This was the week that the Minneapolis housing inspector encouraged us to make our yard look less like the Beverly Hillbillies. (I will spare you a list of the cool junk in the yard.) We should have erected a tall and opaque privacy fence long ago. And built a large and modern garage. (Which would probably also be full of junk, though.) Or maybe cleaned up, come to think of it!

I gave up on my brother-in-law's 1987 745, which lost its coolant on the highway long ago, and ruined the head, and a piston, and... It has been on my to-do list WAAY long, and is not getting done. (And it has rust on the underside in the classic 700 spots; Flintstone brakes, if you need them.)

UPull should take it, right, like they took my last junker?
Nope, because it has no engine. And kinda old.

Maybe John's, which provided parts for my daughter's Civic?
Nice guys, and helpful.
But says 1987 is too old, and they get no call for it.
Will pay $125/ton if I bring it up to them.

Called 3rd place. Says it is too old.

Called 4th place. Same thing.

I forgot to call Strandberg's, in Centuria, which specializes in Volvos.
I will. But I suppose there are lots of dead parts cars, and few on the road to make use of them... my aging 1987 745 daily driver being one of them.

Now there's the truth... but does anyone have a better idea, to be executed before the housing inspector shows up, real soon? Thanks!

Greg-- Check out Craig's list. If that seems odd, it' not. Here in the NW it's the best representation of used cars on the market, period. Try a search for Volvo and you'll see what I mean.

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Try the easy to search Expanded Style FAQ Index. I own a Volvo or Does Volvo Own Me?

Take 2-4 hours and pull the parts unique to the pre-facelift 7-series. Send the rest to the crusher. Sell the parts on E-bay. Someone will buy everything there and the folks down south that still have a pre-galvy 740 will appreciate the parts.

Thanks very much for the suggestion, Onkel.

You are right: good parts have value.

You are wrong: parts have been my downfall -- ask the inspector. ;-)
I don't mean to be snotty by saying "wrong," just symmetric. ;-)

I'll ask my wife what she thinks about what parts, how large. Ha!

And for your suggestion, I'll give you your choice from among the more than a dozen alloy wheels that fill too much of the basement... next time you pass by beautiful Minneapolis. What a hot spot destination, eh?