Those open plains don’t stay open forever, it seems. Ask anyone who knows about how big Colorado Springs got in the last thirty years, or anywhere else that sees neighborhood developments pop up like spring flowers that can’t be trimmed down with a weed eater. Encroachment is always a problem, but for one Grantsville, Utah yard owner, it’s become an ultimatum: 73-year-old Dennis McBride has until June 15th to unload everything off of his property, which has been in his family’s possession since the 1930s and was at one point in time part of the old Grantsville Airport. But the houses are springing up and the demands from the city have become too much. Property taxes went up four-fold and if you haven’t had the joy of pricing a million-dollar insurance policy just in case one of the kids gets hurt in your yard…well, you don’t want to know what that costs.
So all of the old iron that doesn’t fit inside of the old aircraft hangar at the Grantsville Airport has to go. He got lucky enough to get the city to declare the airport property a historical location, so that’s safe. What isn’t safe is the acres of cars that need to go before the bulldozers appear. Packards, Hudsons, Cords, Fords, Pontiacs…If it’s got age to it, chances are you’ll find an example behind the old Texaco station, and it’s for sale for just over scrap price. Come mid-June, it’s the crusher’s day in the sun.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! My back yard will be next! smh…..
Crazy – really a shame!!
I sure hope most of the stuff gets saved and not just crushed.
Property taxes and NIMBYS. Two unjustifiable evils.
That’s like the assholes that complain about noise when they buy a home near an airport. If you don’t like the view don’t live there. But the town will make a lot more tax money from those $300K homes than from a grass field with Studebakers in it . So hurry up fellas call and get your parts asap. Or the next story on june 16th will show it all going in a crusher