{"id":409291,"date":"2015-12-15T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=409291"},"modified":"2015-12-14T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:18:05","slug":"gates-auto-salvage-tour-more-haunting-visions-from-the-past-in-the-yard-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshift-galleries\/gallery\/gates-auto-salvage-tour-more-haunting-visions-from-the-past-in-the-yard-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Haunting Visions From The Past In The Yard In Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Brian told me about Gates Salvage Yard and how he and Craig Fitzgerald were making a run north to check it out, I was dying to go with them. Hey, for $500 per car, maybe luck would pan out, I’d find something worth dragging home, and the next thing anybody would know, we’d have a sweet machine with the kind of patina you simply can’t fake. Luckily, my instant reaction was tempered because this was far beyond a rescue operation. What Brian and Craig did was more along the lines of visiting a museum, where the vehicles sat, waiting to be seen, as they had been since whenever they were left in place. You don’t see older yards like this much anymore…everybody was in a rush to capitalize on high scrap prices a few years ago and now most of the yards are filled with late-model Tupperware. Finding a Forward Control Jeep, an early 1940s Pontiac, and more just doesn’t happen anymore, and that’s a shame. At least we got to lay eyes on one of the last good ones. Click through the gallery below and check out more photos from the yard in Vermont:<\/p>\n

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