datsun-roadsters
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Parts destroyed (was Re: Junk letters)

To: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: Parts destroyed (was Re: Junk letters)
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:00:50 -0500
Those NOS speedos on Ebay a few weeks ago were retrieved from the garbage
after a Nissan Distribution facility decided to throw them out!!!!!!! A guy
who worked there took them from the garbage and gave them to the guy who
sold them before he moved . . . for free!!!!

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>
To: "datsun" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: Parts destroyed (was Re: Junk letters)


> A few years back, a friend of the family worked at a Nissan only local
> wrecking yard.  They were having trouble selling parts from Roadsters
> (they were asking a lot, too) and found that most parts on their junked
> cars were, well, junk.  He bragged to me that they had them all crushed
> and wouldn't get any more of them.  I don't buy anything from them
> anymore.
>
> P.S.:  On the pictures of that Roadster being crushed a few days ago,
> did anyone notice that it was a complete car, with many useful parts?
>
> --- Paul <9laser3@bright.net> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
> >
> > >No one is /forcing/
> > >the owners of  older cars to do anything (yet... ).
> > >
> > >Gary McCormick
> >
> >   It isn't a matter of forcing an owner to scrap his car.  It's the
> > loss of
> > parts of an already rare car that bothers me.  The last time this
> > deal was
> > out, there were perfectly good cars being crushed because the owner
> > felt
> > obligated to to his/her part to help the earth.  Parts for our
> > beloved
> > roadsters are hard to find now.  We can't sit back and let some one
> > suggest
> > that the 'right' thing to do is crush a few more!
> >
> > Paul
> Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>