On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:10:46 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 6/2/2017 2:02 PM, True North wrote:

Been a while since I've toured a junkyard up here. The last time I needed a mirror for my 1995 Plymouth Voyageur, they had a computer system that connected all the major junkyards. If you needed a part your search went far and wide while you sat at your phone. They even had a guy here in the city where you could pick up your part at his house...as long as you didn't go at his supper time.



Junkyards had become too organized by that time. I am remembering the
60's and maybe early 70's although I wasn't in the USA much.


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Even in the 1960s a lot of junkyards were connected to a teletype
network where they could send out requests for a part, or entire
sub-assemblies like engines and transmissions.

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