I used to love going to junk yards as it was a chance to experience the
weirdest parts of culture. The people who you were likely to see there
looked as if they belonged in some artsy movie. Now all the junk yards
have gone to computerized systems and they send their parts all over
and rarely allow you to roam at will.
Last time I was in one was when I was looking for a brake drum for a
'58 ford F100 in the mid 80s. The proprietor told me tjhey kept all
the removed ford drums in that old yeller truck over yonder. I went
over with my old drum and calipers and the collapsed truck cab was
filled with old brake drums which I started going through. After awhile
I was fairly deep into the pile with my body almost all the way inside
the old truck when DAMN, hornets. They were nesting inside one of the
drums. Hit my head almost hard enough to knock myself out after being
bit a couple times and then ran like hell. I soon outran em and
thought i was lucky till I looked behind and DAMN again, the junkyard
dogs were after me. They musta been trained to chase anybody running.
I made it outa the gate and thought "Screw this" and went and found my
JC Whitney catalogue, money savings be damned.

wrote
I used to love going to junk yards as it was a chance to
experience the
weirdest parts of culture. The people who you were likely to
see there
looked as if they belonged in some artsy movie. Now all the
junk yards
have gone to computerized systems and they send their parts all
over
and rarely allow you to roam at will.

There's still a few ''U-Pull-It'' yards around here.


Hit my head almost hard enough to knock myself out after
being
bit a couple times and then ran like hell.

Be glad they didn't sting you, that hurts.


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Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:50:59 -0500, "Scotty"
wrote:


wrote

snipped a bunch

There's still a few ''U-Pull-It'' yards around here.

And I read recently they are making a comeback in yards that do a much
better job of keeping track of the exact location of a specific
vehicle and what has been removed/what is left.

I wonder how they are getting past the liability issue. That's what
stopped the U-Pull-It ventures in the past.

Frank
..

"Frank Boettcher" wrote

There's still a few ''U-Pull-It'' yards around here.

And I read recently they are making a comeback in yards that do
a much
better job of keeping track of the exact location of a specific
vehicle and what has been removed/what is left.

I wonder how they are getting past the liability issue. That's
what
stopped the U-Pull-It ventures in the past.


Don't know, probably have to sign a release of some kind. Never
been to one. Last time at a yard they had the Camaro door on a
rack with all the other doors.

Every now and again they have a'special', where for a set amount
$50 or $100, you can take anything you can carry out in one load.
--

Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_