowadays. Not one but 2. The other was another one of a kind Harley Earl  prototype/concept corvette. This one looked more like a 1956, A 2 door, had a Fiberglass tilt rear clip, Doors that slid down the side of car, kinda like the new mini vans sliding doors & had custom side exhaust pipes that ran through custom rocker panels. Probably 3 million + nowadays. Back in the early 80's when I seen these sitting in Junkyard probably could have bought dirt cheap. LEON.

[Magnumcharger]

Not sure anybody could top this find. Value on each one of these would have to be at least 3 million+ if the Buick Version gets 3 million at Barrett Jackson. I found a one of a kind Harley Earl Prototype/concept 1952-53 4 door corvette. Probably worth 3 million+ nowadays. Not one but 2. The other was another one of a kind Harley Earl  prototype/concept corvette. This one looked more like a 1956, A 2 door, had a Fiberglass tilt rear clip, Doors that slid down the side of car, kinda like the new mini vans sliding doors & had custom side exhaust pipes that ran through custom rocker panels. Probably 3 million + nowadays. Back in the early 80's when I seen these sitting in Junkyard probably could have bought dirt cheap. LEON.

Must be the same junkyard that Joe Bortz shops at? Where the old GM concept vehicles were stashed?

[no318]

the turbines were crushed...

Not all of them. I think there are 4 running examples left.

The were destroyed to avoid taxes, but I thought it was 6, that they saved to be put into a "safe haven" like a museum.  I know the WPC mueseum has one on display and the Henry Ford museum has one on display.  No idea on the others.

[hemi-hampton]

These Vettes were not stashed away but out in the open. I took Pictures in the early 80's on 35 mm film but it never got deleloped & not sure If I could find now but even if I did would the film still be good I wonder? LEON.

[jaak]

I guess this counts cause its a junkyard, I live about 10 minutes away from steven's performance, he had a stripped down Daytona sitting out front for years, nothing much left but a rusty hull, even the window plug was gone, it was red, and had the remnants of a black daytona stripe left on it. He's cleaned up around the front of his yard now and its gone.

Here is a pic of it someone has posted on here before....

[hemi-hampton]

I posted Pictures of that Daytona on here last year, 69Bronze put it on his website, It's still pictured in the Aero Cars section somewhere. Heres a Interesting story. I was watching some old 70's or 80's tv episode a few years back & they showed a Junkyard that I swear had a Daytona or Superbird with the wing sticking up in the Junkyard. It was on top of another car in the background next to fence. Wish I new where that junkyard was? LEON.

[hemi-hampton]

Yeah, Thats my Pic. LEON.

[jaak]

Where you from Leon?

Jason

[pettyfan43]

I know the guy Ted got that car from, An IDIOT pulled a "Vanishing Point" with that Daytona and plowed into a police roadblock! That car was KILLED before it hit the roadblock!

BADLY bent, the guy told me they had to yank the right front wheel out of the dash, WITH A TRUCK!

At one time, I had a piece of chrome off that car here somewhere!

[hemi-hampton]

Jason, I'm from Detroit.  Mopar City.   LEON.

[aussiemuscle]

sometime in the late 80s, not a car, but in a behind the scenes show in a 'movie studio' lot, there was a pile of trash behind the host as he/she walked between sets and among them i could see one or two Snow Speeders from Empire Strikes Back. (probably copies, but hey cool). They were all stripped with no canopy or guns, but its a  hard shape to mistake.

in 1969, GM in Australia had two show cars, once finished, one of them, the GTR-X sat in GM's 'garbage tip' for about 15 years before someone spotted it and had Holden restore it. it's now in the Holden museum. if i'd known, i would have pinched it...i'm sure i could have talked my way in and out of their dump. 

[69 charger man]

i found a 66 bb 361 charger and a 66/67 charger both at different yards, but the vin was gone from one of them and i lost pics when the good old comp crashed..lol
ray

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

Do you really want me to list everything?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hemipwr70/

Ryan

[Magnumcharger]

Do you really want ME to list everything?
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And a whole lot more, if you can believe it.
It's a sad world out there....full of crazy people!

[69bronzeT5]

Do you really want ME to list everything?
http://mapleleafmopars.homestead.com/carsinbarns21.html

You found those AARs? What happened to em?

[Hot_Rodder]

In a local junk yard, I've found some of the old early hemi equiped cars, one, I think, was a 392 Hemi. They were rusting away, guy story, as all it seems was, I'm gonna fix it up one day.... yeah right

[blackcharger]

Shelby Mustang, and a '69 Charger 500

[71ChallengeHer]

Years ago, the back half of a red AAR Cuda sitting on top of a trailer.

[FJMG]

    Magnumcharger, did you ever find out about the donor car for the car you were selling for your brother?

[jmanscharger]

69 charger 4 speed not for sale, disappeared owners says crushed but I saw the car in a local shop, supposedly going to besaved.
previous owner found my 68 RT in local junkyard.

currently there are two shells locally in junkyard for parts only.

[jmanscharger]

68 with 69 front

[jmanscharger]

Some more junkyard shots.

http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q181/nwman/junkyard/

[sailpanel]

About 94 I went by the local yard that I frequent and there, still on the owners rollback, was a 67 GTX. A little rust in the lower quarters and the heads were gone but otherwise a  very good project car.This thing was optioned out too, electric windows, magnum 500s, pwr steering, pwr brakes you name it. But of course I didn't have the extra cash and by the time I came back it had been totally raped. (In hind sight I should have begged or borrowed the cash) In 97 or 98 I'm back again and there sits a 66 Charger. Bent and bruised, broken quarter window but basically all there. Now I've got visions of the GTX flashing thru my head and I knew if I didn't rescue that 66 (which I've allways liked ) the next time I saw it, it would be toast. Struck a deal with the owner and brought her home. Now almost 10 years later shes almost finished.

[The70RT]

I knew one that went. Back in 82 a guy wanted to sell me a 69 Road Runner with a hemi that was rolled. I said I didn't have the 1000 he wanted for the motor & tranny. He came buy after stripping it of what he wanted and asked if wanted anything before he took it to the crusher. He had it over for about an hour and I removed some things. Ones that I scrapped to the crusher many years ago. 70 Charger 383 hp car. Stripped most and still have the parts. 69 GTS 340 Dart 4spd,71 383 RR, 73 340 Duster. Personally sent them to their grave prematurely  The good and....well stupid ole days.

[Magnumcharger]

    Magnumcharger, did you ever find out about the donor car for the car you were selling for your brother?

What?

[Magnumcharger]

Do you really want ME to list everything?
http://mapleleafmopars.homestead.com/carsinbarns21.html

You found those AARs? What happened to em?

I found the rolled AAR, with the "Trans UM" plate, in a junkyard in Manitoba. Since then, it's been relocated to southern Alberta, where my friend Kori happened to find it later.
As far as I know it's still sitting.

[FJMG]

    I was wondering about the car that donated the wing car parts to the blue daytona you listed on pg 129.  Northern Quebec or something??

[Ponch ®]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,32982.0.html

I'm not sure if its a junkyard or not...just a lot with a few old cars/ utility trucks / tractors that has an "Equipment For Sale" sign on the fence.

[John_Kunkel]

Rarest I ever spotted was a '53 Studillac at the old H&K wreckers in Antelope, Calif. back in the seventies. Everything there went to the crusher in '79.

[chargerman68]

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.

Did u get it?

[derailed]

Rarest car I found in a junk yard was a carousel red (orange) 69 gto judge. When I was a kid the car had been parked down the street from my mothers house in somones backyard. I saw it being towed up the road one day and figured somone bought it. 2 years later I was in the salvage yard and saw it in there, still very restorable by todays standards.

[moparstuart]

 I have a 68 road runner front disc brake car here in the salvage yard , 72 charger, 72 duster, 71 dart, 67mustang ,89 shelby csx  none extremely rare but a starting point ( lots of 80-90's mopars)   
  We mostly sell late model insurance parts so i try to buy 95 and newer salvage but being a mopar guy i get what old stuff i can .
  We have only been in buisness 3 years but we have about 750 cars. 

[70rt]

This...

[Brock Samson]

that a '61?. polara?. d-500?..

[Magnumcharger]

    I was wondering about the car that donated the wing car parts to the blue daytona you listed on pg 129.  Northern Quebec or something??

I don't know about the Daytona, I sent the T/A pic in.

Lets see, I also found:
1969 Camaro Pace Car 396 convertible in a barn,
1971 GTX Black on black, 440-6, 4 speed...engine fire, bought the tips (pair) for $5.00
1968 Hemi GTX convertible, just missed buying the engine/trans by an hour
1970 Torino Cobra 429 SCJ Drag Pak
1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler 429
1970 Chevelle SS 396
1966 Biscayne 427/ 4 speed
1970 Gator-top T/A Challenger (still in shed)
1970 Hemi Superbee in a backyard...still there
1967 Hemi Charger in a garage with no doors, no way out! Still there.

And others...

[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.

Did u get it?

yep, and now hes selling it for 50k

[69bronzeT5]

I have a 68 road runner front disc brake car here in the salvage yard

What do you plan on doing with it?? Any pics?