scrap steel $ has me nervous.

Holy shit, I can't beleive the prices mentioned.
I'll bet I have maybe 8 to 9 tons of certified steel scrap laying around in my warehouse, been there for 10 years.
I have to start paying atttention.

 

"Smushed" is an awesome word

golf clap...

 

Last week, a customer of mine replaced the converter on his car...bought the new one for $75.00.....junkman cometh and got 80 bucks for his old one.
Apparently the new converter pricing hasn't caught up yet.
Hmmm, being a NAPA store owner, I should buy a couple hundred and scrape oops, I mean scrap them

 

This is also a factor. I was sorta interested in buying a yard here due to the owner getting towards retiring, so I asked just for the heck of it. He wanted $700,000 plus!

 

You got robbed!!

 

YEAH he did by roughly 85.00 by my invoice for 738lbs...

 

Yard near here has 2 or 3 AD chevy trucks. One solid deluxe cab went right into the scrapper pile, they hadn't mashed it and will sell you the stuff, but you almost have to be there when it comes in or shortly thereafter. They had another one out back in the yard in not bad shape, it was on a big truck frame and had last been used as a plow truck, but a good solid cab on it. A GMC version too if I remember right.

 

I am in the steel buying business and we have a recycler right next to our business. They are paying over $250 a ton right now and I have to buy the shit at over $55.00 to $75.00 a 100 weight. AND I have to watch to old stuff go threw the scales.

 

I went by the scrapyard in Juarez where I got my 57 Olds today and they were crushing a limosine. I was a little surprized to see a heavy front end loader driving over a white limo when I came around the corner (Scarface wasn't inside it).

 

Here's my take, if I throw it away it's absolutely worthless for anything. I dig through my scrap pile almost on a daily basis for something to make this or that out of. If you were trying to make a buck out of my scrap you'd be damned poor!
I just cringe when I see these loads of scrap going to the crusher. I can only imagine what's buried in these piles. There will soon come a day when folks will be whining abou the cost of new steel to build something out of. I'll just laugh and say tough shit. You can't have mine!
I drag it in and others carry it off!

 

Can you say labor rates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

talking with some friends today and the coment was made that with all the reproducing of classic car parts why worry about the old rusty crap....
some will just never get it! of course this is the same guy that paid 21,000.00 for a butcherd up 67 fastback GTA stang then got all but hurt when he found out he couldve gotten a new repo shell for 16,000.00 bonehead!!!
Trying to work a deal with my father for his essex's and the 38 packard so they dont get canned...

 

Took some unsalvagable blocks as well as other rusty unmentionables to "The Man" the other day. Got $273 for it. Then stopped at the gas station to pay thirty-something dollars for eight gallons. That whole day depressed me! Cleaned up the outside. Depressed me though.

 

i am getting roughly 5 bones for a car going to the scrap yard, little more for bigger cars and trucks

 

Same here. I just went to the junkyard the other day and as I was pulling up, a tractor trailer loaded with crushed cars was pulling out. I talked to the owner and he said he's making more money crushing them than waiting for someone to come buy the shit. Had I not called him when I did, I wouldn't have gotten my S10 chassis for my 51 Chevy. It too was destined for the crusher.

 

the definition of the word "traditional" will morph into a new meaning, given the availability of the "newer" older parts, cuz, friends & neighbors, if yer bent on keepin things traditional as we know it, the drought of parts is only gonna get worse and its gonna or has already become a deep pockets game. But if you wanna use an old body on a homemade 2x4 steel rail frame and scrounge a motor/trans/rearend outa that old beater Toyota pickup thats been sittin in yer neighbors yard and use the wiring and brakes and shit off it...its still gonna mean scroungin'...just for different brands of parts and maybe in different sources...the ingenuity and the drive that has always been the backbone of this sickness will always be there to be a bad ass of sorts.

 

Who knows, maybe 25 years from now, yards will be paying $500/ton for scrap fiberglass.

People will be scrounging the back woods for old 70's T buckets. You'll be hearing , "O shit I just saw a Downs Willys on a pile of scrap glass." Snicker Snicker.

 

I was in the right place at the right time the other day...about a block from the entrance to our big scrapyard is a BBQ joint..I was hangin out and a guy pulled in with a partially parted out 70 Challenger on his trailer, with a 383 Magnum innit..it was rough, missing alot of things..I got to talkin to him and asked him if he frequented the scrapyard and if he was aware of how much he was going to get for the car. He said "yeah, about $125.00, I said heres $150.00 follow me home" its a plum crazy, white vinyl top, black rallye stripes beat up ol Challenger, but I saved it...for parts, of course..

 

It is a possibility, fiberglass is supposed to be recyclable just not cost effeciant, hell they recycle tires now and turn them into sidewalks etc..

 

I found out all these are going to the crusher. They are all really tough shape so rusty the one t-bird left its belly back in the woods. I going back to see it the 1958 Olds frame is still good. Anyone need some parts?

 

That lil import might be a keeper.

While steel prices suck, I do like the fact that junk cars are getting crushed, most of the time they are an eyesore.... Like a Ford Granada on someone's lawn.

 

Well double edged sword here,,I knew of an old Packard that was complete and very restorable,,They could'nt get rid of it for $300,,,everyone gets all uppity and says "it's a sin" or "we gotta stop this",,yet these are the same folks that say "is the chrome pitted"..seen many good savable cars just sit and sit..old yards have i guess you could say "the luxury" of letting things sit
though with developing some see the end coming and,,better to cash in now.
or to even scale down..I see cars around our county all the time that are cheap!! and they just sit,

GOONZ is lucky and there are yards round here that do that as well as there are alot of old gearheads still building..but yards have to deal with alot of BS,,and most owners are getting up there in age and have kinda had it at this point..

Most folks won't even buy a "parts car" anymore,mostly cause they live in suburbia and the neighbors would be all over them,lol

So yeah,,if you really wanna save em,,then go buy one

 

Dang! Now the rest of us'ns here in Mississippi cain't reeed y'alls post!

 

I am with you on that 100%, I recently was trying to sell a 47 olds for less than scrap price and nobody would buy it eventually I said it has to be sold or it will get scrapped and still people just told me not to scrap it that it would be wrong yet nobody wanted to "save" it for the $300 I was asking and finally one day I said it has to go it was in my way and put up a bunch of adds for it and they only person who responded immediately was a scrapper who took it for my asking price and had it hauled out of here in just a few minutes after he called. People just think of old cars on your property as a type of museum for them to look at and dream over but nobody wants to take the "museum" pieces home and then they complain when you finally take care of the mess and clean up.

 

My local scrapyard has a 59 Cad Fleetwood w/28K miles on it that has been sitting since 1967, so "rusty" doesn't describe it correctly. It is complete and intact, and I really want to get it, but it weighs 5,000 lbs and is worth $625 in scrap. The engine is stuck, the interior's a mess, but some parts would be useful to someone and the rest is yard art. I just can't justify paying the price for something that is so bad. Thankfully, the owner doesn't want to see it go either, so it's still sitting there, waiting for me.

 

I thought this thread was dead.....

must be friday or something.

 

that is a fiat 500. the bug eyed fiats are pretty rare in the US, not that that means anything to value.

my dad is into those micro cars, he had a fiat 500 many years ago when we lived in alaska, he'd probably be interested in it, he lives in MN. shoot me contact info or whatever on it.

 

I took a two wheel trailer load of miscellaneous scrap and unwanted car parts in last Tuesday and got $49.50. Those wire wheels make an interesting ring when they hit the unloading electomagnet!

Going to make another trip next week.

Regards, Twobit

 

Yes, I want this whole car. How much does he want for it, where is it and is there a nearby storage unit I can drag it too?

Ray, the bug eyes are really rare and it does add quite a bit to the value. I'm sure the floors are completely gone but that does not matter as all of them are and the repop them.

What the hell is wrong with people? It's less effort to list it on ebay than to drag it out of the woods and take it to the scrapyard. Not gonna get much for a Fiat 500 anyway, they weigh nothing.

 

As I posted in another scrap thread soon the only old cars avalable will be Chinese die casts.