Grandpa Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Rust free Southern California automobiles in salvage yards in Los Angeles in the early 1930s.Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Here you go....just what you wanted! Tell me if you find any 1931 Dodge parts while you are "back in time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 More Los Angeles early 1930s salvage yards.Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 And just think Grandpa, they are only $5.00 each. {I wish} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I'm impressed with how organized these yards were. They look much better than the weed infested ones I have visited in my past.Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Fields</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In the second picture, the first car is a Dodge, the 2nd a center door Ford T, and the third a Chevy. Looks like a paddy wagon behind it. The touring tops look like they are in great shape!</div></div> That first car does not look like a Dodge to me. What year Dodge were you thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 How cheap was land in downtown whatever back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 1937hd45,Re. the value of early 1930s Los Angeles properties: I would assume they were very low priced. LA didn't "boom" until the WW2 days and postwar.Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Too bad WWII had to come along. The war sent a vast number of what are now almost priceless cars and other things to the scrap metal drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Robin Coleman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Too bad WWII had to come along. The war sent a vast number of what are now almost priceless cars and other things to the scrap metal drives.</div></div> Yes.....it's definitely a shame that all of those beautiful and rare cars were scrapped, but it does make the remaining few more desirable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 keiser31; I have one for all of you, and many of you might want to hunt me down and lynch me, but when I was a kid (1950's) I used many an old car out in the country for target practice. Oh, well. What's that they say about youth being wasted on the young? My favorite memory is going for a ride in my best friend's father's 1926 Pontiac. I also was allowed to drive his '36 Cadillac and Crosby station wagon (I believe it was a '49 model). At least I have those memories. We have many firefighters on our department who can't drive our 1940 Mack engine because it has a manual trans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 Hi Robin,Rare cars lost in lost in WW2 scrap drives: Check out the 1933 Duesenberg Model J on the scrap yard scale.Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I have a customer whose father ran a smelting business in Northern PA. In 1937 he bought 1000 cars to melt down for $1.78 each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Grandpa; Even I would have never dared to put a scratch on a Doosey. Lordy, I can't believe someone actually sent it to a scrapyard!!! That's like shredding the Mona Lisa for packing material! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Grandpa; Please tell me that someone at the scrapyard took this car home and that it was not scrapped. I will have nightmares about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 Hi Robin,Not a single part from this Model J has been found by collectors. It is believed to be totally gone. For a more complete story, see my prior post on this Duesenberg at:http://forums.aaca.org/ubbthreads.php/topics/531052/1933_Duesenberg_on_the_Scale#Post531052Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 ++++++++++NEWS FLASH+++++++++++ Back in the day when those cars were being scrapped WINNING WWII was a big deal!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Grandpa;That lady was certainly very eccentric, or perhaps even psychotic. Still in all, to read your post regarding this auto ripped my heart out!!! I just joined this forum today, but I am totally fascinated with the collective knowledge represented by all of the members here. Thank you very much for your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 1937hd45;I assume from your name you are an old time Harley freak as am I. Still in all, I can not help but state they did not scrap the statue of Liberty for the copper! It was her car though, and she had the right to do with it as she pleased. It still chaps my hind end though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Posted May 30, 2009 Author Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hi Robin & 1937hd45,I believe the WW2 scrap drives were more of a propaganda effort to get the population involved in the war effort. The USA had an ample supply of iron ore, aluminum ore, copper ore, etc. The amount of metal collected from the scrap dives represented only a small per-cent of the raw materials needed.Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I agree with Grandpa...a lot of people wanted to be a part of chipping in and so it was started. I'm sure a lot of it was raise America's morale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robin Coleman Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 My parents were born in 1912 and 1913, so I have a close connection to both the Depression era and WWII. The scrap drives were certainly a morale booster for the folks back then, for daddy often told me for the first two or 3 years of the war no one was certain we would win, and at times it appeared we were losing. Still, learning of that beautiful handcrafted piece of automobile scuplture being scrapped does not do much for my morale today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl B. Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Grandpa, and others, yes, the scrap drives were only propaganda to get the civilians involved in the war. The US did not need the metal which was donated... such a shame we lost all the cars we did...B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Orphanauto Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Ha, That's so wierd that the original "time machine" from the original movie actually was for sell just recently, it brings up the question, IF you could go back, but only 1 time, and bring back a new car, what would you go back and buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Orphanauto</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ha, That's so wierd that the original "time machine" from the original movie actually was for sell just recently, it brings up the question, IF you could go back, but only 1 time, and bring back a new car, what would you go back and buy? </div></div> You need to start a new topic on THAT one. I am ready to answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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