Christmas Miracles..What was your greatest find, or "Gift",at a junkyard, ever?

[Carrameow]

A True Christmas Miracle!!!!
I spent the last two weeks with my 85 300D, my faithful main ride, out of commission and up on jackstands when I found 2 cracked CV boots on my rear axles when I was doing maintenance.
After I finally pulled the axles,I found water in the CV joints. I also found out there was no way I would ever get boots on them without dissassembling and rebuilding them.
On top of that when I finally opened my rear axle CV joints up and dissassembled them Thursday night and found them way out of spec.. I was bummed and knew I was heading for big money...
Then I started to look for rebuilt units on the Internet Friday and was looking at 400 bucks..New tires are due soon also, and would set me back another $300.I was discouraged and tired. It wasn't the money, so much as the fact that I always believed in my faith to "Imagineer" my way out of anything with this Car......

Friday night after work, at 4:30 pm, I was heading to Home Depot in my daughter's 88 Corolla, (which I think sometimes weighs less than me) when a traffic jam took me askew and down a road I rarely went on.
I saw the U Pullit Yard with the 78 300D in it I had pulled body parts off of a year ago, but had long forgotten because most of the car's mechanical parts were useless on an 85 300D.
It was 22 degrees out but I do remember the car had been incredibly well maintained and had a US Naval Academy sticker on it. So I got out, paid my 1.00 entry fee and decided to take a longshot..
I found the 78 300D mounted on two tire rims , 26 rows down and 7 columns to the left, just as I remembered it. I took a peek under it and almost had an apopolectic attack.
There underneath the car were two axles with almost brand new boots!! The yard was closing in fifteen minutes. I instantly recognized the axles as correct and didnt even bother to look up the part numbers.
How much did the yard owner want? "$30.00, buddy, but you better get here early 'cause were closing early tomorrow 'cause of the weather! "
Saturday morning I was at the yard when it opened at 8 am and had the axles in my hands by 10 am.
When I got them home and pulled gently on the CV boots on one of them I was astounded!
The metal lip on the cans was pure sheet metal grey with no patina. The oil in the CV cans was fresher than Brand new oil! These joints were probably brand new replacements that might as well have been virtually sitting " on the Shelf " of Daimler Benz factory works parts department in an oil paper sealed box!
My car is needless to say back on the road already.