Where's the Studebaker junkyard from the TV show?

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Rads - 14 Sep 2006 03:19 GMT

I was just watching a new episode of MythBusters on the Discovery
Channel tonight. For one of their segments, they were going to buy an
old sports car to recreate a movie myth about ejector passenger seats.
They went to a "Studebaker junkyard" and quickly showed several Studes.
They were initially going to pick an Avanti ('63 or '64) to cut up and
modify but ultimately decided to go for a non sports car. The car they
finally picked was foreign (perhaps a Japanese). I did not stay up to
watch the end of the show 'cause it was 2 hours long so I missed the
closing credits. The show is made out in L.A. Does anyone know what
"Studebaker junkyard" they were at????

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Pat Drnec - 14 Sep 2006 03:53 GMT

I've been to one in Pacoima that had a few Studes, including a 63 Avanti
that I wouldn't have crossed the street to buy - and they wanted the
earth for it (they're RARE, ya know!). I wouldn't be surprised if they
still had it 5 years later.

> I was just watching a new episode of MythBusters on the Discovery
> Channel tonight. For one of their segments, they were going to buy an
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> closing credits. The show is made out in L.A. Does anyone know what
> "Studebaker junkyard" they were at????

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zoombot@cox.net - 14 Sep 2006 07:27 GMT

>The show is made out in L.A.

Nope. The show is taped in San Francisco.

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Mike - 14 Sep 2006 19:49 GMT

Yea...the show is out of the S.F Bay area...but it is on the West
Coast!

MIke

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Rich - 15 Sep 2006 04:40 GMT

My son and I watched Myth Busters last night - you should have heard
him
scream when the Studebakers/Avanti came on the screen....geesh!

They picked a late 70's/early 80's Toyota Corolla. Machined one pipe
to
slip fit inside another, capped off the larger one and connected the
inner
ones to a compressed air tank. These formed the back of the ejector
seat. They cut an access panel in the roof, put Buster (their dummy)
in
the seat and blew him right out of the car. Didn't take much air to do
the trick.
Pretty cool.

Rich

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