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!