The Dallas yard on Loop 12 was once a very large 'bowl' that was not in Grand Prairie and not in Dallas. I don't know how the bowl came to be, but I remember in the 1960's you could drive right up to it and down into it. People held races there that they set-up themselves and sometimes people got hurt. For this reason no city wanted to annex the property.

There was a figure eight raceway nearby called 'The Devil's Bowl' so that is not where I am talking about. Most race nuts just called it 'Loop 12' and it was much more remote then than it is now.

There was, and still is, a race track in Grand Prairie called the 'Yello-Belly' that at one time was the site of so much crime that the city tried to de-annex it. Dallas County would have taken it over and they put a stop to the de-annexation process. I was just at the Yello-Belly and today it is a nice place to go and watch home grown drag racing. It almost has a family feel to it. I guess 40 years of making improvements to a place can do that.

Sometime in the 1970's a big sign went up at the bowl that said 'dump dirt and rock here' and you could no longer use the place for a raceway. After years of this a Pick N Pull opened on the site and they have continued to expand over the years by filling in what was nothing but a flood plain.

There does not seem to be much of a pollution problem with water run off there, although I don't know how they manage this. They also do a great job of keeping the place clean, or as clean as you can keep a wrecking yard.

If you wish to see what a real wrecking yard area looks like then do a Google Earth on 'Grand Prairie, Texas' and look out to the east on Jefferson Street. This is supposed to be the largest collection of scrap autos on earth. As none of these yards is known to operate over the Internet then they all collect sales tax for the city, and the city is using this tax to keep the city going.

Perhaps that is the answer to cities funding woes. Bring in industry that does most of its' business in person; business that cannot easily transfer to the Net.

Wow! Have we just solved the most pressing problem facing cities today? If so, where do we pick up our Nobel Prize?

Pick n pull has the nasty habit of tacking on their "core charge" and their "environmental disposal" charges to rake in more bucks for the big national corporation.
They dont sell new or rebuilt parts and everything is a core -if it's a rebuildable part-or its just plain scrap metal-that they are charging a core charge for.
So even if you go on a "Half Price" weekend and take a pair of manifolds up to the counter-They almost double the price with their BS extra charges--I told them to shove their scrap metal and their BS charges.

I went to the Windsor PNP last weekend and got a transfer case for my daughters jeep for $75. Now all I have to do is install it.

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iwrock was on his way to my house to help me push the SD to the other side of the driveway when his car had a malfunction. So we headed off to PNP to get some parts. while in the yard I heard someone calling my screen name. it was charmalu! Didn't get anything fantastic from the yard, but iwrock got his car fixed and we all got burgers!

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