Meanwhile, somewhere up in the PNW

Maybe some of you guys know where this place is....He's mainly looking for Mopar stuff, but looks like there's some neat stuff in the backgrounds.

 

Wow!
Thanks

 

Unfortunately, a lot of those cars are going to get crushed. I wish I had known about this place before the original owner passed away. Oh well. As one of the comments on the video says "you can't save them all".

 

Does anyone know where this place is at?

 

I've never been to the yard, but I have a general idea where it is.

 

He described vaguely where it is. It shouldn't be impossible, to find it on Google Earth Maps, as large an area as this is.
What's the hurry to sell these off or crush? Despite these being at bargain prices, a good living can get earned, simply by sitting on these and selling a few weekly

 

I am sure he was being vague on purpose. I find a lot of things interesting about a place like this. First and foremost it's incredible to see so many vehicles of an older vintage together in one place such as this. I'm always curious about what motivated the previous owner to hold onto so much inventory. And often times, to Doghead point, I am also usually curious as to why the hurry to crush arises.

 

Well, I'd call it inventory, if the purpose of hoarding these cars was commerce. An inventory is usually systematically organized. To a certain degree, it was, because he had certain brands and vehicle types sitting next to one another. Beyond that, it appears to be the result of addiction, much how the video's narrator metaphorically describes a Cat Lady who collects strays or how someone suffering the Messy Syndrome has difficulty throwing anything away of which that person doesen't have any logical purpose for holding onto it.
To collect as many vehicles as he did requires more than average expendable income. Especially, when raising a family. Someone working 9 to 5 sweeping a floor or pumping gas wouldn't fit this category. Because most of those vehicles were still intact, we can rule out that this yard was a commercial junk yard, otherwise there would be plenty of engines and body parts missing from these (I won't call them wrecks) vehicles.
Judging from those prices, I'm guessing that the kid who inherited the property isn't in the car business, otherwise he'd comand prices more to those that Flipper video narrator plans to get with that '67 Plymouth hardtop. Maybe he's some company administrator or programmer. Who knows.
The absence of heritage consciousness puts him down there with Monument Topplers and the even more mindless Demolition Derbyists and especially the latter's fans. Perhaps dad wasn't around most of the time or even abusively drunk? Whatever it may be, the kid seems uncomfortable about keeping this stash for any reasonable amount of time. He certainly isn't about to build a shopping center or apartment complex in the middle of nowhere. So, what then is the reason for hurrying up?
What's most disturbing is that these relics were fortunate enough to survive in the best possible climate for outdoor storage. Even better than in a desert where temperature extremes between night and day produce condensation moisture.
Didn't he say, the yard was located somewhere near the border with Oregon? It was also mentioned that eastern Washington state has climatic conditions which are disfavorable for outdoor storage. So, it must be somewhere far enough away from the Pacific Ocean which would prevent salty air from reaching the yard and far enough west, to keep it within a rather dry and constant temperature environment

 

It's eastern Washington, which has a very dry, arid climate, even when you get near the cascades it's still dry. About the only worry you have in that location is pine needle accumulation and wildfires. Where I live, about an hour north, it's considered high plains desert. If it weren't for irrigation there wouldn't be anything growing here but sagebrush and cheatgrass.

 

Yeah, what he said....I spent about 5-6 weeks in Spokane and was surprised and how brown, tan and dry it was. Granted it was August, but still...

I think we have/had a few folks on this forum from those states...

 

People hear "Washington State" and think the entire state is Seattle and that it rains 359 days out of the year.

 

Some of the Eastern Washington folks refer to it as the "nevergreen state". The Cascade Mountains create a massive rain shadow.

 

Where he said it was should also be located behind a rain/smog shadow. Since he mentioned eastern Washington to be unfavorable, that yard should be located somewhere east of that red line drawn on the following map and westwards from what he considers "eastern Washington", north of the Hood River.
If you were to set up a yard, where would you put it on the map? This yard would be plain to see, through zooming-in.
These satellite images get renewed almost yearly, depending on cloud cover. So, the yard should be visible as it was intact, before tampering:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

All you have to do is follow the path of the highline poles and you'll find it.

 

you are correct sir. Because it's so accurate! Where we live it is NEVER green!