Passing thru San Bernardino will be OK as long as you don't drive so slow the natives spears can hit you. Just ribbing. Crime statistics for downtown areas are exaggerated since the daytime population is 10 times the residents and they normalize to the later. I lived decades in inner city Houston, Atlanta, etc, as well as small cities. The only time my bike was almost stolen was at Radford College in rural VA (cut half thru chain-lock). I did have a car stolen in front of my house in Atlanta, but it was rural rednecks because the tag showed up 7 yrs later on a stolen Jetta in rural Cobb County.


But, most salvage yards are in poorer areas of towns, and draw a wide spectrum of customers, from engineers (me) to desperate immigrants. I don't run from deviants, but rather watch for them. They are like rats that only sneak out at night. Last time at a local PickNPull I saw a kid jumping the fence and running back and forth. The newspaper even reported neighbors there complained of people throwing parts over the fence into their yards to recover. I reported it at the counter, though big companies don't like employees challenging thieves.


As in SoCal, the yards here have few 1982-85 M-B lately, compared w/ many 90's gas M-B. Might just be statistical, since a year ago there were many. Ecology seems to be the main yards in SoCal. I 2nd that RollGuy is a stand-up guy, with many parts, and he is just over the 5000 ft hill from S.B.

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1964 & 65 Mopar's - Valiant, Dart, Newport
1996 & 2002 Chrysler minivans