Hi Art,

I think we got abandoned by the PO.
We may never know if he got out his wallet or the tool box to fix the stalk switch.

As far as the seats they are like a set of doors I have. I leave them in one piece until I need something.
I have no plans except to keep my several cars running away from the junkyards!

I’m not collecting to be a supplier like some business.
I try to keep maintenance items and the stuff I get so cheap today that I will not be able to get for sure later on.
Lots of things are interchangeable or I won’t have them. Any K-jet parts only fit my one car and it was very limited because there were never very cheap. I think Volvo only produced 10k of the GT’s in ‘78.

During my collecting I have found out that if I cannot buy the whole car, which in many ways is a lot cheaper, it is best to buy the biggest piece you can from junkyards on their half off days!
This way I do NOT get piece mealed at the front gate. They list it as one part they have to sell it that way.
I have seen people get a window regulator without glass for $15. Not good when you buy the whole door complete for $45. Then if, it’s my kind of day, in being a half off day. It’s all for $25.

It doesn’t make sense to pack it away parts unless the storage is free.
I might be sick with a disease but is not diagnosed, as of yet! Crazy is normal!

It’s sick to let transportation vehicles, that have “a logical and sensibility for routine maintenance costs” built in to simply go away. They have stood quite a test of time.
All of it getting crushed for what some good tires are worth.
It’s lumped into a world of plastic and foam. The age of the “throw away” cars. Lots of those cars made never saw the light of a “no-lien title” during its short lifetime.

If I keep a car decently nice, that comes with spare stuff, it may keep them alive longer for a person that hopefully suffers some of the saneness disease I have!

For the six cars and stuff I have, I have an investment of one mid range sedan at today’s car prices.
Each one of those can fix the other one with its parts. Try that with any car made in the last ten years! The tenth car can make the first one near new again. Not likely with two year revamps or five year new sheets of paper designs.

The “heads up” on these cars is, it will never just go “obsolete” when the display goes blank for the lack of a code update and a support compatibility issue. Simple is as simple does.

This just had this happen with a weatherstation I have. It communicates via the internet from my houses to me.
I have to buy a new upgraded version now, at a reduced price of course! Still twice their cost!
They decided to no longer support my optional, two year old to me, device.
They want to align themselves with the Alexia or those Google talk-to internet devices.

My generic information probably turns into part of someone’s area information Weather Service. The whole package gets lumped into a monthly fee on other device networks.
If I ever get asked for a fee, I’ll know what else gets obsolete.

Now are you sorry you asked?
(-:)

Phil