Salvage Yard Experience - $35 find

[Ryan5O]

Took a trip to Spokane this weekend; about a 2.5 hour drive. Thought while I was out there I would stop by a couple wrecking yards and grab some parts. Spokane is a pretty large town with several yards...how hard could it be. Got on the phone prior to leaving, called 5 different yards with no results. They had no 71/72 C10s. I couldnt believe it. Is this normal?

Called a local wrecking yard and they had 3! He said, if you want parts you better get it today because we're crushing them this week. Talked to the owner for awhile about the scarcity of the trucks. He told me that the trucks he has, he got a year ago and hasnt seen any since. Its become a rarity.

When I got to the yard, there wasnt much left of the C10s. I pulled a set of lap belts, some control knobs and a break booster for $35. Not sure if the booster works, we'll see. Took me a couple hours to clean it up. If it tests good, I'll clean it up a little better and black it out. For those of you that have never pulled those lap belts from a old pickup, be ready for a fight. Those bolts dont come out easy.

Now Im finding myself patrolling for trucks around town.

[tr69c10]

Nice finds

[fastcam1]

Ya don't see too many around here
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[Ryan5O]

So Fastcam, what your saying is dont bother checking the Westside either...

[VA72C10]

nice score on the belts....I never trust an old booster, but at least it's a core and the bracket/pivot are worth 45-55 anyways...

[fastcam1]

Originally Posted by Ryan5O

So Fastcam, what your saying is dont bother checking the Westside either...

No I meant this side of Washington lol
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[Ryan5O]

Yeah I know what you meant...the wet side

[kevmic28]

I need to find me a booster one of these days.

[mpotts64]

I agree, those seat belts are put there to stay, take some WD40 for sure

[Indyuke]

I almost don't want to say it cuz I might want all the parts for myself, but the pull a part in arlington north or seattle has several. Two 67's, a 69 and I think a 71 or 72. I got a nice eaton posi with a 3.73 ring gear out of one of them for $42 as well as some other goodes the other day.

[Ryan5O]

Ah man, I wish you hadnt said that

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Those black belts are a great score.

[mrhino]

about a moth ago I was shopping a local yard for the first time and they 6 of these trucks, one had great side moldings. Both sides very miniamal damage, I thought id come back and get them later. Wrong! when i went back there were only three left and not the one with the great molding. I thought they had sold the whole truck. until I found it way in the back, and up. you can still see the trim although its not much good anymore. The part I dont understand is why they would do this to a classic truck, this yard has lots of old cars from the 50's up and obviously know the value of these older cars or they would have been scraped years ago,. so why do it to trucks, it didnt bother me so much, but they treated the old fords the same way.

[Ryan5O]

Yeah, its hard to understand. What I do know is that in my area the wrecking yards contract out the work to have the vehicles crush. A crew comes in with equipment and crushes as many cars/trucks as fast as they can and then leave. Is about get the job done, making the money and moving on to the next yard. Our wrecking yard doesnt set anything aside, so everything is fair game.

[Ackattack]

I lived in Poulsbo WA until Dec. There was a yard there that had about 8 of them. I got quite a bit of stuff for my 69 "no buck" truck there.