Lost History - California Junkyards, Part 2

Last month I put together a sampler of the brightest stars I ever found languishing in an East Bay Area self-service junkyard (excuse me, "auto recycling center"). This time, let's take a look at some of the best cars I've come across at a yard in the North Bay. Please don't ask me about where to find them, because all of these cars are now scrap metal.

1961 Mercury Meteor 800

Lost History - California Junkyards, Part 1

Over the years I've been to a number of self-service auto recycling centers in northern California. The bigger yards tend to be a cross-section of the most popular and generic cars from the last twenty years - Ford Tauruses with dead transmissions and/or blown head gaskets, worn-out Buick LeSabres and Dodge Intrepids, sun-baked Honda Accords with 200,000 miles and work trucks beat to hell and back. You know how it is. But among the generica there's often a sprinkling of interesting older vehicles thrown in.
Sadly, most of these places don't allow cameras for liability reasons, a policy I find ridiculous. I see no harm in publishing my photos now since every car in the pictures is long gone. Even the yard they were photographed in is now defunct. Please forgive the less-than-stellar photo quality produced by a disposable film camera and a 1.3 megapixel cell phone camera. Here are my best California junkyard sightings from the eastern Bay Area (that I managed to photograph).

1951 Chevrolet coupe