Pick Your Part: Whats your best find??

[slammin.e28]

Coolest thing I've found was an e30 it looked like someone died in rolling it over. We don't get any good shit here.

[flyboyx]

Just wondering what cool stuff or cars people have run into at the yards.
Post up your pics and share your stories


Over the past 7 years I have run into some good stuff at the yards:

E34 M5 kit x2

Euro E34 M5- whole car was for sale 106,000miles- bought it and drove it home

Several Euro e30s, bauers, coupes, 4 doors
Euro goodies- valances, kits, grills
ACS exhaust, supersprint, etc

Mtech 2 vert- white- took what ever was left

But the best one was this:

Friend of mine called me up and said that he spotted a old BMW with stripes and Spoke wheels with black centers, he didn't know what it was, thought it was a 7 series, non the less said it had Alpina sticker across both sides of the car- He told me it was at the Anaheim Pick Your Part. Showed up there at 7am the next day, and it turned out to be a 1980 blue Alpina B7 Turbo!!! someone already took the the motor, trans, and seats. The Staggered Alpina wheels where still on the car, extra Gas tank in the trunk, suspension, diff, and Rear euro bumper. I only had a screw driver and a lug Wrench! So the wheels, tank, and Alpina tag came home with me.



The Tag I ripped off the firewall on the pass side of the engine bay:





The car was the same color combo as the sample pic below:

holy fuck! that is beyond amazing. no way in hell i can top this.

We don't have pick a parts or similar operations here. Junk yards don't let you browse because of insurance regs. and probably fear of you stealing little shit. Prices are also a LOT higher than what you guys pay.

pick a parts nickel and dime the shit out of you here. the price for parts are generally quite low, but then they charge you an environmental fee and almost every bullshit little part has a core charge. they know there is probably an 80% chance you aren't going to bring anything back to them.

....and you didn't go up there to offer scrap metal price for it?

I would have been trailering the whole shell out for use as something. Too cool to let die in a yard.

they won't sell an entire car once it gets processed in the yard. the title goes to title never never land never to be used again.


my finds: my son and i were wandering around in one of our local yards. i was talking on the phone at the time. my son came over to me and said that right over there is a jag with a nardi classic woodline steering wheel. it only cost 18 bucks.

early style alpina wheel with bad leather and missing the horn button. 18 bucks

several sets of bilsteins/lowering springs. ix auto transfer case in good shape for 65.00.

audi 4000 quatro manual in perfect shape with perfect interior. odo showed 115,000 miles. only the paint was faded as far as i could tell. who knows about the drivetrain but it looked really good and had certainly been taken care of. i didn't take anything off this car because i don't have audi's. i went back a month later and it was pretty much still complete.

a couple weeks ago, i posted photos here of a 1976 630cs euro that i saw in the pick a part. i didn't take anything off this car either but i regret not doing so.

over the last couple years, i have seen 4 or 5 porche 928's

[F34R]

3 sets of euro smilies

2 sets of BBS RC090

m30b35 with the 260/6

I missed out on a s50 that came in while I was out of town.

there is a m60 currently in the yard right now.

[Herr Faust Schinken]

oh yeah forgot about that, there was a e34 535i 5speed in pretty good condition awhile ago, i wanted to pull the motor but i was low on funds

[pmat]

You west coast guys are lucky. Here im close to 5 huge pick-n-pulls that i visit almost every weekend. The coolest e30 i ever found was one that wasnt totalled or stripped to the shell.

[karzrtoyz]

3 sets of euro smilies

2 sets of BBS RC090

m30b35 with the 260/6

I missed out on a s50 that came in while I was out of town.

there is a m60 currently in the yard right now.

Good Haul!

[evandael]

damnit, yards in the tristate area suck/don't exist.

[SGT4677]

Back in the mid eighties I saw a BOSS 429 mustang in a yard in san diego.The front sheetmetal was missing but it was otherwise complete.I checked the drivers door for the KK sticker and it was there too.I stared at that car for a long time before I continued my hunt for fairmont parts.

[BDSax]

ive found 2 moonroofs, euro bumpers, and mtech 2 kit. had a good run

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dont see any e30s anymore

[Jand3rson]

At the U-Pull-It here, about 2-3 years ago, there was a Henna E21.

Seriously not a single ding to the entire body, not on one single panel. It was absolutely heartbreaking.

[BillBrasky]

There's a guy about an hour from me who has a couple hundred BMWs in various states of disrepair and/or rot. One of them is a Hartge E32.

I won't give away the name, but are you talking about the guy that has the 2002 with the tree growing up through the roof? If so, good luck trying to get him to sell anything. I've been trying for over a decade.

[CrusherCurtis]

I never see anything. A good find for me is actually finding what i need. I did see a federalized euro mk1 rabbit once

[MoparJ]

Back in the mid eighties I saw a BOSS 429 mustang in a yard in san diego.

I once saw a 69 Dodge Super Bee at the ecology here years ago. I thought it was a regular Coronet at first since it was almost completely stripped, but the VIN plate was still on the dash. Nothing but an empty shell and 100% covered with rust, but still cool to actually find one in a junkyard. Saw an early seventies Roadrunner in the same yard once, too.

Coolest BMW things I've grabbed at the yards:

-Full BBS kit off of a cabrio
-Full interior and head off of a euro 323
-Nice 3 spoke e36 M3 steering wheel
-One of the old-school style inspection light resetting tools
-A functional glovebox flashlight......first time I've EVER seen one that actually worked, lol
-An almost pristine 87 325is airdam
-Complete owner's manual set

[ButtJuice]

2 sets of black perforated vinyl sport seats and ski pass black perforated vinyl rear seat.

[SGT4677]

I once saw a 69 Dodge Super Bee at the ecology here years ago. I thought it was a regular Coronet at first since it was almost completely stripped, but the VIN plate was still on the dash. Nothing but an empty shell and 100% covered with rust, but still cool to actually find one in a junkyard. Saw an early seventies Roadrunner in the same yard once, too.

Coolest BMW things I've grabbed at the yards:

-Full BBS kit off of a cabrio
-Full interior and head off of a euro 323
-Nice 3 spoke e36 M3 steering wheel
-One of the old-school style inspection light resetting tools
-A functional glovebox flashlight......first time I've EVER seen one that actually worked, lol
-An almost pristine 87 325is airdam
-Complete owner's manual set

A yard in Eugene used to have a bunch of Mopars back in the day.Even a Hemi or two.
Most of the yards up here are gone now.