Down on the Kenai Peninsula out side the Town of Kenai on what was known as the K-beach road was the most wonderful junk yard. It was enormous. Row after row after row of dead vehicles of every stripe. It was always a wonder to me how so many different kinds of vehcicles made it to Alaska to fulfill someones dream only to die and wind up in the auto grave yard. There was on row in that yard that was nothing but VW's - Beetles, Splitties, Loafs, every description of VW van imaginable. There were some VW vans there that I have never seen anywhere else before or since. It was in Kenai in 1990 that I bought my first Vanagon - a Classic brown '85 GL. I began to learn about the vans - but I knew virtually nothing about them. In 1995 I flew south and spent the winter in the Lower 48, and when I went back in the Spring of '96 - I needed some parts for a beetle that I also had, so drove out to that junk yard - and it was GONE!!!! Totally! Like a great spaceship had arrived and using a tractor beam had literally scraped the ground clean of even any nuts, bolts or washers that might have been dropped by someone taking parts. I was told that all the content of the yard has been sold to an international scrap metal outfit and they had come in with crushers and crushed every vehicle, the hauled them away to a ship dock for loading and shipped them out. I was stunned. That yard had some wonderful old cars and buses. A sad day for Alaskans and the VW community. There was nothing else like it in the whole state. John John Rodgers Clayartist and Moldmaker 88'GL VW Bus Driver Chelsea, AL Http://www.moldhaus.com
On 10/28/2011 9:08 PM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: > ive been hitting up all the major junkyards in southeast PA recently > looking for parts for my tow vehicle (ford van) and have not seen ONE vanagon in > the junkyards... theyre literally all gone.. i dont see any on the > roads either...... maybe the story is different on the west coast but on the > east coast.. they are pretty much nonexistant anymore... > > years back i used to find at least one during a junkyard run...but no > more... > > |
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