When an ordinary car— say, a ’94 Camry— shows up in a high-turnover self-service junkyard, most of its parts will still be present when it goes to the scrapper. However, when a seldom-seen-in-junkyards vehicle with an avid following— say, a ’71 Toyota Land Cruiser— appears on the yard, it gets eaten like a roadkill raccoon in vulture country. When I saw this complete and rust-free 1973 Datsun 240Z at my local self-serve yard a few weeks ago, I knew it hadn’t been exposed to parts shoppers for long. Sure enough, look at it now! (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1970s, 1973, 1973 Datsun 240Z, 240Z, Datsun, Datsun Z Car, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Nissan, Picked Clean, z-car
Toyota Land Cruisers don’t last long in self-service wrecking yards, as we saw with 
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