Junkyard Alert Thread?

[tankowner]

So, we a have an EBay alert sticky and a Craig's List alert sticky. I'm wondering if others see any value in possibly creating a junkyard alert. That way when folks head out to various yards looking for parts and find some old MBs sitting around, they can post for others who might be interested in that particular model. On the surface it seems like it might be complicated by distance from yards (I live in MO and someone posts about a '90s 124 sitting in a yard somewhere in CA), but as long everyone posted the yard name and its location (phone # would be great too) then others could probably easily find the contact info. A lot of yards have their own websites now too.

As an example, I went to Pick-n-Pull in St. Louis last week hoping to find a part for my car. The only MB on the lot was an '85 190 - doesn't do me much good, but could have the part that someone else is looking for. It would be a nice way to get some info about where certain models might be hiding out since a lot of yards don't keep inventories on what they currently have on their lots. That same Pick-n-Pull might drag in a model that would be useful to me tomorrow, but I'm not planning on making the 2 hour drive again anytime real soon to find out.

Now if you find your specific model out there, by all means you may want to keep your secret under your hat. But just like in my case, there are probably a lot of treasures hiding out there that will be useful to others.

So, what do you all think? Would this make for a useful sticky?

[Chad300tdt]

Check out this site:
http://junkyarding.freeforums.org/portal.php

It's run by another forum member on here.

[JimmyL]

We have too many stickies as it is........

[H-townbenzoboy]

Not to sound too shady, but I prefer to keep my junkyard finds under wraps.

[Dee8go]

Boy, H-townbenzboy, you sound pretty shady to me.

[Dee8go]

Not shady, maybe "selfish" was the word you were looking for.

That's okay. The junkyard forum seems like a good idea. I signed on to that one, too. That seems to be as good a use use for the Internet as any.

[tankowner]

Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Check out this site:
http://junkyarding.freeforums.org/portal.php

It's run by another forum member on here.

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about this site and I will subscribe to it; however, I was thinking of something a little more specific to diesel MBs since that is why we are all here.

[tankowner]

Originally Posted by H-townbenzoboy

Not to sound too shady, but I prefer to keep my junkyard finds under wraps.

Right, I tried to address that in my post.

Originally Posted by tankowner

Now if you find your specific model out there, by all means you may want to keep your secret under your hat. But just like in my case, there are probably a lot of treasures hiding out there that will be useful to others.

I don't really expect people to give up the goods on finds that will be of use to them. However, like I said, I have no use for parts from an '85 190. Unless of course I wanted to pull lots of parts and try to sell them on Ebay or some other venue, I'm not really interested in that though, plus I don't have the time.

[tankowner]

Originally Posted by JimmyL

We have too many stickies as it is........

Well, I considered that, but if you look at the sticky list, four of them are timely to specific to regional meets - those aren't permanent posts are they?