Old Corvette Junk Yard photo

[Richard M.]

Lonely C3 on the left near the fence so maybe this was taken in the late 60's.

[Nicholas L.]

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Do you know what part of the country this is?

[Bill M.]

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wow talk about heaven! funny how so many of them have blown their nose's off. must have been bad bonding cement!

[Loren L.]

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Lincoln Salvage in the Seattle area?

[Jim D.]

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Lincoln Salvage in the Seattle area?

Doesn't look like Lincoln's. That pic. is too rural. Lincoln's was in the business district of Seattle on Aurora Ave. I spent a lot of money there back in the 70's.

[Richard M.]

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I found this on another forum and someone said Lincoln's in the Seattle area too, unsure.

Someone else said the photo was in a old Hot Rod Magazine May 78 issue.

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[Ed H.]

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"WOW", this brings back some fond memories. If you look at the view next to the station wagon, the rear end of a C-1 with a push bar. In 1971 I was drag racing a 60 around the western US. I crashed at Lions Drag strip at 130 MPH, totaled the front end and smashed the hard top. The small roll bar saved my gourd. I sold the car to a corvette salvage yard in Whittier, Ca. I don't recall the name of the facility. I pulled out the motor and trans, the 10 inch Goodyears, mounted on Crager mags and the 4 inch front tires on Cragers. Saved the S/W tach and other small items. I sold the 330 inch, 500hp+ motor which went into drag boat. The clue is the push bar and the funky roll bar and the smashed top. Where was this photo found, there may be more.

[Frank D.]

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They were just old, plastic cars back then....throwaways in hurt badly enough.

Rich - I know you got some nasty weather down Sebastian way (tornadoes, etc.) a couple of days ago.
Sincerely hope your place is alright!

[Perry M.]

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It has to be Lincoln's wrecking yard. I can tell because I see Puetz's driving range in the background. I grew up around the corner from '58 to '70. That picture was taken from the north to the south however I don't remember the corvettes ever being stored in that portion of the lot. They were stored on the west side along Aurora Ave. as far as I can remember. I remember when the wooden fence was replaced with wheels that were welded together to create a fence that still exists today.

[Edward B.]

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It has to be Lincoln's wrecking yard. I can tell because I see Puetz's driving range in the background.

Agreed. Been there several times in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Here are a few more pictures in color (Last one with the wheel fence).

Ed

[Jim D.]

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Perry and Edward, you have a much better memory than me (but that was the 70's ). I don't remember the yard looking like that but I only went out there a few times as most of the parts I bought were up front in the building.

[Richard M.]

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They were just old, plastic cars back then....throwaways in hurt badly enough.

Rich - I know you got some nasty weather down Sebastian way (tornadoes, etc.) a couple of days ago.
Sincerely hope your place is alright!

Nice other pictures showing up. Makes you wish you could go back in time.

Yes we had a Tornado Warning. Allegedly a tunnel cloud that never touched down. Thankfully, it was about 5 miles away.

[Patrick B.]

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Most of those cars are probably Bloomington Gold Certified by now🙂

[Ed S.]

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Most of those cars are probably Bloomington Gold Certified by now

or "matching number" L88s

[Patrick H.]

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or "matching number" L88s

The 12 mile '67 came through there, so...