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Junkyard Photography
Topic Started: May 26 2012, 06:14 AM (4,077 Views)
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Since my abandoned places thread here is popular and my car show thread was pretty well-received too, I thought I'd make another thread for junkyard photos. :)

There is a distinctive arty note to them, since they are intended mostly for deviantART and since I take my photos as much as for the sake of art as for being what the subjects are, but of course, anyone who has a photo to share can submit normal pictures...

1951 Chrysler gauges:
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1970s Prowler travel trailer:
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1920s Graham-Paige tractor conversion:
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Waukesha stationary engine:
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Instrument panel of G-P tractor conversion:
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Divco milk truck nose:
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Divco hood ornament:
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Blurred over-the-hood view of Divco, intended to look like a painting or airbrush graphic:
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"Tunnel vision" shot of a 1960s Pontiac ambulance interior:
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Honda AN600:
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1955 Chrysler:
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Weird bus or motorhome thingy:
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Destroyed 1942-48 Ford speedometer:
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Eye Spy puzzle for petrol heads, with an extinct cinder cone volcano in the background (I'll link to a deviantART upload with a full-size pic later once I put it up):
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"Bitsa" Model T on a roof:
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Very nice. Do you take these photos purely for fun, or do you have an arts or photography background, or training?
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I'm looking forward to the Eye Spy challenge! And love these pics!
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Makes me miss my old job looking at those pics but the cars in the salvage yard I worked at did not have vintage steel laying about. We had mostly Fords and Chevys disposable cars.....lol

I love your pics by the way!
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Thanks everyone... to answer Dragnet, my training comes partly from being behind a camera since I was 8 years old, at one point I had a 1960s 35mm Minolta camera that was nice but not an SLR (still a $100 camera when new) that got stolen out of my car in 2003, but moved to mostly digital after that and currently digital only. I've taken a great deal of inspiration from people like Herbert Hesselmann, the Autofriedhof photographers and Troy Paiva, jumped in head-first after seeing an urban exploration photo exhibit at the University of Oregon Art Museum in 2005 and a 1947-55 Chevy and GMC pickup junker photo series in a neighborhood bar that I used to frequent when I lived in downtown Eugene, and have been absorbing photography book contents. My Uncle Rick, who is a very diverse and experienced photographer, was a great influence too. (edit: as far as background, I worked in a charity auto auction for a long time, preparing cars for sale, and scrapping rejects. I did photograph them for their auction catalogs)

Even the "appliance" junkyards here have cool stuff, mostly older Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Porsche products, but I have found early Saabs, Ramblers, Corvairs, prewar Ford and Dodge trucks, pre-RX7 rotary Mazdas, Dodge Magnum XEs, pre-1967 Volkswagens, kit cars and transaxle Alfa Romeos (mainly Alfettas and Milanos), and I located a few cool Malaise Era American cars along with a rusty '61 International Scout, a totaled Porsche 914 and a Fiat X1/9 at the last "appliance" yard I went to.
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Wow - these are neat. Brings back memories of many years ago when a buddy and I would wander through Spalding Wrecking, Antique Auto Ranch (and other yards) around Spokane, WA in search of parts for his many Studebakers, a Borgward and my Edsel stuff.
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May 26 2012, 06:22 PM
Wow - these are neat. Brings back memories of many years ago when a buddy and I would wander through Spalding Wrecking, Antique Auto Ranch (and other yards) around Spokane, WA in search of parts for his many Studebakers, a Borgward and my Edsel stuff.
Thanks! It's strange that you mentioned Borgwards, since my deviantART page has numerous pictures of a 1958 Goliath Hansa 1100 Kombi (like a smaller Borgward Isabella Kombi without fins styling-wise, and the basis of the Subaru FF1/1300G) that was there and was crushed in February...
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Something tells me you should come to CARnival next year and hang with Sean's crew during the after hours stuff.
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May 26 2012, 07:52 PM
Something tells me you should come to CARnival next year and hang with Sean's crew during the after hours stuff.
You have no idea how much I'd love to do that... unfortunately the plane ticket, hotel, rental car, etc. would be disastrous financially assuming that the job I may be getting (working in Central Supply at a hospital) isn't meant to be.

That would be a whole lot of fun. Curious to know what tells you that? ;)
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What tells me that is you're certainly creative, listen to similar (and sometimes diversely different music), and like a variety of interesting diecast...which is basically the language Sean and I both speak, so I'm vibing you'd sorta be a kindred spirit on most of these levels.
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May 26 2012, 08:26 PM
What tells me that is you're certainly creative, listen to similar (and sometimes diversely different music), and like a variety of interesting diecast...which is basically the language Sean and I both speak, so I'm vibing you'd sorta be a kindred spirit on most of these levels.
Definitely thought so. I knew Sean and I were kindred spirits when I looked at his deviantART page and saw references to 1970s/80s pop bands and a mixture of JDM, European, US-market Japanese and American cars (real and diecast) in his gallery, then we talked and the rest is history.

As I said, it'd be fun...

Speaking of diverse music... there are 6 CDs sitting on top of the early 2000s Aiwa boombox in my "office" (the end of the garage, where my computer, a $500 Herman Miller office chair scrounged from a Dumpster and repaired with a set of casters and some bolts from Home Depot, diecasts, a Brownie camera, a few old signs, a 1973 Electrophonic AM/FM/8-track/record changer stereo and probably 4,000 CDs, records and 8-tracks live), they are: a taiko drum album by Kiyoshi Yoshida, the Charlie Daniels Band, Pantera, Frank Zappa, Yes and Otis Redding, bought for a total of under $12 at Goodwill. All worlds apart...
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Here's the Eye Spy... posted as a URL instead of an [img] since it is a *huge* picture.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/147/3/0/eye_spy_for_petrol_heads_by_gothiccarsurban-d51c29t.jpg
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Im sort of eclectic in my tastes as well. There are certain types of music that I listen to while I write, but even that seems to change with time, then finds its way back around again. I used to be a freelance comic book inker until my car accident. I don't like the top 40 lifestyle most people seen to mimic without giving thought to their options in most things. I believe life is creative, and most people are creating a mess and wondering how it all got that way.

I've been a party to some of my own messes, but have tried not to repeat them. And still other messes is because I used to have trouble saying no to family and friends...from which I've learned that patience is a virtue until its no longer a virtue. Then it becomes a detriment.

But to try to tie all this in with your theme of junkyard pics, we might say that in a symbolic way, this is what happens to life..even the life of the mind...if left to rust and decay. And the relics of the past all have their lessons to teach. And nothing, nor anyone, is ever too old, or fixed in time to be useful, to find new interests that spring from the ashes of the past.

My art, for example, is now mostly painted in words, but the words make visuals that are very personal to all who read them. And so I have become something new that my previous training in visual art and observation have transmuted into.

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May 26 2012, 09:08 PM
Im sort of eclectic in my tastes as well. There are certain types of music that I listen to while I write, but even that seems to change with time, then finds its way back around again. I used to be a freelance comic book inker until my car accident. I don't like the top 40 lifestyle most people seen to mimic without giving thought to their options in most things. I believe life is creative, and most people are creating a mess and wondering how it all got that way.

I've been a party to some of my own messes, but have tried not to repeat them. And still other messes is because I used to have trouble saying no to family and friends...from which I've learned that patience is a virtue until its no longer a virtue. Then it becomes a detriment.

But to try to tie all this in with your theme of junkyard pics, we might say that in a symbolic way, this is what happens to life..even the life of the mind...if left to rust and decay. And the relics of the past all have their lessons to teach. And nothing, nor anyone, is ever too old, or fixed in time to be useful, to find new interests that spring from the ashes of the past.

My art, for example, is now mostly painted in words, but the words make visuals that are very personal to all who read them. And so I have become something new that my previous training in visual art and observation have transmuted into.

I used to write crime fiction stories that were worthy of inclusion in the FBI's "most notorious" files if they were real, current events satire, and parody, until I started falling into the depths of bipolar disorder and PTSD, I hard-deleted the files and shredded the print copies in 2006, and was at work on a comparison book of assorted weird cars and prototypes/concepts that I intended to sell as an eBook until the contents of my old computer were deleted by the person keeping my things for me during a jail term. My wordsmithing skills were compared to Hunter S. Thompson at the time, but have deteriorated slightly... I have been through a lot of messes and have tried not to repeat them, I now write emotional poetry and occasional satire & sarcastic/ironic humor alongside the photography... the lifestyles mimicked by others are not appealing to me (nor to my girlfriend, who's been with me since 2005), I definitely march to the beat of a different drummer, which is evident in my clothing/grooming style, in driving an '84 Ford pickup truck with 360,000 miles on the body and frame when most people here donate, junk or scrap them, and in many other aspects.

Agreed on how you tied this in to the theme and in the last sentence.

...and here is what happens when you drag some old school busses out of the edge of a junkyard with a tractor, then tear them apart with bulldozers and a backhoe due to there being no cutting torch available and the bus wheels being frozen. :P
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(different junkyard, in which its entire contents of 1920s-80s cars, trucks and motorcycles was crushed)
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Nice stuff bro. I am thankful that there's another member here who takes photography as serious as I do. Excellent work :D
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May 27 2012, 12:47 AM
Nice stuff bro. I am thankful that there's another member here who takes photography as serious as I do. Excellent work :D
Thanks! I take it pretty seriously, and a few critiques on dA (excluding one where someone tore me apart on a pic of a completely ruined '39 Buick Limited interior that I couldn't get all the way into) have helped me as much as my books, my artistic influences and my uncle have... :)
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I love the perspective on the buses, how the two most whole pieces actually taper out like they are heading toward their points on the horizon with the biggest mess right smack where the lines converge, as if the entire mess were by an artists design. Very neat and strange all at the same time. We could really come up with some artsy explanations here on various topics, including the entire public education system...lol!

I think, to sum up our previous points, and use these buses as an image, life gets tangled/shredded, on some levels for everyone. I think creative folks use it and find an outlet. But I've known many who do not and take the mess as the norm and try to toss everyone they know into it, like an alcoholic that hates to drink alone. This is mostly due to them being afraid. Moving to do anything about the wreckage, even trying to view it from a new angle, would risk rocking the boat and potentially making matters worse.

This was most of my family, and perspective of the town I grew up in. So attempting to be creative was almost likened to witchcraft. So my own creative endeavors have been always against the grain. It disturbed the natural order of everyone else's perspective.

Your picture is very symbolic of that.

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Okay, I'm going to admit that the Eye Spy challenge is more difficult than I was expecting. Parts of cars are harder to ID than whole cars. We've got a Mercury fender up front that appears to be circa 1970, and since it appears to be fairly small I am thinking it's off a Cougar. Next to it is a 1986 (thankfully identified on the fender) Toyota pickup or 4Runner, and I see what appears to be a Jeep Honcho pickup rear fender as well. Most of the rest is just too piecemail for me to get a good ID on. I have failed miserably!
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May 27 2012, 04:06 PM
Okay, I'm going to admit that the Eye Spy challenge is more difficult than I was expecting. Parts of cars are harder to ID than whole cars. We've got a Mercury fender up front that appears to be circa 1970, and since it appears to be fairly small I am thinking it's off a Cougar. Next to it is a 1986 (thankfully identified on the fender) Toyota pickup or 4Runner, and I see what appears to be a Jeep Honcho pickup rear fender as well. Most of the rest is just too piecemail for me to get a good ID on. I have failed miserably!
I found myself more involved with the discussion about the motivations and abstractions behind the art, to be honest.

I do see what I take to be an early 60s FoMoCo front clip, my guess would be 63 Mercury Comet (behind the fender Swifty thinks is a Cougar, I think is an early 70s Montclair or Montego). There is clearly a 55 Chevy front fender in white behind and to the left of these, in the back is a mid-50s Low Cab Forward GM, not sure if Chevy or GMC, my guess would be Jimmy, not sure what the COE is beside it without the grill. I agree that's a Jeep fender, not sure what from, but pretty sure its early to mid 70s. That's as far as I've gotten so far.
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Behind the 63 Comet front clip is a GM pickup front clip, I'm again thinking GMC, probably mid 70s.

Under the green Mercury fender is a light color pickup front fender, really hard to tell from the angle but I would guess another GM product, along the line of the GM front clip.

There's a handful of fenders under that with just too little to go by, but there's a bent door with a triangular windwing that makes me think mid 60s Mustang, clearly not a fastback, but possibly a convertible.

Behind that door and in front of the 55 chevy fender is definitely a mid 50s GM pickup hood, Chevy or GMC I'm not sure, could probably interchange anyway.

I do see one front bumper I would guess to be late 60s Olds Toronado at the far left.

A lot of the bumpers are pretty ambiguous, but I'm thinking GM at least on the left. Then I see a rear bumper assembly that includes taillights, and that sure looks like early 70s Plymouth to me.

Behind and to the right of the Jeep fender I see a rusty old early-mid 50s Ford pickup with some serious dents in the roof.

I think by what little I can see of the green truck beside the Ford is a mid 50s GM, probably Chevy pickup.

I can't see enough of the rusty red color truck beside the Chevy to say, other than it is not Ford or Chevy.

Far right is a mid 60s Chevy pickup

I also see some pale green / turquoise mid 60s Chevy pickup doors nearby.

Most of the rest is just too ambiguous for me.
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Good guesses, Wes!

And yes, the discussion of the motivations & inspirations is interesting... :)

Here's the Scout I mentioned, it was RUSTY, but had a few good parts left... the pickup top was probably the most valuable.
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May 29 2012, 10:09 PM
Good guesses, Wes!

And yes, the discussion of the motivations & inspirations is interesting... :)

Here's the Scout I mentioned, it was RUSTY, but had a few good parts left... the pickup top was probably the most valuable.
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There's a potential rust scheme for a projects in progress version :thumbup:

Although in a slightly more whole form. I wonder if people would feel cheated if a diecast came with missing body parts?
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Good guesses, Wes!

And yes, the discussion of the motivations & inspirations is interesting... :)

Here's the Scout I mentioned, it was RUSTY, but had a few good parts left... the pickup top was probably the most valuable.
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There's a potential rust scheme for a projects in progress version :thumbup:

Although in a slightly more whole form. I wonder if people would feel cheated if a diecast came with missing body parts?
Thanks! I agree that it would be a good color scheme... M2 junkyard diecasts with the missing doors or hoods are perennial peg-warmers here, so people *do* feel cheated by them.
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This is true. I don't know why I didn't think about the M2s when I wrote that. But then, I haven't bought that line due to the few I've wanted going fast. Other than that, I've actually stayed away because they almost have the rust thing a bit overdone. I would sometimes like a better balance. And the peg warmers here have very little of that.
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Not a junkyard car persay (dragged out of a backyard and parked at the edge of the road), but junky indeed...

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Another, slightly less trashed roadside find:

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In a lot full of junkers:

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All within half a mile of my house.
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