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gohim
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 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:40 pm Post subject: Went Junkyarding Today And What I Found... |
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Started around noon today, with the goal of visiting as many of the five self-service junkyards that are within 15 miles of my house. Location is SoCal Inland Empire, an hour East Of Downtown LA.
Made it to three separate yards.
I found one nearly intact 928 (engine was complete and looked unmolested, transmission, body and brakes fully intact and usable).
Five 944: two early 83-84, one 85/1, and two 85/2. All but one had transmission, one was an automatic, four had engines, two engines were missing parts, all had complete brakes, and three had sets of wheels (cookie cutters or phone dials). Lots of good parts on these cars. A pity that someone messed up the engines, or caused most of them to be question marks by removing the water pumps, or the cam towers or slipping off the the timing belts.
Three 924: all early cars (77-7 pretty ugly cosmetics were bad. I didn't look inside.
Four 914: all in very poor condition. Missing many body and mechanical parts, paint was pretty gone, lots of surface rust, and lots of bondo on most and most were primer or multi-painted colors.
These were Ecology and PickAPart Yards so transmissions are $100, and engines run $100-$200 depending on how much you take (long block $100, complete with accessories is $200). |
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Jakkq
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Rasta Monsta
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Any of those 944s look worthy of a race tub?
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gohim
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Tubs were totally undamaged. The problem would be trying to convince the yards to sell any of them to you, since the plates are cut up, and the cars reported as scrapped to DMV as part of the junking process. |
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gohim
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Jakkq wrote: | | Those 928 parts sounds interesting! |
Jump in a truck and drive down here in a hurry. Each week there's a mid-week special, which is 1/2 off the regular price. Meaning that on a power plant midweek, a complete engine would sell for $100, and a transmission $50.
There's going to be a 1/2 off on everything weekend in mid-March. If the car is still there when 1/2 off comes around, you could probably strip the car to a bare shell for less than $500. |
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gohim
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I took a look at the Website, and this week's Mid-Week Special is 1/2 Off on drivetrain components: transmissions gear boxes, axles...
If I had any extra money, I'd put it in 944 transmissions. At $50 a pop, you can't go wrong. Cv axles are $10 at 1/2 off. |
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