sad indeed, all those tri five chev and pontiacs now gone

a rare 2dr post '58 olds beside the corvair van

You got to love old rusty iron. Thanks for the photo's. I lived in Picton back in the early 60's grade one and two if I remember right. To young to be driving back then just playing with toy cars .

 

Ian

Love the pictures! I can spend hours at boneyards looking at everything and looking for nothing.

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that guy is in paradise look at the backdrop!

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 Yes i was in paradise, spending the whole day there was real easy. Even in the summer heat it was still a real gas to see all those lost treasures. Memories i will never forget and it was well worth the 2.5 hour drive to get there. George.

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I went there in 1974 cause someone took the NOMAD emblem of my 55. I was told about this yard by friends in Belleville. Well the old guy at the yard gets up walks in another room and comes out with my emblem and it cost $5.00. Great pictures George.
Brian

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 Brian, sadly Quentin is no longer with us. He died back in 2008. Brian do you have any photos of your 55 Nomad that you could share with us. 

A shameless bump. Check out some old vintage wrecking yard relics from Minaker's. Cheers.

In 2015 I was visiting Quinte and did drive through Milford. I was about a half a kilometer away from where the yard was and I had no idea it was there.

 

With all the MOE concerns about soil contamination, the old time wrecking yard is becoming a thing of the past. I always enjoyed a visiting them, whether it was Dominion Auto in Stoney Creek, Freelton Truck Parts or some other wrecker on a back road in the Niagara Peninsula. Back in the mid 80s I remember while looking for a 68 Mustang convertible top part one wrecker in Niagara had a '71 Barracuda with a column shift beside the Mustang we ended up getting the part from. The Mustang was a '67 convertible with a 200 six, 4-lug wheels and a factory tachometer. I can't exactly recall where it was, might have been near Smithville or Wainfleet.

These old yards should be protected as " Heritage sites ". for car guys.I know of a few yards like that that they just dug a huge hole and buried them.

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 Vanryan`s Auto Wreckers just above Grimsby

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 Kevin, I thought you would probably know. Yes, perhaps it could have been. I see it is near Grassie.   I don't know, I seem to remember the yard was further south towards Erie but then again it was a long time ago. My sense of direction has always been pretty good but it is not infallible.

Jackson's eh? I looked them up and it may very well may have been the place. It would have been back in '85.

By the way, when I looked them up and viewed them via Google Maps Street View, what is sitting in the lot in 2018 but a derelict 1954 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery!  Street View 2018

For a minute I thought it was a 1950 Pontiac Sedan Delivery, but when I scanned around from different angles it looks more like a 54 Chev.

Thanks for the photos George. Myself and the guys I still hang around with used to do exactly what you did . One yard was in Matheson that was owned by Bustard Brothers A Chev Olds dealer. They had a farm with a huge field of old cars. We would stop at the dealership and speak to one of the owners and tell them what we were looking for and they would let us tour the yard by ourselves. This was in the mid 70's. We were always on the lookout for tri five parts.

It was at this yard that I spotted my first Canadian 1955 Pontiac sedan delivery. I initially thought the car had a Pontiac front clip on a 55 Chevrolet body because of the rear quarter panel style with the Chevrolet tail light openings. After checking out the dash and seeing it was a Pontiac dash I realized it was a real Pontiac.

The second yard was at home in Timmins at Boychuck,s salvage yard that was unattended and we just roamed it and again stripped at lot of tri five stainless that we could save. The Boychucks had a small ford dealership.

The only local yard left is Creative Recycling that is owned by James Cramer that has at least 500 cars from the 30's to 60's. He is being pressured by the MOE to meet a lot of new standards and he will be crushing all his newer above 1980 vehicles this fall.

The idea of these type of yards becoming Heritage Locations is a great idea. I could tour thee old yards all day.

Al