Photos from the CC Cohort by canadiancatgreen.
There’s a certain feeling of serene beauty and calmness about junkyards in open fields. Or so they do to my eyes. And the farther they seem to be from civilization, all the better and the more appealing.
So what can we discover in these images from a field of junked iron up north, on Canadian soil?
A mid-70s Olds, in eye-searing metallic green respray.
A 1970s Lincoln Town Car in neat metallic gray and… a sawed-off roof?
Targa Brougham anyone?
Let’s check out another view of the Pacer wagon that opened this post.
And here’s where I would spend my time, though these pre-67 Beetles differ from my 1968 one by… millimeters. But even so, I can certainly find something useful. Maybe the hinges?
Looks like the wagon section…
… and here’s the van and SUV one.
An early ’60s Chrysler product. Most likely a Saratoga.
Another mid-’70s Dearborn product, from the age of Brougham.
Not much is left of this second-gen Firebird Esprit, but it does have an odd sculptural beauty. A somewhat curious image, perfect to close our tour today.
Can’t recall last “real junk yard”, I’ve seen. Been so, so many years.
Every car here, except the ’60s Chrysler and Firebird, remind me of specific people I recall from many decades ago.
I used to have long school bus ride during my elementary school years, and a regular highlight, was passing by a large rural auto junk yard. This was from the mid ’70s onward, in an region where road salt was heavily used. So any cars from the ’50s or ’60’s, were usually under stacks, and well-rusted.
I would occasionally be shocked to spot a car reported in local news reports as involving fatalities, left near the front of the junkyard office. Sometimes these cars, would be covered with tarpaulins. Always a surprise when very recent ‘totalled’ new cars, were left there as well. Or cars, I recognized from plying local roads for years. That has finally bitten the dust.
From any angle a Pacer is still a Pacer from a different view. Kind of.
Hey, rare ’58 DeSoto (red) in pic 5… any more shots of that one? I’ve owned 2. Might be some good parts left on it, they don’t exactly grow on trees.
The roofless Town Car gave me an immediate urge to listen to Rapture by Blondie.
‘And then you’re in the man from Mars
You go out at night eatin’ cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru…’
Green Olds is a ’75 Delta 88 Royale
The Lincoln looks like a ’77 to me. It doesn’t have the cheaper Mercury dashboard and much slinkier wheel skirts of the ’78-79, but also not the Continental script and curlicues on the bodyside molding that the ’75-76 has.
Both Pacer photos also have a ’63 Studebaker Lark in it. Top of the line Cruiser it looks like.
The smaller side windows in the Bugs compared to 1965-later models so changes the look. Does anyone know how much taller the new ones are? Looking at small-side-window Beetles, it doesn’t look like they had much room to heighten them.
What happened to that poor Firebird?
The car on the right in the station wagon photo is a puzzle. It almost looks like a unicorn-rare Checker A2 or A3, but the turn signal recesses and the little styling creases in the front fenders are a bit wrong. Anyone have any ideas?
I am going to call it a ’41 or ’42 Cadillac. You can see part of it in both of the Pacer photos. In photo #4 you can see the taillight and deck lid area which helped clinch it for me.
Who cares about the Pacer？I want to see more of the Studebaker. And is that a Desoto behind the Beetle?
I have to believe that the Lincoln was a sunroof car, which was pretty rare, and someone wanted the sunroof.
More nice photos. There are several brougham type cars waiting for an interested parts picker.
#2 A white Lincoln Continental Mark IV in the background.
#3 A white ’74 – ’76 Mercury Cougar XR-7 in front of the topless Lincoln, which I agree is a ’77 model, and it has the forged aluminum wheels (at least one).
#4 A gold over white ’57 or ’58 Cadillac Coupe with a ’64 Chevrolet Bel Air 4 door sedan on the other side of it.
#6 A ’68 Pontiac Catalina or Executive Safari wagon and a ’41 or ’42 Cadillac.
#9 A ’77-’79 Thunderbird Town Landau with another ’77 Continental in the background.
#10 It looks like someone cut the complete floor out of this Firebird, I would presume to install it in another car. Seems like a bunch of work to me.
I too think the Lincoln had a sun roof, those were never common and are good to graft into almost anything .
The VW’s are pre 1964 and yes, I see quite a few good parts .
The Henny bodied ambulance in the back of picture # 4, maybe a Packard ? . pretty rare these days .
I too vividly remember those remote rural junkyards from my youth, some times not rusty Grandpa’s cars from the 40’s & 50’s were in them .
-Nate
That’s the first Pacer wagon I have seen in decades, even if it’s in a junkyard. Prior to that I haven’t seen one (that was running) in probably 40 years.
The next time you come to Flint, Mi – Check out “Georges Junk Yard” in Lapeer Michigan. He’s m brother-in- law & has vehicles back into the 1970’s out back!!!