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Hi Terry,

How would someone determine if a junk yard has the

desired vehicle for parts removal???

Thanks

& remember "It's only a MEETING!"

Sine Nomine

Good question, and it depends on the yard. My newest favorite place in the Birmingham area is the Pull-A-Part over off of Vanderbilt Road. They have a searchable online inventory of cars that is easy to use and always up to date. The other alternative is to just pick up the phone, but I've found that this can be a hit-or-miss proposition as the phone-answerer might not know much more than when he's gonna take his next smoke break. If you have a particular model, there are a couple of places in town that specialize in specific makes.

Some guys wouldn't mind having your job - like this guy.

Discuss.

In the immortal words of Sir Winston Churchill: "Nothing in life is quite so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect."

I concur.

I love scrapyards. I could browse in them endlessly. You have to be careful because snakes love them too.

News just in: Australia has for many decades been dotted with wrecks across the outback where it may have been too expensive to retrieve a broken down car. So they sat in the blistering sun and became suntanned with rust. Now, they are finally disappearing because (apparently, I wouldn't know) the world shortage of steel is making it worthwhile to retrieve them.

The lack of snaky-ness is one of the reasons why I like these newfangledy yards. They keep the cars separated more or less neatly with each one up on a stack of wheels or other supports, and the ground is covered in gravel. Not many places for Ol' No Shoulders to hide, as opposed to the places where I used to go that were covered in kudzu and mudholes.