Wow - interesting FYI RE wrecking yards!

Knightspirit

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Sep 22, 2019
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Mount Shasta, CA
So I finally found a unicorn red block 4.6 on Ebay coming out of a 90's Range Rover for a great price. So I bought it and waited for it to get pulled and shipped to me. My intent is to rebuild a good 4.6 for my disco. Yesterday - I get a paypal refund for the whole amount and my order is cancelled. I call the wriecking yard - and they say that the engine failed the compression test (!!!). So I suggest I buy it anyway at a lesser price. No problem. Except that once it failed the test - they immediately took it to the metal yard for scrapping - the "crush yard" he called it - and it was now gone.

This was the only available 4.6 red block in the whole country (I did a search at all of the wrecking yards)! Wow. If I had caught this one day sooner (he left me a message) I could have saved it. FYI!