R & R mopar salvage

I made it out there a month before they crushed it all. I got pictures but they're paper, not digital.

There was a dumpster by the gate..... FULL of 8 3/4 housings with the ends cut off. I asked the guy about it and he said they used the centers to drive rollercoasters, so the amusement parks called and bought the pigs, and they had so many that they just cut the housing ends of rather than remove the axles and brakes.

They had every 68-70 charger set aside at the front of the yard, off limits. I asked and he said some guy called and bought every single one of them. I saw several car carriers caring those cars through Republic a few weeks later one morning on my way to work (I lived in mount Vernon).

A week or later I saw an add for that bastardized Dukes of Hazzard movie, and I knew where those chargers were going.

Every car with a v8 in r+r had a hole cut in the inner fender to check the block numbers. When we were there the guy said take what you want, but there was NOTHING left except an odd piece of trim or piece of glass. It was completely picked over. They crushed everything, and nothing, at the same time.

The pics I have aren't that good but I need to post then. Problem was, you needed an airplane or to be there to under stand how big it was. Easily the biggest salvage yard I've ever seen. It blew my mind, and it was overwhelming to be there. If it had been a regular yard instead of mopar only, it still would have been just as overwhelming.

I remember reading about it as a kid a and having no way to get there. By the time I moved down there, I had forgotten all about it being there and missed out on five years of visiting the place. I distinctly remember seeing that big house on the hill and I think mr. Slobes wife or girlfriend or whoever she was when I was there. Super nice gal but they were trying to transition to late model salvage and they couldn't pull it off.