South Austin Salvage Yarding Today

Well the Roady spent the day at Firestone getting aligned after I found out the front tires were worn badly on the insides, so Dad and I ran south and went yarding. Scored a good set of 4-note horns from a CLEAN '95 sedan. Sorry there are not more pics...not to be vulgar but I was sweating my sack off...it was HOT today. 90's this afternoon and no clouds. WARM in the yard! Is it really only March???

Anyway here's some pics for you folks. Enjoy!

Cutlass Supreme Brougham. Full gauges. I wanted the small chrome front bumper guards for my car, but didn't bring the right size torx wrench. Whoops



El Camino


Solid Caprice wagon


Another Elky, with bucket seats






70's Malibu


90's 3rd Gen with a good set of T-tops still on it. Zero rust too.


70's Pontiac Ventura with very clean interior




Pinto Squire! Ha!




Buick Reatta. If I'd had my steering wheel puller that wheel would have come home with me.



This was a real shame. This is a 95 Roady sedan with only 89K miles on it. The leather seats were PERFECT, they just needed to be cleaned up. I almost grabbed the front one for a spare and the rear one to do the sedan seat conversion...SO TEMPTING. Sadly someone had BUTCHERED the door panels to get the window switches out. The wheels and steering column were gone, but other than that the car was very complete. It had a brand new alternator on it.....and the 4-note horns came home with me.







How about a Fiero convertible??


Hot but fun afternoon in the salvage yard! Looking forward to installing my 4-note horns!

-Mike

Those red sedan seats are still calling my name.......

I keep thinking how much better the sedan rear seat looks than the wagon rear seat.....

THAT PINTO WAGON WOULD BE NICE W/ ALMOST $4 BUCK GAS !

Looks like somebody's going back for a Reatta steering wheel.

Admit it, you'll be there tomorrow. :p

that's a 79 impala wagon not a caprice, go back and get the sedan seats, all of em
you may want to put a console in your wagon at one point and you'll need the passenger seat

hey what do they get for doors? I want the ones off one of those elcaminos. Gut them completely and ship them via Greyhound/trailways.

1993 Roady-man wrote:

hey what do they get for doors? I want the ones off one of those elcaminos. Gut them completely and ship them via Greyhound/trailways.

come to think of it yeah what he said ^^

Hey,...was there any 73 olds cutlass in that yard I need a passenger side front door for my 4 door. The car looks like this.

GSBULLDOG wrote:

THAT PINTO WAGON WOULD BE NICE W/ ALMOST $4 BUCK GAS !

Yuck and NO!

Stingroo wrote:

Looks like somebody's going back for a Reatta steering wheel.

Admit it, you'll be there tomorrow. :p

I'm really tempted. "R" on the horn button "could" stand for Roadmaster, right?? There is a place in Dallas that re-covers wheels. Had the one in my Custom Cruiser done there and it looked awesome. $10 for the wheel, $80 to re-cover it.

I should go nab it if only to save it from the crusher...

buickestate wrote:

that's a 79 impala wagon not a caprice, go back and get the sedan seats, all of em
you may want to put a console in your wagon at one point and you'll need the passenger seat

Dangit I knew that was an Impala....had not had me Wheaties yet when I posted those pics I guess. I grew up around a 78 Impala. Doh.

As for the seats, yeah I'm really tempted. Hard to find good leather down here, the sun eats them up, and other than being dirty and in dire need of conditioning, those looked really good. I'm on a budget though...you know how it goes.

We'll see. That car was in New Arrivals so it'll be there a little while.

1993 Roady-man wrote:

hey what do they get for doors? I want the ones off one of those elcaminos. Gut them completely and ship them via Greyhound/trailways.

Here is their webpage with pricelist: http://wrenchapart.com/pricelist.htm

Looks like doors are $45 each with a $5 core.

You gonna make me go rip doors off???? Those suckers are heavy man! Same basic ones I have on my Cutlass. OUCH!

Ha!

-Mike

1993 Roady-man wrote:

Hey,...was there any 73 olds cutlass in that yard I need a passenger side front door for my 4 door. The car looks like this.

I didn't see one, but they pop up now and then. Neat car by the way. The 73's have by far the best looking bumpers of all the 70's Cutlass models.

-Mike

buickestate wrote:

...go back and get the sedan seats, all of em
you may want to put a console in your wagon at one point and you'll need the passenger seat

I agree with Pat! You should also grab the LT1 mirrors! Spares (or sell them) Plus that alternator looks brand new! Lol

If u don't mind I would love the elky doors, for that price. Wish I was down there to help.

And if you do by chance see one of the 73' I need it bad. That door is half the size so it wouldn't be as heavy LOL! And Thanks my olds only has 50k on it.

50 bucks per door is a great price now how much is shipping to flint mi via greyhound?

The front seats from the 95 sedan would work good in the white OCC in austin,.
so would the "R" steering wheel,.(with an olds rocket decal)

phantom 309 wrote:

The front seats from the 95 sedan would work good in the white OCC in austin,.
so would the "R" steering wheel,.(with an olds rocket decal)

Don't think I hadn't thunk about that....the seats that is. I'm pretty sure they are a darker red than the OCC interior, but on a 300K mile $350 car who really cares if the are a tad darker, right??

yeah ship all those doors to michigan,... i will pick mine up there too. if u decide to lift those heavy doors. let me know and i can get the money to u.

81X11 wrote:

As for the seats, yeah I'm really tempted. Hard to find good leather down here, the sun eats them up, and other than being dirty and in dire need of conditioning, those looked really good........

I'm about as jealous as I get. Every one of these Texas posts kills me.
Sun may eat up seats but it keeps those carcasses nice.
Around here, if we leave a car for 5 minutes the rust starts.