it seems in my area chevy hard parts are scarce,when you do find them they are treated like they are gold.carbs ,engines,transmissions etc in the past were plentiful and relitivley cheap. am not looking in the right places,but junkyards,craigslist etc are bare.I used to be able to make afew calls or hunt for a day or two and find what i needed,but now it seems like i search and search and come up with nothing.
are used parts getting harder to find ?
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Yes, they are getting hard to find. Especially older cars like ours. With the cash for clunkers program, and high scrap iron prices a lot of g-body's and other older cars\pickups were crushed. Most of my local wrecking yards don't have any g-bodies anymore. 5-10 years ago the yards were full of them.
In my area, 350 blocks\complete engines are all over the place. I can go on craigslist and find ads daily. People want a lot of money for it though. I used to be able to pick up a rebuildable 350 intake to oil pan for $70.00. That was back in 2002-2003 though. I'm seening just blocks going for $200-$300 regularly. I still find good deals, if i'm really looking for a core.
I bought my Cutlass just prior to trading in my jeep. My logic was that the parts were half as expensive and for all the parts my jeep was swallowing I could build my Cutlass up much cheaper - but then I never got down to business and bought all the parts I needed when I really did have the money. Now I don't have it and everything twice as expensive. God damn it - and I sincerely mean those 3 words so it's not blasphemy, being sincere!
Chevy engines & sbc engine parts are still very plentiful & cheap around here, but parts for the Gbody cars in general are much more difficult to find than they were when I started tinkering with them about 8 yrs ago. The only Chevy engines that bring more $ here is the older 327's & big blocks of course. I think alot of ppl are or are gonna start holding on to their stuff for longer periods of time with the economy the way it is. Junkyards around here are full of 70's & 80's GM's with sbc. Lots of Th-350 & Th-400 trans on Craigslist all the time here for like $150. Lots of racers & Chevy fanatics around here, I'm the odd ball...Olds guy lol. I guess I could start getting stuff & shipping it to ya. Lol
It's not really the engines / trans that so expensive here they go up/down but always bout the same - just like you said the parts I'm talking about 'doubled' is bs parts like the little chromes / side mirrors/ badges/ door skins + anything stamped 'oldsmobile' or 'pontiac' of course lol
there is a group that has been buying up all the scrapyards..and bidding against other scrapyards for cars..they are crushing anything old...its getting hard to find stuff here and its a shame, hold on to your stuff
Used parts are becoming much harder to find. In my area G bodies were never easy to find in junkyards. Most of the junkyards only keep recent cars, I remember calling yards to see if they had 80s cars and they became offended if they had stuff that old. There is one yard that still has some 80s stuff but last time I was there the owner must have lost it. He piled 4 cars on top of each other in the middle of the pathways to the GM area, blocking it off. I climbed over and saw he had smashed up every GM car of every year with his loader. Never going back there again, it was always a muddy death trap anyway.
New parts are getting harder to find to. Everytime I turn around another replacement part is discontinued.
New parts are getting harder to find to. Everytime I turn around another replacement part is discontinued.
My local yard gets in alot of 4 door G bodys, a wagon about once a year and a handfull of 2 door cars a year. Mostly beat up rusted out cars.
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