original blumos : where crushed

[sigmfsk]

I see two stories:

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> All of the Bluesmobiles and Chicago police cars that were
> wrecked ended up in a wrecking yard at the corner of Illinois Rt. 83
> and Archer Avenue. Everything was crushed in that yard many
> years ago. The owner of the wrecking yard told me this when I
> went there to find a police package transmission for my 1990
> Bluesmobile. He also told me that people STILL come to his yard
> expecting to find wrecked Chicago police cars.

From Neums, Aug 2007:
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/4163-where-are-the-real-bluesmobiles/#entry48729

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> ...they were all shipped to California after filming and crushed.
From e-mail from Jim Post, From El-Wood, April 2008
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/4420-the-original-bluesmobile-found/page__st__60#entry64008

[ti4438]

Unless I am mistaken,the junkyard isn't there anymore either.

[sigmfsk]

I see Steam posted:
> It never made sense to me that cars would be shipped 2,000 miles just to
> crush them.
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/8274-the-original-bluesmobile-found-sort-of/page__st__20#entry114730

and added this info on the yard Neum's referenced:
Hub Auto Parts & Wreckers
9900 Route 83
Lemont, IL
60439

30 minutes from the city of Chicago if anyone wants to drive by and take a look.






And then dixiesquare added:

> the picture you show is the last remaining yard in that area .
>
> most of the junk yards in that area are now gone , there is one left ,
> but that place is literally full of junk , mostly mid 90's and up . i went
> ther to try and find parts for my 89 caprice and was dissapointed ,
> found just one caprice and and a bonneville, which were very much
> picked through .