field of dreams

[bwaz]

Took these years ago, the owner of a VW dealership in Alberta kept everything he took back on trade, or in an accident. Unfortunately, long gone. Nice early ovals and a few buses and a double cab I can see...

[rustybug61]

So beautiful and so sad

[CommodoreCollector]

Where was it back in the day? Sad to see all of them like that, since they all could have been easily restored.

[Richard Kuczko]

Well now you know why it drove the prices of ovals up.  So many hot distroyed in one lump.

[bwaz]

Near Edson Alberta. Owner passed away, son kept it all for a bit, then crushed them all as he was selling the property

[72vwtype2]

Very cool!!!

I believe, perhaps not to the same scale, that these kind of places still exist. We just need to find them before they get crushed or become part of the earth again.

[WESTY69]

To my understanding the 58 Canadian Standard I bought last year was one of the last to come from there . I'm not certain but Wayne knows a lot about that place !

[Geoff]

I remember pics of that yard in the old Bigsbys.... The oval vert in the pics now resides here locally.

[1blk66]

Great Pics Brian and as others have said, such a sad thing to see.
Of course its exactly thses images that keep all of us awake at night knowing that there are still so many hidden "fields" out there waiting to be found!!!

[josh]

I see at least 2 barndoors in there maybe 3.....be so many old timers rolling in their graves if they knew the money they sent to the crusher!

[silas]

wow, what an awesome collection!! great pics!

bummer it's all gone now but a good reminder to haul 'em out and save 'em if you can! 

it sounds like a few may have been salvaged. anyone else have any details...trevor? riffraff? fred? ken k?

[Trevor P]

Never even heard of this until Brian posted it.
I was just speaking with a hot rod builder who scours the country side looking for old domestic tin. I asked if he had or knew of any VW's. He said he used to see lots but left them for the crusher. I told him some of those old VW's are worth more than the tin he picks up now. LOL 

[dale-j]

Hey, Brian.  This goes way back to when I got started on VW's with my barndoors.  I'm embarrassed to say that I had no idea of the significance of those busses when I bought them.

The two barndoor panels I had (a '54 and a '55) apparently came from this yard, and one of them might even be in those pictures.  One bore markings from what looked like the RCMP or a highway patrol, so they may also have handled storage of abandoned vehicles for the highways people.

Mine came via Bigsby's, and when they went under Mike Gordon sat on them for a while before I bought them.

If only I had better understood the time pressure that he was under from the people storing the buses for him, I would not have delayed to get the tranny out of the 'parts' bus to bring the good one home (multiple pressed bumpers inside, mint cab divider, very little rust other than the surface patina).  In retrospect the fear of messing up good original rear quarters and corners was nothing against the fact that it ended up crushed.

Thanks for the trip back down memory lane, I only wish they were better memories....

[bwaz]

I went out there with Rick Herity to buy stuff. I think he told Bigsby's abuot them and they came to buy more. Not sure if they were the last ones in there before the crusher came. ;(