I worked at a salvage yard many years ago. I'm here to tell you that I could have bought and sold almost anything one could imagine at that yard.they were pulling wagons i figure guts out of catalytic converters he had scrapped only thing super valuable in salvage i could think you could carry in a wagon
I was offered (for sale) some really interesting items, and could have sold almost anything that could be made portable.
Back then, many yards operated on the fringe of legality. Some were mostly a front operation. Some were absolutely legit.
Sounds like Kennedy's place was pretty old school. Nothing going on there would surprise me.