Where is this place?! I have a long tradition of dumpster diving. In
fact, some of my holiday photos are of me in a junkyard.
Maybe the next big spridget bash should be at this junkyard!
>--- "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com> wrote:
>> Soave and I are going to scrounge a few Brit salvage
>> yards today. To get
>
>Quite the experience - you had to be there. The
>proprietor is yet another great larger than life LBC
>character met, sort of like if Keith Richards had been
>born into the Healey family. More parts than one
>could inventory in a life time. Hundreds of
>thousands. At least 1000 doors, complete. MGA
>bonnets piled 10 feet deep, 5 to 10 garbage bins full
>of distributors, a barn full of crankshafts hanging
>like bats from the rafters. Typical conversation(s):
>
>Ron: "WOW! That MGA coupe looks like it could almost
>be a driver!"
>CM: "Yeah, coulda been, but I cut it in half."
>
>Ron: "Wow! I counted 52 MGB transmissions in that
>pile!"
>CM: "Yeah, I crushed 900 good ones last week".
>
>Peter: "What happened to that nice Mini you had?"
>CM: "I crushed it."
>
>....and so it went.
>
>Have a safe and happy holiday, and peace to all.
>
>
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