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Is now the golden era for 73-78

wazzabie

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I tend to find so many of the 73-78 k5s and trucks at the pick and pulls. Eventually these are going to dry up. These trucks can be had on the cheap. Is now the golden era? I hate to see an otherwise perfectly good truck body at a pick an pull get smashed. The 14bolts rears just sit there. I think the send them out for scrape also.
 
With scrap prices high, alot of really nice rust free 73-79 pickups and Blazers going to the shredders. I drive by a junk yard everyday and there are always cabs and front clips in the crush pile.
 
73-79 have all but disappear here in south texas in salvage yards and when do find them there is not a piece of useable sheet metal left. The reason most are used for farm work, oil field, or left dead in a field than mother nature reclaims it by turning it into a rust bucket.
 
Mother nature and road salt got most of them back this way a LONG time ago. Stuff from the 80's and 90's is rusty junk. The 70's are long gone or rustier junk barely holding together.
 
yup, haven't seen a full vert in this state in 20+ yrs....
 
Same here--bet its been 10+ years since I saw a 70's GM truck in a boneyard--at least one that wasn't just a hulk,stripped bare and rotted to death...the fact they weigh almost 3 tons sealed their fate once scrap prices went over 200 a ton here..

Now your lucky to see any 73-87 trucks or newer K5's and Burbs with the same square body style...they are becoming extinct---here anyway!...
It must be like living in a time warp,to see vehicles from the 70's still in junkyards that are salvageable out west..heck,I have not seen one air cooled VW Beetle other than at car shows and cruise nights for a good 10 years...and I miss the ones I had...
 
You guys need to visit Cali then, the yards are full of just about every year and model truck, blazer, burb you can think of. There is even a friend of mine here who started off buying/selling 67-72 trucks, 69-72 blazers exclusively and now even goes up to the 80's models. He even has new stuff as well.
 
When scrap prices went high 4 or so years ago all the yards in Northern Michigan scrapped everything that was older than the body style before the current model of a vehicle. So in our case they all went away. I needed a passenger side seatbelt for Big Ugly. Burgundy colored standard cab pickup passenger side seatbelt with mechanism...should be easy eh?

Took over a month and I ended up driving an hour to meet the guy who sold it to me and he had to drive two hours to get there.

I do miss Cali's yards. Twelve years ago I helped a guy remove a car 12 bolt out from under an early 60's Impala. The bolts spun apart with hand tools. Underside of the car was in great shape. Surface rust at worst.

Supposed to do some yard cruising here soon. My buddy wants to go out and we've both heard of a place an hour from here that supposedly has a bunch of old stuff. Out in the middle of nowhere. Like to see what we can come up with.
 
Some junkyards around here still have the older stuff and some just do newer vehicles. The yard by my house has a 1972 Blazer, the counter guy said it is pretty nice.

I rarely go to junkyards because Craigslist has better parts for half the price.
 
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