Spectre
The Deported
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2007
- Messages
- 36,832
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
- Car(s)
- 00 4Runner | 02 919 | 87 XJ6 | 86 CB700SC
There was also this 1976 Lincoln Continental, the epitome of the large personal luxury coup? of the 1970s.
One of the things I'd been casually looking for was Ford Explorer 5.0 fuel injectors. These are direct swaps for my Bronco's fuel injector, only they have better atomization and better spray patterns which improves throttle response and fuel economy even if it doesn't significantly improve power. Unfortunately they're kind of a pain to remove from a fully assembled engine as you have to disassemble quite a lot to get to them so I'd been looking for a partially dismantled Exploder 5.0 that the injectors could be easily removed from. Well, we came across this Exploder that had its fuel rail hanging out over the driver's side of the truck, with the fuel injectors just hanging in free air ready for the picking.
By the time we headed out to check out the other local PNP yards, the temperature had risen from 40F to about 55F and the mist had turned to full on fog verging on "Can't See Shit, Captain" levels.
These were outside the next PNP yard we hit, Dallas South Central - a Beetle on Mexican plates and a carbaged Jetta. I think the Jetta should have been *inside* the yard.
There was an 08 F-150 that had recently been placed in the yard that should have had some interior parts that would work in our Broncos...
... but it seems someone beat us to it.
I wonder why this Mercedes C220 was in the yard.
No, wait, I don't.
Good place for this affront to the Jaguar name:
...
This appears to be a rickhamilton special.
Here's a 4th gen Civic originally from Minnesota - graphic evidence of how salt/rust up north eats cars.
Sadly, this destroyed Caprice wagon was new to the yard and had nothing useful for us.
More dead carbage, though of a mild nature:
I wonder what expensive system broke that could have sent this car to the boneyard. Couldn't possibly tell from this picture, right?
The last dead carbage seen in this yard before we moved on to the next one.
At this point, we relocated to the last PNP yard we could hit, Dallas South. There, we found an Isuzu Ascender that had indeed ass-ended someone.
We also found this very rare Ford Explorer Sport 'Turbo' edition. No, it didn't actually *have* a turbo.
And one last panoramic picture of the Dallas South rebuilder's lot in the fading light, right at closing time.
One of the things I'd been casually looking for was Ford Explorer 5.0 fuel injectors. These are direct swaps for my Bronco's fuel injector, only they have better atomization and better spray patterns which improves throttle response and fuel economy even if it doesn't significantly improve power. Unfortunately they're kind of a pain to remove from a fully assembled engine as you have to disassemble quite a lot to get to them so I'd been looking for a partially dismantled Exploder 5.0 that the injectors could be easily removed from. Well, we came across this Exploder that had its fuel rail hanging out over the driver's side of the truck, with the fuel injectors just hanging in free air ready for the picking.
By the time we headed out to check out the other local PNP yards, the temperature had risen from 40F to about 55F and the mist had turned to full on fog verging on "Can't See Shit, Captain" levels.
These were outside the next PNP yard we hit, Dallas South Central - a Beetle on Mexican plates and a carbaged Jetta. I think the Jetta should have been *inside* the yard.
There was an 08 F-150 that had recently been placed in the yard that should have had some interior parts that would work in our Broncos...
... but it seems someone beat us to it.
I wonder why this Mercedes C220 was in the yard.
No, wait, I don't.
Good place for this affront to the Jaguar name:
...
This appears to be a rickhamilton special.
Here's a 4th gen Civic originally from Minnesota - graphic evidence of how salt/rust up north eats cars.
Sadly, this destroyed Caprice wagon was new to the yard and had nothing useful for us.
More dead carbage, though of a mild nature:
I wonder what expensive system broke that could have sent this car to the boneyard. Couldn't possibly tell from this picture, right?
The last dead carbage seen in this yard before we moved on to the next one.
At this point, we relocated to the last PNP yard we could hit, Dallas South. There, we found an Isuzu Ascender that had indeed ass-ended someone.
We also found this very rare Ford Explorer Sport 'Turbo' edition. No, it didn't actually *have* a turbo.
And one last panoramic picture of the Dallas South rebuilder's lot in the fading light, right at closing time.