Event Coverage I actually cried at this one, and went out to spend time with my babys

Oh the shear horror!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOoWhYznvE&feature=channel_page

 

that is just so wrong, I had to stop it before it went all the way down....

 

Been posted before, your late to the party.-Weeks

 

Yeah you know that place HELL...........well thats the jobs going there........they take your soul so it doesnt hurt.

 

Its like watching faces of death for me...makes you wonder why anyone would record such a horrible thing?

 

wtf???

 

gosh , that is too sad to keep watching

 

When I see one that is hopelessly lost to the crusher, I stop and offer to buy the scripts off the sides, b ack ,etc. They're usually stainless steel and make great wall hangers and you have a little piece of history. Get creatative(sp?). Wish I could win the lottery and buy them all and put them on a old car ranch here in Texas.

 

Kind of a bummer... I must have bought 50 cars from that place in the late 70's.. It was amazing how nice the cars were.. You had to climb around the hill looking behind trees for the good stuff.. His prices were reasonable.. I still have a 42 Chevy coupe i scored there for $600..

 

@#*@& Government regulations!

Makes me wish someone would put 3/8" steel plates in front of the airbags in the EPA eco-gestapo's fleet of Priuses.

 

Used automotive lubricants and coolant mixes do not a superfund site make.

If your local place truly was a superfund site, it was hot from something other than old cars.

If the ground were saturated with anything petroleum based, including dioxin laden coolant oil (Times Beach, MO anyone?), it would have been tilled up and trucked to an incinerator on site, where it would have been burned. The bad stuff and the organics go up in flames and the exhaust gases are scrubbed at the top of the stack. The inorganics come out the bottom squeaky clean and totally devoid of moisture (duh, it's had the hell baked out of it), where it is collected and then spread back on the site that it came from.

This process has been going on at Times Beach for nearly a decade now.

If they sealed the site in concrete with monitoring wells on a 10' grid, there was some hella nasty stuff in that ground.

You don't do that for just petroleum and iron.

 

One man's treasure is another man's trash...

Jay

 

I know, I hate to see any car that made it this long to be crushed and sent off to China too. But in reality if those cars were for sale here or on ebay even for dirt cheap nobody would buy them, maybe if they did they would maybe take a few parts and crush them. Even if they were parted out here there really isnt much if anything usable on them. Just my thoughts

and besides this video makes it all better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAICt5pACz8&NR=1

 

Hard to watch! Harder to accept.

Carrie

 

hahahahahahaha, me too !

 

Makes the survivors worth more! I see nothing wrong with cleaning this stuff up. Those cars were probably there cuz nobody wanted 'em, and last time I looked, the classifieds still have cars for sale. Sad to see? Yeah kinda, maybe. But IMHO, so are some of the hack jobs I see at shows and some of the 'new tech' newer cars(??) on the roads today. Perspective, all perspective. . .

 

oh the humanity of it all!

 

If you go and talk to any scrapyard owner, they will tell you that they would love to sell cars to individuals. However NO ONE (including you and me) buys it. SO they sell it to a scrapper.
I mean they are business not a museum. Many are cool about people touring the facilities but free tours don't pay bills.

 

To open up an old wound, at least they are doing it to pay the bills, not TV ratings.
Larry T

 

disgusting and heartbreaking, all at the same time

 

Yea, WTF??? I did not know this was a*****ing tree hugging board. I hope you never have a car that has a fluid leak...you'll have to hang yourself.

 

Actually, this did make me feel warm and fuzzy. Even looks like an interesting story. I wonder how they can legally justify crushing street racers cars?

 

That's just depressing. The slow painful death of America. That's what that is.

 

Thats only part of the story but so true,, our time is limited so live it up now.

 

Criminal...............Outright Criminal.

They ought to be arrested.....

 

I couldn't watch much. That turns my stomach.

 

Well I agree they were used up cars that nobody wanted or needed any parts from them either. As far as bashing scrap yards and that buisness model I can only admire from a distance the wealth of knowledge and enlightened overview of American society and buisness that you must have. I mean, the fact it was posted so clear and right on the money, I'm close to jealousy. I couldn't imagine having such a clear grasp on such things. If the HAMB needed a Senate and Congress you'd be in the running for sure.

It's true...you can't save em all, cars or people.

 

yeah I couldn't watch it either, I know it's business and the way it goes, being somewhat of a packrat, it's heartbreaking to see any vintage tin disgaurded like that, one of my friends wife's faimily members had died a few years ago and they had to clean up the property before they could sell it, they hauled probably 40 late '40's and '50's cars to the metal recycler, there was nothing I could do abought it, I had no extra cash to buy any of them. it's a sin. period.

 

Every group needs a Politician or Lobbyist that doesn't know what the hell they are talking about because a bunch of "suits" make everything better.

I worked for a Geo-Tech Engineering/Reclaimation firm for about 15 years in Washington State (where all the tree huggers go for their group cries), only saw 2 auto salvage sites that ever fell under the Federal CERCLA guidelines. One in Spokane and another in Kent, both were***** holes, mismanaged for years and had a lot more "salvage" in the yard than just cars (PCB insulation drums) and neither of those needed any monitoring, pulled out the contaminated soil out refilled with base course, recompacted and the developers took the property(s) over.

 

i couldnt watch it i had to stop it after the first and saw the forklift driver picking up another its sad so sad i cringe everytime i see a movie destoy a classic for the sake of hollywood this world has gone to*****