Junkyard

2022 - 6 - 21

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Image courtesy of "The Denver Post"

Meow Wolf's massive Vortex music fest may draw thousands to a ... (The Denver Post)

Meow Wolf will hold its Vortex music festival in what's now an industrial lot in Denver's Sun Valley neighborhood, dubbed The Junk Yard by its Live ...

Since the location is in a tangle of off-grid, dead-end streets, Meow Wolf has included suggested routes on its Experience Planning page. “The new venue will undergo a dramatic metamorphosis to become another world for Vortex 2022 — a transition that is common for many Meow Wolf events and activations — with two stunning stages (Viscera Stage and the Atria Stage), art installations … and comfy chill zones.” The spot, at 2323 Mulberry Place, is about a mile south of Meow Wolf’s permanent immersive installation, Convergence Station, in an industrial neighborhood just east of I-25. The event, Aug. 5-7, will include three days of all-ages music, food trucks, and other entertainment, Live Nation said in a statement last week. Meow Wolf announced in April that the festival would come to Denver for the first time this year — it was formerly based in Taos, N.M. — but hadn’t revealed the location. “The new owners of The Junk Yard saw a great opportunity to transform a scrap metal yard into a multifaceted musical festival site in the heart of the city,” the statement reads. Publicists for Meow Wolf and Live Nation didn’t immediately respond to questions about the venue’s capacity — or who the “friends of the family of Live Nation” are.

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Image courtesy of "The Truth About Cars"

Junkyard Find: 1962 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Club Coupe (The Truth About Cars)

A 1962 Chevrolet Corvair 900 Monza coupe with manual transmission, photographed in a wrecking yard near Denver, Colorado.

Corvair production continued through the end of the decade, mostly because The General refused to admit feeling any heat from Nader and his ilk. The Corvair was supposed to be Chevrolet’s compact car for all purposes, but the debut of the front-engined Chevy II in 1962 put an end to that dream. The swingaxle rear suspension— seen in this photo— got most of the blame for the Corvair’s allegedly dangerous handling, though the swingaxle-equipped Volkswagen Beetles of the same era had the same problems with oversteer and axle jacking. The automatic was expensive as well, adding $157 to the cost of a $2,483 Club Coupe (that’s about $1,515 on a $23,930 car when reckoned in 2022 dollars). This car has the four-on-the-floor, which cost an extra 65 bucks (about $625 in 2022 frogskins). This car has the extra-cost front bucket seats, which cut the occupant capacity down from six to five people.

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A Tesla was in a junkyard for three weeks. Then it burst into flames. (The Washington Post)

Firefighters and wrecking yard workers tried turning the car on its side to aim water directly onto the battery pack. But “the vehicle would still re-ignite due ...

After the fire had been put out, the white Model S had been almost entirely reduced to a heap of melted and burned metal. The lithium-ion batteries found in electric vehicles can be difficult to extinguish because they continue burning until all stored energy is released, Wilbourn said: “We’re basically fighting energy release.” Another Tesla Model S in Frisco, Tex., shot out flames “like a flamethrower” after its owner pulled off the road upon hearing odd sounds coming from the car. Such incidents have led some carmakers to recall thousands of electric vehicles over fire concerns. That allowed the firefighters to submerge the battery pack and ultimately extinguish the fire, which burned hotter than 3,000 degrees, Capt. Parker Wilbourn, a fire department spokesman, told The Washington Post. In December 2020, a home in San Ramon, Calif., went up in flames after two Teslas caught fire while parked in a garage, The Post reported.

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Tesla Model S catches fire three weeks after going to a junkyard (Autoblog)

A Tesla Model S caught fire after sitting in a wrecking yard for three weeks. Fire fighters put out the blaze by placing the car in a water-filled pit.

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