Ever go to junkyards just to wander?

[DennisAN]

Is that a Datsun 1600 roadster? Odd to find that in a junkyard.

[78F350]

Originally Posted by DennisAN

Is that a Datsun 1600 roadster? Odd to find that in a junkyard.

I think so. 1970?

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Not far from it was a Datsun "Fairlady" Roadster:

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I've seen an occasional Fiat X19, MGB, TR6 and 7. Not many like that, but they are there (and they've had rodents in them for a few years). Still....

[itsnotanova]

Ever go to junkyards just to wander?

I use to take my lunch breaks at junkyards when I was on the road. Now I own one.

[coreseller]

Early on in my sales career (10 years or so 20 plus years back) when I was still restoring muscle cars I spent EVERY moment I could in backwoods junkyards, Great Memories!!!! Unfortunately almost every one of them are long gone.

[jb92563]

Junkyards are like time capsules, lots of interesting stuff.

When I was a kid, my friend and I decided to build a go-cart so we rode 10 miles on our bikes to the dump and found a bunch of aircraft tail-wheels, seats, lawnmower engine and stuff.

We had to stash our stuff aside as it took about 4 trips over the course of 2 weeks (woa...80 miles) to get all the stuff home, and we crashed in the ditch a few times on the way as we didn't have a good way of securing all the stuff on the bicycles so we carried, tied, dragged stuff the 10 miles home.

That's the era when kids had great unsupervised adventures and you didn't need to be watched over every second as a preteen.