You are invited to come on a strolling tour of one of many neatest salvage yards you might ever get an opportunity to see. Desert Valley Auto Parts (in any other case generally known as DVAP) has been round for over 30 years and has established a repute – each in Arizona and much past – as a trusted supply for hard-to-find unique components for classic automobile restorations. DVAP additionally sells full vehicles, as you’ll see.
Chances are, in case you have owned a traditional from 1940 by 1980 you’ve gotten already discovered how troublesome it may be to trace down sure parts (particularly in clear, rust-free situation). My first go to to DVAP befell in February 2018 when my good friend Dane tipped me off on the venue. The facility gained notoriety when it was featured in a Discovery Channel tv collection in 2011 known as Desert Car Kings.
Today, DVAP operates three places:
- Deer Valley Phoenix (Late-model vehicles, some international autos)
- Casa Grande (1930 by 1965, GM G-body, Ford Econoline, Studebaker)
- Black Canyon City (1965 and newer)
My newest video is episode 9 within the collection and concerned a go to in mid-November to the Black Canyon facility. During my 90-minute walk-about, I filmed over an hour of footage. Everywhere I turned, there was one thing fascinating to have a look at. The closing video ended up at 42 minutes, and even when you don’t have that point to spare, I encourage you to scan by and luxuriate in as a lot of it as you may.
I wasn’t even round when a lot of the vehicles I admired throughout my go to had been new, nevertheless it doesn’t matter. For me, the DVAP expertise (or a go to to any automotive junkyard, actually) revolves round envisioning every automobile in its prior/unique state. I like to consider the fortunate unique homeowners who proudly drove them off the showroom flooring across the nation. If vehicles may discuss, there could be a whole lot of colourful tales to inform in regards to the lives they’ve lived.
Hope you benefit from the video, and when you did, take a look at the opposite eight episodes within the series. Thanks to Brian Smyth, DVAP Manager, who was variety sufficient to have some Q&A with me throughout my go to.
If you’ve gotten curiosity in inquiring a few particular automobile or half, DVAP has a search kind here.
Let me know within the remark part if there have been any autos particularly that caught your eye!
