This Will Make You Cry

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   A friend of a friend was picking through a junkyard down in the 'hood of Detroit a few weeks ago. This is a fairly rough part of town. Low and behold way in the back in the restricted area next to the crusher, he found some old Jeeps. 

So, this guy called a buddy of mine who in turn called me. I finally got a chance to see them for myself yesterday. The ironic part of it is, back when my dad and I were just getting into old Jeeps, somehow he found out about a guy that used flatfenders for snow plowing. He had been in business around 40 years back then around 1985. The guy was 80 I remember. We had wondered whatever happened to him and those Jeeps. You guessed it, these are they. I counted 32 yesterday. There is at least one 2A and a 3B. The rest appear to be CJ5s from the 50s to about 1970 or so. Most have front end ptos with brushes still on them, or hydraulics for V plows. The bodies are rough as you could expect, but all have factory hard tops that are in nice shape. 

Another friend is trying to convince the owner of the yard to sell them to him but he's having a heck of a time. They also won't sell any parts. I think the good news is, all of us Jeep junkies in the area are going there and asking about them, so she told me they aren't going to crush them. They were originally. Sure would like to get those ptos and hydraulics. 

Here are a few pictures. You'll have to excuse the barb wire- I couldn't find a good vantage point. They funny thing is, once they saw I had a camera, I was told to leave. Fortunately, I saved everything to my flash card, so when they picked through my pictures, the only saw what was saved in the camera's memory. 

Bill 

Edited by Bill Norris - 06 Apr. 2009 at 12:42pm