When scanning old negatives for the most recent installment of the Impala Hell Project series, I found these Ansco Pix Panorama camera shots that I took in gritty, grimy, industrial Hayward, California in 1993. They didn’t add anything to the Impala Hell Project story, so I’m sharing them in a separate post.
The Fish Driver Warehouse was not far from the site of the now-defunct Hayward Pick Your Part, a yard I’d been visiting since the mid-1980s, and the stretch of West Winton Avenue right outside the junkyard gates was a popular spot to yank parts off stolen and/or unwanted vehicles. Nowadays, with scrap metal prices so high, you wouldn’t see a scene like this.
A de-fendered first-gen RX-7 parked in front of a scissors-jack-suspended Pinto wagon. One thing hasn’t changed: old beater RX-7s still aren’t worth much.
I took this shot through the fence of the Pick Your Part holding area. Look, it’s a Rover P5! Anybody want to take a shot at identifying the ancient truck in the foreground and the sedan in the background?
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No clue on the truck, but is the sedan a Pug 604?
That Rover must be absurdly rare now, even in the UK… I can’t imagine how many are in the US these days. 5 maybe?
That’s nothing: here in Maine, at my independent European shop yesterday, a gentleman rolled in with a 1957 Rover P4 in wonderful shape.
Rover P5’s aren’t that rare in the UK. A friend of mine used to use a beater P5 as his daily runner to college and back. If the tin worm doesn’t get to them, they are really quite solid cars.
My first guess was some sort of big Fiat, but none of those seem to have dual rectangular headlights. I think you might be right about the 604.
Lots of those old Rovers alive in NZ
Didn’t Zippy and Griffy bunk in a Day’s Inn further down that street for a while?
No clue on the truck or the sedan, but in the background is a LTD-II based T-bird. Also looks to be an early ’70s Torino station wagon lurking behind the mystery car.
Sigh……….. the memories of traversing the streets to enter the East Palo Alto area where the dismantling yards dwelt.
As the friendly folks stopped and waved their greetings at the Concord visitor.
That IS what those motions were, right?
The truck is definitely in the 1928-34 range depending on make. With only a few cues to guess on I’ll say 1930-31 Ford.