Package Deal: General Motors Graveyard
Have you ever wanted to have your own junkyard? Well, here’s your chance, especially if you are inclined towards 1950s/1960s General Motors products. In Concrete, Washington, the seller has amassed an assortment of GM cars and parts from the Golden Age of Rock ‘N Roll. Nothing here appears to be complete or restorable, so think of it as a mass collection of parts. Here on craigslist, the seller is seeking offers to make it all go away as one lot. No mention is made if the property it resides on is included. Our thanks to Russell Schulz for bringing this tip our way!
Looking around, you’ll see all sorts of Chevrolets and other GM automobiles from at least the 1950s. For example, I spy a 1959-60 El Camino, a 1959-60 Buick station wagon, a 1960 Pontiac, and a 1959 Bel Air. There is at least one car in the mix that could be from the 1970s or newer. Many of the machines look to have been wrecked, but most have been liberated of key parts such as doors, hoods, windshields, and the like. The parts have been brought indoors, while whatever is left of the cars remains exposed to the elements.
While it would be nice to think someone will come along and whisk all this debris away, that’s not feasible. The amount of work and cost of simply loading it all up and trailering it away could very well exceed its value. The seller would be more successful listing the viable stuff online on eBay and letting the scrap dealer cut a deal on the rest. But it sounds as though time may be more a factor here than dollars in terms of making this stuff disappear.
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Comments
A lot of neat stuff but too far to move if I did want it. It would take 24 tractor trailers….
Hopefully it Gets saved.
Maybe the seller will deliver.
I spy a Chrysler.
Plus that yellow flatbed looks like an International.
See a 59 El Camino and a 59-60 Buick wagon…ruff shapes though…sad
Here’s their website if you want better pics:
https://the59source.com/
I don’t know what they have picked and put in storage, but all the parts every 59-60 chevy needs isn’t on any of the pictured parts cars. 59 grille? head light pans 59-60? front bumpers? Not trying to be a downer, maybe they have some tucked away. Picked is picked. How much can you pay and still have room to even keep the lights on never mind eat or pay the rent.
Can’t even imagine all the work to identify, inventory and categorize all of that.
Ya Pat, No chit I was getting tired just looking through it all.
I’d have to charge the Guy to haul it all away.
That’s a Mountian Of WORK !!
What many seller’s with this kind of 401K in the backyard always seem to forgit is that BUYING this junk is the easy part.
It’s that MOVING it all part that gits REAL EXPENSIVE REAL FAST for the buyer. That’s why nobody will pay anywhere near the money the seller probably thinks this junk is worth.
Better call Yvette and Vanderbrink Auctions and auction em off one at time to git anywhere near the money out of this junk that the seller probably thinks it worth.
What “car guy” hasn’t fantasized about owning a junkyard? But for this one here, I ask you, “Where’s the beef?”
IF I wanted to move there to Concrete Washington, AND if the land went with it, And I was not as old as I am, And if my wife… oh never mind. GLWTA
There is a guy in Vermont with 10 times this amount of stuff. I was there in 2006. He had at least 500 cars and a school bus packed to the roof with just Muncie transmissions. He wanted $1 million. Hope he fixed his rotted teeth. Very strange dude. I bet most of the parts here are bent and or rusted beyond use. Yeah call Yvette. She has these auctions almost weekly.
The better question is “How many Barn Find viewers would take it ALL for free?”
Two!
And they are both DREAMERS!!!
I resemble that remark. ;-)
Washington State you will have to have titles to the ones that resemble a car in order to scrap them or cut them up but just from the photos its over $10k just in scrap value but that brown 62-64 I think Chevy truck looks salvageable from the distance photo
You don’t know it yet, but me and Concrete are in your blood. We’ll make a man of you yet. In years to come you’ll thank me. You’ll remember me… me and Concrete!
(This Boys Life movie)
Dwight Hansen
Yeah that’s a hard pass..
Da-wight!
I know a thing or two about a thing or two and THIS IS A GREAT DEAL!