Pick Your Part octopus cuts off Hayward tentacle
By Eric Kurhi
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm in Alameda County, Business, General, Hayward, Odds & Ends, Transportation.
There’s one less auto recycler around after Pick Your Part closed its NorCal scrap yards, including the one at the end of W. Winton Road. Sure, there are plenty of other such recyclers in the industrial areas near the shoreline, but I have fond memories of the octopus yard as the site of great bounty: Cheap parts for a 1966 Volvo 1800S back in the mid ’90s.
Even then, good specimens were a rare find in a scrap yard, and after an exhaustive search, PYP proved to be a veritable treasure chest of old Swedish iron.
Not sure why they closed — the guy at the PYP number confirmed that both Hayward and Milpitas branches are gone, but had no idea why. Seems like an auto recycler would do well during a recession. Will look into it.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Perhaps profitability is impaired by costs of disposal of contaminants. Then too, computerized inventories of autos having acceptable remaing parts makes trans-shipmenmt from or visits to locations where taxes and environmental regulations are a bit more relaxed to say nothing of sales taxes which affect ‘true cost’ to part seekers.;
We could go on to discuss reduced price of scrap metal etc. etc.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I’m sure the hassles of running a facility like that in California are nearly unbearable.
The Hayward yard’s been shrinking and getting less useful for the past three years or so.