Junkyard

Joep’s classic Ford Taunus collection

August 28, 2013
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At the Ford Taunus M Club Nederland I met Joep, a 70+ year old guy who seems like being in his 30s. Last year he and two 80+ year old friends traveled across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Brasil in a VW T3 Transporter. That gives you an idea of how young this guy feels. […]

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The Jeep estanciera in Argentina – Willys Jeep Station Wagon

January 20, 2013
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I actually had totally forgotten the Jeep Estanciera until I was taking pictures at “Desarmadero El Nene” in Urdinarrain, Entre Rios, Argentina. There were lots of them resting there. I remebered also that one of my grandpa’s used to own one. If I recall correctly it was his first brand new car. After that, in […]

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European cars in Argentina during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s

January 18, 2013
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Ford was one of the first car industries to settle down in Argentina during the 1920s. We can say that during the first half of the 20th century, the market was primarily dominated by american car companies. During the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s european car companies became a serious competitor for the americans in Argentina. […]

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Pickups from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s in Argentina

December 26, 2012
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In one of my previous posts I shared with you many pics of early century pickups, Fords and Chevys. Now I’ve been organizing my 400+ pictures from my trip to Argentina and I have more stuff to share with you. This time pickups from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. By the ’60s and 70’s, there […]

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Old Ford and Chevrolet pickups from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s at “Desarmadero El Nene” (junkyard The Child) in Argentina

December 19, 2012
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Oscar, the owner of Junkyard El Nene, has a great variety of cars in his junkyard. What caught my attention the most, were the great amount of pre-war pickups.   Of course, there are many A Fords, but some of them I can not identify. I guess most of them were not pickups initially, but […]

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The Ford Falcon in Argentina – Lots of survivors still around.

December 16, 2012
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The Ford Falcon was one of the most successful cars in the argentine car history, and that can be clearly seen on the streets. With 466,796 units made it was one of the most produced cars in Argentina. The car was produced from 1962 to 1991, a total of 19 years.  Six restyling were made […]

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Junkyard “The Child” (Desarmadero El Nene) in Urdinarrain Entre Ríos, Argentina

December 13, 2012
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Last week I went to one of the most unique junkyards in Argentina. A junkyard called “The child” (desarmadero el nene). This junkyard is located in Urdinarrain in the province of Entre Rios, only 280 km away from Buenos Aires. The owner, Oscar, is a very friendly guy with a deep passion for classic cars, […]

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Making a Picture Frame with an Old Window

March 30, 2012
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I was walking around a flea market some weekends ago. I saw this old window for a couple of bucks and I though: great thing for a picture frame! This is what I started with. An old window, with just one piece of glass. As the window was pretty well built, and the glas looked […]

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A few old jewels I found here and there many years ago

March 7, 2012
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Back in the 80’s I used to carry a camera with me all the time always hoping to spot a classic car. Remember there was no internet back the, so if you wanted to have pictures of classic cars there were only few possibilities: buying books and magazines or taking pictures. With my new scanner […]

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Grandpa’s 1942 WWII Chevrolet G506 / GMC Tow Truck – junker

February 7, 2012
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How this 1942 Chevrolet G506 army truck from WWII ended up in our grandpa’s junkyard in Argentina we’ll probably never know. One thing is for sure, it was a cool truck. It was functioning and our grandpa build a tow truck out of it for the junkyard. As I told you before, I used to […]

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Grandpa’s old Fords – 1925, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937

February 1, 2012
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Our grandpa was a great Ford T fan. The Ford T was by far one of his favorite cars, together with the ’39 Chevrolet. He used to tell us lots of funny stories about the first motorized days. I wish I could travel back in time to have fun with those cars with him. He […]

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Grandpa’s 1924 Fordson tractor – junker

January 25, 2012
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As I already told you, our grandpa used to own a junkyard. This 1924 Fordson tractor was one of the most special vehicles he had. Every time I see this pictures I must thing about the great times we had as children playing on this thing. Now it also serves as a great inspiration for […]

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Making a Scale Model Display out of Old Bumper Parts

September 9, 2011
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As you know from the posts related to the Gas Station, the Mustang Triplet Project and others, my brother visited me for a Modeljunkyard Week in summer. We had quite a few busy days and to take a rest from all the model building and photo shootings, my brother started to put a display out […]

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Mustang Triplet Project – DONE

July 26, 2011
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My brother came over to visit to work on Modeljunkyard. We have just finished our projects, mine was the Mustangs. The idea behind this project was to build one brand new Mustang, one used (slightly weathered) and one junker (heavily weathered). The first Mustang above is the junker (I guess you noticed). One special feature […]

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Coolest reality show ever! Desert Car Kings on Discovery Channel

June 5, 2011
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On our ModelJunkyard blog we want to share with you not only model car related stuff, but our complete passion and lifestyle, what we do every day, things that we find here and there that we enjoy and know you, our readers, will like, like this new Discovery Channel reality show: “Desert Car Kings” Today on […]

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1963 Ford F100 Pick up – junked

May 15, 2011
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This time I want to share with you this pictures of this ’63 Ford F100 Pickup I found one in the middle of nowhere. This one is a good example where we get our inspiration from…  ..enjoy the pics!      

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Patagonian desert flower – 1976 Ford Falcon – Junk car

March 31, 2011
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A few years ago I was traveling through Argentina, crossing the patagonian desert on my way to Bariloche just when I came across this great desert flower and I had to hit the brakes for a photo session. What you see here was once a 1976 Ford Falcon more or less like the one in the […]

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Hot Rod Poetry – When car had fins

March 11, 2011
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If you don’t know this guy, then you have been missing something! Richard Peek (rpeek on youtube) has been posting some great videos on youtube about his music, his projects and his love for good old cars. This video is a slide show of some cool rides with a poem written by him and recited […]

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Grandpa’s junkyard [1]

February 25, 2011
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Our grandpa used to have a junkyard. We grew up in the big city and every winter and summer holiday we used to visit him and spend the whole time playing around in the junkyard. The car you see here is a 1969 Ford Fairlane 500. We used to play in that car and also […]

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1972 Ford F-100 pickup, junked -real-

January 26, 2011
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This is one of our favorite pickups ever as we also learned to drive (at age 12!) in a pick up like this. We told you about one of our grandpa’s junkyard. Well, the other grandpa used to drive a 1972 Ford F-100 pickup like this one on the picture, but in perfect condition (a […]

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Why do we love junk cars?

November 1, 2010
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As children we used to play in our grandfather’s junkyard and collect rusty pieces from the greatest classic cars. We used to take them home to restore them, to exhibit them in our bedroom or just to collect them. Living in an apartment in the downtown area of a big city, it was just not […]

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