There are two yards with in reasonable driving distance that I habit, one more than the other. The larger yard has cars for around 6 weeks to 2 months before they are crushed. They seem to operate on volume, as their part prices are cheaper than most yards I have visited. The second yard is more out of the way and smaller. They seem picky about people pulling parts, and their prices can be 3 times the price of the larger yard. They don't get the traffic either. I paid about 4 times more for a drivers window from them compared to the large yard, but they had it, and the large yard didn't have a 123 body at the time.

I also had a chance to watch the small yard pulling parts. They rammed the forks of a large front end loader through the windshield of a minivan, and rammed it against a rr boxcar to loosen things up. I was aghast. I wanted the tranny out of the 123, and was able to get them to let me pull it myself, which was a real policy departure for them. They went so far as to put the car on a lift, and the ready to retire owner "helped" me. What a joy to work under a lift!

Two different business models.

Regards,

W.