What to do with a "parts car"

[mainemetro]

Hi Guys,

I have a '96 1.0L 5spd 3door with 70k miles in great shape that I love. On Saturday I purchased another '96 1.0L 5spd 3door with 75k miles. It runs beautifully, but has such serious body rust that it is unuseable.

I got the parts car for scrap metal prices and I have already transferred the driver side mirror, catalytic converter (almost new) and downstream O2 sensor to my road car clearing a "check engine light" and finally doing away with my cracked mirror.

This parts car is obviously loaded with spare parts that may come in useful for my road car, but I really don't want to start a junkyard in my back yard! I don't think my wife would appreciate a derelict car slowly sinking into the grass next to the barbeque.

Any ideas as to what I should pull off of it to store in the garage before I send it to the crusher? What are the most valuable, hardest to find, easiest to pull and store items that I really SHOULDN'T throw out?

It has a brand new exhaust( which I have already pulled off and stored), good tires and a new battery excellent engine, radiator, etc, etc.

any ideas are welcome

MaineMetro

ps: she really sounds sweet driving around the yard with no exhaust system...sounds like an outboard motor that is running high and dry.

[Irk]

I know of a couple interior parts that are known to go bad in Metros. You should pull out the A/C vents if you can (all my a/c vents are broken, cheap plastic adjusters), the back seat release knobs, The AC/heater fan speed control (switches start to fail). If your not keeping the engine, take off the sensors (TPS,MAP,COOLANT TEMP, etc). I would part out the whole car and sell most of it on ebay. Go to ebay and look at completed listings for geo metro (click sub catagory accessories and parts) you can see whats valuable and whats not (as far as what people bought).