Junkyard Etiquette

A trip to the junkyard can be a lot of fun, but it can also end in frustration. Scattered parts, missing hardware and needlessly broken components can quickly turn your treasure hunt into a waste of time. Is there a proper way to conduct yourself in a junkyard? Are there tactics you can use that are courteous to other salvage-yard-seekers as they comb through the wrecks? Have a listen as Scott and Kurt discuss the current junkyard scene, and share a few tips regarding appropriate junkyard manners.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to car Stuff, a production of I Heeart Radio's
How Stuff Works. Hi, and welcome to car Stuff. I'm
your host Scott Benjamin and I am Kurt Garren and
we are a man down today. Oh yeah, that's right.
I guess we're not gonna have been in the studio
with it. He got that escape and he skipped down.
He did. He was mentioning the escape, wasn't he. Yeah.

(00:22):
I wonder if that's part of what's going on today.
It just for so fans know he will be back.
I mean, he's just taking the day off really, so
he might be gone today, might be gone for our
next show, who knows one or two. But um, he
definitely will be back. He's just outrunning some marins are
doing doing some important stuff. And he always gets into
some some crazy adventures when he goes out. So and
he sometimes I'll tell you about him. And then sometimes

(00:44):
he's real cryptic, you know, sometimes keeping things close. Sometimes
he could be a little yeah, close to the vest,
or a little sketchy sometimes when he when he says
what he's doing. But but I mean this is something
actually that the Ben and I in the past have
had a I know we've had several conversation aations about
what we're gonna talk about today, and I felt that,
you know, since it's just you and I, maybe we

(01:05):
could have a similar conversation or kind of a revamp
of that with some maybe some new information, maybe just
some different stories to kind of pass around. But we're
gonna be talking about junkyards, and I guess in the
same sense salvage yards. It's all the same thing, really,
but junkyards and salvage yards today. And Kurt I asked
you off air if you had much experience with junk

(01:26):
yards in the past, and you said, not necessarily, is
that right? Yeah, And I don't personally, but growing up
in the South, you meet those folks that are I mean,
I say this with affection, but um, I'm talking about
the junker types and they go they visit the salvage
yard to find those parts that everyone hopes they find
when they go to the salvage yards, you know, the

(01:46):
parts that are desirable. Now, these are the treasure seekers
that you're you're talking about. Yeah, I understand, you know
the people that And again, not in any way disparaging
people to go to junkyards because I am one or
I used to be one that would love of to
kind of hang out in junkyards and gather things and
find things and and try to at least do my
best to do that. I never really found any gems

(02:08):
along the way. I never found anything that was really
worth uh, you know, hanging on the wall or anything.
If I, if I looked harder when I was younger,
I would still have some of those things that now
would be classic items that would be great to have
on the garage wall. You know, like maybe some old
offenders or maybe you know, a grill or something. But
at the time, you know, you're looking at the stuff
and it's like it's not really old at that point.

(02:29):
But now he would be classic parts. It would be
something that you know, you would look back at with
nostalgia of some sort. But you know, I would find um,
you know, I would try to stop at places, you know,
along the way. If I was taking a road trip,
i'd you know, I was on my own I was
on my own schedule as well. I'd be able to
pull off and you know check out the local junkyard
and you know, these small towns that I go through,
and you know, even if it's just well, I always

(02:50):
say this, like even if it's gonna be ten minutes,
but it's not just ten minutes. You get kind of
caught up in the stuff, you know, walking around and
looking at the the cars to get older as you
go to the back of the lot. Sometimes. Um, and
while we're reminiscing, I'll just say that I used to
remember seeing junkyards. I mean not everywhere, but they were
more common. You drive on the country roads and you
would see junkyards, you know, here and there. Uh And nowadays,

(03:14):
at least down south, they're overgrown cud zoo. Now you
don't really see them. And the junkyards seem to be
more and they're organized businesses more so than they are
just um, a bunch of cars out in the field
somewhere next to someone's house. You make a very good
point here, So you're you're talking about, you know, the
old um almost kind of started not by accident, but
almost by accident. You know, they had a towing probably

(03:35):
business or something and started to store cars and uh,
you know, then decided well, I'm gonna start selling some
parts from those cars that I picked up. And you know,
they kind of they evolved that way. So they become
a small time junkyard salvage yard dealer, or they intended that,
and they you know, have a few acres of property
and they want to become that. But it does require
some maintenance. It requires bringing in new vehicles, occasionally getting

(03:57):
rid of the old vehicles sometimes when they're pretty much
picked over, you know, to the point where it's just
a big hunk of metal that no one could really use,
rusted or or bent or you know, damage beyond repair.
So there's some maintenance even with a small lot that's required.
But we're talking about today, I think in general we'll
go back and forth a little bit, but we're talking
about the ones that are the big ones where there's

(04:19):
an inventory list online and there are auctions that are
held on the site and they host specials. They charge
admission to go in because they don't want people just
going in, because there's ways that people can go in
there and actually make not a living, but they can
make a decent profit for the day, I guess, um,
especially if you know when they get the new cars in,
because they have they rotate the cars a little more

(04:39):
frequently than they used to years ago. Oh sure, Yeah,
so you know, I'm a big fan of the old
time junkyards as well, the kind you know that are
just kind of heaps of cars that are piled in there,
you know, kind of willy nilly, and you can walk
around and pick them, you know, pick out parts or
you know, look at whatever you want. And a long,
long time ago, you know, when I was walking through
some of these, you know, I remember being out in

(05:00):
the middle of winter and the snow, trying to uncover
some things, and you know, there's an old sixty seven
Mustang and uh, you know, nearby you might find the
Mustang emblem from it, and you know, you could either
purchase that, or if you were on the other side
of things, you could maybe pocket that and walk out.
You know, I didn't really, I never stole any parts. Um,
I'll be honest with you, I didn't take anything. I've

(05:21):
been with people at at places that have done something
like that. I didn't think it was It just didn't
feel right to me to be able to do something
like that, UM, to nab a part that normally, you know,
this guy would have made a dollar off of or whatever.
I didn't feel right doing it. But a lot of
people are okay with doing that and then buying something bigger. Also,
you find a lot of parts walk out of junkyards,
but maybe some of the like some of the coolest

(05:43):
things I found. Of course, you know, you find old
vehicles that you're interested in, but maybe just kind of
passing fancy, you know, like you can look at it
and say, there's a fifty seven Chevy Body. I haven't
seen one of those in a long time. It's kind
of cool looking to see what's left and maybe check out.
They've got an old stereo in there, They've got the
old steering wheel. Maybe parts that both still might go
back and pick, but you know, are kind of worthwhile
looking at while you're there. I found an old car

(06:05):
in a Now I went to school high school in
southeastern Michigan, and I was traveling up in northern Michigan,
not the up but right at the northern tip of Michigan,
not the Upper Peninsula, bit the lower Peninsula. And my
friends and I were walking around this, uh, this lot
in the wintertime, and we came across I think it
was an old microbus, a VW microbus. Had a parking

(06:26):
sticker from our high school's parking lot from decades prayer,
so somebody, I don't know if they how whatever, you know,
there's there's gotta be a story to how it ended
up where it did. Have no idea how it ended
up where it did. But that same lot was one
where you know, you'd walk around and you'd find that
they've taken an old camper top from a pickup truck
maybe and put it on the ground and torn out

(06:47):
the windows and put in chicken wire and there were
chickens living in there, and you know, they have crazy
things like that laying around. You know that you were
you're wondering, like what is the story behind all this
junk that's here. You're like, who's who's who's the odd
ball care or that's operating this place? And that is
the thing that if you go and you talk to
the owners of these you know, before you walk around,
you'll find that a lot of times you're gonna come

(07:07):
across some real interesting characters, some people that have great
stories to tell if you want to listen to them,
or you know, maybe maybe they're not so nice, maybe
they're nice. Maybe. You know, everybody has their own demeanor,
and it's it's interesting to kind of figure out who
who knows what in the area, like who's who's an
expert on packards or corvets or maybe British sports cars

(07:28):
or you know who has uh you know, the uh
the market cornered on the import parts in this town,
you know, because that they're some of these bigger ones
have sections that are that are just strictly for imports,
and some that are just for Chrysler and some Ford
and some GM parts, and other lots you know, are
kind of all mixed up. You know, there's there's all
variety of things that you can find at these junkyards.

(07:49):
And I know that's over explaining all of this, you know,
does this long long lead into this whole thing. But
some of these these lots, especially the newer ones, have
an incredible amount of organization to them and and they're
really meticulous about how they have them laid out. Yeah,
they thrive on keeping their inventories somewhat fresh and organized
and um moderating it to a certain degree. Although as

(08:10):
I've found out, there's a lot of shenanigans that go
on the side of these places as well. Yeah, yeah,
you know, by uh wait, by the customers or by
the by the owners, by the customers the customer, but
I'm talking more about the people that go in there
and you know, rifle through the cars. Yeah, you know.
Um later you know, as as we get towards uh,
near the end of this, I would I would like

(08:30):
to share some uh I guess what I'll call junkyard
etiquette with you. If you don't mind a little valuable
for people to hear them, well, I think so too,
in case case you ever find yourself in a junkyard
and you you just don't know you know, which fork
goes on which side, where your your soup spoon goes,
that kind of thing, you know, right, But tell you
there's there's definitely junkyard etiquette. And people will call you
out on these some mistakes if you if you make them,

(08:52):
you know, some people get not angry, but um, I
have a little frustrated with your behavior if you're not
doing things in the way that a feel is the
proper way to do things, because there are regulars to
these There are people that go back and regularly pick parts.
You can make money by doing that if you know
what to look for. And that's another kind of interesting angle.
This whole thing is that you know, if you know
the valuable parts. Keep your eyes open because you might

(09:15):
just run across these at any point. You might be
going for a part that you specifically need and run
across something that you have kind of filed away in
your memory bank. Is like, oh, that's something that people
pay a lot of money for on eBay or on
Craigslist or wherever. How hard would it be to pull
that part out and sell it on eBay if you
have an account. I mean, it's it might be a
pretty good profit generator for you, even if it's just

(09:36):
a small time thing, you know, like you know, a
part here or there, It might pay for the part
that you're out there picking that day, which is a
fantastic thing to have happened. I mean, if you're able to,
you know, kind of make it a wash and get
what you need as well, it's it's all the better. Yeah.
I feel like every town has this group of people
though that go just for that. Yeah. So, I mean

(09:56):
finding these little gems and junkyards. This actually not as
easy as you would think. No, no, because there are
a lot of people that are out there on the
same hunt, exactly the same hunt, and you can find
all these places online and that's another I guess why
is that an advantage or disadvantage, Curt, I don't know,
because it's a disadvantage to you, I suppose, but it's

(10:16):
an advantage to anybody this will use it as that,
you know, to to kind of keep up on the
new arrivals, because that's another section on these websites. If
you go to anything any of these part sites that
I'll mention here, and I'm just gonna mention like three
or four to give an idea of the names that
they go by. It's you know, pull apart, or you
pull it, or you pull and pay, or you pull

(10:37):
and save. They come in all flavors of this you
pull and something where you know, you pull parts or
you pull whatever you pull crap, I don't know, whatever
you want to call it. But um, of course have
this stuff all categorized on their website and you can
search for your vehicle and they'll tell you, yeah, we've
got one vehicle that meets your criteria. It's within this
age range two thousand ten to two thousand and twelve

(10:58):
model year Honda, a Chord, or you know, whatever it
happens to be, and they can't tell you specifically exactly
what's on the vehicle. You have to go there and
really check that out for yourself. That's one of the downsides.
I guess it doesn't have every part listed, but that's
really impossible to keep up with, as we said, because
their parts leaving from that vehicle every single day, every
single hour. Probably find to guess on some of the

(11:20):
more popular models. So it pays to get in on
these things early. And I said that they have in
all these categories, they have tabs listed for brand new vehicles.
To the lot. They have vehicles that are I guess
you can call them going going gone. You know, they're
like the last minute before we actually just scrap this
metal because there's only a few parts left. A lot
of them will have use cars for sale, which is
kind of interesting. So cars that have a clean title

(11:43):
that you are able to buy and typically they're damage
but they are running and driving, not a salvage title,
nothing like that. You have to worry about it because
as I think we've we've said another shows if you're
gonna buy a salvage car, you know a flood car,
car that's been on a fire, or a car has
been damaged to the point where it can no longer
be driven safely according to the insurance company that did
the adjustment for it, that said, you know, this is

(12:04):
a total loss. If it has a salvage title, you
have to have a license in order to be able
to buy that vehicle, and that that varies by state.
If you search for your laws within your state, you'll
find that, you know, there are a lot of different
regulations and licenses that you have to apply for, and
different types of salvage licenses as well. Most often is
the case that we're UM, I went through a few

(12:24):
of these states and uh and checked out what it
would take to get a salvage license, uh, you know,
like Texas and here in Georgia and I think Wisconsin
and places like that, just kind of scattered all over
the US, and I found that, um, a lot of
them require you to have a piece of property that
is not your primary residence with a certain amount of
acreage with you know, you have to have a certain

(12:45):
amount of insurance as well, and it's just just really
complicated the requirements and fees, the qualifications that you have
to have. And there's of course the federal and state
laws that come into this as well, including some e
p A guidelines that you have to follow. Your property
and your treatment of that vehicle have to follow that,
so you know, the draining of fluids or the capture

(13:05):
of gases that might be in that vehicle, you know,
whether it's refrigerant or you know, whatever the case may be.
Uh So, the whole thing is really an interesting process
when you get right down to it. There's a there's
a lot involved with buying a salvage vehicle. So the
implication there is that you would be buying it to
put on in your own salvage yard. Correct, Yeah, Yeah,
you'd be buying a crash vehicle that you most likely
would have to you know, throw on a a flatbed

(13:29):
and bring it to your your property and just dump
it off in a lot wherever it goes because a
lot of them, as you said, we keep wandering away
from this, but there's so much organization now which is
really fascinating to me. And I don't know if you've
seen this or not. One of the places that I
used to go again in Michigan, and I think this
is common in a lot of junkyards of the past,
where they used to just be piles of cars. Then

(13:49):
they went to. We're going to kind of lay these
out like they're in a in a parking lot, and
of course doesn't matter if they're parked in so because
no one's moving these cars really, so you can park
them several deep and you know, make kind of a
grid work of them, and that's something that a lot
of places still do. And then there are other places
like the one that I used to go to now
that i've I've looked at photos online and they have
started to store vehicles on racks, so you know, there

(14:12):
might be three or four vehicles high, and if you
need one from up above, you have to get somebody
with a forklift come out and lower that vehicle down
to you and just see if you have the part
on there that you need or unless you can you know,
spot it from down on the ground. It becomes a
little bit more complicated. But the yard itself can stock
or can carry more vehicles, and you know, not at

(14:34):
the expense of having to pile them on top of
each other, which would damage panels, that would damage all
the windows in the vehicle, It would bend components that
otherwise would be useful. So this is a much better
way to do it. I think, and in the cataloging,
I mean, essentially, what we're talking about here, Kurt, is
that things have just been really cleaned up quite a bit.
It's not the dirty, old, musty location that you might

(14:56):
think it was in the pastor you know, like grease
soaked areas. It's still you still get your hands dirty,
and you still get dirty climbing underneath vehicles and pulling
stuff out, but they're a lot cleaner than they used
to be. Yeah, that's part of the recycle process for
the vehicles. They go through this life cycle out on
the road, and then for whatever reason, they end up

(15:17):
in a salvage yard and then um, eventually after they're done,
they're after they're picked over and they go on to
wherever cars go next. I guess scrap, Yeah, they become
soupcan somewhere right. Yeah, Eventually eventually that's long down the
road toasters and whatnot. They become the engine block for
the next vehicle. And there's big money to be made
in this too. I don't have any facts and figures

(15:37):
about what, you know, the average salvage heard owner makes
or anything like that. If you were to part out,
let's say your typical Toyoto camera. You're gonna find that
the Toyoto camera is worth many, many times the value
of what it is as a complete vehicle in parts.
So you know, you start piecing out those parts and
they're worth quite a bit of money each and it
and it amounts to as a total way more than

(15:59):
that cars were sitting on the curb. Here's the other
side of that. If that's your car, if you own
that camera and you suddenly realize like, oh crap, it's
got a lot of stuff wrong with it. You know,
transmissions gone, the engine's gone, and I mean gone, like
they don't operate anymore. But there, you take it somewhere
to sell it for scrap metal, or you sell it,
you know, to it to a salad yard. They're gonna
give you just a few dollars for it. I mean

(16:21):
you're gonna make fifty bucks on it or something like that.
It's a very low pay out for you. They make
a lot of money on the parts, and then they
take the hunk of metal to the recycling place which
then will melt it down and make even more money
off of that. But in the end they're only gonna
make a few cents on the pound for those vehicles
when they get rid of them. It's just a metal
weight thing. And have recently had some experience, you know,

(16:41):
with metal recycling yards, and we'll talk about that later maybe,
but it's an interesting business. It really is um to
see exactly what's going on there and and how once
you take something that you know takes up so much
space in your own your own home. You know, you've
got all this metal laying around, you know, hot water
heater and engine parts and you know, whatever the metal is,
and you're maybe a little bed frames something like that.

(17:02):
You take it to the scrap yard to get rid
of and it looks like it's just a you know,
a grain of sand on the beach. It's really nothing
because these lots are so big. But it's all very
fascinated to me. I I love the order and the
process of the whole thing. And and even though it
does look a little bit haphazard at times, and some
are run better than others, but for the most part,
they're very well organized and very efficient about what they do.

(17:23):
One thing that recently I've been thinking about, I need
a couple of uh I got I got road rash
on a couple of my wheels on the passengers side
or curb rash not road rash. That would be terrible,
especially in a car. I mean maybe if I own
a motorcycle that'd be more understandable, But no curb rash
on the on the rims. And I'm looking like, is
it worth it for me to put a lot of
time and effort into these things and clean them up

(17:45):
and sand them and paint them and try to make
the match and all that, Or do I want to
find a pull apart place and just find two rims
that are you know, very gently used because a lot
of people turn in cars that have been wrecked on
the other side, or you know what. Ever, and you
can get two rims pretty easy to match the ones
I've already got their factory rims for a relatively low price.
And if actually I've already found a couple that were

(18:07):
are very reasonably priced, I mean without tires. Of course,
they don't leave those on. But a lot of times
you'll find places if you want something like that, if
you want something that a lot of people go there for,
you know, whether it's maybe you know, spare tire for
your vehicle, they might pull all of those out and
put them on a rack inside. Or if you want
rims like I need, they're gonna put those on racks inside.
And they'll have sometimes hundreds of these rims to choose from,

(18:29):
so you know, some in varying degrees of conditions. So
you know, they might have a couple of knicks, or
some of them might look brand new. Gonna charge a
little more for him, but you know, still beats buying
one from the dealer or brand new from the factory.
So there's a lot of bargains and and really goodbyes
to be found there at as some of these these
pull apart places, I felt like I had to mention this,

(18:59):
and uh, you brought this up earlier we were talking
about the salvage ard and breaking bed. Well that's what
got me thinking about this topic, when Ben and I
were talking about the cars and breaking Bad and then Uh.
In that show anyway, the junkyard was a place where
the characters would conceal a lot of their activities. The
junkyard helped them do it. When they do they crush
the RV there, right. They also got the magnet they

(19:20):
used to destroy the computer's hard drive that was stored
in the police evidence room from the junkyard the electromagnet
with the car batteries. I remember that. Yeah, genius, genius
move Beta owner was the named Joe I think was
his name? Um okay so, and also he made an
appearance in the sequel or the Bonus, which was El
Camino right with with Jesse, and he was going to

(19:43):
be he was going to pick up the El Camino
and then the load. Oh well, I guess I should
say spoiler alert to a lot of people. Say that now,
but if you haven't seen El Camino turned off right now,
I feel like it's been enough time. If you haven't
seen it yet, you are not super interested, probably not
going to see it. Okay. So he's gonna come pick
up the El Camino that Jesse escapes in. And then

(20:03):
as he's looking over the vehicle to take it away
and do the same thing as he did with the RV,
he's quickly notified via this device that he has, you
know that that tells him that the LoJack systems have
been activated on it. So he he high tels it
out of there, and so that's that's all we see
of him at El Camino. But he was back again.
He was ready to do the deed that he did

(20:24):
for them earlier as well. He's gonna help him out, right,
So that was kind of interesting. But stuff like that
happens in real life, maybe to a different degree. It
doesn't take too long to do a search where you
can find. Uh, people have tried to cover up murders
in crushed vehicles. They would put a body in the vehicle,
crushed the vehicle, send the vehicle off, it's gone, and

(20:44):
they think that they're, you know, completely free and clear
of ever having any evidence on their hands, right, not
the case that they'll always catch it that show or
the crime took place and was concealed in a junkyard. Sure. Yeah,
so there's there's one example. I've got a couple others
that are recent, and I know that these have happened
in the past. And I'm you know, I'm not saying

(21:05):
that it hasn't happened where they've gotten a weight with it.
I'm sure it's happened that way as well, that you know,
um evaded evaded capture. But some of them go back
as as recent as two thousand eight. There was actually
and this is a different one, This isn't maybe something
I don't know. Not the same category maybe, But there
was an accident where customer was actually crushed in the juckyard,

(21:25):
which I would assume happens more often than you would think. Um,
not every day by anything. Bet it used to happen
quite often. I bet it did. When there were piles
of vehicles and people are trying to climb up to
see what's in that vehicle, you know, not waiting I
wanted to wait around for the crane or you know
whatever to bring it down to the ground level. I
would bet that happened a lot. In fact, this one
happened in Belleville, Illinois in two thousand eight or handa

(21:46):
cord fell on top of forty seven year old man
that was in the lot. Just kind of checking for parts.
Tragic story, I mean, of course. But another type of
thing we were talking about before is where there's actually
a murder that someone's trying to cover up. And this happened.
A double murder actually happened in two thousand sixteen, and
this was in Russellville, Arkansas. If you have any interest
in reading about this case, there's actually a follow up

(22:09):
on it. They caught the individual that was running the yard.
It was his deed, his his crime, and he was
trying to cover it up. But they did find the
They found two bodies in the car. It's two young
kids that he had shot and I don't know what
part of the deal went bad here, but he ended
up shooting and killing them. And his family, the victims
family has actually found the vehicles that they were crushed in.

(22:29):
Found and this is so awful, he says. So he's
letting them kind of walk around the yard and look
for him because this is the last place they were seeing.
So the families walking around looking for evidence of what happened.
They find, you know, some things they find, I don't know,
a cell phone and shoe whatever it was, find something.
But they find a vehicle where there's blood leaking out
of the trunk. And you would think that would be

(22:50):
a day ghibli, right, And the guy actually totally calm
with that the whole thing, and says, now you know
what that's uh, that's here. Here's the awful thing. He says,
he's a dog got in the car, accidentally crushed. It
happens all the time. Uh, that's that's just the way
it is. But he says, it happens all the time,
and I was thinking, how many like stray dogs in
the crushing in cars? That's awful. I don't know, Well,

(23:10):
you obviously wasn't telling the truth, no ilishing a little bit. Yeah,
he's just trying to you know, side with Yeah, exactly right.
But anyways, it's a it's a weird story. If you
go back to Russellville, Arkansas, you know, online, search Google, whatever,
you're gonna find this story from two thousand and sixteen,
with some updates later of you know what they actually
captured this guy and what he claimed and you know

(23:31):
what was happening there. Cash another couple of things I
want to mention, just briefly before we get to the editor,
are the kind of scaring me away from going to
a john you know whatever. I could have done a
much better job telling that story if I if I
had really worked on it. But it's probably best. Yeah
you didn't, Probably best we just breathed over Yeah, exactly right,
it's probably best. No no nightmares here in this not

(23:51):
in this series. How about something a little fun then?
How about that? I'm down this is fun and it
actually is kind of fun to watch this. This is
the one that you'll chocolate. And it's a short watch anyways,
but it's something you can find on YouTube. And I
believe I did mention this when Ben and I talked,
but you haven't seen this yet, so you might want
to check this out, and other listeners or new listeners
might want to do it. What's fun to watch is

(24:13):
when they have these events at these junkyards, and they
do sort of infrequently, but they will have you know,
you pay by normally you pay by the component or
by weight or however they deem that part valuable. Right.
In some cases, they will charge you a flat rate
for anything you can carry. Now, okay, we've all heard
of this, right, Like you put it stuff in a

(24:33):
bucket at a part store and everything in the bucket
is ten dollars. You know, whatever you can reasonably fit
in the bucket is ten dollars. This is, of course,
all you can carry at a junkyard. Takes on a
whole different meaning, right, So a lot of cases, oh,
they will, they'll promote these and they'll have, you know,
kind of a big set up where you have to
carry your parts. Usually it's like fifteen twenty maybe maybe

(24:55):
as far as ft through an area like it's coned off,
you know, like there's a start and finish line. Parts
can't touch the ground. You have to be really carrying
the parts. Yeah, you rule their rules to this, and
you can use You can use seat belts as straps.
You can make your own straps. You can use pipe
if you can find it, you know the section of
pipe that you want to use, or rope if you

(25:15):
want to use that to make kind of slings that
you can carry things. This is the craziest thing, Kurt.
If you watch you know these they're like five minute
videos usually, and the ones that I'm thinking of are
these guys would they would dig seat belts out of
other cars, right, so they dig out you know the
both you know the connection points, So that's an easy
strap to make, right. They would make a backpack out

(25:36):
of the front seat of let's say a van or
something like that maybe, so it's a bucket seat. They
put that on their back like a backpack, and then
have somebody load up the seat cushion as they lean forward,
so they can stack as much stuff on that as
they can as they go across. I saw a guy
carry a Volkswagon engine on his back a van seat
and a Volkswagon engine with a seat belt, uh, you know,

(25:58):
like seatbelt harness over his shoulders. Um. Sometimes they'll take
an axle, put it across their shoulders and use that
kind of like um, a yoke and carry carry a
full set of four tires with rims for trucks, like
big trucks. I mean, it looks like they're in a
like a strongman competition when they're walking. You like those
ridiculous competitions where they carry just enormous objects that you

(26:19):
would think they can't move. It works, And then you'll
get other people that are just carrying an impossible pile
of stuff. It looks like, um, I guess maybe a
big doctor SEUs pile of things. You know, like it
looks like it's it's kind of like curvy at the time.
It's not balanced at all really, and they're trying to
balance it and you know, going back and forth as
they carry it and use their chin to balance things.
It's it's hilarious to watch. Sometimes you think, oh man,

(26:42):
these you know they're gonna get a hernia doing this,
you know, because some of these loads are so heavy.
Other times people just they are happy to carry a
bumper across and get it for seventy five bucks and
they're fine. But for the most part, the funny ones,
the ones that you want to catch, are the ones
that are doing these impossible things, you know, the ones
that are you know again trying to to uh carry
and they carry an engine on their back. And these
these backpack things are are just so funny to look at.

(27:04):
You have to be on two feet or can you
be crawling or just kind of like, you know, shimming
across the ground, because I feel like you could stack
a bunch of stuff up on somebody, you like, have
them just kind of naked across the finish line. That's
a new strategy. I didn't see anybody that was was crawling.
I've only seen them carrying against Maybe maybe now I

(27:25):
will tell you this, you'll see people that. And I
watched this carefully. They will. They'll get a hood from
a vehicle so that is like as big as this
table that we're in front of here, right, and they'll
put it upside down and then they'll pile everything on
top of that and then they'll carry that. But as
they're carrying it, someone will have a cart underneath that
it's not touching you know that they're just like hovering above,

(27:46):
but just in case it falls, they don't want to,
you know, destroy everything, so you know, it'll fall a
couple of inches onto the cart. So it may it
look like they're cheating the system a little bit, but
really they're they're lifting that item and carrying it across
the line. So, um, it's kind of one of those
fascinating things to watch. I mean, it really will only
take you a couple of minutes, but it's worthwhile. I'll
check it out. You talking about junkyard etiquette. Now, let's

(28:16):
do it, all right, let's do it. So I found
a couple of the people that were talking about this
type of thing on YouTube, and those are the ones
I found interesting because you know, they can take you
out on the lot and show you exactly what they mean.
They've got examples of everything. And these are people that
are that frequent a lot. And in one case, I
think one of these guys actually works at the lot,
so he's got some of the best pro tips that
I've heard. There's one guy that, um, i'll mention here

(28:37):
he only had five quick tips and I'll be pretty
quick with this one. The next one is a little
bit longer, but we'll still buzz through it pretty quick.
But this first one is is five things to avoid
doing at a salvage yard. That's the title of the video.
And it's by guy who goes by Robert D. I Y.
And he's at the you Pull and Pay a Lot
And I don't know where the you Pull and Pay
a Lot is, but it's somewhere warm. It looks like
it might have been California. But he tells you what

(28:59):
you should and shouldn't do, actually what you shouldn't do,
mostly at a lot. And he has he's kind of
broken down into courtesy and safety. So he's got five
quick things here. And the first one is a courtesy thing,
and it's bring your own tools. That's pretty obvious, right,
You don't wanna have somebody borrowing your tools while you're there.
And he said that how many times? And he's he's

(29:20):
funny when you listen to this guy doing this, he's
he's kind of griping about a little bit. So he's saying,
you know, I'm working on whatever I've got. You know,
my uh, you know, rear end up in the air
and I got my head down into an engine bay
and someone taps me on the shoulder and wants to
borrow my socket, said, and he said, fine, but you
know then I've got to worry about not only remembering
that when I'm leaving, but I also have to maybe

(29:41):
track you down if you, you know, walk two or
three miles away. I don't know where you are, and
you might have taken off with it. I don't know. So, um,
bring your own tools. That's just a general courtesy to
other people on a lot. You don't want to make
nuisance of yourself. Uh. The next thing is, he says,
don't make a big mess. Keeping the walking past clean
after you're done is important. That's uh, that's safety and
courtesy as well as we'll find out. But um, I

(30:02):
think everybody knows generally that if you've got a clean
work area, that's generally a safer work area too. I mean,
you're not thank you. I feel like I'm like a
shop teacher up here, you know, like with a with
a whiteboard, like listen, kids, A clean work area as
a as a safe work are. The thing is is

(30:23):
people know this. They know these things. Well, you just
don't care treat it as if you you know, we're
in your own garage. I guess you know, you don't
want to stumble over all this crap in order to
get to the vehicle again the next time, and you
would clean up your work area. A lot of people,
you know, just find that very frustrating that some people
don't super frustrating the place, you know, leaving your grocery
cart in the middle of the road there the grocery

(30:43):
store exactly. Okay. Number three, don't destroy other parts to
get at your part. And this is a courtesy thing obviously,
just be considered for the next person, because whatever you
decide that you can just kind of tear through to
get to your part. You know, if you break things
or bend things or take them off sloppily, you know,
you pry things off instead of actually removing them, that
might be the part that someone is coming to get.
So um, you know, there's a common courtesy. If you're

(31:05):
gonna have to dig to get to something, preserve everything
that's in your way as well, and you know, leave
it off to the side for somebody else. You know,
once they once they get there, they will be much
happier with you if they find that you know, you
haven't you haven't destroyed the valve cover or whatever to
get to your you know, your springs or your lifters
or you know whatever. And also in a bigger picture
of this is if you look at the whole salvage

(31:27):
experience as being a way to make use of stuff
that's been discarded, being nice to the parts that you
don't need helps that process. Sure, So this is just
better for the whole system if you don't damage parts
that you don't need, and then you'll intend to use.
It allows the system that you're there to take advantage
of to continue, is what it does. Really. I mean,

(31:47):
it allows you to keep going because if they're not
if they're not going to make any profit on this stuff,
they're not going to do it anymore. And how frustrating
is that if you you know that, you know they've
got the vehicle that you want there, which is already
kind of a long shot. So you get there and
you find there, there's one right there, we do have
one a lot. They go to find it and the
part that you need is there, only it's damaged. And
now you're back at square one. You know where you

(32:08):
have to go and find that vehicle in that part
again somewhere else or wait for another one to show up,
so it just becomes a big frustration. The next one.
I guess this comes after you've you know, removed the
other parts. Don't scatter parts of other cars nearby. So
if you have to take off, you know, a tail
lens to get to a wiring harness or a clip
or whatever you need in the back end, take that

(32:30):
tail lamp and put it inside the trunk of the
vehicle or set it back in place on the bumper
so that people can see it. Don't throw it in
the truck bed of the car next to you, because
they'll never find it, and if they do, they might
not know what it's for. So they might see this
tail ends in that truck and think, well, there's a
chance that it's the one that goes to this. I'm
not sure really, you know, I mean, it's it could

(32:51):
be very confusing to somebody if you start scattering parts
or throwing them into the interior of another vehicle or
the engine bay of another vehicle. So but that's probably
a good thing to do. You if you are looking
for a part for a certain car and you don't
see it, just check the vehicle next to it. That's
just thinking that's a good tip. I think I think
that comes up on my next page here, but yeah,

(33:13):
you've probably been reading ahead and the last thing, and
I'll just mention this one quickly. I think this one
goes without saying, really, but don't break glass or windows.
I mean, there's no need to do that. And I've
seen plenty of photos and videos of you know, just
a bumper that's just tossed through a rear window for
no good reason. I mean, just something that you know,
somebody felt like doing or wanted to do out of frustration.

(33:34):
I don't know, I don't know why somebody would do that.
But um, again, this stacking of vehicles on racks is
saving a lot of glass now that was damaged earlier.
So that's something that's uh, that is a positive, all right.
So I think that was a pretty good list of
five there from Robert d. I Y on YouTube. So
the next one is about, of course, junkyard etiquette again

(33:54):
and this is from a YouTube user called Bleeping Jeep,
And of course this guy is focused on jeep parts.
So every thing here in this list, um, I've taken
out the jeep references I think to most of it,
but most of them were concerning how to get parts
out of a jeep really, but he had some great tips.
And this this guy had on a pull Apart. Pull
Apart shirt from here in Atlanta, So I don't have

(34:15):
any know his local to us, you know, where we
record the show, but I don't know in particular if
he works there. It just happens to be a huge
fan of pull Apart, or maybe they were allowing him
to film there so that's why he was wearing the shirt,
you know, a little promotion or something. But anyways, all
that aside, he had some great tips I thought for
for what you should and shouldn't do on a lot.
And the first one, actually what you should do really

(34:37):
is hell, this is a good tip. Remove your part
ahead of time, so you know the tools that you'll
need when you get there, and you'll also know if
you need additional parts, So take off that. I think
he used a um washer fluid bottle in the car
at home that he had and he said, okay, I'm
taking this off at home, so I know I need
an eight millimeter socket, and I need these crimpers and
I need you know, whatever it was. He had a

(34:58):
bunch of tools that he needed, and he also knew
that there's a risk in damaging this connector when I
pull it off. Here it's a Christmas tree connector that
gets damaged when I remove it, So I'll probably need
to look for one of those as well. And it
allows you to get every single thing you need rather
than get home and realize you need just that one
other part that you did see there and have to
go back and get it again. Then you end up

(35:18):
breaking a clip or something you can't kind of know
to look out for that as well, or exactly pick
that up when you're there. Yeah, exactly any hardware or
anything like that that you might also want to look for. Definitely,
that's the time to do it is before you even
go to the lot. The next thing is that, um,
when you get to the lot and you've brought your
own tools, of course, wait to take all of your
tools onto the yard until you check it out, until

(35:39):
you go out there and make sure that you know
the part that you want is on that vehicle, because
a lot of people will bring out a full toolbox
and they'll bring out a lot of you know, maybe
a jack and you know, everything that's really heavy out
there into the lot. And if you can save yourself
the the effort of walking all the way out there
with that, you know, maybe sloshing through the mud or
grease or whatever, and uh and getting into the vehicle

(35:59):
and finding that you know, somebody would either damage the
part or it's missing or whatever. Uh, just saves your
back in some cases, you know. So when you're taking
out a piece from a car apart from a car,
just always bring the hardware, the nuts, bolts, washers or
whatever with you. Um, it just makes sense, I mean,
just in case, because if you haven't done the step
that I told you about first where you take the

(36:20):
part off you, if you've neglected that, maybe you'll need
it anyway, just make sure that you have the extra
hardware with you. The next one, Oh, this is a
clever one. If you want to kind of reduce the
tools in your toolbox, you can always look around for
a piece of pipe to use as a breaker bar.
So let's say you have to go yeah, yeah, so
you got a socket and you need some more of
leverage to get the spare tire off the back of

(36:42):
a jeep. What do you know, so you know that
that rear mounted wheel he was trying to use a
socket and um didn't have enough leverage, but he wouldn't
got a piece of tailpipe from another vehicle that was
laying right next door, you know or next door lucky, Yeah,
right nearby. I grabbed the tailpipe and uh and use
that as kind of a great big break your bar
and it work perfect, So didn't have to carry it
in his toolbox and it was just there unavailable. Plus

(37:04):
you know, you find you need stuff like that, you
have to kind of you know, improvise on the fly,
and that's always smart to do as well. Um, this
is a good one too if you forget to bring
your PV blaster or you're penetrating and I, which a
lot of people take with them in their tool kit.
That's a smart thing to bring, is you know, because
you know these cars are out in the elements and
who knows how old they are. Probably the parts a
lot of parts have never been removed, so bring some

(37:26):
kind of you know, penetrating oil to get those parts
out easier. You can always use brake fluid from any
available car that's on the lot as that, so you
might dip your wrench into it or a stick or
whatever you've got nearby. And kind of drip a few
drops onto that nut or bolt or whatever is you
know you're trying to break free. Break fluid works really
well as penetrating well in a pinch. I mean, it's
better to use the stuff that's formulated for it. But again,

(37:47):
you can find you know, break fluid, and just about
any reservoir on the lot, you'll find at least a
few drops you can get out of there if they're
not you know, completely full. I thought that was a
good tip. Um carpets and floorboards can be used as
like section mats if you're gonna get underneath the vehicles,
because most of these places are on gravel, or there's
a puddle underneath, or there's um you know, maybe you

(38:08):
just rained, maybe as a dirt lot, and it's all muddy,
and I know you're already sloppy. You're at the junkyard anyway,
But you know, why make it worse? Why why make
yourself miserable? You know, if you don't want to lay
down in the mud and get underneath the car, take
a you know, a mat from the back end of
an suv or you know, maybe a bedliner from a
truck or whatever. Use that as a mat to lay on.
Just be smart about it and you can sometimes, you know,

(38:31):
maybe save your back. You know, you won't get all
those cuts and nicks and bruises on you um or
glass in some case. Right. Oh, here's the other one. Okay,
this is what you were talking about. Check surrounding vehicles
for your missing parts. If you get there and the
part that you're looking for is missing, but it looks
like somebody had removed it to get to their part,
look inside the vehicles that are nearby and the immediate

(38:52):
nearby vicinity. Because even if they left it out in
the aisle way, maybe when someone came around to clean
up the lot, because they do send people around from
the facility to clean up the aisle ways for safety.
They don't know which vehicle it goes in. It could
be either going to you know, this one over here
on my left or on the right. They might make
the mistake of throwing it in the wrong vehicle. So
check that other vehicle. As you said, Kurt, Okay, here's

(39:13):
another one. Okay, this is a good one and so simple.
Always return your tools to the toolbox. So many people
go there and they end up losing a good number
of tools, and we all do this in our own garage.
I know, and I'm careful about this. I have been
for a long time. When I'm working on something down
in the engine bay, I will I will often set
tools you know here and there on the like on

(39:35):
the rails of the frame, up by the fenders, or
you know, wherever it's nearby that you know I can.
I think I'm going to remember them right and set
them on top of the air box or you know whatever.
I don't know how many times I shut the hood
and then realize how I left my screw driver in there.
I've left my or it's in a you know, the
hood is allowed to shut, it's not going to damage it,
but you know it's in a critical spot, or you know,
it fall off. A lot of people will do that

(39:56):
at the junkyard and then leave and then of course
you gotta pay your admission to get back into in
that tool, and oftentimes you just forget it, just leave it,
or the next person that comes by will pick it
up anyway. So a lot of lost tools at the
at the junk are But if you just think about
that rule, like once you're done with that screw driver,
put it in your wheelbarrow, your toolbox, whatever. Do it
every single time. Don't just leave them laying around like

(40:17):
you do at home, because you know the consequences are
a little more, a little more dire. You know, you're
you're automatically you're gonna lose that tool. Okay, we've already
talked about this a little bit. But keep your eyes
open for special gems as they like to call them.
You know, treasures that components that you might be able
to list on eBay or some other site you know
that are valuable to some people. Even if you're not
there for that part, you might be able to pick
up something that's valuable and worthwhile for you or for

(40:40):
somebody else rather that might turn a little profit for
you for that day. So not bad, not a bad idea. Um, Okay,
another good one too, Boy, these are all really good.
There are no full size batteries allowed on a lot.
Usually you're not allowed to carry in a car battery
with you, and that's for obvious reasons. You might hook
up components that you know would deploy airbag or you
know whatever. That's probably a safety and I think it's

(41:02):
a big safety issue, right There's probably other reasons as well.
I'm sure he could start fires and that kind of thing.
So what you can do though, and I didn't know
you can do this. You can use a cordless drill
battery with alligator clips to test component small components. You're
able to test the operation of windows. Let's say that
you're gonna buy a regulator for a door that you
you know you have damage. You hook that up to

(41:23):
the switch and you find out that, yeah, the window
does raise and lower as it's you know should or
you know, you could even check. I think he checked
a fuel injector by clipping these together and it made
a clicking noise, and it's that indicated that it was working.
Very clever ways to do this if you look up
how to do it ahead of time, don't just go
in there and expect to be able to figure it out.
One really cool thing that I saw him do on

(41:43):
another jeep. Imagine that it was a Grand Cherokee who's
he was talking about pulling an engine out of Grand
Cherokee and didn't know the condition. Of course it's got
a digital read out for the mileage, and was curious
about the possible condition of the engine. Uh mileage in particular.
So he tears it, takes out the dashboard, and hooks
up right to the back of it. He probes the

(42:03):
wires and figures out which one is, you know, positive
and negative, hooks it up and it gives it just
enough power to be able to show you the mileage.
You know, the odometer comes up. So this one I
think had a hundred and thirty thou miles. And he said, well,
that's relatively low miles for being here, and it looks
like it's in decent shape. I'll take a risk, you know,
I'll take the gamble in that one. Feel like getting
an engine from poll aparts this bad news. Yeah, but see,

(42:26):
some people are so crafty, so talented that they don't
even worry about that. They just throw through the back
of the pickup truck and I'm sure it's gonna work fine.
I wish I was more that way. I'm not that level.
The last one here that I'll leave you with is
find an old wiring harness and use it for spare wire.
Now not just use it as a wire. And you
can find any wearing harness you want. But here's the point,

(42:46):
and I never thought of it this way, you know,
they're all wrapped up usually typically anither electrical tape or
they've got you know, some type of sleeve on them.
But this is really clever because you know, you go
to the auto parts store and you want to buy wire,
you know, for whatever project and accessory you're gonna put on. Uh.
Typically they sell wire in a few different colors. You know,
they've got maybe three or four different colors and that's
about it, you know, and then their basic color solid

(43:07):
colors typically. So you look at a wiring harness though
it's got every color in the rainbow practically, and lots
of it. So you might find fifteen feet or thirty
feet of wire that you know has a color that
you need, and and overall this whole thing might have,
you know, three hundred feet of wire complete in it.
So you try to figure out, you know, then what
that wire is worth per foot. And it's definitely worthwhile

(43:28):
to buy this wiring harness for twenty bucks or whatever
they're gonna charge you for as long as you just
as long as you have an intended use for it.
But you've got every color you might need, and you
can closely match the one that you have without any confusion.
So you know, even if you do have to splice
in a different color or different you know what, a
different lead, you'll be able to keep them all separate.
You know that you don't have a situation where you've got,
you know, three red wires going to something and have

(43:50):
to figure out which is which. You know, once you
get to the other end without a little tab of
tape that has a number written on it, you know,
it's a lot easier that way. So's some really clever ideas.
There's a there's a lot of junkyard etiquette, a lot
of junkyard videos. Man, I've been talking like a mile
a minute over here. Any junk card is really exciting, Well,
they kind of do. They used to excite me a
lot more. And I'll admit I haven't been to one

(44:11):
in a long long time, and I kind of got,
you know, the taste for I want to go again
because there's a couple of things I need from my car.
I kind of am excited about, you know, seeing the
way they've evolved, the way they've developed. I went with
my last car, I went towards the end of its
life to try to find some parts. Unsuccessful, I didn't
find it but I think, you know, I'd like to
give it another shot. You see, if I can find

(44:33):
some of those odds and ends, you know, maybe a
part that's cracked or worn on my car that you know,
I'd like to replace, and just see what I can find.
It's always fascinating because it's like it is, it's a
bit like a treasure hunt, and you're so excited when
you find the little part that you need and it's
only a couple of bucks versus having to go to
the dealer order the brand new part wait a few days.
Not only you know the price the whole thing, but

(44:53):
there's also you know, the satisfaction, A little bit of
a rush people get from this, Yeah, a little bit.
I think one cold John yard you ought to check out.
It's not a card johnk yard though. That's in Bangladesh.
And I gotta dance around this word and make sure
I pronounced the city correct with us and Chittagong, Bangladesh.
I'm not even gonna try that. Yeah, I think I
got it right. And uh, it's a ship graveyard. It

(45:17):
started out in nineteen sixty after a storm disabled a
Greek ship there, and five years later Chittagong Steelhouse bought
the ship, scrapped it, and then the industry began and
it turned into this massive just dump of ships and
ship parts. And what kind of ships are we talking about?
Were talking about gigantic frishan bearing Freighter's no kidding. There

(45:41):
are no regulator There were no regulations here, and I
think there's still fairly lax on the regulations. So as
you can imagine, it's pretty sludgy and just disgusting. And
there's um kids and young adults out there working as scrappers.
They're just cutting metal off, cutting with torches and they're
probably like standing in puddles of oil or whatever. Holy cow,

(46:04):
that's crazy. Okay, I'm gonna try it. Okay, Chittagong, Chittagong.
And boy, you gotta really be really careful when you
say ship right after that. Right, Yeah, it could be
quite a quite a mistake. Uh, we'd have to pay
for if we had to had to. But um oh
that is so cool. I'm going to do that immediately
after this because I probably the oil leaking out into

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the ocean. That's terrible. That's just terrible, but but interesting
to look at, I'll tell you that. And you know,
if it was nearby, that'd be a nice uh day
excursion to go over and check something like that out,
because where else in the world are you gonna find
that the site? And of course I wouldn't think that
this type of thing will be around forever. Due to
the environmental impact, I'm sure the ship graveyard will eventually

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be no more. Well, there's there's airplane graveyards of course
out west and the southwest here in the United States,
and those are much more organized. Yeah, definitely they are.
And uh and but they're really cool to look at
as well. I mean, they're fascinating to see. Um, I wonder,
you know, I've never heard this. Does NASA have any
kind of graveyard like this where they uh store some

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of their old you know, space junk that they've recovered
or I believe that they are playing graveyards. There are
some space shuttles there really, but I'm sure they have
a bunch of other stuff, you know, like rocket Well
you know what, sometimes you'll be in a smaller town
and I'm trying to think of where this was in particular.
I went past one recently that you know, they have
a space museum. Maybe there's an a story behind it.

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There might be an astronaut that comes from the town
or something, and they'll have you know, like I'm gonna
make this up. I don't know if this is one
or not, but a saturn five rockets standing on end,
you know, with the advertisement for the museum, you know,
just three miles down the road this way, you know,
on the main highway. They have stuff like that all
over the place. So I know that you know, these
things are available. I just wonder how they get to them,

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you know, like where how do you access that? How
do you, you know, get the permission to bring something
like that to your small town and use it? And
and is that something that you could do, you know,
as a as a private citizen, as an individual, could
you go and take something like that money? I guess.
I mean you gotta have enough property for something like
that too. I don't think the neighbors would be too happy.
You know, you got a great big Soviet Ara missile

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on your property. You know, I might look a little
bit intimidating, you know, you might be trying to make
a statement. Yeah this is kind of on subject, but
not really. And I don't know if you remember this
or if you were living down here at the time.
But there was an airplane I think it was in Byron,
Georgia off the interstate, and it was a restaurant keep
kind of neat big jet. It was a d C

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seven or something. Well, it was an older airplane, a prop,
but it was okay, Well it's still been a big
commercial airline. Yeah, it was commercial back in the day.
That's cool. That's pretty cool, you know. I I know
I've seen service stations that have used that in the past.
I don't remember exactly where. I want to say, it
was like a gosh, I'm gonna mess this up, but

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I think it was like an old Sinclair station or something.
It was, you know, a brand that we don't necessarily
have around here anymore, or even I don't know Sinclair
even exists anymore. I'm not sure. The bean Dinosaur, yeah exactly,
I haven't seen I've seen advertising, and you know, people
talk about it still, you know, because they're you know,
the people that collect that type of thing, um, you know,
the petrol people. But um, yeah, I mean, I know

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I've seen airplanes used as things like that. But again,
it's fascinating to think of, you know, like this, the
second life for a lot of these things, or even
third life really, I mean, once you get down to it,
because cars that take parts from the you pull it site,
you pull it parts lot end up that back there again,
you know, a decade later, which is kind of an
interesting someone to pick again. Yeah, once once again, pick
it up right, all right? So you know what, I

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think we've pretty much extinguished this topic at least as
far as as this conversation goes. You know, we've got
other car stuff episodes that have talked about junkyards and
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(50:59):
guess that's about it for me, Kurt, how about you?
That's it for me? Anything else? All right? I guess
we will see you next time, and who knows, maybe
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