Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:53:42 -0600
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From: David Bjorkman <ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: i went to alaska and for got my bus - no not really - but
somebody did
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It is not as easy to operate a "junk yard' as it used to be. Local and federal regulations today limit what oil, gas, other fluids, are allowed to be in the vehicle and worse, what can leak onto the ground. My junkyard days are filled with slippery slopes to walk on due to spilled and leaked fluids. In many places this is being cracked down on and places just close up rather than go through the expensive clean up and hoops to jump through to remain in business. Kinda too bad for us. Good for the environment. Even tho I know which one is best, I still miss the proliferation of used parts available at low cost if one wants to put some sweat labor into it. Not to mention the free parts that went out in my toolbox.
Dave B.
On 03/07/14, Tom Hargrave wrote:
That happens a lot these days. I shopped at a junk yard in Piedmont AL for
years. They had parts for just about everything European and they too had
quite a few VW busses in the yard. I used to buy parts for VWs and Mercedes
there. I stopped by last year and the owner's Son stated his father died and
he was in the process of selling everything off. There was not much left
then and probably nothing left now.
My son was buying parts from a Mercedes junk yard for his old cars in
Kentucky and it's gone. There is still one going strong in South Florida
that he buys from.
Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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Subject: Re: i went to alaska and for got my bus - no not really - but
somebody did
When I lived on the Kenai Peninsula near the town of Kenai - on the
Kalifonski Beach Road there was a huge junk yard - and in it was a row of
these early vans sitting there, just lined up. Almost any of them could have
been restored with some effort. They ranged from the 11 window to the 23
window. Must have been 10 or 12 of them just sitting there. Someone tried
going to Alaska back in the day of the hippie and they died (the vans) in
Alaska. Engine failures most likely and people were stranded, didn't know
what to do or what ever. And these babies wound up in the junk yard, only to
sit for years. In addition to the early vans - there were many from late
60's - I bought parts for my own
'68 loaf from there. And there were quite a few '70's vans around.
This was in 1995. In 1996 I went Outside to the Lower 48 for the winter, and
when I got back first of May, I discovered the entire junkyard was gone.
Every single vehicle there was gone! All sold to a scrapper overseas. It was
sickening. That yard had the biggest variety of vehicles I had ever seen,
and many restorable vehicles. Alaska is a bit like the desert southwest. Up
there things don't rust to badly except in summertime if you are along the
coast. The climate is relatively dry and nothing rusts in winter when it's
so cold.
It was a sad day to see all those vans gone!!
John
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