Yesterdays JY finds

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Did not do a lot of junk yarding this week. My son and I managed to get down to Montgomery AL yesterday afternoon. Hardly a Mopar parts bonanza, but we did pick up a few nice parts. A pair of power seat tracks out of a C body, hideaway headlight motor, 2 hideaway headlight relays and a 71 Charger bumper jack. Also picked up a manual steering box.

The prize of the group is definitely the 71 jack. I`ll be throwing it off to the side with my growing cache of odds and ends that I need to media blast and paint. The jack main shaft is a bit rusty but it all should clean up nicely. I worked on the power seat tracks at work today and got them both working. Many times they are stuck from not being operated
for years.

[Jer]

The Junkyard Dawg Rides Again!!

Nice score, Dawg.....how many hidden headlight grille motors do
you have now, Tom?....10?....20.....25?

Are we talking another Fetish here? (I know you're already in
therapy for the seat assemblies: 6 way, power, manual...and all
the rest of them!)

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Jer, surprisingly I do not have an obsessive collection of the hideaway headlight motors. I actually need two good ones for my own cars.
Whether good or bad, I usually sell them off pretty quick. I consider them as relatively easily replaced. Ditto on the power seat tracks. The only thing that I might possibly keep for myself out of yesterdays pick ups is the 71 jack.

[Jer]

Good choice on the jack, Tom.

Vendors are committing Highway Robbery for those things on
Ebay....

The prices for the "slot-fitting" ones like my 72 are just as high.

Jer.

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Feb 25, 2008 20:51:35 GMT -5 Jer said:

Vendors are committing Highway Robbery for those things on
Ebay....
The prices for the "slot-fitting" ones like my 72 are just as high.
Jer.

Hmmm.. who to blame? uninformed buyers often pay too much for easy to find jacks. Starting in 72 most if not all models used the same jack for a slotted bumper. No reason to pay more than $30 or so for one of those. The earlier jacks, like this 71 jack are more rare/hard to find since the hooks
are model specific. Those have come down some in the last couple years though, as some of the hooks are being reproduced.

[Jer]

Feb 25, 2008 21:06:28 GMT -5 @tom said:

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...Hmmm.. who to blame? uninformed buyers often pay too much for easy to find jacks...

Maybe they have a jack fetish, Tom!

I know that--as a buyer--I am guilty of single-handedly driving up the prices of
SE taillight bezels, chrome seat buttons, and SE Brougham Door Pulls!! ;D

Not to mention 1988 Pace Arrow 34 ft Motorhomes!!

[brock]

Got me eye on a pair of door pulls now - for research purposes. I probably have 5 headlight
door motors - some are small wheel, some large. All were built after my 70 so my search for
the correct datecode continues. Yes, I confess, I'm a headlight door motor fetisher

Yet again nice scores there Tom Will the C Body seat tracks adapt to anything else - like
say a 72 Charger in Central CA, OK & NC?

[DynoDave]

Nice work Tom!!

[71gtx]

do have the part number from that 71 jack

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Feb 25, 2008 19:25:19 GMT -5 Jer said:

The Junkyard Dawg Rides Again!!

Are we talking another Fetish here? (I know you're already in
therapy for the seat assemblies: 6 way, power, manual...and all
the rest of them!)

Hey Jer.....does this stack of power seat tracks look like a fetish to you?
My darn shoulders are sore from crawling under cars and removing 5 of them today.