5-finger in the yard

[Jscotty]

...set a side of the fence, off roaded back later, picked it up. Just ask Sean in Indio, they have some yards on farmland out there.

I can see how easy that would be if you manage to get it over the fence in the first place. I forgot to mention that most of the junkyards in neighboring Maryland sit in the middle of the woods so if you manage to get through the miles of wilderness and thick waist-high underbrush to retrieve the loot, you would be hard pressed to explain to the cops why you are walking down the middle of a rural street with a cam and a valve cover in each hand.

[xLibelle]

waah

[Belteshazzar]

Yeah.


Plus it's wrong.

[xLibelle]

yeah, thats watched heavily in atl too. good friend of mine runs the trailer park next door to a PAP and because of him busting mexicans trying this, he gets really good deals on crap from the yard.
i normally try to bring this canadian with me when i go searching for stuff. its funny actually, bringing this guy through a junk yard, he'll ramble on about how many of a certain car he had... lots of crazy automotive facts, etc

[Jscotty]

Tossing stuff over the fence is something that they take VERY seriously around here. You really don't know how many employees are actually watching you until get anywhere remotely close to the fence with a part in your hand. There is even a yard around here that has a lookout who sits on the roof of the office watching for people both inside and outside of the fence.

[Farbin Kaiber]

a 300zx hood scoop for my van, and a 12v tv for the ceiling..
pretty sweet shit if there is a fence trick.

Fence tricked a 351c head (e-brock) for my buddies 63 falcon we were putting a LSC 5.0 carbed into, set a side of the fence, off roaded back later, picked it up. Just ask Sean in Indio, they have some yards on farmland out there.

[Tree18is]

ahha!

does anyone else ever pay the 2 dollars, not find any e30 parts, so get their 2 dollars back by throwing alternators, starters, brake rotors through windows?

..just wondering..

only on worthless shit like probes and 2.3 mustangs. not expensive glass, someone might need it!
and never an e30.

[Tree18is]

a 300zx hood scoop for my van, and a 12v tv for the ceiling..
pretty sweet shit if there is a fence trick.

[nefarious7907]

I'm a puss I wont 5 finger

[xLibelle]

teribleONE, we demolish cars trying to get "our" goods out of there. one time it started pouring rain so me and a friend hid in a volvo, nice car, pretty unmolested. we decided to see how much of the dash we could remove in least amount of time.
A fun fact for breaking shit: remove spark plug, smash off porcelain pebble, bust ANY car window with a light throw.

[xLibelle]

Eric... we are going to have to talk some business in the next year!

Many of our yards are Pull-a-part or you-pull-it. Pay a fee and get what you can cary out the door.

The PAPs i go to in atlanta have the cop at the exit and have never checked my bags. Then again, i'm the whitest guy there, clean, totally looking like an upstanding citizen kinda white. I cary a tool bag with a few exterior pockets that can be easily filled and mixed with tools. i suppose my argument is i brought this with me looking for one just like it, lol.

but i'll walk out with anything that fits in my bag or pants. regulators, relays, nuts, bolts, switches, tps, etc.

[MoparJ]

I do it all the time because I always seem to get radically different prices when I bring shit up to the window. If they don't know what part it is, it gets rung up under the overpriced "misc. category"...

A regular customer at my work walked out with a Buick Regal intake manifold strapped to his chest with spark plug wires; I've yet to see anyone beat that one.

[TerribleONE]

does anyone else ever pay the 2 dollars, not find any e30 parts, so get their 2 dollars back by throwing alternators, starters, brake rotors through windows?

..just wondering..

[Sean]

lol the yard i went to wanted $50 for the kidneys. i lol'd.

I had two arms full of gaskets and such - $5 for the lot. I showed him the kidney grille, and he said he needed like $45 for it. I said - F THAT! LOL

[Jscotty]

back in the states i had a hard time getting into yards. the counter people often would say that becuase of insurance reasons, nobody but employee's were allowed in. how do you guys bypass this stupid rule?

It depends on the yard. I am sure that the insurance has to be pretty high for junkyards to stay in business. The yards in my area have certain stipulations such as no children will be allowed in the yard and they don't allow you to remove any parts from UNDER a car but other than that, I have only been to one yard that didn't allow customers past the counter. And I can only imagine that this was because the yard was not very safe and not very organized and customer friendly.

As far as that impound situation- Man oh man.. someone had to be highly pissed. What makes me nervous about one of the junkyards that I go to is that they park the newly arriving junked cars amongst the customer's cars. Whenever I go there I am always looking out for my car to make sure that some metal head knuckle dragger isn't hauling my car into the yard on his forklift tractor.

This also reminds me of a time when I was at this same junkyard but they were less organized back then and this was many years before the E30. I wen't into the junkyard to get some parts for the Buick and when I came out, this mexican guy was in the parking lot unbolting my rear bumper. I said, "Hey man! This is my car!" He said, "Look buddy, I don't want any trouble. You can have anything you want off of the front of the car. Just let me have anything I need from the back." Apparently he thought this was junked car because I had mismatched wheels and primer spots and a broken rear quarter window.. plus my paper temp tag was faded out.