While out and about

[IDMJ]

I made a bonsai run over to Klamath Falls Oregon to pick up another project vehicle and while I was over there, hit a wrecking yard.

i scored a complete Ford high pinion Dana 44 and 2 excellent MJ tailgates for a very paltry price. I’m kinda happy 😃 

[Jeep Driver]

What's paltry? 

[CMMagnussen]

15 hours ago, Jeep Driver said:

What's paltry? 

I think it's what's served at some BBQs

[Pete M]

I assume he paid less than the $300 I keep seeing people trying to get. 

[Drahcir495]

5 hours ago, CMMagnussen said:

I think it's what's served at some BBQs

 

$300! I am selling mine

[IDMJ]

I’d sell one for $300. 😁

[Pete M]

didn't say they were selling for that, unless it's perfect.

[Jeep Driver]

What's the big secret here??

 

Why can't' you guys just say I paid $XX for a couple of tailgates? So the rest of us know what things are selling for. 

[PCO6]

Prices are all over the map and like many car parts that aren't plentiful they're worth what a buyer will pay.   I saw an MJ tailgate at an auto flea market last Fall and the guy was asking $600 CDN (about $450 US).   There's no way I'd pay that unless I desperately needed one.   I walked by the same booth a few hours later and it was gone.   A few months later a guy from the neighbourhood puled into my driveway, opened the back of his Suburban and said … "do you want this stuff?".   He gave me a perfect MJ tailgate plus several other MJ parts at no cost!

 

Auto wreckers around here have set prices for items that often don't make sense.   I got a pair of near perfect driving lamps or my LJ for $7 each.  To them they were just head lights. Bucket seats go for $35 ea. whether they're leather or ripped up fabric.  A friend got a tailgate for a TJ (granted, not nearly the same as an MJ) for $25.   If it was for an MJ I'm not sure if would have been much more.

[MJXJjeepguy]

I got clean, no rust, straight and no dent tailgate for $150 I think it good deal than one u see on eBay they go $250-300 for rusty and beated!

[Strokermjcomanche]

Only tailgate I have a picture of . I paid $300 and it had been taken off when new and stored in a shed along with a like brand new rear bumper and many other new take off parts . 

[Pete M]

now THAT'S a 300 dollar tailgate    I need to rent that from you so it can hang on my wall.