San Antonio Pick-N-Pull Today

Needed some tan cloth for the seats in Dad's Camaro, which are at the upholstery shop now, so decided to make a San Antonio run today. I flat love that yard. We found the cloth, thankfully, and I did a quick run-through with the camera, since I know a lot of you guys like seeing all the B-Bodies and big cars they have down there.

Now before the guilt trips start about not grabbing parts (especially the $25-each turbine wheels on the one wagon), please understand that in the parking lot the temp gauge in the truck said 104-degrees...on the white rock in the yard it was at least 110-degrees today. STUPID HOT!!! I did not want to pull a John Candy and keel over with heart failure in the yard, so after grabbing the cloth we needed I just snapped a lot of pics and then ran back to the air conditioning and cold diet Coke waiting in the truck! It was HOT there yall..... Ha!

Anyway, enjoy the pics! This is Pick-N-Pull San Antonio on Applewhite Road.

 

Again I try not to go yarding in the summer here...it's just to dang hot, but San Antonio is B-Body heaven...could not resist nabbing pics.

I didn't even make it to the Caddys!

Such fun!

-Mike

 

The white grand prix looks like it's on better shape than any on the road here in rusty Nova Scotia!

 

Wow Mike, y'all sure have a lot of wagons their. I have said a few times that I can count on one hand how many wagons come up around here for sale or even I see on the road here. A while back I seen 2 in the junkyard and was amazed. Between Cash for Clunkers and Hurricane Katrina I think our reserve of old cars have been depleted.

 

Well the vast majority of those cars are sedans, with a few wagons here and there. Texans loved their big cars, nice for the long roads here. They sold well right until the end.

That's a great yard. Will have to go again...in about a month-and-a-half...when it cools down again!

 

Including a couple OCCs. That white '92 with camel interior looked pretty clean and familiar as well. Those OCC front bumpers are popular and the blue one still had the grilles.

 

That white Grand Prix is so nice...

I also like the blue 4-door '78 Delta 88...

Too bad once they're there, they're gone...

 

oh man

My wife went with me, one time, to Pick-Your-Part in nearby Sun Valley CA. It was a rather disturbing and saddening experience for her. In your littany of pics, the wagons would have been most upsetting. Any older cars... New cars and foreign cars were nothing. Easy to brush off. But the nice old cars had her going. Me too somewhat. I never like it when all that seemed to have gone wrong with the car was; they couldn't start it, so they junked it---and it's a mid-60's T-Bird or a perfectly good wagon. On that trip, somebody'd turned in their 73 Pontiac Ventura(like the one in The Seven Ups, with a black vinyl top). Now, when you already have a car, and you're looking for a part you can't get at the parts store, then it's okay someone turned in their cherished classic that just like yours.

 

That white Grand Prix Brougham is beautiful!

 

Yep it had no business being in there AT ALL. That Grand Prix made me so mad. It was CLEAN! Paint shined, chrome shined, zero rust. Was a Brougham so had the fancy interior and had a Chevy 305 under the hood.

Some jackass pried the lock out of the trunk lid and bent it all up, and the only real dents on the car were from the yard loader when they moved it around.

My guess is it was Grandma's car, she died and the nursing home had it hauled off. Happens way to often. That car SHOULD NOT have been in there.

 

It's one thing for someone to dispose of a car like that but even more surprising that the yards often don't have the sense or gumption to set the car aside and sell it as a nice used car.