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Your best junkyard find
Title says it all... share what your best junk yard find to date has been! ("Barn finds" welcome also)
I'll start with this; MINT bench seat out of a 1976 Silverado C20 that my dad and I found at Pick N Pull and put into my 1975 High Sierra C25 |
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Location: El Lago, TX
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Wow, that seat must have had a cover over it it's whole life!
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Location: Jasper, IN
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Finding a dash pad out of a 76 k20 with only one crack about 1" long... Then running over it 2 months later
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Re: Your best junkyard find
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Location: Beaverton, OR from WA State
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I have two C50/60/70 clusters with the tach/fuel gauge combo, a few "trailering special" emblems, the front-of-bed to cab camper special shock absorbers, the camper special brackets that pass through bedside and bolt through bed support, flip down dome light...I forget what all I have found.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Des Moines IA
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I would have to say probably the dual exhaust pipes that I put on my old '86 a year or so ago. Found the pipes cheap, and then had Summit coupons to complete the whole thing for about 60 bucks out of pocket. Crazy deal for something that would have ran 200-300 just for the pipes from an exhaust shop.
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Location: Baxley Ga
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Re: Your best junkyard find
my best junkyard find is this 95 model P-pump 12 valve Cummins i scored for 350 bucks.....my dually has a ve pump'd 12 valve that is leaking fuel....shop wants 750 to rebuild it so i bought this complete motor.....has a brand new P-pump, starter, and lift pump
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1991 Square CCLB Dually...laid out on 22s with an old noisy 12 valve |
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
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Re: Your best junkyard find
my $30 score, for real detroit steel.
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Temple City
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Years ago when I was into VW Bugs. I found a 2332 race motor with Gene Berg 51mm Webers, and a bunch of other performance stuff to go with it. I got it all for about $500 otd, and sold it to a friends dad for almost $4000 2 days later.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: WV
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Got an Olds ram air hood (70 442 / Rallye 350) for $80. Still have it!!
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I found a fuel injection unit off a 1961 corvette on a shelf in a 76 station. It had the plenum but off a different year. I bought it for $300 and sold it the next weekend for $1400. Good money for a 17 y/o. This was about 1987. Matt in Reno
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Re: Your best junkyard find
junk yard would have to be the intermintant wipers switch an a newer tach
barn find my bush bar
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Re: Your best junkyard find
My best was an almost mint dash pad, was at a local wrecking yard and after making the rounds and came up with nothing I figured I take a quick look in a pretty beat square body utility truck. Well I opened the door and there it set mounted on the dash, I almost couldn't believe it since things tend to get picked over quick there. Well I pulled the dash pad and $20 bucks later my interior was a whole lot nicer.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Sometimes my truck reminds me of that Johnny Cash song. I think there's more junkyard parts on it than not, but most people would never know the difference.
![]() Some of my more recent parts rescues: '73 GMC grill w/brackets no cracks - $20 '79 tach dash - $20 '80 tach dash - $25 matching set of rust free doors w/glass and door panels - $45 old warn winch bumper from the 80's - $45 16" HD 2500 wheels w/GMC covers - $50
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Re: Your best junkyard find
mickeykreg, those are some awesome scores!! I found a 1980 5.7 DIESEL custom deluxe and an 86 Sierra Classic 6.2 Diesel 12,000lb Trailering Special! right next to each other! both were junk, but i got some of the emblems.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I found this today at the paint shop where my truck is being painted. Got it for 40$
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Des Moines, IA.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I found an 80 Silverado reg. cab dually with a perfect tach dash and a 73-74 truck next to it with a tach dash AND that truck also had a 77 tach cluster sitting on the bench seat minus the Speedo! I thought I was on candid camera I couldn't believe my luck! I also scored a MINT orange bench seat from a 75 C25 GMC pickup as well-it had a seat cover on it prolly since it was new-all original material in bright freakin orange.....too cool to pass up.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
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Love this thread, reading about people out there rootin' through the junk to save treasures.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Yeah....a friend of mine was building a black 67 stepside, longbox and it had an orange painted interior but a black padded dash and a worn out black bench seat....I brought him that perfect OEM seat and he was blown away-totally "made" that interior work! I went back for him to grab the orange seatbelts which needed a cleaning but were nice with good plastic and the orange sunvisors. I think in all it cost me about $50.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
I kept the old, worn-out seatcover on it so the yard wouldn't realize how nice it really was.....after some careful cleaning, it looked like brand new! Only one I've found like that so always check under the old seat covers....ya never know!
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Re: Your best junkyard find
A couple years ago I picked up the grill, dash pad with one crack, door panels, front bumper, cab wiring harness, and gauge cluster from a 1976 GMC Sierra Grande. I think it was about $100
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Went up to a small mom & pop yard just to look around, I found a nice complete set of headliner trim for my 74. I pulled it all out and walked back up to the half fallen down office, The ole man looked at it and asked "you spent the time taking all that out" ?
I said..... Yes sir what's the damage, He said "just take it son"..... SCORE !!!
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Not truck related but about 8 years ago I found a complete 1979 bucket seat Oldsmobile cutlass Calais with all black interior. I asked how much for all of the interior just for kicks....it was Mint! The guy said what...you want to pull it all out? I replied yep, from the dash to the rear package shelf and carpet to headliner....basically I want all the interior. He said well, if you're willing to pull it all yourself, you can take it all for $75. After I nearly fainted, I ran back down and got to work.....about 45 minutes later I had it all out.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
1 1/4" 73-87 Drop Spindles, $40 total. Kicker is they were on a 74 2wd Blazer with the full top. 1 1/4" front swaybar, $15.
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Re: Your best junkyard find
Kind of a junkyard/barn find. 56 Ford F1, with a 354 hemi and push button torqueflite. Lots of guys tried to buy it, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. $500 and a plugged fuel line later, I drove it on the trailer.
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