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

FJMG · September 01, 2007, 03:14:50 PM

Is that a Turbine car Magnumcharger???

darkfiire5000 · September 01, 2007, 03:27:43 PM

A what???

hemi24 · September 01, 2007, 06:31:43 PM

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

Magnumcharger · September 01, 2007, 07:21:09 PM

Quote from: hemi24 on September 01, 2007, 06:31:43 PM
looks like photo shop add on to that picture to me good job of it though...

Meeeebeeeeee.......

Brock Samson · September 01, 2007, 08:12:54 PM

the turbines were crushed...

69DodgeCharger · September 01, 2007, 09:06:46 PM

Quote from: Brock Samson on September 01, 2007, 08:12:54 PM
the turbines were crushed...

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

hemi-hampton · September 01, 2007, 09:27:21 PM

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 · September 01, 2007, 09:38:06 PM

Quote from: hemi-hampton on September 01, 2007, 09:27:21 PM
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 · September 02, 2007, 07:27:33 AM

Quote from: 69DodgeCharger on September 01, 2007, 09:06:46 PM
Quote from: Brock Samson on September 01, 2007, 08:12:54 PM
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 · September 02, 2007, 02:56:13 PM

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 · September 02, 2007, 03:02:09 PM

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 · September 02, 2007, 03:07:39 PM

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 · September 02, 2007, 03:14:59 PM

Yeah, Thats my Pic. LEON.

jaak · September 02, 2007, 03:59:09 PM

Where you from Leon?

Jason

pettyfan43 · September 02, 2007, 06:59:15 PM

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 · September 03, 2007, 10:46:33 PM

Jason, I'm from Detroit. Mopar City.

LEON.

aussiemuscle · September 03, 2007, 11:36:19 PM

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 · September 04, 2007, 06:51:18 AM

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 · September 04, 2007, 02:30:42 PM

Do you really want me to list everything?

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

Ryan

Magnumcharger · September 04, 2007, 06:17:32 PM

Do you really want ME to list everything?

69bronzeT5 · September 04, 2007, 06:52:08 PM

Quote from: Magnumcharger on September 04, 2007, 06:17:32 PM
Do you really want ME to list everything?
http://mapleleafmopars.homestead.com/carsinbarns21.html

You found those AARs? What happened to em?

Hot_Rodder · September 04, 2007, 07:18:40 PM

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 · September 04, 2007, 07:31:10 PM

Shelby Mustang, and a '69 Charger 500

71ChallengeHer · September 04, 2007, 07:54:45 PM

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

FJMG · September 04, 2007, 08:04:36 PM

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

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