Old skool car lovers look here
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Old skool car lovers look here
http://www.hiddenvalleyautoparts.com/
Fellas,
This junkyard called Hidden Valley (520) 568-2954 in Arizona is going to be closing it's doors and all of the cars are going to be crushed to make room for development. According to the guys on the Toyota,Mazda and Datsun forums this place is willing to sell the cars for the price of scrap, but you need to go and save them. Check out this link and prepare to cry. There are some bad *** cars that are going to die a less then admirable death.
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=523525
The place is huge. Check out this link to a satellite photo.
here's a couple samples
Hondas
75 RX-4
RX3
Cars are far as the eye can see. I hear it's about 24 acres
Modified by Rob. at 7:04 AM 9/7/2006
Fellas,
This junkyard called Hidden Valley (520) 568-2954 in Arizona is going to be closing it's doors and all of the cars are going to be crushed to make room for development. According to the guys on the Toyota,Mazda and Datsun forums this place is willing to sell the cars for the price of scrap, but you need to go and save them. Check out this link and prepare to cry. There are some bad *** cars that are going to die a less then admirable death.
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=523525
The place is huge. Check out this link to a satellite photo.
here's a couple samples
Hondas
75 RX-4
RX3
Cars are far as the eye can see. I hear it's about 24 acres
Modified by Rob. at 7:04 AM 9/7/2006
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Re: Old skool car lovers look here (Tippyman)
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that reminded me of the hills have eyes!
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Re: Old skool car lovers look here (Rob.)
Quoted from another thread:
"I believe that they have already crushed the majority of the American cars, which is a crying shame. You just flat wouldn't believe what was there.
But let me tell you something about that yard. Don Hoctor had the forsight to buy that land in the '70s and put all his older stuff in it, rather than have to crush it to make room for the newer cars at his Phoenix yard, like all the others did.
But, it was by far the highest priced junk yard in all the land, they wanted $400 for one quarter panel, no matter what car it came from, no matter the condition. $50 for one stick of chrome, $200 for a bumper, $250 for a fender, and all body parts were sold bare, no trim parts which were extra. You could buy any car for $3,500, complete or a shell - same price. The prices were all firm, no haggling at all. Old man Hoctor ceded the business to his son, who was possibly the biggest jerk in the business. Nobody liked him, because if you balked at the price of anything, (or were left speechless in many cases) he would get angry and say "That's the price there, bud." and walk into the back. They had all that stuff there, and so intact, for that reason - they priced it all out of most hobbiests' range. The business mainly catered to "rich rustbelt and international customers who needed the parts at any cost" however many of them there actually were. Most local enthusiasts steered clear, relying on swap meets, Hemmings, local ads, buying whole parts cars, and more recently, eBay and the like.
Reportedly, the land was sold to a developer for 7 million dollars, and the developer got most of the cars in with the deal. Hoctor was already rich, and flush with fresh millions, couldn't care less about what happened to the cars. I believe that an employee took a few dozen, or maybe a hundred cars and started a new yard way out by Casa Grande, and the rest were ordered crushed by the developer. The Hoctor staff oversaw the crushing, and while the yard was opened to the public during the destruction, there were no deals to be had on parts period, the price was the same as always right up to the time that the car was loaded in the crusher. I believe that Hoctor junior enjoyed that, his way of "getting back" at all of his imaginary demons.
If they are now selling cars for scrap value, that's great, but very un-Hoctor like. Strike while the iron is hot (literally) because the US southwest desert is probably the only place in the world where all those little, ugly, horribly rust prone European cars are still rust free, complete, and restorable."
-GP
"I believe that they have already crushed the majority of the American cars, which is a crying shame. You just flat wouldn't believe what was there.
But let me tell you something about that yard. Don Hoctor had the forsight to buy that land in the '70s and put all his older stuff in it, rather than have to crush it to make room for the newer cars at his Phoenix yard, like all the others did.
But, it was by far the highest priced junk yard in all the land, they wanted $400 for one quarter panel, no matter what car it came from, no matter the condition. $50 for one stick of chrome, $200 for a bumper, $250 for a fender, and all body parts were sold bare, no trim parts which were extra. You could buy any car for $3,500, complete or a shell - same price. The prices were all firm, no haggling at all. Old man Hoctor ceded the business to his son, who was possibly the biggest jerk in the business. Nobody liked him, because if you balked at the price of anything, (or were left speechless in many cases) he would get angry and say "That's the price there, bud." and walk into the back. They had all that stuff there, and so intact, for that reason - they priced it all out of most hobbiests' range. The business mainly catered to "rich rustbelt and international customers who needed the parts at any cost" however many of them there actually were. Most local enthusiasts steered clear, relying on swap meets, Hemmings, local ads, buying whole parts cars, and more recently, eBay and the like.
Reportedly, the land was sold to a developer for 7 million dollars, and the developer got most of the cars in with the deal. Hoctor was already rich, and flush with fresh millions, couldn't care less about what happened to the cars. I believe that an employee took a few dozen, or maybe a hundred cars and started a new yard way out by Casa Grande, and the rest were ordered crushed by the developer. The Hoctor staff oversaw the crushing, and while the yard was opened to the public during the destruction, there were no deals to be had on parts period, the price was the same as always right up to the time that the car was loaded in the crusher. I believe that Hoctor junior enjoyed that, his way of "getting back" at all of his imaginary demons.
If they are now selling cars for scrap value, that's great, but very un-Hoctor like. Strike while the iron is hot (literally) because the US southwest desert is probably the only place in the world where all those little, ugly, horribly rust prone European cars are still rust free, complete, and restorable."
-GP
