Called the owner of Buick Bonery (Mike) to confirm receipt of an email I sent him concerning the potential purchase of four (4) wheel well moldings for my '64 Buick Wildcat. The conversation was going okay until I inquired about the cost of shipping the parts. His reply, "Do I look like a post office?" Although taken aback by his remark, I remained calm and respectful. I asked him when would be a better time to call him since he did state, "I'm on vacation" and "I'm in a bar". He informed me to call him back on Tuesday. I will not call him back or do any business with him. Two things stand out to me from this incident; 1. If one is on "vacation", one should not answer their phone and give a half-assed attempt at conducting business. 2. If one chooses to conduct business while on "vacation", do just that...conduct business. Don't treat a potential customer as someone insignificant. Never will I do business with the Buick Bonery.
Well, surprisingly, I received a call from the Buick Bonery (Mike) this morning. He apologized for the conversation we had Friday and all is well. All I required is an apology, and he provided that. We can do business.
This could be why he was a little short tempered: http://forums.aaca.org/f115/yet-another-buick-salvage-yard-disappearing-375898.html
Do not picture California as being friendly to such operations as car lots - salvage, auto body, restoration, tow impound, etc.
its the ultra liberal EPA causing this kind of thing. they consider salvage yards as eye sores and potential waste dumps. they do not even consider this is someones livelihood. (grumble...grumble)
I wonder if the private property just down the same road was told to clean up - they had nearly 200 Edsels stored there - apparently none for sale.
WTF? Seriously!! There are 20+ 'junk yards' in that area. Everything from Acura's to Edsel's can be found. Pick N Pulls as well as yards where they pull parts for you. IDK but perhaps he refused to put gravel down, drain fluids, and raise the cars off the ground and stuff like that. I remember a few yards closed back in the 90's when they put the squeeze down. I'm going to stop by there on Tuesday to try to get a pass door for a 71 Skylark post and a piece of molding. Hopefully Walter Peck and his EPA cohorts have not shut the place down just yet
ohhhh no! People in these warm states do not realise what treasures these parts cars are (already now or prospectively in 10 yrs time)...... Us in the rust belts do know! I am all for preserving the nature but a there are other things to do with much more positive impact than removing these yards. Wish the authorities would change their mind. :ball: :ball:
Well I was there yesterday and what I saw was a broken man whose livelihood was being torn out from under him without even enough time to grasp it-let alone make a realistic or affordable plan. I felt sad for him. He sat in the cab of his truck (not running=no air conditioning) in 100 degree heat, drinking...the whole few hours I was there. He was pleasant and as helpful as he could be without leaving the solace of his vehicle. I was able to find all the parts I was lacking for my 65 Skylark. I spent a whopping $23 and left there with an engine harness (forward and under dash), an alternator bracket, fan shroud, corner moulding piece and then some. Do yourself and this guy a favor and come hunt for the parts you need before they end up being obsolete.
This totally sucks. The Prius-Driving, Mind Everyone's Business, Eco-Nazis do their worst to make every parcel of land, except the development they live in that destroyed a farm, into a park, playground, golf course or "green space". They could care less about our hobby/passion and consider our type to be a bunch of unclean hooligans. They think we should take up one of their exciting hobbies like stamp collecting.
It goes way beyond Prius driving or eco-PC behavior. It's all about selling everybody into one way to live. The motor vehicle is no longer a useful and durable item with history or heritage, or any redeeming value whatsoever. Salvage yards with parts made to last for our machines have no place in the multi-national corporate agenda. Mass media dictates that we all must live in accordance with what the marketplace sells to us. The car is now a consumable, just like the 4G candy-bar, the cheap flat-panel TV, and the shoes made in China. You buy it, use it until it breaks, then go out and buy another. Nobody will have homes with garages (except the uber-rich), so there won't be space to work on them, anyway. Everybody will be living in shoebox apartments with tiny carports to fit your plastic rolling-laptop...if you can even afford one. Every machine or device in our lives will be cheap and disposable, keeping the coffers filled for all of the corporations who churn out this crap for everybody to buy over and over. Nobody will own tools or learn how to fix anything. Instead, the corporations will teach everybody how to be a good and productive worker for the coal mine or sweatshop they own in order to keep their profits growing. The only people driving vehicles like ours will be actors in erectile-dysfunction product advertisements. Everything will serve the media marketing apparatus, or not at all. I've dealt with BB on a few occasions over the years...there may be a part or two in my 67 which came from his yard. It's too bad it's all going away.
I do think it's ironic that Hollywood and its crowd has no problem with portraying rampant gunplay and often cast its actors as characters who live in rambling old houses with cluttered yards and old Jeeps, boats, parts, etc; but are vehemently opposed to responsible gun ownership or real 'reduce, reuse, recycle' in its simplest form. Patrick
Oh man! Don't get us started on gun control!!! I'll bet there are a lot of us guys/gals on here with concealed weapons permits and NRA members.
Now, I read that he has 30 days to shut down, but nothing where the EPA is behind it. If the EPA blame is somewhere in that or other postings, I missed it. I also dont see where Hollywood or responsible gun ownership plays a part in this, but maybe thats just me. This forced closing could be a financial situation or other personal reasons, because most times we just dont know what's really going on in a situation like this. But whatever is forcing its closing, I agree its sad. <o></o>
Well I guess I saw EPA several times in the prior posts and thought there was fact behind it. Sorry about that. The later post about the forces (possibly) converging upon Buick Bonery and others like him referred to a future some are seeking legally and culturally. I think those who seek this future often seem to blossom in California and are allied with and funded by the visionaries who make money from entertainment. My observation was the irony in people who have the grand future plan want to see it come to fruition yet can't see the impact of their own actions (as an example I used glorifying gun violence for profit when you really hate guns or prohibiting the most ecologically kind form of recycling--don't process it, let it sit until someone needs it.) I did not mean to start any 'gun control' debate. Patrick
Our only saving grace is that the high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party have an affinity for Buicks. They all like to drive them. Once GM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CCP industry consortium, the brand may last for a few years more.
