Burned Dodge Truck Makes Us Sad
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.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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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
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.