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   pcolli said, 12 months ago

   The parts store owner knows it won’t be long before he gets those parts back.
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   Chas60 said, 12 months ago

   Hey thats where you, get the best parts for your car!
   Also it’s where the only parts for, your car can be had.
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   psychlady said, 12 months ago

   All in one – buy it, use it, destroy it when it dies!
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   Daniel Mosemann said, 12 months ago

   Amen, Chas60… one of the few good points of living in CA was being able to head down to these salvage yards and poke around for the parts you needed. It cost a dollar to get in, plus the price of anything you pulled out… even when I wasn’t looking, it was a blast to go “exploring”. Where else could you have that much fun for a buck!!??
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   david_42 said, 12 months ago

   I wish! Seems like the cars I’ve owned never end up in the yards OR the same parts failed on every car there.
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   john rieth said, 12 months ago

   Amen Daniel! I remember one place with a box full of hood
   ornaments and another with Model A Fords piled 3 high!
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   Redhead55 said, 12 months ago

   And if you’re looking for an electronic part, like the computer brain, it’s a crap shoot if you’re buying more junk or not, because electronic parts are not refundable. I got lucky first time out and pulled a good one. Luck of the draw.
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   route66paul said, 12 months ago

   Used parts for a used car.
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   wes clark said, 12 months ago

   and that’s IF your local junkyard doesn’t crush everything more than 15 years old! lots of these in the northeast operate this way. oh, that’s right, it’s cheaper and (not) more “green” to sell our scrap to china and buy it back as steel parts!
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    comicsssfan said, 12 months ago

    @wes clark

    I don’t like the sound of that. My car is 20 years old so this is a problem if I do need body panels or something like that.
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    SCAATY_423 said, 12 months ago

    Make it do,
    Wear it out,
    Use it up,
    Do without.
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    hippogriff said, 12 months ago

    wes clark: I remember in the late 1930s we did that with Japan. After we stopped, they dumped a part of it into Pearl Harbor.
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    hippogriff said, 12 months ago

    Of course back then, anyone born in Hawaii was a US citizen. It was only after it became a state that people questioned it.
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    David Henderson said, 12 months ago

    That stupid “Cash For Clunkers” program just about killed the used car market. I know first hand of 3 used car dealers that were hurt so bad they went out of business.
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    the GhostPony said, 12 months ago

    You know you’re a plugger when you go to the wrecking yard for parts and see several cars you’d like to take back home and fix up!
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