The junk yards of greater LA have been very good to me lately. I’ve spent two full days hunting 70′s Dodge or GMC van parts in four “pick-n-pulls” this month. I would compare it to people watching, but in a way that has you imagining the people who owned and – for sure in some cases – lived in these cars and vans. The four parts yards I roamed held only American cars; some classics but mostly ranging from five to twenty years old. You gotta bring your own tools and do all the work yourself. One of the yards was the one in which they filmed the reality TV show Junk Yard Wars. Each yard held at least two or three mid-seventies Dodge vans and all in pretty bad disrepair and looking like they were skinned alive. But I was lucky and found the parts I went there looking for.
This van had the grille I wanted and a radiator overflow to replace my cracked and broken one so I snagged the parts…
… And ta da! Here it is, cleaned up and installed on my van…
Also, I added some Chrome tail light fixtures…
I love these!
And I pulled some door handle parts. Some of these I bought at the car show and some parts I found at the pick-n-pull, but the result is arm rests with sweet seventies ashtrays and shiny new handles.
For just a taste of the junkyard, here is a pic from the interior of an old ford custom. Pretty cool padding idea…
And that’s all for now. Thanks for reading and pls send the page to your friends!
