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There are some vehicles that I know will get picked clean within days of showing up in a self-serve wrecking yard. For example, the Toyota Land Cruiser— say, this ’71 or even this ’85. Sixth-gen Honda Civics go the same way. But this 1996 Mitsubishi 3000GT? Apparently, the hunger for 3000GT/Stealth parts is high in the Denver area.
The instrument cluster had already been grabbed when I first saw this car in September, but otherwise the interior was fairly complete. A month later, not much remains.
Suspension, engine, bumper— all gone.
Even the very 1990s plastic cladding panels will live on in some other GTO.
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I had a Stealth, 91, manual. I can see where owners would be in need of parts. Mine needed a transmission when I got rid of it. The engines are also a bit suspect. The oil pump is a regular maintenance item. Hard to get good oil pressure even with 20w-50 on a cold day in Michigan. It was a fun car, though. I’d do it again.
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I know some won’t care, but it would be interesting to see that 2004 Sunfire in a month. It had a lot of good parts and is ‘newest’ model for the yard, to see if it gets picked clean.
It’s likely to be grabbed by a repair shop if that yard deals with them (I’m honestly unfamiliar with public yards and repair shops). It’s at the edge of repairing but with a shortage of body parts I could see it being picked over. I wouldn’t be against a restoration of one of the convertibles of that model.
I love how the fenders are peeled back.
In past year or so, most 93-02 Corollas and 92-00 Civics I see are picked bare. And are usually wrecks, instead of ‘give-ups’.
Local yard had a ’96 Infiniti I30 for sale and saw it on the street a week later. These and same body Maximas are also ‘turkey bones’ after set in parts yards.
G20’s as well since they are hot with the tuner set and use some of the same components as the early 90’s Sentra SE-R.
This is a prime example of the need for Junkyard Finds needing to go to ‘yards ‘off the beaten path’…
In Utah where I live the Subaru Outbacks are the ones picked clean- it’s rare to find a late ’90s Outback with an EJ25 after a few days with the engine still in place, even if there’s no way to tell whether the head gaskets are good. Curiously, I see a lot of standard Legacys go to the crusher with their EJ22 engines in place, even though it’s a much more robust engine and a super easy swap for a faulty EJ25.
Post-2000 Outbacks are rare as hens’ teeth and usually go to the crusher as bare skeletons.
The G20s in the self-serve yards I go to are usually pretty intact when they go to the crushers.