Burned Dodge Truck Makes Us Sad

by Murilee Martin

November 27th, 2010 1:59 PM

After the Fourmile Canyon Fire in September, charred vehicle carcasses began showing up in quantity in Denver wrecking yards. Completely burned-to-hell-and-gone vehicles don’t seem to offer any usable components for junkyard shoppers, but they still show up.

This mid-60s Dodge pickup showed up at the self-service yard near my house about a week after the fire. I’m betting that exactly zero of its parts will live on in surviving Dardges, but at least it makes a nice subject for artsy photographs.

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J Sutherland on Nov 27, 2010

Here's to filling the role as "happy ending" guy-this 67 Dodge truck is destined to go on and on...

http://www.mystarcollectorcar.com/3-the-stars/star-truckin/853-august-2010-star-truckin-1967-dodge-too-useful-to-sell-so-this-baby-is-still-working.html

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Pete Madsen on Nov 28, 2010

I read once a long time ago that if a vehicle burns in the open mechanical parts can be salvageable - ie engine block, transmission, and such; but if it burns inside a burning building the temperatures attained are quite a bit higher so that nothing is usable. I would suspect that being burned in a forest fire would approximate the latter case.

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