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Veteran Posts: 217 Location: Echuca | Saw this pair of Dodge's only 200 metres from my house this morning, and looking at them it would have been a tough choice to work out which order to stack them in.
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Location: North Australia | mikes2nd - 2018-08-14 11:44 AM Scrap metal The Jeep?? Someone, somewhere needs parts off those wrecks. Hopefully they are going towards a property that is not a srcappers.......... The bottom one is a 60 too right? Steve. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2289 Location: Eastern Iowa | You are absolutely correct, Steve Case in point Someone on e-bay just tagged the door latches and striker plates from the 57 Windsor I parted to the tune of $67!! After I was asking only $35 w/free shipping!! Edited by finsruskw 2018-08-14 11:07 AM | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | People are desperate for parts I know. there's a few parts left but 99% of it is rusty metal... I see way to many guys on ebay asking 100$ for a fricking common bolt for these cars | ||
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Veteran Posts: 217 Location: Echuca | I did see the tow car go past my work with an empty trailer less than 2 hours after I took these photos. Honestly there didn't seem to be too much left, both cars had mega rust and there were rusty parts scattered throughout the interior of the top car. I am hoping that they got picked over for useful parts before scrapping. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | I suspect they are from Lockington, where a bloke has about fifteen of this model... It's possible the bottom wreck is the one in which he had a crash in which the other driver, who seemed determined to suicide, died. He told me that he was keeping six cars to leave to young relatives, with six others so each would have a spare. The prize of the fleet was a LHD convertible he bought from Phoenix AZ. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 | What impresses me in that pic is the jeep that can tow 2 to 3 times its own weight? That pic should be inside a new jeep brochere. | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | No axles, no wheels, no seats, no trim, no engines, no transmissions, no glass, doors and bumpers missing... A lot of the weight has gone from these relics. Not to mention the rust which has fallen off. I have photos of all the Lockington cars somewhere. | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Here's the pink one from Google street view in 2010... (1218lockingtondodgepinkwreck.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1218lockingtondodgepinkwreck.jpg (44KB - 244 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | The other one from my pics (and yes, this is the one from the fatal crash): (1218lockingtondodgegreywreck.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1218lockingtondodgegreywreck.jpg (67KB - 239 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 | Looks like my kinda place I refuse to look at my house on Google, I just don't want to know. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 217 Location: Echuca | Ray Bell - 2018-12-28 10:06 PM I suspect they are from Lockington, where a bloke has about fifteen of this model... It's possible the bottom wreck is the one in which he had a crash in which the other driver, who seemed determined to suicide, died. He told me that he was keeping six cars to leave to young relatives, with six others so each would have a spare. The prize of the fleet was a LHD convertible he bought from Phoenix AZ. You are right Ray, the bottom car is the one from the accident. He had a clearing sale a couple of years ago which included that convertible along with a lot of other treasures, in the end majority of the money was refunded and he kept all the goods. He had an FJ Holden ute that had some serously big bids placed on it which was the turning point of the sale, after that very few items met reserve and previously knocked down items were hastily renogiated to be purchased back by the vendor! A very odd day! | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Yeah, he had some funny ideas all right... He told me he resisted a lot of offers on individual cars (over ten years ago) because he wanted to leave them to family members. | ||
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