Automotive salvage yards

Reba

Reba

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There aren't as many junk yards that allow the public to browse thru these days. We have one near us that is our automotive repair shop but he also does metal recycling. He's very behind in the car crushing so there's always a cool supply of junked vehicles to look at. Sometimes TCS needs a part and the owner lets him browse for it, and usually doesn't charge for the parts that he finds.

The yard has cars, trucks, RV's, buses, fire engines, tractors, ATV's, and scooters.

Here are some pictures of my recent discoveries:
 

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Wow, that fire truck is hot!! That is like drawing attraction!! I am sure owner has a lot of drawing attractions to bring people to yard.

A part of me want the price of scrap to go up so that I can scrap a lot of stuffs and get money. Other part of me wants scrap price to stay down so those vintage vehicles stay parked.
 
dereksbicycles said:
Wow, that fire truck is hot!! That is like drawing attraction!! I am sure owner has a lot of drawing attractions to bring people to yard....
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I'm afraid it's not a drawing attraction. The yard is tucked back from the main road, on a dirt road behind a wooded area.
 
When I was a kid, we drove through Roanoke VA every holiday on the way to visit relatives. There's a junk yard there that always had a boat sitting on a huge pile of scrap. Year after year it was there. Don't know what it is about all the stuff at junk yards, I always imagined you could make anything with the stuff in them. Like in My Bodyguard where Adam Baldwin builds a motorcycle from scrapped ones. Just keeps collecting parts.
 
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