Exploring the old junk yard..

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Moved back to NY from Florida. 🤓 2025
Brings back memories for me when I started driving. My 37 Buick was geared very low and I had a tendency to ruin the transmission quite often. My town had a junk yard similar to this one and the fellow that ran it keep 2or 3 transmissions on the shelf just for me. Cost each, I ruined three, $15 each.

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I really used to like walking through a junkyard and pull parts from a car that I may have been working on. A lot of fun and the smell of the oil, grease and fuel still lingers in my mind today. Back then, all junkyards in my area had a junkyard dog. Once in awhile, I would see a car that was in an accident that I knew who the owner was.
 

Oh, wow. Seeing that pic brought back memories. I was 16, and learning to drive. We had an automatic. I needed to practice on a standard. They was a junk yard down the road, I used to practice shifting in those old 40's style cars. Just seeing those old cars brings back the peculiar smell each on of them had.
Much later, like 911, I used to get parts from them. A green Chilton book, and a wrench, and you could fix anything. A buddy and I replaced the rear axle. It actually worked, and we only had about six nuts left over. No way you can do that today.
 
911 said:
I really used to like walking through a junkyard and pull parts from a car that I may have been working on. A lot of fun and the smell of the oil, grease and fuel still lingers in my mind today. Back then, all junkyards in my area had a junkyard dog. Once in awhile, I would see a car that was in an accident that I knew who the owner was.
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Back in the 60's my husband loved his trips to the junkyard, looking for parts for all the cars he was restoring. He never came home empty handed.
 
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