Had to go with my friend Andy who is also a CAC and a fellow vette club member to dig up a part for his car we needed to complete his carpet replacement project i'm helping him with.
The only place we were able to find the part which was only used for two years was at a Corvette only salvage yard about an hour away from us in Bristol, PA.
http://www.contemporarycorvette.com/
Neat place to go!! They don't normally let people walk around the yard unattended but he knew we were looking for a hard to find part and I guess we looked trustworthy enough that he let us wonder around the entire yard ourselves.
They have anywhere from 400-500 wrecked and salvage vettes there. In one aspect it was cool seeing all these cars and all the assorted parts you could get off any of them but at the same time it was very sad seeing almost 500 vettes with obsolutely no chance of a future life - these are nothing more than a carcass for parts pickings and when all the useable parts are taken off they are dragged to the crusher.
One of the saddest sights was a '71 chrome bumper C3 BB car with the motor still in her but most of the body destroyed and the interior all gone and the frame all rusted thru.
the worst ones were the newer cars where you could see one or both airbags deployed and big cracks on the windshield where someones head impacted........
It made for a fun "shopping trip". This place will allow vette clubs to come in as a group and "tour" the yard so we are probably going to see if we can arrange just that for our club in the springtime. No charge for the club tours and if we give the place a couple days notice how many people we will be they will even give us complimentary coffee and donuts in the morning.
the unforunate thing is that while they had a couple early chrome bumper C3's, the rest of their salvage inventory and cars are from '74 and newer. Not a single C1 or C2 there at all.
The guy in charge said they just can't buy the older cars anymore becuase there aren't any available. As we all know, if a C1, C2, or early C3 has even the slightest potential to be restored or rebuilt that's what being done to them. If the car is that far gone and useless than all the good parts have already been sold and parted out so they just can't get the older cars anymore.
Even though there were no C1's or C2's there it was still a really neat place to visit to see the final resting ground for hundreds of vettes.
The only place we were able to find the part which was only used for two years was at a Corvette only salvage yard about an hour away from us in Bristol, PA.
http://www.contemporarycorvette.com/
Neat place to go!! They don't normally let people walk around the yard unattended but he knew we were looking for a hard to find part and I guess we looked trustworthy enough that he let us wonder around the entire yard ourselves.
They have anywhere from 400-500 wrecked and salvage vettes there. In one aspect it was cool seeing all these cars and all the assorted parts you could get off any of them but at the same time it was very sad seeing almost 500 vettes with obsolutely no chance of a future life - these are nothing more than a carcass for parts pickings and when all the useable parts are taken off they are dragged to the crusher.
One of the saddest sights was a '71 chrome bumper C3 BB car with the motor still in her but most of the body destroyed and the interior all gone and the frame all rusted thru.
the worst ones were the newer cars where you could see one or both airbags deployed and big cracks on the windshield where someones head impacted........
It made for a fun "shopping trip". This place will allow vette clubs to come in as a group and "tour" the yard so we are probably going to see if we can arrange just that for our club in the springtime. No charge for the club tours and if we give the place a couple days notice how many people we will be they will even give us complimentary coffee and donuts in the morning.
the unforunate thing is that while they had a couple early chrome bumper C3's, the rest of their salvage inventory and cars are from '74 and newer. Not a single C1 or C2 there at all.
The guy in charge said they just can't buy the older cars anymore becuase there aren't any available. As we all know, if a C1, C2, or early C3 has even the slightest potential to be restored or rebuilt that's what being done to them. If the car is that far gone and useless than all the good parts have already been sold and parted out so they just can't get the older cars anymore.
Even though there were no C1's or C2's there it was still a really neat place to visit to see the final resting ground for hundreds of vettes.
