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dixiegrrrrl

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1. What happened to all the car parts yards, anyhow?

Reply to DainBramaged (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 06:53 PM

May 2013

Back in 1962, I remember some weekend dates with my future husband were spent in his pursuit of car parts, and we had at least 3 "junkyards" to prowl thru in town, and twice the number only a few miles past the town limits.
The man was...still is...a mechanical genie. ( we are long divorced)

Any old timers here may remember why he was so proud of his 1953 Merc "with glass pack muffler"
or some such phrase.

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Memories of the empire rustle loudly in the dirt ( a GREAT read) [View all] DainBramaged May 2013 OP

What happened to all the car parts yards, anyhow? dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #1

Ground pollution, noise and nuisance ordinances by towns put the out of business DainBramaged May 2013 #2

Oh...didn't Ladybird Johnson have something to do with that??? dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #3

Her thing was roadside cleanup Mopar151 May 2013 #4