Mike,
I'm surprised no one came forward to help you. I thought you would have had the hinges by now.
C'mon, someone help our friend out.
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I'm surprised no one came forward to help you. I thought you would have had the hinges by now.
C'mon, someone help our friend out.
Yeah they let you wander but it's run kinda odd and it's confusing to find things and the prices are made up.
yea, we're kinda spoiled, most of the yards up this way (with the exception of ones in st paul) let you roam. the down side is no computerized list of what cars are in the yard.
The best way to describe finding parts in this yard is when I tried to get an international 345 2 barrel intake. Dad's 73 pickup had a factory 2 barrel and he swapped on a 4 barrel 15 years ago. It never ran right and was way happier with the 2 barrel motocraft but he sold the manifold not long after swapping to the 4 barrel so I headed to this yard to get another 2 barrel.
I asked the old man at the desk what I needed, he said check the school bus. All exhaust manifolds, intakes, engine mounts, calipers, diffs, ect are in school buses.
I looked in the cast iron manifold bus and saw a floor covered in cast iron intake manifolds. Buick, chev, Mopar, Ford, Studebaker, ect, all in brand piles. The IH manifolds were in between the Y block Ford and the BB Mopar stuff.
I stumbled (literally) on the IH manifolds pile leaning up against the wall. Plenty of square and spread bore 4 barrels but no 2 barrels. Mind you I have never seen a spread bore IH manifold, but they had 3.
I went back to the office and said I couldn't find any 2 barrels. He said did you check outside the bus, I said no I didn't know I was supposed to. I walked back out and looked outside the bus and no go. I went back to the office and said I wasn't able to find it and he walked out with me. He went to the passenger side wheel well, kicked a spot in the leaves and low and behold 3 2 barrel IH manifolds were sitting in a pile under some foliage.
Nothing is inventoried in paper except in the mind of the two old men. He knew 25 years ago where he set it, and when that dumb 19 year old tried telling him he didn't have one he called my bluff and showed me right where he left them.
I asked the old man at the desk what I needed, he said check the school bus. All exhaust manifolds, intakes, engine mounts, calipers, diffs, ect are in school buses.
I looked in the cast iron manifold bus and saw a floor covered in cast iron intake manifolds. Buick, chev, Mopar, Ford, Studebaker, ect, all in brand piles. The IH manifolds were in between the Y block Ford and the BB Mopar stuff.
I stumbled (literally) on the IH manifolds pile leaning up against the wall. Plenty of square and spread bore 4 barrels but no 2 barrels. Mind you I have never seen a spread bore IH manifold, but they had 3.
I went back to the office and said I couldn't find any 2 barrels. He said did you check outside the bus, I said no I didn't know I was supposed to. I walked back out and looked outside the bus and no go. I went back to the office and said I wasn't able to find it and he walked out with me. He went to the passenger side wheel well, kicked a spot in the leaves and low and behold 3 2 barrel IH manifolds were sitting in a pile under some foliage.
Nothing is inventoried in paper except in the mind of the two old men. He knew 25 years ago where he set it, and when that dumb 19 year old tried telling him he didn't have one he called my bluff and showed me right where he left them.
Yeah I'm used to Western MN and Iowa yards that let you do what you want. I hit up Ace in STP and was disappointed. Yeah I got my part but all the staff was wearing high vis jackets, you grabbed a number and waited in a lobby.
There was no old guy in overalls to point you in the direction to go, no cats roaming the yard to pet, a complete lack of over two dozen 3 ft tall dusty dirt modified championship trophies from 17 years ago hanging from the walls. I didn't see any "cash only" signs or a pop machine that dispensed your choice of 25 cent Shasta cola, or Dr. Shasta cans.
Yeah I got my part but it felt so sanitary and ingenuine.
Theres only a couple of yards in my area that let you walk around and pull stuff yourself. Both have a small amount of g bodies that have been picked pretty clean. The one place sold off the majority of the stuff he had to an exporter that stuck it all in sea boxes and shipped it to a country in South America. He had a few decent Montes that I got some interior trim from. Long gone now. All thats left is a rotted out Malibu, a couple of El Caminos that are just as bad and two Cutlasses that have been stripped to the bone. The other place has a Buick wagon, a Regal, a Cutlass sedan that I got a nice set of seats for my wagon from, a Cutlass sedan slant back and a Monte that should have been shredded years ago. All the yards have late model stuff, the old cars went long ago. I wish I could take a trip out to MN just to walk around that yard. They have a ton of crap !
The hood hinges on the Camino are frozen. Looks like someone pulled the hood down and it folded up like a soda can.
Sometimes its just fun looking at the old movie cars that wound up there. These three were the stunt cars from Men In Black.
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