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Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked automobiles in auto graveyards. These parts were removed from cars before they were sent to a scrap iron dealer, who will process them and ship them out to steel mills. Some of these parts will be resold, but the vast majority, whether sold or not, will eventually end up in the furnace of an open hearth steel mill. There it will be melted down and combined with virgin metals to provide the fine quality steel needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked ...

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What's left of an old jalopy in Weaverville, a popular tourist destination in the Whiskeytown-Shasta National Recreation Area, northwest of Redding, California

What's left of an old jalopy in Weaverville, a popular tourist destina...

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Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies ...

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Jalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it is being placed in a powerful hydraulic baling press, soon to emerge as a small cube of tightly compressed metal. The steel is bundled in this way not alone to facilitate shipment but also, and more important, to prevent the burning of sheet metal when it is exposed to the terrific heat in an open hearth steel furnace

Jalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it i...

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Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

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Jalopies for defense. The press is closing in on this old auto body. Powerful hydraulic bailing presses are used to compress the sheet metal of the auto body into small compact bundles. Discarded automobiles provide an average of more than 1500 pounds apiece of the huge quantities of scrap metal needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. The press is closing in on this old auto body. P...

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Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was bigger, but this is a fair-sized catch for Uncle Sam's scrap drive. From the depths of a small lake near Zachow, Wisconsin hundreds of ancient jalopies are being resurrected by a Zachow auto dealer, who had been dumping cars into the lake for 20 years. A grappling hook, operated from a cable-way system, brings in the old chassis shown here

Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was big...

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Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was bigger, but this is a fair-sized catch for Uncle Sam's scrap drive. From the depths of a small lake near Zachow, Wisconsin hundreds of ancient jalopies are being resurrected by a Zachow auto dealer, who had been dumping cars into the lake for 20 years. A grappling hook, operated from a cable-way system, brings in the old chassis shown here

Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was big...

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Even the oldest jalopies were out to have their tanks filled on the day before stricter gasoline rationing went into effect

Washington, D.C. Even the oldest jalopies were out to have their tanks...

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Jalopy that has seen better days

Jalopy that has seen better days

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

An old jalopy outside an abandoned stone building in the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

An old jalopy outside an abandoned stone building in the "ghost town,"...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas

Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is l...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

Hulks of old automobiles rust outside a onetime gas station in La Jara, Colorado

Hulks of old automobiles rust outside a onetime gas station in La Jara...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A jalopy going nowhere fast as art of sorts in Alamosa, Colorado

A jalopy going nowhere fast as art of sorts in Alamosa, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Vintage "jalopy" automobile at a small miniature golf course behind the Maggie Valley Rock Shop, a gem and antiques shop in Maggie Valley, in the Great Smoky Mountain Range of far western North Carolina

Vintage "jalopy" automobile at a small miniature golf course behind th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attraction at the venerable Hackberry General Store in the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona "a vestige of the heyday of two-lane cross-country travel in the 1930s and 40s along U.S. Highway 66

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Very old automobiles, or what used to be calle "jalopies," displayed (for no apparent reason) along with other "clunkers" along the main street of tiny Duncan, Arizona

Very old automobiles, or what used to be calle "jalopies," displayed (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

An very old automobile, or what used to be called a "jalopy," displayed (for no apparent reason) along with other "clunkers" along the main street of tiny Duncan, Arizona

An very old automobile, or what used to be called a "jalopy," displaye...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attraction at the venerable Hackberry General Store in the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona "a vestige of the heyday of two-lane cross-country travel in the 1930s and 40s along U.S. Highway 66

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More