It's just over 3 hours from our place. The border was pretty much as always. They just roll their eyes when you say "Going to an auto wrecking near Fargo to look for old car parts".... "You're doing what?"

Quite a few 69-70 full size Chev and US model Pontiacs. No rare stuff though. I got what I think was the last set of hardtop power windows out of there a few months back. One column shift tilt but it's been out in the weather for decades. One 70 Chev wagon with the AM 8 track in it.

Do you ever go into the gloveboxes Carl? Find any interesting stuff from the cars last life?

Speaking of finding treasures in cars, I know that I left a treasure in the left rear door of our '66 Biscayne. I lost a whistle in it. I don't know what became of the car as it was traded in very good condition in January '70 for another Biscayne, depicted below.

 

That particular '70 ended up at the wreckers with high miles & encroaching rust in '78, and junked perhaps too hastily.  My brother and I both saw it flattened like a can amongst a truckload going down the 403 & we both knew it had to be the car. It had a radio block-off, a 3-in-the-tree & clutch, rare stuff by '70. Parts could have been used for a '69 Bis-Quick project. Or maybe a tribute to that ancient sighting of a '70 LS5 Bel Air coupe I saw 50 years ago, with a few liberties like a manual transmission. Here's a depiction I created of the LS5 Bel Air I saw (yes it had redlines & F41):

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I can also relate to why Carl is smiling. Walking around a wrecking yard with old North American iron present is a trip in itself, especially when stinging insects aren't present.

I never notice the sun as it passes from east to west when I'm in a wrecking yard.