The Indiana Jones factor and why I never reveal my 300D junkyard map? Would you?

[Carrameow]

You be the judge. Am I being selfish?

I still have the 100 page notebook and its greasy and curled up with dried sweat. Inside it I have entries for all the major assemblies and subassemblies for all the W123's in the NJ area with carefully annotated addresses and directions and lsitings.

When I was back in NJ some guy who was a realtor who would periodically email me and ask me where I was finding all my parts. I really try to be helpful and polite to people but i am not 22 anymore and naive. To me he might as well have been asking for my bank account number.

To me, there is this thing called the Indiana Jones factor. There are almost a thousand yards in that area. I stumbled through 100% humidity and 100 degree days through Sewage pools and clouds of mosquitoes and tussled with the nasty hombre's you meet at those places.

I followed this false rumour and that false lead and that winding road was led to everything from a cemetery for transformers to what must have have been parts of the wreckage of the Hindenburg Zeppelin or abandoned U Boat to find two great Mercedes engines, one great interior, three fuel pumps and two transmissions that I had to pull myself.
Ever pull a transmission on a rainy February day underneath some car teetering on cinder blocks in a field of a thousand dead cars alone ? Its the loneliest scariest thing a human can do.

I jumped the fences and avoided the killer dogs to scout those locations and I still have my notebook of all my finds and its not going anywhere and its not for sale, because in 5 years I am going back to get two more cars to restore.

For one thing, I didn't know this guy. For all I know, those salvage cars would be Ebay income for some unscrupulous parts picker. Its happened.

The other thing is, I don't know if this person is going to destroy every car he goes near to just to get a small panel or aux water pump. When I pulled my fuel pumps, I bought the engines also considerately so as not to render them useless.

Finally, yes it is true. Somewhere i did see it and I'm not talking but its definitely out there, hidden by two abandoned school buses on the farm of a 85 year old man who inherited it from his father, an ex WWI soldier. I promised him I would say nothing and I am keeping my word, but you could write a book about it...