I g ot opick and pull quite a bit. It's quite therapeutic, in the sense that you just get to wander around, sometimes scoring some really great parts. But lately, I've noticed some really beautiful vehicles just mangled.
I've been looking for a new pair of fenders for my '77, and yes, even though the fenders were made for a number of years, Both vehicles in recent weeks have been 1977s. Both suburbans.
when the customers go to pull a tranny /motor, they rent an a-frame and hoist. but usually, in the course of removal, they move that aame back and forth, effectively smashing in the fenders. I have had a couple of almost pristine vehicles messed up that way.
I know it probably doesn't mean much for those who don't care about NOS parts, but it does to me.
BTW, if you pull your own fenders, here in San antonio they're only 30.95 each. The last one was on a beautiful 2tone blue(like my truck) 77 suburban, fresh in there, even had the owners manual in the glove box, someone got the motor/trans, smashed the fenders. This vehicle was CLEAN, rear seat belsts, origianl cloth, nice. I'll see if the tilt wheel is still there on tuesday.

that's my bit. :metal:

if you're lookin to get NOS parts they dont have them in a pick-n-pull they're all used OEM parts , NOS stands for new original stock

Duh, that's what I was thinking, just had a cramp in my vernacular. I was thinking of the price for the NOS parts at the dealer. I'm a bad man..

The case is oem or nos they are both original equipment and his point is they were in pristine shape and someone could care less how they got there part as long as they got it,this was the object of this thread inconsiderate people and obvisally there all over in many ways,Senor Paco maybe someone can tell these people if they damage another part they pay for it also.
So good luck in finding NOS ooops! I mean OEM parts before there damaged.

BIGGER IN TEXAS

Yea Senor, that really burns my a$$ to see someone tear up good usable parts. Makes me sick to see our old trucks or any classic for that matter crushed for scrap. Maybe I'm too sensitive about old junk.

Especially, when most of these vehicles have the 350 and the th350 tranny, so they can get them out of pretty much any vehicle. If you're at a pul it yourself yard, I don't think truck blocks make any diff.

actually the opposite is the truth most of the time. trucks came with 4 bolt mains & forged cranks usually. but I am with you 110% on the lack of respect some ppl have. do the same guys go to the grocery stor for milk & end up squishing the bread while they are there?

I ALWAYS end up squishing the bread. If it's not at the store then it's on the way home....I have issues. It's that dang Charmin commercial with Mr whiffle. Anyone else out there brainwashed into squishing things? :rolleyes:

I know what you are saying about the parts being messed up. They seem to only have consideration for the part they are after and not much care with anything else.

I ALWAYS treat the vehicles there with consideration for the next person. Since these vehicles won't be around forever, I do tend to treat them with a bit of reverence. i remeber looking for parts for my '71 mach 1. haven't seen one in a junkyard in a long time *sigh*. then agian, the numbers on the 71-73 were the lowest.

71 stangs are IMO the best looking. got pics?

at the junkyards around here, the owners usually beat the crap out of their own cars. when I bought my dana 60 front axle, it was in the bed of a ford pickup sitting in a row of cars. the jy guy used his little 4x4 buggy with a boom to smash the conversion van to the right and the mid 80's c/10 on the left, just to get my $150 axle out of the ford's bed. i couldn't believe it but then again, they werent my vehicles.

what really irks me is the only 67-72 they have in the yard is a beat up old 71 C/10. it is mostly trash, except for the drivers fender and the immaculate inner and outer grille. i was amazed it was that nice. however, when i first saw it was a friday about 4:45 pm, almost quittin time, so i decided to ask the next time i came. 2 wks later i went to look and someone had kicked the grille out (plastic eggcrate) and the outer grille was scratched and dented with what appeared to be a screwdriver, as was the fender. the only thing they took was the bowtie off the grille, too. :angry:

I was at a salvage yard near Memphis when I came across a c-10 deluxe where some one took the time to remove the upper bolts from the front fenders, then bent the fenders out enough to get the fender emblems off. Sad thing was that the fenders were in real good shape before that. That's one reason why a lot of junk yards don't let you walk around anymore :(

the only veheicles i do that to are crappy imports if im mad i cant find my 71 parts i smash a honda tail light damn rice burners dont the know its all about american muscle!!

Smashing and trashing other peoples property, it is no wonder the owners of these yards are stopping pic and pulls everywhere.

I always try to be considerate of the next person. Also being helpful by lending a hand/tool to those that need it. Maybe I'm a little altruistic...

Sadly in the UK yards that'll let you wander around are now few and far between, partly because of theft and partly because of Health and Safety legislation and increasing litigation from people that get injured etc. I did however end up perched three or four wobbly cars up in the rain trying to get a box of electronics out from under a passenger seat the last time I went to one. I would never knowingly damage something in a yard.

Our yards here in Ontario make you sign a waiver for liability and injury and if you damage stuff and they catch you, you pay for it. Good plan.

Doug

a few weeks back, while wandering in the truck area (of course), in the distance appeared to be an exhaust pipe sticking out of a truck bed. sometimes people take parts and put them in the beds. as I walked up on it, alluva sudden something hit me in the face! As I pulled back, I felt my nose, and there was a gash in it, and a lot of blood dripping. I immediately placed pressue on my nose, and held it for 5 minutes or so. Turns out the exhaust pipe had a band in it, and about 4' was pointing right at me, so appeared not to be there, if you understand. it was a perspective thing. anyway, i looked at my nose in a mirror after a bit, and about 3/16 from the tip on the right nostril to about 3/16 from my face was torn and hanging a bit. When I got home, I meticulously cleaned it repeatedly, and put plenty of neosporin and was quite religious with it. there was a big lump of flesh off the bottom of the right side, but as time progresses, the lump is almost gone, leaving me with a thin, pink scar. this too, like my other scars, will fade. My wife says I should have gone to the hospital, but this time it worked out.

You have to sign a liability waiver. in this case, I don't know whether t ocall it stupidity on my part (or bad eyesight), in any case you have to assume there is a possibilty of injury going in there. I've seen people fighting with trannies and stuff under cars supported by those welded rims. I'm sure they're very durable, but I take my own jacks if I'm gonna go under there. I have a big cart I take in, when I need to. Otherwise, I take the tools I think I'll need in a backpack (Craftsman, of course) on my back. makes wandering around a lot easier than a toolbox.

The most common thing I see around here is a rather rare perfect, uncracked dash in a u pull it. Which has been bent up to the windshield, so some slob can grab a gauge or two. Then the second would be decent cloth seats, covered with the greasiest and dirtiest parts they could throw on them. Seen plenty of doors and door panels destroyed so they can get to the regulators and motors "easier." One u-pull it used to allow customers to use their (junkyard's) vehicles to retrieve parts. However, some customers thought best to abuse this by crashing into each other and the park vehicles. Let's not forget lighting fires with torches. If some yards had security guards or cameras, some of this behavior might stop. Especially if they prosecuted.

John