Dirt Cheap Rat Rod! 1968 Charger blockages and Thrash. - Roadkill Ep 23
By Paul Hendrickson Paul Hendrickson August 15, 1996.
I basically put my finger on anything here, said the short, muscular, figure fast moving with black silk scarf tightly around her head Peewee his name and is the junkyard engineering Charlotte Hall, Md.
Genius is not hyperbole Want a pan of oil for 91 blazer He knows where on the field, he's hiding Want a rear wiper blade for your Golf 89 It'll take you right to it, you are looking for a new that is to say very used and perhaps wrong color front door panel left for your 83 Toyota pickup moldy, but quite drivable.
Peewee, ka Henry A Johnson will soon find on these 11 acres of rusting car wrecks Apparently there's a junkyard radar.
I'm focused, he says, explaining his method.
In his hand is a ticket clutch Someone wants an alternator for someone Honda wants a mudguard for a Crown Victoria Someone wants two steel 14-inch wheels for Impala.
I'll pull the right foot wheels quickly, he said, from a nether region of the court to pull the wheels.
Ah, grilling in the high heat of summer in the middle of so many glittering tin What could be more beautiful or American show It is the dream of Detroit went to weed spiky This is roughed Mercurys, tempos twisted, ruined Roadmasters come to die in fact, they did not exactly die - that's the point of a junkyard Their bones and skulls reincarnate Yes, some of these pathetic wrecks will be crushed and shredded outright but most will eventually parted that's how people say this junkyard We will separate out.
Which is to say that we will cannibalize a price-yourself and we'll make more money off of this particular wreck you could have guessed in your wildest Because junk food of a man is always the or another man, and perhaps it's no better proof for this wonderful idea that capital at a junkyard.
Incidentally, scrap is a fashionable word in that last day used auto recovery and recycling game owners are touchy about the term Yet a junkyard by any other name is still a junkyard.
It's called Seymour Inc glorious place Detritus of civilization anywhere on the screen is about an hour drive below the Beltway exit 7A It's surrounded by a high fence 12 feet and is just right Highway 5 that you're heading south, shortly after you entered the county of St Mary the postmark is Charlotte hall, but really the court seems to be sitting there by himself, a emphasis in the heat, a very odd sort of attraction of the mid-Atlantic route.
In the front is the air conditioned building where you register and get your ticket sales and the owners' permission to go to the back where gold is the fence surrounding the yard is so high that you could almost drive by and do not understand what you are missing some other hand, you might know the dead engine oil whiff perfuming the Rancid hot dry wind antifreeze makes hair curl your nostrils Okay, okay, that art exaggerated.
There are maybe 10 real junkyards in the three counties in southern Maryland, and it's not even the biggest, but it can be most successful in Seymour, the focus is very much on customer satisfaction you never try anything yourself, never have to go into your Brogans with your own crowbar or a jack or lug wrench to pull this set of used wheels.
Try to imagine ravaged 3000 cars and trucks in various states of ruin and their cannibalization, lined up on a kind of semi-stinking parade, surreal, Warhol because the bottom Seymour There must be a few million pounds of metal sitting on these 11 acres.
This figure, 3,000 cars scrapped and trucks, doesn t take into account the different auto parts just lying around in piles on shelves They're like Goliath shells Large items such as transmissions, are all labeled and numbered Some of them are stored in school buses gutted.
They got computers in Seymour these days to try to help keep track of inventory, but don t homeowners are beginning to have all wheel nuts and mirror wedged in No, the best computers, as always are the heads of the people working in the ruins.
They also got a smart phone locator system, which hangs with Seymour yards on the metropolitan area so if they do not have what you want in Seymour, a yard south of Baltimore may imagine a party line with 70 parties yakking on in the cool front office guys in clean shirts spend their day barking requests in the mailbox.
Don worry t, they do not have German Shepherds or Doberman on site longer and is part of the new look The dogs were a nuisance, they really kept them locked up during the day, leave them to wander in the night Qu ' is that they've now got in the field are a dozen harmless cats and some gabbling but otherwise pretty tame geese and also who's counting many snakes and lizards and spiders and other insects.
In fact, it is a very nice and orderly and even clean, relatively speaking, you can bring your mom here in days of old junkyard, it is not clear what you are getting into a beast filthy psychopath undernourished with fangs smeared saliva was able to slink from under a pile of Goodyears bald to terrify the bejesus you.
I was the first, I believe, who said: We will change the picture More Customer Service First you-find-it-mister-you-take-it No, no, we have a different attitude Seymour This is Seymour himself talking about his real name Seymour Marmer is a large-stomached and gregarious and extremely hard-working man who hit the shores of Israel with his family as a teenager in 1965 it was about the constant rise of capitalist scale since, with junkyards and auto parts companies But he's also dabbled in real estate and well, he's had this court since 1977 and led since Annapolis daily, he loves Knows work all the aspects involved, even his brother all his family.
This morning, the owner wears a gold chain around his neck and a pager on his belt he's taking you on a tour, proudly.
Here's what you might call Alley doors in sheet metal, bumpers, hoods, trunk lids with some keys stick in their row locks and rows and rows of these things.
The first element of this line is a trunk lid for a 83 Cressida berline Its color, due to the cruel sun, could be described as wearing a brown vomit sticker Ethiopia The lid s.
You touch the metal whip your hand this baby should be recording 110 in the shade This entertained slightly owner.
Mmmm That one, 125 Break Because it is not a bible he's fair market value, what you think you can get break until you ordered, you do not have it sold Sá hard business You many just sitting around money.
It shows several large oil storage tanks and antifreeze containers is very proud of the correct environment.
Although there are a clutch of good hands in Seymour Court, none eye Peewee The black silk scarf ties Peewee around his head every morning before he comes to work is to keep crawlers crawling out his scalp when bending down into the hood of a piece of junk alleged.
He is 36 and has done many jobs in his life - carpentry, driver, guard This one, that the world could avoid is one where he's found his gift At 17, he has achieved certification for engines he was still at school then, and determined to get a high school diploma, and he does all the work of hard sweat he's done in his life, he likes it the best.
I tell you, when I started, I lost about two inches at the waist I said, there's gotta be an easier way Each car coming, I sometimes watch 10 to 20 come in week, we could crush 1,000 cars we cleared all that side there while we backup store.
He drove the forklift in a freezer southern Maryland I am asthmatic Basically, I like cooler every morning before he came to work, he studies the winter weather reports or summer, I pace myself.
It's just a philosophy yourself that is the secret of all I do not like turning the key I built myself with all that hard work I got out of school I was 4 feet 9 inches and 99 books My body feels good.
Added There s nothing wrong with work, it is comfortable, it is close to home.
A middle-aged lady in a beat-up Chevy end model came in the courtyard in the back seat are two tormentors She's here to buy a bar axle Peewee his head in his car Her voice is very polite am My, it may take a few It's minutes will be much cooler if you go back and wait in the exhibit room.
Not with these in mind, it starts, with his head, motioning to two children in the back.
At the end of the court, out of his earshot, he said that I got that from my parents, they taught me to treat others as you want to treat.
Fifteen minutes later, he's trying to find an automatic 88 Le Mans It's her hand on her hips, I knew I had three Where we were maybe 10 of them but we just crashed in this junk paradise, Le Mans won t hide from him for long CAPTION it won t hurt you orient Henry Peewee Johnson can find a car on the ground, and tell you which parts are left in it CAPTION Seymour Marmer, owner Seymour Inc ME was the first, I think, who said: We will change the first for customer service image.
IT S CULTURE BUMPER DOWN JUNKYARD The Washington Post, bumpers, down, reinforcing.