Today I spent a pleasant Vermont spring day in a "hidden-away" junkyard.
It's only 45 minutes from my house and I never knew it existed. Drive 5 miles
up
a dirt road and the "office" (falling down quanset hut style bldg.) is at
the bottom of a mountain. A nice ole, "typically cautious of strangers",
Vermont guy owns the place.
Told him I was looking for an alternator bracket from a Ford small block.
Said, "Yup there's probably some up there." I asked if my car would make it up
the dirt road (trail) since it looked pretty rough. With the spring thaw it
was just all muck and pretty steep. Said it "probably won't". He told me when
I was leaving that he had to know somebody pretty well to let them take a
vehicle up the mountain. Guess he's had some bad experiences with people
filling
their trunk with stolen parts.
Anyway, I grabbed my 25 lb. bag of tools and headed up on foot. The place is
all dirt roads, actually 2 tire ruts more than actual roads. The roads wind
up and around the mountain. Off both sides of the road are woods. The woods
are filled with cars, trucks, buses, RV's, boats, 18 wheelers, snowplows,
snowmobiles, golf carts, bicycles, motorcycles, lawnmowers and anything else
with
wheels. All scattered about. Leading off the roads are trails with more
vehicles to be found, hidden out of sight. No trails to some of these vehicles
so
you know that they were put in place 20, 30 and 40 years ago and the trees
have since grown up to cover any traces of a way in. The place is full of
vehicles dating back to the 30's and 40's with most of them from the 70's and
the
majority being pick em up trucks. Supposedly the collection started in 1958.
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