EASY (European Auto Salvage Yard) Final Cars & Doughnutfest

That looks like a fun event.  All of the cars look great.  

With the owner being retired, will the business be forced to close?

I believe new owners have taken over. Perhaps they’ll maintain the Saturday meet ups. That said, the previous owner wanted today’s meetup to be large. 

Was a great grouping of cars. I followed the GT-4. What was a spirited run for me this morning barely broke a sweat for his car. 

I thoroughly enjoyed checking out Hummel’s 356 Coupé up close. It’s quite amazing where he goes with that car. The patina on the finish is unreal. 

TheMayoMachine posted:

That looks like a fun event.  All of the cars look great.  

With the owner being retired, will the business be forced to close?

I think if I remember correctly Rod Emory bought a lot of the 356 parts.

So cool! I’m glad you went. Looks like a great event.

Nice pictures  Classic car show had an episode in that place. Lots of history. 

TRP posted:

TheMayoMachine posted:

That looks like a fun event.  All of the cars look great.  

With the owner being retired, will the business be forced to close?

I think if I remember correctly Rod Emory bought a lot of the 356 parts.

Yup. He kind of cleaned the place out. The Emory Outlaw business has enough parts to go on for a very long time. 

TRP posted:

TheMayoMachine posted:

That looks like a fun event.  All of the cars look great.  

With the owner being retired, will the business be forced to close?

I think if I remember correctly Rod Emory bought a lot of the 356 parts.

Yes, Rod did buy all of his 356 parts.

As I understand, there’s still a lot of Porsche parts left. The dumpsters have arrived. I believe by the end of the week, everything will be disposed. For now, Porsche parts are ridiculously cheap. Early Targa windows are now $50/each. 

If only I had space to store parts I really don’t need. 

I have personally seen the sad demise of two favorite "junkyards".  The first is where I got all of the parts for my 1946 Ford project back in 1970 - 74.  I pulled lots of trim parts both inside and out, headliner bows, seat trim, several transmissions and a bunch of other stuff.  That yard closed in the early 90's and a bunch of us showed up when the crushers arrived.  It turned into a Hot Rodders Irish Wake with many guys with strong Hot Rod cred showing up.

The second yard I lost was when we lived in South Carolina and an old guy (Harold, out on St. Helena island) had had a salvage yard on one of the Sea Islands for decades.  I had gotten a few Porsche parts from there and zipped out before he closed for parts for my second Speedster build (and a complete 924 rear suspension....for $50 bucks!)  He had collected everything from old Packards, Caddys, Hudsons and a few Graham Paiges from the 20's through the 50's, to modern(ish) Camaros, Mustangs and Pickup trucks (he had a row of 8 el Caminos, too!), all neatly arranged in rows by make/model.  

The same thing happened this time when the crushers, all four of them, arrived to crush what was conservatively estimated at 2,000 cars (final count was over 2,800) after he had sold whatever he could.  Several local car clubs arrived that morning to sadly and quietly watch the crushers set up and begin their work, watching from lawn chairs and passing around Southern and Gullah food, Beer and Bloody Marys.  Looking around, the spectators were a mixed lot of black and white, blue collar and white collar, military and civilian, all customers of Harold's impressive collection and all sad at the passing of an era, never to be re-lived.

It took most of a week to crush them all.  Harold kept several old Hudson Commodores for himself to restore, more from nostalgia than anything else, he said.  In the end, after hiring the crushers and all else, he netted around $1.2 Million in scrap metal, all of which went to China, and that money became his retirement, along with selling the salvage lot of about 15 acres, some of it along the water, to a developer who is just now beginning to build a gated community there after stripping and replacing the contaminated topsoil.  

Always sad to see a good salvage yard close.  Just one more lost opportunity to find parts.