92 MJ at Pull-a-Part Knoxville, TN with pics

[1987Comanche]

    Saw that Pull-a-Part in Knoxville had added a '92 MJ to the inventory so I made the pilgrimage out to check it out.  She hadn't been there for long but was already fairly well picked over.  Overall condition was fair to poor with rust in the wheel arches, underneath, etc.  Cab corners looked ok but the front floors were gone, had a rear slider, D35 was still there, and had something pretty rare: column shift automatic with tilt, cruise, and a key in the ignition.  I'm not heading out that way again any time soon but thought someone might want/need the column or something else from her. 

 

  Once this one is crushed perhaps the whole post can be moved to the registry.  According to the door sticker it's a 12/91 truck.

 

 

 

 

[Minuit]

This one was in a BleepinJeep video. It had a Lund visor and a good bench seat in it when it first got there.

[Dzimm]

This one was in a BleepinJeep video. It had a Lund visor and a good bench seat in it when it first got there.

I saw this too! Matt took the visor, tailgate, and lights for sure. I'm wondering why someone junked it. The damage doesnt look too awful bad.

[Minuit]

 

This one was in a BleepinJeep video. It had a Lund visor and a good bench seat in it when it first got there.

I saw this too! Matt took the visor, tailgate, and lights for sure. I'm wondering why someone junked it. The damage doesnt look too awful bad.

 

 

Yeah, someone could've definitely saved that. Looks like before it was hit it was pretty clean. I've seen so many good project trucks in the JY, it makes me wonder what goes through some people's heads. They're probably just tired of looking at them and don't feel like selling them. I saw an '88 Eliminator late last year that was straight and looked pretty much perfect except for a horrible orange paint job. Completely rust free, even on the floors. In retrospect, I probably should've cut the floors out of it and used them to fix my trucks. It probably could've sold for at least $1000 no matter what was wrong with it under the skin.

[Dzimm]

 

 

This one was in a BleepinJeep video. It had a Lund visor and a good bench seat in it when it first got there.

I saw this too! Matt took the visor, tailgate, and lights for sure. I'm wondering why someone junked it. The damage doesnt look too awful bad.

Yeah, someone could've definitely saved that. Looks like before it was hit it was pretty clean. I've seen so many good project trucks in the JY, it makes me wonder what goes through some people's heads. They're probably just tired of looking at them and don't feel like selling them. I saw an '88 Eliminator late last year that was straight and looked pretty much perfect except for a horrible orange paint job. Completely rust free, even on the floors. In retrospect, I probably should've cut the floors out of it and used them to fix my trucks. It probably could've sold for at least $1000 no matter what was wrong with it under the skin.

Yeah it really pains me to see these trucks end up like this. Even worse the more rare versions like this 92. I think the problem is that people don't realize what they are and just see them as an old pickup that isn't worth fixing if anything goes wrong. I've seen 2 MJs scraped around here because of this. I always thought about knocking on the peoples doors and asking about then but unfortunately didn't take that chance before they got rid of them. I learned that lesson. What are the laws in other states/countries around jys selling vehicles out of the yard? Every yard I've talked to says they can't sell them because of some law against it. I wouldn't mind buying some of the nicer MJs out of the yard to save them.

 

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[1987Comanche]

 I just watched the YouTube video.  I wondered who had methodically stripped parts off the truck and now I know...he beat me by 2 days :(.  I was also pained to see someone junked a '92.  It makes me wonder what one could intercept in the parking lot at Pull-a-Part if you were there at the right time.

 

  This MJ could have been salvaged but the underside wasn't all that clean.  Not sure if it was road salt or sitting on dirt/grass for an extended period of time that caused the rust blooms.  It's what I've have expected one of these to have looked like in the rust belt in, say, 2000. Still eminently usable but the cancer was starting to take hold.