Rust never sleeps, but sometimes it takes a vacation: the dilapidated beauty of Desert Valley Auto Parts

Posted on Dec 12, 2017 in Featured | 2 comments

At first glance, Desert Valley Auto Parts looks something like a post-apocalyptic wasteland if the end times had occurred in conjunction with the Age of Aquarius: Cars from the Sixties and earlier scattered about a dry desert backdrop, missing parts and looking about as busted and broke as could be. But old car nuts know it instead as a paradise, one full of old cars that other scrapyards would have sent to the crusher decades ago, kept from rusting to pieces by the arid Arizona climate.

One of the most frequent contributors to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, Ralf K., recently spent part of his Arizona vacation exploring Desert Valley Auto Parts (along with other nearby old car meccas, like the Raceway Bar n Grill in Maricopa) and has spent the last couple of weeks uploading photos from those excursions. Here we’ve gathered a dozen or so that we enjoyed, but for more, check out Ralf’s Flickrstream or the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool.