1st Gen and other musclecar graveyard

[DRJDVM's '69]

I went down to LA this Friday to do a photoshoot of my car for Super Chevy magazine (thats another post later on when the issue comes out around June Thanks Steve Rupp for sending them my way....). The theme for the issue is going to be something along the lines of finding old musclecars in fields and salvage yards, so the photographer set up the shoot in a local salvage yard that had some old musclecars in it.

The "day to day" side of the yard was typical crap, but this guy had alot of nice cars just sitting there rotting !!! Take a look at the pictures..... yes thats about 18 1st gen camaros....including SS, RS, Z28's and convertibles !!!! He has about 10 2nd gen camaros.....again including some Z28's, SS and RS cars.... corvettes, a Mach 1 Mustang, GTO, Formula Firebird, El Caminos, a 56 Chevy wagon, early mustang coupes, etc etc etc

NONE OF THE STUFF IS FOR SALE....NONE OF IT !!!

And most its been sitting there for 20 years!!! He doesnt even want any of his info in the magazine because he doesnt want people calling or harassing him to sell any of it. Its such a waste of some cars with real potential.... Now granted some of them are probably rotted more than most guys want but at first look most of them are very salvageable.

It was the typical.... they're worth some much money and I'm gonna restore them and sell them blah blah blah....... if it hasnt happened in 20 years its not gonna happen !!!

Such a shame....

[DRJDVM's '69]

When we moved this one I asked him how long its been since it moved....his reply was "20 years...the day it rolled off the truck....none of these have moved in 2o years)

[DRJDVM's '69]

I have about a dozen more too....ranging form El Caminos to mustangs to wagons, corvettes etc etc.... all waasting away....

[DRJDVM's '69]

And I swore I would never tell where they are........

[awr68]

I see so many I would love to have!! Yes it's a shame!!

Congrats on the shoot!!

[mazspeed]

What kind of knucklehead would do this to these cars? He's got to know they are all worth something.

[FreddieCougar]

I am not one to get all sentimental about cars. They are sheetmetal, not people. I don't mind people cutting up classics, etc. One of my favorite sayings (can't remember where I heard it) is "anyone can restore a classic, but it takes a real man to cut one up"
HOWEVER. This should be a crime, what this guy is doing. There is a massive difference between cutting cars up and letting them ROT. What possible reason could he have? I have a friend with a Supercharged 57 T-Bird that says it is his kid's college fund. That makes sense. This, I don't know?
It is always frustrating to see people who have something you want and don't respect it, don't deserve it, or don't care....

[CRCRFT78]

What a waste. He'll end up dying and someone will either buy the collection for pennies on the dollar and sell them for a profit (if any by then). Or some jackass family member with no knowledge of cars will come along and clear out the property and send these all to the crusher. S*** like this just pisses me off. If you don't have the means or resources why not make them available to someone that does. Theres nothing wrong with being selective about who you sell too with the hope you made the right decision. I know of so many cars within a 2 mile radius of my house just withering away in the elements its sad to look at. Hell I've got a Nova in storage I haven't seen in 4 years and its killing me not to be able to do anything with, and thats 1 car. Imagine a yard full.

[crazycarl]

Tim, thanks for forwarding that to me. Now I feel like a bad person for my mom's back yard. Dick. But seriously, that IS truly criminal. Having those pictures posted up here without an address is criminal too. It's like I'm a six year old and you're waving an ice cream cone in front of my face. What's your problem man, do you like watching us squirm like chihuahua's chasing a laser pointer?

My disdain for you is a thinly veiled mask of my own despair at seeing so much beauty oxidizing into oblivion.

(wow, emo.)

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by FreddieCougar

I am not one to get all sentimental about cars. They are sheetmetal, not people. I don't mind people cutting up classics, etc. One of my favorite sayings (can't remember where I heard it) is "anyone can restore a classic, but it takes a real man to cut one up"
HOWEVER. This should be a crime, what this guy is doing. There is a massive difference between cutting cars up and letting them ROT. What possible reason could he have? I have a friend with a Supercharged 57 T-Bird that says it is his kid's college fund. That makes sense. This, I don't know?
It is always frustrating to see people who have something you want and don't respect it, don't deserve it, or don't care....

The only good news it that things rust slowly out here in SoCal... I know where this place is, but I'm sworn to secrecy.. it's a good photo shoot location.