Local scrappers have been going by the past few days with everything under the sun on their trucks and they are running ads paying up to $500 for cars and trucks! Here we go again! Lock up anything made of metal.
i better get to work. i've been talking to a few people that need their farmsteads cleaned up and i've been wanting to get the old trucks and pickups out before the scrappers get there.
Have not seen anything in this part of IL goin on yet. But then again I think everything got cleaned out from two years ago. Except that one roadster still sitting there under the tarp. The only thing you see is that 32 grill shell sticking out.
The wrecking yards in the Seattle area were saying in the paper that scrap was down because of all the cash for clunkers cars were causing an overload. I don't think that there is enough "available" scrap to keep the scrappers busy around here. What is around isn't available.
Oh jeez, you're just making me feel bad about scrapping the rind of the Chev van I bought for the engine and missing the last bubble! Not only did I part it out and get only $100/ton (three days before that scrap was like 200/ton here), but if I'd kept it together for a year, we could have traded it in on our new Fusion and gotten $4,500!
scrap prices go up and scrap prices go down. they go down because no one thinks anyone wants to buy it in the future, they go up for the opposite reason the last time i went up drastically was because China was buying it..then it went back down for some reason in the late 30s it went up crazy because Japan was buying it...... now you say it's going back up?
Looks like it, last week the local scrappers were advertising they'd pay $175 for old cars and trucks. Today it's $175 UP to $500. I saw a couple Friday loaded to the gills with little piddly stuff like old gutters, fence wire, swing set frames etc. They usually stuff that in the cars because it doesn't pay enough by itself to make it worth the trip. The last time I saw that was when it was sky high. The guy down the street scraps and I haven't seen him at his "shop" for awhile but he's been there all this week. Maybe I'm reading it wrong........ I hope so. I saw too much good stuff hauled by last time. There's not much left around here for old iron and another surge like that will wipe out anything that is left. I'm sure they've been eyeing my C10 sitting at my Buddy's shop.
dude, you got a better deal. Read the fine print on the CFC deal, not quite like $4500 cash when you look at the total picture.
Must be my "fuzzy" math skills. Lemme see now, $19,000 (for the Fusion)- 4500 = $14,500 (if we'd kept the van setting around, licenced). $19,000 - $280 (which is what I got for the van rind and all the crap I could load in it) = $18720. Hmmm, now I see where my ciphering went wrong... I'd have to back out the cost of insuring it for that year, probably around 700 bucks, but I'd have dropped the ins. on my pickup, so that'd have been a wash. OK, licence plates, another 100. And, somebody would have complained about the "loss" of another clapped out, 175,000 mile small block Chev., which lots of people complain about anyway. Brian Brian
You wouldn't want to be up in this country when scrap is up. The good tin you see headin in is shameful. I think that's why I don't seem to get much done. I spend all available extra money (car money) trying to bring in as many as I can before they go for good. I keep telling myself I'm doing the right thing, but theres my 59 olds that needs her supremes and needs em bad!
It's $92.50 a ton here in southern West Virginia , and yes , I to saw a bunch of the vintage tin hauled out of the mountains and hollows here the last time it got to $140.00 a ton , saw alot of 40's and 50's stuff that , in a better economy , would have just been seting , waiting for someone to come buy it for $50-$100 at the time , but , when the scrapper is paying more than the local joe can pay , then , all the automotive heritage goes up in pieces , literally. , it hurts to know where its going and still either not have the money to pick it up , or the people hauling it off think that just because you offer them the same scrap price , that you are offering them less than the scrappers are , it just doesnt make sense to me.
Any one haulin an old coupe like that to the scrapyard aught to be locked in a cage and poked with sharp objects!
Sometimes steel goes up when large structures around the world are being built or going to be built. The problem I have with scrape guy's is they see everything as scrap. Now if they only went after $hit like old swingsets or other non-old car or truck related stuff it won't be so bad, but it's all the same in there eyes.
If it goes back up it will most likely be later model cars that go to the crusher since most of the easily available early stuff had been taken.
I hope you're right. Most of the low hanging fruit aorund here has been picked but a lot more poeople are out of work around here and I'm starting to see stuff show up in the papers that people wouldn't part with a year ago and some of it is starting to go cheap. There are some deals starting to surface but if scrap is high some of them could end up in the wrong hands. I'd feel bad taking advantage of some guy out of work because I'm just coming off UI myself but I'd feel worse if the stuff went for scrap and was gone forever.
that was my point. it goes up because someone thinks there will be a bigger demand for it in the future. that could be good for us...as in a greater demand for consumer goods made here or someone is planning to use it against us
I was at the scrap yard on Monday and the owner was saying that the "Cash for Clunker" cars had to be cleared out by the middle of Feb. Per the Govt rules. I had asked about several items and was turned down because they would not take a chance on the Vin #'s popping up. The fines start at $15000. Thats the word I got. I hope this is some help.
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