Looking for a Junkyard in NJ

Can anyone reccomend a junkyard in New Jersey that has alot of Station Wagons? Looking for a Ford and more. Thanks.

 

Good luck with that search. Junkyards with anything older than the 90s are getting scarce. Every once in a while, Pull a Part will get something.

Check out the following link. It's very good at finding yards. When prompted for a part, I use a hood hinge or windshield. It also has a built-in interchange system, where it will list other cars that have interchangeable parts. Example, I searched for a windshield for a '76 Torino. It listed LTD IIs, Montegos, Torinos, Cougars, etc all of which share the same frame as the Torino, and have a lot of interchangeable parts. You can also sort by Distance, using your zip code.

http://car-part.com/index.htm

 

Edge, I recall passing by a huge yard on the Pennsylvania Schuylkill expressway, back in 1971, on a family trip to Florida:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylkill_Expressway

Its HUGE!!!, Miles and miles and miles long. That's not far from NJ, is it?

I'm over 40, so my CRS (Can't Remember $hit! ) doesn't let me recall the name of the JY, but I'll never forget the name of that expressway. Took me months to learn how to pronounce it! Anyway, that yard has cars dating back to the 1920s. It would have taken any developer decades to remove it.

You could probably check the Philadelphia BBB for a list of yards around the area.
http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/schuylkill/

And all you need to do in that link that n2.... gave you in a ZIP code, and look for a common part like a transmission or alternator. That'll give you a list of local yards.

 

back in 1971, on a family trip to Florida:?????????????????
I'm sure by now there's a Wal-Mart, condos, and several convienance stores in that location.
And Florida has finally drained most of the swamps now so midwesterners could move there.

Interesting reading.............. "Surekill Distressway"

merge or die!

 

That JY runs parallel to the highway, on a long mountainside. Who'd want to live on a cliff, other than Hollywood stars? After so many years, I'm sure things changed, but moving mountains is still a challenge today.

 

You are right. That yard may still be there today with even more cars.
I've always wanted to live on the edge of a mountain. That's why we moved to Florida. Look how steep these hills are.

 

Those Appalachian mountains run from the North-East of Quebec down to Tennessee and the Virginias, IIRC, and they're all shale stone - not construction friendly until you get to base rock. My folks bought a downtown old fix-er-upper in Hull, PQ, back in the early 60s. No basement. I was 16, and dad was too big, but he wanted a central air furnace under the house! I got to spend a whole summer digging out a 10' X 10' X 6' hole in that shale stone. At first, it was my purgatory, but then I found fossils of beatles and bugs, and that made it more interesting, especially since I had 3 sisters to scare the heck out of!

All I had to get the stones out was a small basement type window, that was boarded up. I was in pristine shape after that, and even at 150 lbs, I could arm wrestle with my 220 lb - 6 foot father and beat him!

 

Almost on topic, I used to go to a junk yard with a friend over along the Mississippi River. Coincidentally near where Earnest Hemmings of Hemmings Motor News fame had a small garage selling old car parts.
There was a large very old junk yard with cars that appeared to been driven
in and parked right near a cave. By the time we discovered the place trees were growing out of many decent looking old cars. I believe they mined stone for buildings and roads which created the tunnels where some cars were stored.
Now I wonder if any thing of that old yard is left. I remember a first year 1928 Model A coupe with the red colored steering wheel and other things only the early Model A's had. Looked like someone just drove in and parked it.
I loved those very old original junk yards.
Also dad's friend was a rock hound. We'd go to the coal strip mines and get petrified snails and things.

 

Nothing like a natural garage. Even a hurricane would move it. Unlike our man-caves...

 

From what I understand the EPA (or something similar) is also shutting down a lot of those old yards. Not sure if it's on a national, state, or local level. There's one near me that was shut down about 5 years ago. So, even if the land is not useable, they could have been forced to dispose of everything.

 

A sneaky way to cut off the old stock, and force folks into small mortgages on new cars.:banghead3:

Hasn't happened in the prairies, so far.

 

Salvage Yards.

In reality many were hazardous to the health of crawly creapy things and other two legged critters. I remember our favorite junk yard back home had old batteries upside down leaking, motor oil and other fluids all over the ground, actually creaping into a small nearby creek when it rained, and other nasty things. As teens we swam and waded several miles downstream of that creek and cows drank out of it further down.

We'd just wander thru the oil and crude looking for our parts.
Now there is a sub division there. Most home owners have no idea there may be an old Buick grille or La Salle transmission under their flower bed.

In the next town where the gambling boat and fancy hotels are now were two more junk yards with cars actually in the Illinois River leaking fluids. Those junk yard owners caused their own downfall.
But life was different back then. I don't think I can build an outhouse back there anymore either.

 

WOW, what a awesome site. Everyone has been really cool with the information provided. I am will to check out PA, DE, NY and MD too for junk yards. Figured I would try my home stae first. Anyone else with more leads please post. Thank you everyone.

 

If you are willing to head to Pa there is E Z Pull and Harry's. But E Z Pull would have more of what you are looking for. All pull it yourself and good prices.

 

Where are those two yard exactly located?