Phoenix for Christmas

[newtonhubcap]

I will be traveling to Phoenix for Christmas. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a reliable salvage yard in the Mesa/Phoenix area that has a fair selection of early z cars? Thanks in advance!

[Duffman]

Picked clean, rare to find any Zs, much less early ones. Have a good visit!

[hr369]

Look on Craigslist and hook up with people on the boards that live

In pix. When I lived in pix I sometimes would find them at the. Pick and pull. Those fools crushed

A beautiful rust free straight 73. I tried the best I could to strip it. Lots of new parts. It was someone's

Restoration that ran out of steam or money. I had better luck at the Vegas pick n pulls. Stop there if you're passin thru

[newtonhubcap]

Got to admit that was what I expected, I greatly appreciate everyone's input. Will start looking on CL.

[az240z]

As Duffman said the pick n pulls rarely have any. checking cl will be your best bet or you could email me at az240z@hotmail.com with what your needing. Shameless plug

[26th-Z]

Ohhh...nothing shameless about the plug really. I was just surfing through the site and the initial question made me smile. "!Dude!" You're about five or six years behind the curve! The days of junking for early Z parts are long gone. Junking for early, early parts that I would find valuable exist only in memory now. But I DO have some good junking stories! Jim Frederick and I came back from the national convention in Long Beach in 2004 with a great cache of parts. Can you imagine what the airlines would think of 2 suitcases full of car parts today!?! I recall junking with Jim in upstate New York at the Syrcuse convention. Not much luck, but the event that afternoon would challenge a Three Stooges movie. Saw a really robust, intact early 911 but little else that interested me. Then, I struck gold at the San Antonio convention in 2009. MikeB and I had a salvage fest, gourging ourselves on an early '70. I came home with original vented hat brake rotors. Junking today is rarely any luck for anything in my corner of the Z world. Best of luck, though. Just the gentle act of loitering in a salvage yard is always good for the soul.

[hls30.com]

My luck has been similar to Chris's The days of "Holly sh!t My wife is going to be pissed-how in the hell am I going to get all of this home" side trips seem to be gone...now my few and far between scores are coming from non Z people(still car people) who know I am seriously into 240Zs...they go places I wouldn't and see things I never would, and that "means they are in the last of the Z virgin territory-got my last low vin that way-I loaned a buddy my trailer to head to VA to pick up his latest ebay-won pile of rolling Mopar parts, when he got up there what he paid for was not even close to what he bought...after a visit from the local sheriff, he got his money back, but he happened to look around and see a rusty Z in a lookyloo neighbors yard! After a short conversations with Mr Lookyloo, my buddy called me, told me what just happened, chuckled, and said, "I think I came all the way up here to get you the rusty-rolling parts bin." An hour and a couple of pictures later I had a 1/70 Z heading to my house!

It was way to rusty to keep the unibody-I don't know how they got it on the trailer in one piece-but it was 99% original(appliance wire wheels-and a broken antenna) and other than rust holes everywhere, complete and un-modified and damn near everything that was attatched to it is now in boxes-I even cut out some of the low vin specific stamped sheet metal(the rear deck, etc...).

As bad as the rolling box looked, it had protected the parts very well-everything was in very good to great shape!

Can't find a picture at the moment...When I first met this guy he would never got caught looking at a Z twice!

Other than that The last great pull I had was with Z bane, and he did the locating! We ran out of time before getting everything, but we had a good afternoon of 280ZX parts pulling in the weeds of a used car lot!

I gotta agree an afternoon in a new to you salvage yard is good therapy-doesn't matter if you are feverishly pulling parts because there are so many and you have so little time, or you are really having to hunt for anything...ok, it matters, but not too much!

Edited December 6, 2012 by hls30.com

[newtonhubcap]

Actually, I feel I am 20 yrs behind the picking scene. Last summer I was able to line up two 71 240 down in TX. Not in any real hurry but looking for shift knobs for now. The PO I bought both cars provided a lot of new OEM parts to rebuild one car as a restore and the other car will be a daily driver. Guess if I can find parts I just hope they will fit in my bag.