Corvairs, Kaisers, and Cadillacs: Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard Is a Mile High… and a Mile Wide

That AMC Matador Barcelona we saw last week was quite a Junkyard Find, but it represents approximately 0.01% of the staggeringly tempting potential Hell Projects in this particular Colorado yard. Located not far from Pikes Peak (which I couldn’t see because of all the wildfire smoke), this not-open-to-the-public junkyard/open-air automotive museum is owned by a man with an eye for interesting Detroit iron and all the land he needs to store what he finds. After all my years of junkyard crawling, I think this may well be the Greatest Yard of Them All, and that includes the now-defunct Seven Sons yard and this 70-year-old yard north of Denver. Let’s take a little tour, shall we?

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  • Lorenzo Ive seen a couple, and if you're about to cross when they go by, and you're over about 5'7", step back, or that side mirror will smack you in the head.
  • Lorenzo I can't say I'm a fanatic, but I wish those photogs would go through some old comic books for those spy lenses that can see under people's clothes and use them to see under the car wraps.
  • SilverBullett 100% - I feel there is less of it now published than their used to be. Maybe the manufacturers are getting better at disguising.
  • The Oracle The problem with the USPS is that most of what they deliver is unwanted junk and bulk mail.
  • Paul Alexander This seems kinda spicy, don't you think Tim? Going to spark a lot of debat...ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz