New year, new junkyard run. The Pick-N-Pull chain had a four day half-price sale for their loyalty club members; I had noticed there were some vehicles of interest to other FG members in a PNP yard on the other side of the Metroplex that I rarely visit. This would be the Fort Worth Pick-N-Pull location, which is much smaller than the other DFW area yards, but which is less frequented so parts 'last' longer there for popular vehicles. A buddy of mine from the Bronco club came with me to check out what was on offer and to lend a hand if need be - and since we were going to be in the junkyards anyway, if there were some parts we personally could use, we'd grab them in passing. The day started cold and misty, but grew warmer and a hell of a lot foggier.
This carbage was in the PNP Fort Worth parking lot.
So, not only did the owner carbage up this truck, he then went and got a GM or Mopar (can't decide which) badge to indicate that he has the worst, least powerful and least reliable engine his truck could have come with.
Just inside the yard was the rebuilder section. Here's a panoramic picture of the area - you can click on this and all other pictures for higher resolution versions:
Once you get past the rebuilder area, the yard extends off to the right around the building.
And wraps around behind the building.
Spotted this Range Rover sitting there.
Unfortunately, it was well stripped. Someone apparently wanted the dash pretty badly.
Nearby was this horrible pile in its rightful place.
I considered taking these Land Rover headlights - someone is working out a way to retrofit them to 87-91 Ford Broncos and trucks - but I realized I'd ideally want to take the header panel behind them and I didn't have sufficient metal cutting tools.
Hey, rick? Might want to consider an internal roll cage or exo cage for your Jeep if these are any indicator.
There was this lonely little post-facelift WD21:
More cars, getting towards the west end of the lot.
Since Thomas' Cadillac was in need of some parts, we checked all the B and D body cars on the lot. This was the engine bay of a 92 or 93 Buick Roadmaster that we speculated had spent some time in the bottom of one of the local rivers. That L05 TBI V8 just looked nasty and mud caked.
We did find the car we'd been expecting to find - an absolutely base model 1996 Fleetwood. Someone had had an aftermarket landau roof installed (poorly) then removed when it degraded. What was left was an absolute mess.
More on this and the parts we scavenged over on thomas' Caddy thread later. Moral of story, aftermarket landau tops suuuuuuuuck.
There was this very dead Pontiac Grand Am proudly displaying its 'Ram Air' plenum a couple spots away.
The first I've seen of the crushed cars resulting from the VW Dieselghazi buy backs (
more pictures here):
Then we found the other vehicle we'd specifically been looking for - a 1972 Ford LTD. This was to provide parts for Dr Grip's wagon - specifically a clock (which unfortunately turned out later to not be working.)
Part 2 coming shortly.