Date:         Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:42:31 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: i went to alaska and for got my bus - no not really - but
              somebody did
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
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We have those too. The don't have any VWs at all, though. 

Jim

> On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:38 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't know of that kind of yard in SoCal. I have been to many self-serve yards here and they are all part of chains of yards. They are run more like tight ships and they have guards and cashiers. Cars come in, get set out in rows on stands so you can pick at them. It is catch as catch can for several weeks or a month. Then they send out a gleaning crew to get what is left off of a row, like starter, alternators, etc. Then that whole row goes to off to the crusher. You pay 2 bucks to get in and bring whatever tools you need in with you. The parts are usually pretty cheap and it usually makes no difference what brand or model they are from as far as the price goes. You drag your parts to a cashier window. They look up the generic parts on their terminal and tell you how much. Then you pay and get a printed receipt. You take your parts to the exit guard who compares your receipt to the parts you have and signs off on it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Felder wrote:
>> 
>> There are a few old-school junkyards left. I can describe every one I know
>> of in a single paragraph because they are all the same. They have lots and
>> lots of VWs. The owners are either ancient or look it because of their
>> lifestyles and general poor health. They chain smoke in an office stacked

>> high with parts books and repair manuals. They will talk to you all day
>> about the parts business, and what parts you want, but they will never
>> actually sell you anything because they are all bat-**** crazy, living on

>> disability checks and sitting on thousands of rusting VWs.
>> 
>> I know of five of these places within 100 miles. Is this a southern thing,
>> or true of elsewhere as well?
>> 
>> Jim
>>