I use to do a junk yard tour every Spring and Fall, but when scrap prices were up several years ago, the yards in my area crushed almost anything over 15 to 20 years old. There are still some old-timers that have salvage yards in remote areas and know me from years off getting parts off them, and I can walk in the office and they will tell me right away if they got any old vans in recently. One of my best yard's had a row of about 15 to 20 mid-Dodges and they crushed every one of them. The owner told me I was the only guy left who would be looking for parts for that years of vans. Kurse, you mention the peacefulness and serenity of getting lost in the salvage yards, I felt the same way, many of these vehicles had been there for years with trees and brush hiding some real gems and I was like a little kid on Christmas morning when I would find some cool or vintage van item.