When I was down in the Phoenix area in early 2005, I visited 3 of the Desert Valley Auto Parts yards. Their 7th Avenue N yard where you visited, their Casa Grande yard which is still in operation, and another yard that was a bit west of their 7th Avenue N yard, over towards I17. I think they also previously had a yard in Black Canyon, as on their TV show they went to the Black Canyon yard that was closed even at that time. I've visited both the 7th Avenue N and Casa Grande since.

I've bought stuff at both the 7th Avenue N yard and at Casa Grande. Fortunately the piece I bought at their 7th Avenue N yard was already removed, it was just sitting there. The pieces I bought as Casa Grande needed to be removed from a 69 El Camino, so I waited better part of an hour for the guy to remove them. Instead of just using a nut driver to remove the speed nut, he had to use his cordless drill and proceeded to break the studs off. I got a reduced price, but still ended up with a broken part.

Pontiacanada wrote:

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The was a car resto. show on TV (I forget which one) which went to this wrecking yard for parts regularly.

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Desert Car Kings was the show that featured Desert Valley Auto Parts.  They'd pick a car out of inventory, then restore it in a couple weeks to sell at their auction.