One thing I've noticed about these (and even BMW from the same era) is if it's not completely rotted from rust, then it was probably taken care of to some degree, and the cars showing up in yards are actually still decent looking with decent parts, but either there from an accident, trans failed, something was ignored and the car quit running, etc..
My replacement hood for example, was the correct color code, and near mint. It still needs clear coat polishing in a couple spots (fine scratches), but it looks great otherwise. If it'd been a Taurus hood, it'd probably be damaged heavily, paint issues, etc. When looking at car-parts.com and clicking on the images most yards will add (often of the entire car) they appear to be good lookers, which means getting a part w/o paying an arm and leg is at least doable.
So happy these have a run of the mill AC/heat cluster panel. Something seemingly so nice with setting it and leaving it alone. Hate how you have to slowly scroll through the temp values (think my Mark VIII was the same way), but otherwise still nice vs. navigating through some dated interface. Disjointed rant over.