Speedway Auto Salvage, Madison IL (St. Louis area)

[fomocoguy]

Just made a trip to one of my favorite salvage yards and they had a pretty good pile of Rangers. There are just as many explorers that I didn't snap pictures of. Anyhow, just thought I'd share. I also stopped at 111 salvage just up the road and they had about 20 explorers and 10 or so Rangers.
http://s307.photobucket.com/user/fomocoguy/slideshow/junkyard photos

 

[Javarod]

Just made a trip to one of my favorite salvage yards and they had a pretty good pile of Rangers. There are just as many explorers that I didn't snap pictures of. Anyhow, just thought I'd share. I also stopped at 111 salvage just up the road and they had about 20 explorers and 10 or so Rangers.
http://s307.photobucket.com/user/fomocoguy/slideshow/junkyard photos

Link's no good, its set to private. That said, i'll have to remember that as i need a few parts for mine, doors, seats, center console and grill come to mind. I usually deal with 111, at least as far as selling my vehicles, but i'm open to others.

 

[fomocoguy]

I just changed it to public, if that doesn't work I'll have to mess with it when I can get to my computer

EDIT Pretty sure it's fixed

 

[fomocoguy]

Geez I'm out of practice on this stuff

 

[fomocoguy]

Link's no good, its set to private. That said, i'll have to remember that as i need a few parts for mine, doors, seats, center console and grill come to mind. I usually deal with 111, at least as far as selling my vehicles, but i'm open to others.

I had never been to 111; seems like a decent little yard that is well organized. They had a ton of explorers, but unfortunately few square Rangers.

My favorite yard is Fenton auto salvage out in House Springs, but I didn't have time to get out there this morning. It's huge and you can roam for hours looking at old iron.

 

[rtg143]

Also check www.car-part.com. That covers all the salvage yards in the US.

 

[Javarod]

I had never been to 111; seems like a decent little yard that is well organized. They had a ton of explorers, but unfortunately few square Rangers.

My favorite yard is Fenton auto salvage out in House Springs, but I didn't have time to get out there this morning. It's huge and you can roam for hours looking at old iron.

Nods, "111 must be doing good, they gave me $600 for a B250 i had that was worn out, more than anyone else offered. On my even more worn out Kia Sedona go $375 since the price of steel was down. Considering it'd gutted the interior, and it'd been hit something like a dozen times over the two years i'd run it (2 years and 80K miles), that was only $25 short of what i expected on the low end."

Hmmm, sounds like a trip to House Springs is in order as i plan to keep this one for a while, unless the bottom drops out on HHR pricing (we have a Cobalt, alright car, plenty good enough for my needs, though it'd be better with a 5 speed).

 

[fomocoguy]

Also check www.car-part.com. That covers all the salvage yards in the US.

I've used that site many times. it's a great resource.

That being said, it takes all the fun out of it for me. When I go yard hoppin it's just as much about getting out of the house, walking the yards, and checking out all the cool old junk that's been left behind as it is about finding parts. Plus what I consider the best yards around here don't really inventory or even utilize the net. If you call Speedway, for example, they say "we might have that. You'll have to come look."

 

[fomocoguy]

Nods, "111 must be doing good, they gave me $600 for a B250 i had that was worn out, more than anyone else offered. On my even more worn out Kia Sedona go $375 since the price of steel was down. Considering it'd gutted the interior, and it'd been hit something like a dozen times over the two years i'd run it (2 years and 80K miles), that was only $25 short of what i expected on the low end."

Hmmm, sounds like a trip to House Springs is in order as i plan to keep this one for a while, unless the bottom drops out on HHR pricing (we have a Cobalt, alright car, plenty good enough for my needs, though it'd be better with a 5 speed).

We just bought a 2011 HHR 2LT back in January. White, fully loaded with 50k miles for $11,000. We love it.

There's a black one with the 2.4L that's usually in the 2LT and a STICK at Olympic motors right now. If my super duty was paid off I'd be taking a serious look at it.

 

[97RangerXLT]

It is pretty neat to go through the Pull A Part here in Indianapolis. cool to poke around in the old cars, and kind of sad to see some of them in the yard.

I have quite a few pictures of cars that were put in the yard, some just for nostalgia, some for "hey that is neat looking" and some for "wtf? how did that happen and did the driver survive it!"

AJ