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Old Jan 9, 2008 | 10:41 AM
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What's the best junkyard in the NW Suburbs? I'm going to need some new doors for my caprice
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Old Jan 9, 2008 | 02:13 PM
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Trying looking up globe auto I cant remember what town they are in but they do have a giant selection
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 05:48 PM
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What's the best junkyard in the NW Suburbs? I'm going to need some new doors for my caprice

Kind of off topic but was curious what your 79 Caprice Coupe with 400 SBC runs the 1320 in.

By the way, this guy might have doors for you: (Edit nvm, I had a link to a guy selling a complete rust free 79 Caprice Coupe for $500 obo, but now the link is gone so it must be sold)
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by fastSS_LS1
What's the best junkyard in the NW Suburbs? I'm going to need some new doors for my caprice
Try Victory Auto Wreckers in Shiller Park, IL I think...google it...they have a website....it's a pretty big junk yard...
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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victory is on green st in bensenville
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 10:42 PM
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Trying looking up globe auto I cant remember what town they are in but they do have a giant selection
Elgin
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by I8COBRA
Elgin
Yeah thanks I know they do move around alot for certain reasons so I cant keep up with where they are now.
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Old Jan 14, 2008 | 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by KC Henry
Kind of off topic but was curious what your 79 Caprice Coupe with 400 SBC runs the 1320 in.

By the way, this guy might have doors for you: (Edit nvm, I had a link to a guy selling a complete rust free 79 Caprice Coupe for $500 obo, but now the link is gone so it must be sold)

No idea, never had a chance to get to the track. I just turned 16 and its my project car. It was my dads and he decided to let is sit for about 5 years

But your Caprice is badass.. Same color as mine and my dream setup.. LS1.
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Old Jan 14, 2008 | 12:27 PM
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North Shore in evanston
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Old Jan 15, 2008 | 05:21 PM
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Elgin Super is pretty good. I have had good luck finding stuff there.
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BADSZ28
Elgin Super is pretty good. I have had good luck finding stuff there.
I grew up in Elgin and used to get stuff from there but as I got older Elgin Super only started to carry newer cars. See if there the junk yards on Bluff City Blvd (just across the highway from Elgin High School on the same side of the street as the grave yard but closer the highway) they had some older cars there last time I went... but that was atleast 7 or 8 years ago.
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by fastSS_LS1
No idea, never had a chance to get to the track. I just turned 16 and its my project car. It was my dads and he decided to let is sit for about 5 years

But your Caprice is badass.. Same color as mine and my dream setup.. LS1.
Thanks for the complements man !
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Theres a giant junkyard that just opened right on rt20 and like bluffcity road basicly right where the quarry is that they filled in slightly they have a ton of cars back there.
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by quadd2244
Theres a giant junkyard that just opened right on rt20 and like bluffcity road basicly right where the quarry is that they filled in slightly they have a ton of cars back there.
Nooooooo they filled in the quarry by Elgin Sweeper company !? I remember sneaking in there when I was in High School and going off roading there all the time. It was always a good time.
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Yeah we used to fish in there also and go swimming and what not. There is still some water left but nothing like it used to be. The ooffroading was on the westside I think of the quarry the big one I mean that you can see of 20
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