From the moment I walk into the fenced-off area, I have one thought going in my head in a junkyard: if it is just a matter of a battery and some gas, how many cars in this yard would actually run and drive? Walking through a yard like an LKQ or a Pick and Pull, the chances are slim…a lot of the vehicles that make it in are ripped apart like a carcass on the side of the road by vultures, with the engines being the first to go. But find a real junkyard, where the cars are just kind of chilling out in the grass, waiting their turn, and you start to look at some of the more solid finds and you start wanting to give each vehicle a shot. Was the engine the real reason why the car has been parked for decades, or was it because the trans went out, or was it simply because the car was old and nobody wanted it anymore?
What you are going to see is more footage from last summer, when Dylan McCool, Kevin from Junkyard Digs and Luke (Thunderhead289) met up in Tennessee for a few days. They hung around, they messed around with cheap beaters, and they even went in together to wake up an old Plymouth Satellite that had been down for a bit. In that same private junkyard they decided to do a kind of gearhead lighting round: with some gasoline, the battery, some basic tools and a hope, they would go from car to car, trying to bring them back to life. This video is from Kevin’s perspective and has a couple of Fords as targets: a 302-swapped Bronco II that looks like it’d be a ball to go play in the sand dunes in, and a Ford Fairlane that seems more than ready to get past it’s resting days and into the shop for some new floors. We would’ve loved to have seen them take on the AMC Javelin parked next to the Fairlane…wonder what scared them away from trying to wake the Javelin up? They’re just paper wasps…
That is epic, I could watch stuff come back to life all day………….