Junkyard road trip

kingtoy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:04 pm

Well this past weekend I took OkieRA29 up on his invitaiton up to come up and go junkyard hunting with him. Here is a little documentation of the trip.

Here is the Winstar Casino

The Arbuckle mountains.

Taken outside OkieRA29's shop.

Finally we get to the salvage yard. Here are some various ZX's.

One of a handful of MX73's.

I saw more 620's there than I had seen in years.

Some Celicas and a couple of Supras.

If you can figure out what this is let us know, none of us could.

Early Corona coupe.

A TE71 Corolla liftback. It still had it drivetrain and all.

A decent first gen Supra.

There was alot more there. There was a whole section that had some Hondas, Nissans and a couple of Mazdas and Mitsubishis but we ran out of time to take more pics.

Camshaft · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:39 pm

Holy crap, I can't believe some of the cars you just straight-up throw away out there. We'd kill for stuff like that in the Northeast. Heartbreaking. Cool pictures though!

TransAmBandit · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:53 pm

Thank you for the pictures! I love yard hunting!

gaijinshogun · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:30 pm

kingtoy wrote:

If you can figure out what this is let us know, none of us could.

Early German NSU Prinz. From the same company that made the fabulous rotary (er..Wankel) engined NSU Ro80.

kingtoy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:11 am

gaijinshogun wrote:

kingtoy wrote:

If you can figure out what this is let us know, none of us could.

Early German NSU Prinz. From the same company that made the fabulous rotary (er..Wankel) engined NSU Ro80.

It did still have it's rear engine. It was an itty bitty thing. The hood for it was laying inside. The only problem was that the floor was pretty much all rotted away.

OkieRA29 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:12 am

If you can make a roadtrip, they do sell whole cars quite often.

Camshaft · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:34 am

OkieRA29 wrote:

If you can make a roadtrip, they do sell whole cars quite often.

Thanks for the tip! Clean titles?

OkieRA29 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:38 pm

Some might have titles, some may not. It would all depend on how the yard came to own them. Most likely, you would have to get a salvage title for them. Not hard in Oklahoma to do. I don't know about how it would be in other states

andysmiley17 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:00 pm

a junkyard roadtrip sounds like an awesome idea

kds-ii · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:39 pm

Did this one have a tan interior?

I'm looking for a few pieces unique to the 79 (which this is)

Camshaft · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:32 pm

OkieRA29 wrote:

Some might have titles, some may not. It would all depend on how the yard came to own them. Most likely, you would have to get a salvage title for them. Not hard in Oklahoma to do. I don't know about how it would be in other states

I work in insurance claims, I'm not allowed to own salvaged cars.

Nismopunch · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:33 am

Camshaft wrote:

OkieRA29 wrote:

Some might have titles, some may not. It would all depend on how the yard came to own them. Most likely, you would have to get a salvage title for them. Not hard in Oklahoma to do. I don't know about how it would be in other states

I work in insurance claims, I'm not allowed to own salvaged cars.

cam are you serious???

thats painful to hear/read lol

OkieRA29 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:08 pm

I don't believe that a title 42 shows up as a salvage title. I will ask when I go to get my celica titled in the next couple of weeks. They use it at the auto auctions and in cases of lost titles. So it may not show up as a salvage title. I will let you know what the tag agency tells me.

That supra does have a tan interior, but it is pretty roasted. If you are looking for plastic pieces, those will be most likely ok.

One MAJOR correction, Dave wanted me to let everybody know that the shop is actually his, but I am more than welcome to pay the property taxes. :lol:

Camshaft · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:18 pm

Nismopunch wrote:

Camshaft wrote:

OkieRA29 wrote:

Some might have titles, some may not. It would all depend on how the yard came to own them. Most likely, you would have to get a salvage title for them. Not hard in Oklahoma to do. I don't know about how it would be in other states

I work in insurance claims, I'm not allowed to own salvaged cars.

cam are you serious???

thats painful to hear/read lol

Yeah. You can imagine how it could potentially be a conflict of interest, though. Just means I have to look harder to find stuff is all. I've only owned 8 cars in my lifetime, and none of them have been salvage vehicles.

kingtoy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:04 am

OkieRA29 wrote:

One MAJOR correction, Dave wanted me to let everybody know that the shop is actually his, but I am more than welcome to pay the property taxes. :lol:

Oops, my bad. I knew this and didn't correct myself. :oops:

davev55 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:51 am

And the yard owner told me they had crushed 600 cars since we were there last summer!
there were more z cars, and you know the Hiluxes, last year, sob sob!

kingtoy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:05 am

davev55 wrote:

And the yard owner told me they had crushed 600 cars since we were there last summer!
there were more z cars, and you know the Hiluxes, last year, sob sob!

Yes, don't remind me. :cry:

bullitt · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:06 am

i luv junkyard...lol

shoedoob · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 5:57 pm

Where is this yard if you don't mind posting it publicly? I just bought an 83 Corolla and I'm looking for a parts car. Any other suggestions on where to look off of the internet? I've searched about everything online I can think of.

kingtoy · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 5:57 am

shoedoob wrote:

Where is this yard if you don't mind posting it publicly? I just bought an 83 Corolla and I'm looking for a parts car. Any other suggestions on where to look off of the internet? I've searched about everything online I can think of.

It is just east of OKC. I did a day trip and went there with OkieRA29. They had one TE72 that I remember. It might have some parts you could use on your car.

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