Can you picture 20,000 cars?

[rogerh]

I came across a story first on Youtube, then on the HAMB, about a place in Rhode Island. It's an unadvertised wrecking yard owned by an alcoholic oddball named Jr. Carpenter. The state is after him to clean up his property for the past five years at least, but his "progress" is slow. I can see the place on GoogleEarth. The scope of the place is huge, and thus, rare. Can you imagine checking out 20,000 cars? There's no telling what he has, as there is no order to the place, and reports are he is not motivated to sell. The reports on HAMB lead me to believe you have to tell the guy exactly what you want, and if he likes you he will go with you to find it.He is drunk by noon and his prices reportedly are high. Most of teh cars are in bad shape, being in the East Coast.
I just had to tell this unusual story.
While it is always possible that these HAMB writers are trying to discourage anyone from visiting the place...keeping it to themselves, so to speak, I have little doubt the owner is a "character".

[Denver 59 Fin Convert]

Neat story... But having been to Rhode Island would 20K cars almost take up the surface area of that state? Just saying...

But it would be neat to find out how many Forward Look cars are in that yard...

John Q.

[rogerh]

I'm not sure where the total car count estimate began, but there are a trainload of cars, no doubt.
On the HAMB it was said that the owner was PO'ed that his existence was put on the 'Net.
On Youtube, type in "20,000 classic cars wasting away"

[rogerh]

Okay, digging further into this place, he has maybe 2,000 cars and it's all junk thanks to Mother Nature, and probably years of vandalism.