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In reply to the discussion: YouTube Can Often Save You from Making a Service Call [View all]MineralMan
(146,288 posts)740 wagon on eBay. Someone backed into the car in a parking lot and drove off. eBay was the answer. I had the part in a week, for $30. Some clever person had parted out a 1991 Volvo 740, pulling commonly needed parts from a broken one and then taking the rest of the car to a junkyard as scrap metal. The same eBay seller had just about every removable part of that car and dozens of others on his eBay store.
If I were younger, I might consider going into that business. It looks like a pretty good side hustle to me. You would just pull easy to remove parts that were small enough to store and ship economically. Someone will be bound to need those parts at some point. Strip off those parts and most junkyards will come an tow off the rest of the vehicle at no cost to you.
Brilliant!