No matter how fancy or expensive a car is in the beginning, the good majority of the production run will almost always end up as junk. This is a good thing. Those that continue to drive any sort of aging classic will need parts, so the wheels don’t fly off and the engine won’t catch fire. For these and many more reasons the automobiles is one of the most recycled consumer products on the planet. Some of these parts are more desirable than others. Self-service junkyards are not often stocked with rows of Porsches, so when we spied a lineup of partially dismantled 928 and 944 shells while driving about in the Starion we had to stop and investigate. Where do Porsches go to get recycled into other Porsches? Parts Heaven of course. The guys in the showroom were cool enough to give us a walk through of the collected results of being in the Porsche parts business since 1984. We now know who to call when it comes time to get a front engine rear-drive German progenitor of the Mitsubishi specialty sports coupe.
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Porsche owners must really hate their cars. All these cars look like they are made of balled up tinfoil. Did They have any Gremlin parts?
What a wonderful place!
I’m used to seeing 924s, 944s and 928s in the junkyards I go to, but seeing those wrecked 911s makes me quite sad.
I miss “clean” salvage yards. You know the type, where brands are organized together. Mitsubishis and Eagles, Nissans and Infinitis, Honda and Acura. The logical arrangement of yesterday’s finance deals almost gives one a reassurance that everything is going to be okay. These might be the oft-forgotten middle children of Stuttgart, but even in death, they appear to be in good hands.