Chased down the scrapper guy yesterday...

I was on my way to town to get a flywheel surfaced , when I saw this on the back of a trailer , I immediately started hitting back streets trying to head him off , cuz the part of town he was in , I knew where he was headed , so , I finally stopped him , and it was kinda rough , but complete , I offered to buy it , but , hethought it would bring more than I offered , it had the nailhead , a beautiful dash , and not one part was missing off of it , he told me that he was bringing another today , 4 door that had a nice body and it was complete too , $600 is what he wants , anyway , here are the last pics of this @door hardtop....sad to see it leave....

 

Ya need to resize those pics...

 

600 seems like a good deal if the block isn't cracked.

Frank C.

 

Those are cell phone pic , I don't know how to resize them , can you?

 

They're plenty big. If we could see it better we'd want it worse!

 

I could be way off here, since it's been a while since i worked at the yard, but is scrap that high that it would bring 6 bills for that kinda weight?

 

What a heart-breaker. Is that what they're getting for scrap cars down there? Wow!

 

Well, cars are bringing $12.50 per hundred , so , he thought it weighed somewhere around 4000 lbs , he called me and told me it brought around $550.00 , that's the problem around here , no jobs , so a man has to make money where he can...just sad to know that those parts are gone forever now....

 

I heard it's around $300 a ton. Not positive cause it changes every day.


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That sucks. Always wanted one. Sometimes I'm better off not knowing about these things. Damn curiosity... Kills cats ya know.

 

4000lbs + on single-axle trailer... looks perfectly safe to me...

 

Yea with scrap prices high, who want to sell you a car for a couple of hundred when they can scrap it and make more. Man I pulled my 1956 ford COE cab off the orignal frame last weekend. Hauled frame complete with turning over y block(but block cracked) across the scales with some other scrap metal. Hell walked away with $ 528.00 Had over 5000lbs on the trailer. Gave me some mad money I wouldnt have got 200.00 for anything I scaped to a buyer. Going to to ruffer in the years to come for anything left sitting with prices getting higher.

 

scrappers need to be skinned alive.

 

I love a good junkyard but these scrap buyers really get me steamed. I tried to save a pickup last month, IH with a freshly rebuilt V8 (345 or maybe 392) and lots of good sheetmetal. The scrapper who drug it out offered to sell it to me for $300 but before I could get there with the money he had hauled it in. What really burned me up is how, once it enters their gates, that's it, all she wrote. A thousand dollars cash wouldn't get them to part with one lug nut. "Rules" Later this year that Buick and the IH will have become fenders for some 2012 model "FlungDung Lucky Pigs" over in China. This kinda stuff is rough on a poor boy...hard to find a $500 beater when you can drive the car over the scales and get $600.

 

Holy cow!!

 

I have a buddy that works at Conservit here in Washinton Co ,Md...he can get cars out of there!...he just sets them aside and pays $1.00 per pound more than what the inital price was

 

I understand a man's gotta make a living but at the same time it's HISTORY they're scrapping! There oughtta be a waiting period or something before certain pieces get processed. I'm forever rescuing Bunting Chairs from the vultures...

 

Seen a 18 wheeler yesterday with 18 flattened cars on the trailer. Over half of them were vintage tin. My kids couldnt understand why I was so bent outta shape by the sight of that. What a shame.

 

Scrap vehicles were being bought at $260 / ton last weekend at the Indianapolis Pic-a-part.

 

$1 per pound more would be a little spendy, wouldn't it?

 

Hate to say it, but if it's between ,eating and a rusty Buick,guess what. A man's got to do what a man's got to do. They call it life.

 

From the title of this thread I expected to read "and beat the ever loving crap out of him for stealing stuff off my property." I live in the ghetto and our local scrapper is a thief. I regularly see him with shopping carts in his truck. My neighbors have all chased him off their property at least once, metal just "disappears" off our property. Cops won't do jack. Last time I caught him staring down my driveway at my cars I took pics of him, his truck, and his license plate, then told him if a single lugnut went missing on the street I was sending it all to the cops. He cussed me out and took off.

 

I work for a large recycling company that will go out and buy entire company's to scrap there inventory. We have a portable crusher along with other equipment, that will go set up at old farm house style junk yards and crush car to be hauled to our yard.

We just cleaned one out that was 100 miles north of Louisville, it had 1000 cars with nothing newer that a 75 model. I work in the truck shop for this company at night. I feel like the guy that works in the basement at the funeral home, looking at all the old tin sitting there waiting to go through the shredded the next morning.

 

im gonna go eat some ice cream now...

 

when we pull up behind a trailer full of crushed cars my daughter says"dad dont even look,it will make you mad"

 

To most people, old, dead, cars are just scrap metal weight. If we want to save them, we have to be willing to pay more than they can get for scrap, so many of them will continue to go away. last time steel was high, a friend was closing his wrecking yard and getting rid of all his inventory, including over 100 pre-1960 cars and trucks. He tried for 6 months to get people to buy them at scrap prices, but everyone wanted them for nothing. As a business, they were inventory and about $30,000 worth of revenue that was needed. As old cars, no one was willing to pay close to the $250/ton the recyclers were paying, so most everything went to scrap when the yard closed (except the ones he took home). We can't complain if we're not willing to pay scrap value. I don't like it either, but I understand it

 

You should have bought it...stripped what YOU wanted...tossed in some old wheels/engine block etc to bring up the weight again and walked away with your money back, PLUS the parts you saved.

 

One of the local yards keeps some the owners dad use to sell parts by the pound But his son took over & now he sell @ retail At least he saves some

 

Same thing happened during WW2 or every one of us would have a 32 and they would be worth a tenth what they are now.
I agree it's sad to see but it's a good buck for people who don't give a crap. You can either snivel about it or step up and pay more for a car than the hobbiests are willing to pay.

 

there was a guy here in az that had a car that looked very similar to that, in the same condition on a trailer outside my work, only he wanted 5 big ones for it...600 was a great price