your worst junkyard experience

[jonathon]

So a buddy and I were pulling a rear end out of a 76 Grenada for his Falcon project at the yard and when the driveshaft smacked the ground..

it hit a bottle full of piss and sprayed it everywhere.. and apparently this bottle had been there a long time since the smell was overpowering and the "golden shower" was more of a nasty brown

Nothing quite like working another hour with the smell in the 95 degree heat... I swear it smelled worse than week old summer road kill.

 

[ciffer]

my worst involved pulling a deck lid from a 96 crown victoria. pulling it wasn't a problem, 4 bolts and an electrical connector. the bad part came when i gave it to a friend to paint it for me. he started working on it, then rather than finishing it, he sold if for scrap.

 

[Ryan B.]

Every time i see a K30 or F350 with the front ubolts swingin in the wind, I cry the rest of the day.

I've seen some crazy $hi+ in the junkyards before.
Seen a crazy cat lady Van decorated inside and out.
I've seen one or two molester vans with the whole back of them insulated with 12" of sound deadener.
I've even seen cars with the obvious indentation of a body in the front fender/hood, with skin and blood on the fender.

I would have to say my most disturbing experience is coming across a Huge fully enclosed toybox trailer.
The front of it crashed into something. I started thinking to myself, I've never seen an enclosed trailer at a junkyard before.. This is a bad a$$ trailer, these things are like 10-20 grand. this one is totally repairable!
So as i walked around to the back of it, the back door was down. As i looked inside, there was blood splattered all up and down the walls and roof of the thing. Looked like someone was beat to death inside the trailer..
I pretty much left right after I seen that.
Gives me the heeby jeebies thinking about it.

 

[ciffer]

bio-hazard stickers on the windshield are always fun, but it has never stopped me from looking for parts.

 

[George_Pimpdaddy]

here i thought a bit of blood and puke on the seats were bad haha sounds like some yards out there are full of surprises.

 

[RudyO]

As a teenager- Calling the only yard in town to get rid of a car. They said $35.00 if we brought it in, so we towed it in, and the same guy said $25.00. Back in 1980, that was a huge difference. Found out later, another friend got taken the same way, and he drove his in.

Statute of limitations is expired- we Midnight Auto'd the difference.

 

[Burbdood 74]

I opened the passenger side door on an old Pontiac Catalina only to find Mr. and Mrs. Rattlesnake and family inside on the floorboard. They politely let me know I wasn't welcome by giving me a rattle or two from the tail.


Hell, the piss running down my leg told me to leave anyway.

 

[K5dreamer]

sweet jebus... what kinda halloween themed junkyards do you guys go to??? i mean, youre sure they are junkyards right? and not just a big empty lot where serial killers store the vehicles of their victems ala the movies "wrong turn" and "the hills have eyes".

My worst junkyard experience involved getting front suspension parts for my camaro after an accident, and the guy torched through the front control arms that i needed as he was cutting them off. (no pull your parts out here).

 

[Xtremegmc80]

about a year ago I was walkin in a friends junkyard, caught a guy takin a sh!t between the cars, I quietly left since he didnt see me. Abt 15 mins later walked down the same trail, just to find out the owner of the junkyard's dog eating his **** I never let the friend know since dog was lickin his face when he came back ill think of more..

 

[howdiy]

The junkyard by me changes cars around once every 2 months

Nothing too interesting

 

[uao85]

same here, nothing too bad. About the worst time I had in a junkyard was...hmm when I found a snap on ratchet that was seized up......hmm I will try again later.



Remington

 

[1-ton]

Back in 1980 I found this 1969 Dodge Super-Bee with a 440 engine and a 4-speed trans in it (not sure if the 440 was original). The yard told me I could strip it clean for everything I wanted off of it for $700.

I spent the whole day taking the engine, trans, diff, fenders, hood, doors, and intirior out of it. While I was getting ready to load all the stuff into my truck, a guy came running out and handed me back my $700, and said they would not sell the stuff to me because the owner of the yard wanted to keep it for himself.

the yard got a full free day of labor out of me to strip this car clean.

 

[86chevyk10]

At the pull a part here in atlanta, we seen a mexican that look dead under an old LTD. We yelled @ him with no answer. My buddy tapped him with the handle of a screwdriver to see if he was okay, no answer. We call the owner, they call cops, turns out the dude was passed out. He lived in the apartment next door and he said he jumps the fence @ night when his senorita wont let him drink.

 

[bot0611]

Does this count!

A buddy of mine almost got crushed by a car in a pick and pull junk yard another guy had to lift the car with his own hads!!

Another one happened to me with this same guy we was taking a tranny out of chrysler car so we knocked the stands to get the car to the floor and the damn hood was opened and smacked me on the right cheek witht the hoods edge, hurt quiet a bit for a while.

 

[big dan]

my worst junkyard experience was when I found a 69 chevelle with all the super sport badges that the owner said I could have for scrap metal prices

























too bad it had three other cars stacked on top of it

 

[cybrfire]

Worst for me and not too terrible bad considering the aforementioned...

Climb to the top of a pile of vehicles to get into an old chevy truck. Had to get something from under the dash. Can't remember any more what I was after.

Lay down on the bench seat to reach under and get to wrenchin'. Little way into the removal and bang! I hit the ratchet on the dash metal accidentally.

That set things in motion, the entire population of the nearby wasp nest went to defcon1 and commenced the attack. Now, I don't care how Bruce Lee you are, you can't swat a wasp with a ratchet to save your ass for nuttin'.

Two swings with the ratchet and I'm up and running. Now keep in mind i'm precariously perched on the top of a pile of vehicles which was a feat to climb in itself. Some way or another I managed to traverse the descent in 3-4 steps with wasps stingin' my ass all the way down. I managed to get back in my vehicle with only a handful of stings. Kill the few that boarded with me and collect my thoughts.

It only took a few moments to figure out I had left tools in the truck.....

Yes, I went back for the tools. No, it wasn't anymore pleasant than the first round. For the record, I got my tools and my parts.

 

[rdn2blazer]

My worst Junk Yard experience was pulling a 14FF out by myself in 95 deg heat. It took about 4 to 5 hours. the U bolts were about four inches too long and rusted to hell and back. I didn't have any penatrant so I used the gear lube to lube the U bolt threads. I nearly broke my thumb in the process. I was only about 160lbs at the time so I'm NOT a big guy to be man handling a big ass 14FF around. BUT! I got that son of a bitch out and toted it up to the front on my dolly and got it into my truck using a cherry picker at the junk yard.

 

[1-tonmudder]

Where to start???? I worked at a salvage yard for a few years before I started doin my own thing so I have saw quite a bit.

We had a "smart car",guy blew his brains out in it.

I have had to pull parts out if several with "biohazard" written on them.

Shoes that were still on the pedal due to the floor bein crushed around them.

We found a didlo and a hardback porn book(like a HS annual) in some dude's truck.

Computer disc,negatives,and undeveloped rolls of film.Never was brave enuf to do anything with em.

Copperheads

I pulled a tilt column out of a chevy truck that had rat **** about an 4 inches deep in the floor board.

We had several that was tore up so bad they wouldnt sit on the lift right,and some fell off.

We junked a early 80's Nissan 4wd one time that had a 2X6 cut down and bolted to the frame to hold it together.

About 15 years ago I had a 72 F100 that I was puttin a V8 in and needed some manifold's for it.I found some at a local yard and they had about a foot and a half of pipe still on em.I stood out there in 95 degree heat and pulled em.I had sat them down on the rad support while I was puttin up my tools.The weight of the manifolds was not distributed even and they tipped over and the section of pipe busted my nose and my top lip.I didnt have any clean rags or anything on me so I used my shirt.Chick workin the desk freaked out when I came in to pay.

 

[blazin_blazer]

my worse day, realizing they had sold the 72 trans am that was complete & i had been asking about for years, they didn't let anyone pull parts from it...it was canary yellow w/white interior/ 455 w/shaker type air cleaner/scoop(oem filter stuck thru the hood) /4speed trans..

 

[hd44blazer]

i was pokin around the fairfield pick-n-pull awhile back and looked inside a truck bed box and saw about 3 medical syringes and at the same yard i looked in a minivan that had rolled over and saw a large blood stain soaked into the headliner above the driver's seat