Saved from crusher.

[83GMCK2500]

I appreciate all GM trucks but I am a 73-87/91 kinda guy, which is where I hang out on this forum, if any of you wonder where the heck I came from... A month or so ago I was at a local wrecking yard and while they don't normally allow people to walk around I had a unique enough list of parts that they assigned me an escort and I browsed. Good thing too. I was scoping out an 85 or so cab that was on a frame (all that was left) and there was a super clean, straight, rust free, ochre (that mustard yellow color) '71/'72 Custom/20 Suburban sitting next to it. Stuffed with scrap. I looked at my escort and asked the dreaded question, "you crushing that?" "Yes, we just stuffed it full of scrap this morning." They had sold the engine, transmission, and hood. Still had good glass in it. Heck the glovebox wasn't even rotten, had a little water damage, still solid. It was pretty base model, had delete plates in the dash, was a small block, 4-speed, Eaton rear with locker/posi/whatever...that is all I remember from the glovebox sticker (yeah, still there too).

Anyway, about what I "saved". This:



Remember how I said the motor was sold? Yeah, whoever pulled it unscrewed/unbolted/unfastened everything CORRECTLY. The tach harness was uncut.



Here is the only pic I have of the Suburban.



I just wanted to let you all know that a tach cluster was saved from the crusher. I gave it to my friend for Christmas, he has a '67 to restore and a speed warning cluster without tach...the two will become one.

[Mister-B]

You're a nice friend. A factory tach cluster in good shape like that could easily sell for around $500, if you freshened it up a bit

[too much stuff]

Good save at a good price. I bet there were alot of good parts there yet.

[zeldman]

Man.... why do people throw away good vehicles? I hope your friend appreciates what you gave him. And thank you for saving what you could, your a good man.

[bigmac73]

man i would have grabbed the power brake set up...

[Bluechevy68]

From the pic I don't see any rust. Too bad someone needing these parts was not there. It is sad to think that many trucks in this shape are probably crushed everyday.

[no moa]

Sad. Thank you for saving the dash though, your a good person!

[mgkgmc]

Those fenders were in great shape to bad no one saves these trucks. Great find.

[67ChevyRedneck]

That sucks! Would have made a good crew cab truck.

[haminator]

An Eaton posi too? cha ching!

[Bgrdmoose]

Have you been back?
Are you sure it's been crushed?
Man I could use the fenders.

[special-K]

That's a picture of a $150 fender. I thought the main principle of business is making money

Times were,a scrap yard bought and sold scrap and a junk yard sold parts,then sold scrap once parts were exhausted. Now they can't wait to crush long enough to pull valuable parts that would make them more than the scrap and still have most of the scrap weight on the vehicle.

[73737373]

Sadly, we can't save all of them. I hate to see it happen.