<\/a>My sister came down from Canada with her husband and kids, as well as my best friend growing up. Naturally the girls wanted to do nothing but shop and the guys had better things in mind, like a day at the junk yard. I spent a bit of time trying to find a good classic car junk yard before they got here and found Leon’s Auto parts<\/a>, in Leon, Va, just south of Culpepper.<\/p>\n

The place was a bit hard to find, if you are driving too fast you’d whiz right by it, which we<\/a> did, and had to circle back.\u00a0Leon’s Auto Parts is\u00a0so big that they\u00a0don’t allow anyone in after 10AM because they need the time to look around the hundred acres of old cars\u00a0before the place closes. We needed every bit of that time too, and we were glad we packed a lunch as well. They close for lunch and if you are out in the yard, you are locked in til they get back at 1PM. It was a hot day, and we should have brought more water but we endured.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>The yard map was interesting. The owner said that since there was no real plan to start a junk yard, it just sort of happened, that the cars were not organized in a way that was not\u00a0self explanatory. If you wanted to find a 64 Impala, they were scattered all over the 100 acres. The yard was mapped out in a grid of sorts with a numbering scheme to follow. The trees had letter markers on them to give you an idea of where you were on the lot but the map wasn’t all that accurate. We had to wing it.<\/p>\n

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TW and CG were with me. BW had to work. I wasn’t looking for anything specific, I was <\/a>just there for the fun. TW was looking for a few Dodge parts, and\u00a0CG was looking for some 69 Chevelle stuff. TW has a 69 Dart he is working on back home, and Leon’s had what he wanted. The trick was getting the parts off of the cars since they were generally parked too close together for removing interior parts like bench seats, and having to work around the thorn bushes and other overgrowth.<\/p>\n

CG almost bought a 64 Beaumont convertible. After taking a second look at it though, it was pretty rusted out. There wasn’t much left of the floor pans. A convertible,…go figure.<\/p>\n

<\/a>If you’ve got a day to spend checking out the old classics I’d recommend goin in the spring while you can still see the cars and won’t risk heat exhaustion. Some of them are so covered in brush you wouldn’t know there was a car in there if it wasn’t for the glare off the windshield. It was fun, for a handfull of gearheads like us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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