It has been a while since we last took a stroll down the virtual aisles of the massive Copart network of junkyards looking for bent up iron that would both shock and awe you. When we took a look yesterday with  proverbial fresh set of eyes, it is not take kong for the interesting cars and crazy wreckage to pop to the front. Sticking with the majority of old cars here, we think that your eyes will bug out when you look at many of them.

We have no idea how the wrecks happened. We have no idea if anyone was personally damaged in them and we certainly hope that they weren’t. We also know that some of these cars are so banged up and in very form and fashion that there had to be some people left sore (at a minimum after  some of these crashes). There’s some old “wisdom” out there that new cars just aren’t built like the old ones and frankly that is a good thing. These cars and their designs ate people up and you can clearly see how, judging by the damage.

Scroll down to see this batch of Copart Cadavers plucked right from Copra’s site –

This 1951 Chevy truck took one pretty hard across the bow. From the indentation and stuff on the fender it looks like it may have been a telephone pole or a tree that did this one in. As it turns out the entire passenger side is pretty well mangled and that’s why this one is at cadaver status. Can it be fixed, sure it can but you’d need pockets like Jay Leno and some really good reason why this particular truck means that much to you.

This 1980s Chrysler 5th Avenue is killed beyond measure. It looks like it picked a fight with Thor or something. These cars, with their anemic 318 or 360 power plants were not capable of even going fast enough to cause this type of damage to themselves, right? Was there a sinkhole at a museum we were not informed about? How else could this have possibly happened? This is one of the most destroyed cars we have ever see in any shape or form. At least that radiator hose comes with it, right?

We need some of those old visual effects from the 1960s Adam West era Batman show for this next couple. This was a 1970 Coronet 440. Most of you know this but the 440 designation is for for the engine but rather the option level. Since the VIN numbers are posted with these cars, we decoded this one. 383 2-bbl power was the original motivation and due to the fact the thing has been mangulated beyond all recognition we have no idea if someone hotted it up or not. We’re thinking that they did and boy whatever the hit did not budge. But if you think that is bad….

This 1964 Pontiac Tempest (GTO badges are present but we’re not sure) convertible makes that Coronet have damage that looks like it’ll buff out. Again, there was huge speed and an even more huge immovable object involved in this one, we think. The spectacular angle of the font end is what had our jaw hit the floor. You can really tell in those overhead photos. The frame on this thing just buckled and folded like it was a stick of butter.

This last one is not all that spectacular in the scheme of things when compared to the other cars but it is interesting to me because it shows what about 40 years of New England weather will do to a car, especially when it is one made with cheap ass steel like this 1972 Triumph Spitfire would have been made with. We have no idea what that particular piece of the hood “out rotted” everything else but it sure did. We’re guessing that any attempt to push, pull, or tow this car would result in it breaking in half.