Hi Guy's, I was up at Texas motor speedway a couple of weeks back and took a Detour to Denton to a salvage yard. Here are a few pictures. I have a lot more pictures but thats enough for now.
Most of the complete cars are $2495. I bought a part for my Chevy that I couldn't find anywhere. It was neat just browsing all of the tin that was there considering the yard is only about 15 years old.
I used to love finding salvage yards with old tin,now and days I see more vintage tin on flat beds stacked/sandwiched on top of each other.
Your right about that,seems that a yard like that will sit and sit with nothing moving and then it will dissappear one day because they sold it all for scrap........if only they would price stuff so it would actually move instead of sit.
i luv these kinda post's mainly becouse all my car start out rough, then when you make it into a cool car you get real satsfaction ,better than just wrighting a check after somone does it for you.
I stopped by one time to find a 59 olds dog dish I was missing, found one under the passenger door of an olds, dug it out of the dirt took it to the off and he wanted way too much, so I haven't been back! Oh and quarters, $375 each!!!
That's the one you can see from I-35, right? If it is, I first drove by it about seven years ago and always wondered if much was sold out of it. Too bad the prices aren't a little more reasonable.... Malcolm
I had no idea that semi-late-model parts cost so much...a neighbor paid $900 for a complete USED drivers door with guts & glass, for a 10 year old Dodge fullsize pickup. So, 375 for a decent antique quarter sounds cheap to me.
I wish I had taken pictures inside of the office. Since I'm originally from the UK the prices seemed fair to me. Plus I got to see the part before I purchased it and had no shipping charges. I did find an old yard up near Mineola that looks like it was closed many years ago, I could see all of the cars in the trees. Anyone know about this one? It had a tall fence around it.
He is high as hell on prices, but he has some good stuff. You have to be choosey and look the stuff over good. In my case, I got an "excellent" pair of Edsel E-475 valve covers for $125.00. High yes, but these are in excellent shape and very chromable. Bottom line, you get what you pay for...if you be careful.
Owner of that yard has cars spread out so you can get to them, Here in PA. you got to crawl through brush, trees and piles of junk to get to them, fight off bees, snakes and other critters.
Shoot, he coulda drove to CNY, bought one at a you-pull-it yard, and driven back for less than that. They get about $50 for a door here. And 10 years old is old enough to find them in the junkyard. On the other hand, $375 for a good, solid, 2dr quarter that's not reproduced, that someone has to cut off the car for you, is probably not all that bad of a deal.
tin like that is treasure up here in the northeast , rust never sleeps , id love to live near that yard
Like said earlier, there is a reason he has all that stuff .. I'd say rougly he is 2 1/2 times higher than a normal yard www.ctcautoranch.com is website I think
If I recall, the guy told me that he charges just to walk the yard. I told him that I wont pay for exercise and thanked him. If I saw something I wanted, id buy it. I had cash burning a hole in my pocket (oklahoma casinos). I walked away on principle.
Your loss. I know yards you can't even get into because idiots tripped over loose parts and sued, or antagonized the dog and sued, and now you can show up and wave cash at the guy and still get told you can't go in today. Some of these guys buy liability insurance instead - that costs money. Even without that, the time the guy spends BSing with people who never buy anything, or having to go out and close all the hoods and doors people left open, is worth more than the couple bucks he charges you to go in.
Me and my Buddy didn't have to pay to look around although we offered he said don't worry about it. When we finished looking around we were probabley talking with the guy for over an hour. Told us how he got started etc. I think its all down to attitude. I'll definately use him for parts in the future.
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