This stuff goes in cycles. If you have an older model car, you'll start seeing a bunch of them in the yard, then one day *poof* they are all gone and you don't have any more easy spare parts. I still have a 77 Nova I drove in high school. I remember back in the early 90's, the junkyards were full of them. Today, next to nothing.
I saw an Acura Legend those cars is rare today I don't know why that person would scrap it they could have easily swap out the engine for a new one I remember back in the 90's they were everywhere on the road now they're rare and hard to find
I restored my 1st car with all junkyard parts. So fun to walk around these places. You can find some sweet stuff if the yard personnel haven't snagged it yet.
Some parts at these places are over priced and are the same price as getting a new one. The main reason is because the description for an item is flat, where for example a starter can range from $50 to $200 new, while used at these places it is just one price.
Not a lot of body damage on most of these cars. I bet most of them ran and drove okay when they came in. Once a car has trouble passing smog, it's time to junk it. In the old days when you went to a wrecking yard most cars were wrecked, sometimes you could even see blood on the windshield.
+jason quinn tell me more about it. i live far away in indonesia. in here, a junkyard is actually a 'junk yard'. you almost can't get anything from the cars because most of them are rotted very bad over time, and of course it's because the rainy and sunny weather
fahmi perwira what we do is basically recycle the cars, we sell everything single part on the car with the exception of catalytic converters. Once the cars have sat in the junk yard for about 45 days, we rip them open with a front end loader. This allows us to cut out all the copper wire and aluminum parts (for recycling), then we crush the cars and ship them to China. We keep a constant rotating stock of 1400 vehicles.
and what happened to those "perfectly good cars" you get on a daily basis? i mean, how good is the condition so you can say that the car is still "perfect"? it was sent off to the junkyard for some reason right?
Only problem with bone yard finds is everything is so sun baked and rotted its almost a waste of coin. If it wasn't so harsh you could almost salvage these things.
When my brother was in America for one year, he boght a VW Jetta. Just like 12 Years old. This car was so shit, after his visit he had to brought it to a junkyard for 500$. Just 12 years old!
+Austin Neal yep something about contamination or something I don't know for sure but the last time I was over there there was a large machine for scrubbing oil out of the ground set up
+GreaseMonkeyInc nope I was wrong they are open the lot north of them is doing some contamination clean up they had a 1/2 sale of the thanksgiving weekend
dude, the bodies on most of those cars are surprisingly solid. I'm from eastern Canada and fuck sakes, the salt here just eats the fuck out of everything. you go to a funkyard like that here and everything has cancer and nothings fucking usable. Sucks. Our fucking climate just eats everything. I have a 2008 Mazdaspeed 3 and the fuckin thing is already starting to rust. it's depressing.
+SerenityNow Yeah, but one of the advantages to the cars rusting out quicker is they hit the junkyards quicker in rustbelt areas. So if you have a 10 year old car, it is easier to find non body/frame parts. In these dry western areas the cars stay on the road longer.
+Austin Neal used to live in pamona, but I went to like 20 different junkyards that were in LA , Peris, etc. and most of them didn't even have the car that I was looking for or the cars were completely stripped....
***** In my new city, I found r32s in the junkyard and all the cars are in better condition than the cars in the Cali junkyards I've been to... Plus everything is neatter and a lot easier to find here
I have one running and in top condition. But I live in the UK. I imported from Australia 5 yrs ago. 1994 Toyota celica in mahogany red with black interior. She's a good old girl and fast to boot. When I got her for $2,500. All she needed was a tune up. The owner sold her only because they needed a family sized car as the woman who owned her had got married and was due to have her first child soon. I still think I got a bargian and worth every cent. Still runs and drives like new and as garaged body is immaculate inside and out.
my dad had his first car stolen from a mechanic shop and he found it at a junkyard 22 years later. He knew it was his because of his custom kit or some shit he added to it.
the chances of you finding a turbo are slim to none. And it being in working condition would be even less. Just get a brand new one, and make sure it's not a cheap shit one.
