Dead or Dying HJs

[HJ-ETEX]

I first thought some one had been taking pictures at my house. The HJs look familar.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=330573&page=39
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[Quadromaniac]

I found these 2 in New Mexico, The owner said that he had owned them for about 25 years and was eventually going to fix them and did not want to sell them.

[Fid]

Regarding those two in Tucumcari, NM - those cars have been rotting there for years. I have pictures we took back in 1998 when the owner first told us he was going to fix them up someday. They're 13 years older, 13 years more rotted and corroded and sun-baked but hey, he's going to fix them someday.  It's a shame when owners have something and they let them rot and deteriorate because, as John Fogerty pointed out, "Someday Never Comes." If it's 25 years they've been sitting there, it's really too bad.

[joefrazer]

You call those HJs rotted? Heck, in this part of the country they'd be classified as #2 cars!! HA HA!

I attended an auction 3 years ago where about a dozen J's were sold. All had been in a barn years but had been stored on the ground (dirt) floor. All were so rotted that the doors sagged when opened. Still, all brought strong money.

[Logan]

It would be nice if someone did something with them, hotrod or whatever.

[blackcat429cj]

I dug up some old pictures of my Henry.  I have attached a picture of it shortly after I rescuded it from the junk yard.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

I know I am preaching to the choir on this, but it would be nice if the basket cases were the only types that hot rodders and others used to create dragsters and street rods.  I hate to see solid, good running cars gut up and gutted.  With all the modifications and the new frame, floors etc that go into the rods, the basket cases would not go down the drain for nothing.

[Henry's HenryJs]

Looks like a lot of good parts. We are heading down that way this Jan, would someone be able to give us a street? name so we can at least look at them. You never know what a year or two will do to a person who is going to rebuild then someday and hate to see them go for scrap, thanks, Henry.