![]() ![]() I’m talking about Turner’s Auto Wrecking, located in the heart of the Central Valley, just outside of Fresno. It’s a sprawling 70-acre facility packed full of junked cars that not only deals with local customers, but also ships parts all over the world. ![]() Unlike the chain wrecking yards, you can’t just show up at Turner’s, pay a couple of bucks and walk around the yard with your tools. Access is generally off-limits to the public, so when my dad told me a group of his car club buddies had been invited to look around the place, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to tag along with my camera. While the most common reason to visit a junkyard is to find parts for your car, I take great enjoyment from just walking around and discovering cool stuff, and that’s exactly what I was planning to do on this beautiful fall Saturday. With acres and acres of automobiles to see, there was no time to waste. ![]() There was actually enough material for several posts, but I think I’ll limit my findings to two stories – this one for the American stuff and another for the imported stuff. Walking through Turner’s is like traveling back to an era when the roads were dominated by big rear-wheel drive American passenger cars. GM, Ford and Chrysler are all well represented, but there are also plenty of cars from brands which vanished a long time ago. And while there are exceptions, the vast majority of these vehicles were built between the early ’50s and the early ’70s.Īnd don’t think for a minute that this place only has the undesired cars of history. ![]()
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