What's in your area? Are the yards in your area useful in supplying parts for your older cars? Since Memory Lane closed down, we have very few, if any yards left to get parts locally. You? Thanks
There are only a few around here where you can find parts for old cars. Seems they have all become s**** yards instead of salvage yards.
We still have several good "junk yards" in the area but one doubled his prices after someone wrote and article about the yard in a regional car magazine.
Thursday's receipt read Lajoie's Auto and S**** Recycling. Yard is fully blacktoped now, stuff leaves bailed or ground/shredded to fist size bits. I can still remenber 1935-40 Ford Coupes stacked 3 tall waiting their shot at the Danbury Racearena back in the early 1970's.
We have some in the bay area and my fav is in Lake County. When and why did Memory Lane close down and what happened to all their old cars?
What use to be Junk Yards here have now become salvage yards,,,prices use to be reasonable,,now the are almost as expensive as the dealer parts department. To be perfectly honest I have had better luck buying parts I need for the wagon from Bob Owens,,paying freight and still get a better deal than the salvage yard no less than 10 miles from my home. HRP
when a guy can get $300-400 apiece for a car, and he has a few hundred of them, that's lots more than I have in my 401-K. It's hard to blame him for crushing them and moving to warmer climes.
G'day, We have a good salvage yard here who doesn't crush the old stuff. We don't have the self parts pull yards around here so our local guy has to send someone out into the yard to get stuff so it can take a bit. But he is fair and honest. ms
If you have a salvage yard you have to pay for something like a tax? i cannot remember what. But at a s**** yard you are not suppose to be selling parts. but i do give a nice donation to the guys so they don't mind me digging around in the parts piles.
Wow, It sounds like you guy have it pretty bad. We have at least a half dozen U-pullit yards operating around the Phoenix area, most with a half price day every week. I was just *****ing and complaining a couple months ago because the sixties stuff was getting a bit thin on the ground out there. For that I have four or five good yards that I buy from fairly regularly. When I absolutely gotta have a thirties or forties piece and price is not the objoct, I have both Don Hoctors and Desert Valley Vintage auto salvage about 40 miles away in Maricpoa and Casa grande. Then There is Patricks down Casa Grande if I need AD truck stuff, Big horn Bob's and a number of small private stashes around town and the state.
MM moved around 5 yrs ago. At that time they went from 500-700(?) cars to less than 100. Then that failed a couple or so yrs ago
Bob Owens is THE MAN. That guy is in the business to help people with their car part needs, not to gouge people. I will stop in and see his yard when I am down that way.
Is Don Hoctor's by any chance the old Hidden Valley auto parts? If not, does HVAP still exist and where are they? Where is Don Hoctor's at?
Please elaborate on the Lake County yards! Addresses would be good. Down here in Sonoma county the best I can do is Pick-n-Pull. Late 80's stuff and up. A year ago they went corporate and the prices skyrocketed!
Yes it sure is! I guess those of us that have been around for awhile still call it Don Hoctors. It has moved in the last five years or so, as they tried to make Maricopa part of the Phoenix area. Now you can buy a five year old house down there for about 75,000.00! was about 600,000.00... Point is, all the cool little wrecking yards and farm lots that were down there got bought up in the real estate boom. Hoctor's was the only one that moved out further and reopened.
What was the address of HVAP? I lived in Phx from 77 to 87 seen a lot of yards not good remembering names.
The only real yards I go to around here are Ecology and Pick Your Part. Not really the place to find anything particularly old but I have scored a few times on parts for my '68 GTO. Otherwise, Craigslist is my junkyard. I don't know any yards in the San Diego area that would have old cars.
We had a good one here outside of my town, the owner died and it changed hands, then they crushed all of the pre 85 tin. We do have a good one about 40 miles away but you have to be a buddy or have deep pockets to get anything from him. I have heard his son is taking over and is dropping prices to move some of the stuff they have had for years, when the heat breaks I plan on making a trip over there and seeing how he does buisness.
Us guy's in western Washington,used to have it real good when it came to pre 70 stuff. as long as you didn't mind rust on every body panel, latley pickin's is gettin' slim. All the olds guy's in the buisness are retirin' and headin' to Boca. Anybody Know about the yard, down by Vancouver, Wa.? I heard he's kinda high...
Chicago Illinois is in my opinion a desert for parts, s**** is king, local environmental laws make it difficult to salvage, parts rust real fast cause they salt the heck out of the roads here.
Fortunately, us minnesota boys (& girls) have a few good yards left! We have everyones favorite, French lake auto in annondale, which is about an hour 7 fifteen minutes away! Still lots of old tin 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, then all the newer junk! Then theres windy hill, out in new london, he goes way the hell back, hes got stuff squirreled away in buses, that go back to the early 1900s! both yards eve have some br*** era parts! But i go to a lot of auctions, & i am still finding yards up north of the cities!
Thought it was still open. The web site is still up http://www.oldautoparts.com/ that ****s if they closed.
not many good ones left.. and none that i know of in lower Michigan that have anything near vintage stuff.. probably the oldest car ive seen in my local bone yards are like 1990.. cash for clunkers and the s**** prices back a year or so ago really took any "vintage parts cars" and it made them into s**** money
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