Ignorance of some people.... What a shame!

I saw this in the back of a Junkers truck. It's a 1949-55 GMC Pickup sheet metal... When I flagged the guy down and asked if I could take a look, I saw the whole front end and bed. It had surface rust but otherwise very sold tin. I asked what he was going to do with it, and the guy says "I'm gonna sell it to the steel yard, and get some beer money." I asked if I could buy it and the rest of the truck, he said "Hell no! I know you're type, gonna give me nuthin' for some scrap and sell it for money at da yard!" Then he got into his truck and drove off... I was gonna give him
More than scrap would.... Which would be $50 in scrap I would've doubled that to pay him. Some people are just ignorant. That is right now probably going into a shredder and he drove off with $20.

 

Ya I gotta agree with you. There are some very ignorant people out there and it's only gettin worse. My dad used to say that there are more horses asses in the world than horses.

 

damn shame

 

why not follow him and buy it from the steel yard?

 

well... you have to figure if your job is driving around in an overloaded 1/2 ton pickup grabbing up steel that other people are throwing away you are not the smartest knife in the drawer.

 

same thing happened to a buddy.stoped a guy with a bike frame.the guy did sell it to him along with a tranny.ended up being knuckel head parts.some people just suck

 

I know the steel yard I go to would've sold you that tin for no more than double what they paid the tool. What a shame. Anytime scrap prices go too high, it makes it harder on the car hobby. Parts cars get expensive or they just go to scrap before anyone has a chance to save them.

 

Scarebird ''why not follow him and buy it from the steel yard?''


if the yards there are like the scrap yards here, once it in the gate, they won't sell to anyone

Later

 

there is that...

 

A few years ago I came across a very small junk yard behind a guy's garage. He was in the process of sending all the cars ( maybe 50 in all ) to the crusher. At that time I think the price of steel would have yielded him about $125 per average car. He had 3 or 4 Granadas, 2 Mavericks and a Mustang or two, all with 8-inch rears. I asked if I could buy a rear end and he said yeah , $250. Around here 8-inch rears were ( and still are ) going for about $100. I told him I would buy them all at $100 each and if he would roll the cars over I'd take them out. He wouldn't do it and as far as I know sent them to the crusher. He could have gotten $100 from me and probably another $100 for the rest of the car. Go figure >

 

Thats not a 1/2 ton, it's a Nissan mini truck. Just felt like being a smart ass about it.

 

At the local yard here you can buy for the price they would get by the pound, I've spent a few happy shopping days there.

 

I could not do any more as I had my 2 and 1 year olds with me. If he would have accepted my offer ($100) I would have had him follow me home to drop it off and followed him to where he got that poor victim.

 

one lump or two ? you cant fix stupid

 

Haha!!! That is what I was thinking capt!

 

that's even worse! around here between the metal guys and the cardboard guys there are easily 200 overloaded piece of crap trucks out on the hiway every day. it's a wonder no one has been killed in a wreck with these things. idiots.

 

Kind of funny the title to this thread; yet you ask that.

 

To be a further smart ass - those trucks were rated as 1/2 ton

 

What you saw in the scrappers truck is no different than people that let nice cars set out in the weather to rot away saying not for sale " I am going to fix it up real soon " I have watched a 32 two door sedan do this exact thing for 35 years only to have the gas company drive over it with a D 8 cat just last winter .

 

Not to be a smarty pants but that would be "sharpest".......

 

That 32 owner should be put in prison, like this guy today... It's not just an old car/truck, it's part of history... It's like towns letting a house owned by a significant person be turned into a gas station (my home town was the birthplace of a president and he lived there most of his early life... But they tore the house down to put in a gas station)

 

I'm with it. That's a heart breaker

 

I was at a U-pull-it yard today just to see what was there, I didn't really need anything. Anyways, inside was a late 20's Chevy dump truck. Only sheet metal left was the cowl, and it was in pretty decent shape. When I asked the owner how much he wanted for it he said "i dunno, make me an offer" I said $30, considering that he was just going to send it to the crusher as "tin" anyways. He came back with a hell no and "Its probably worth double that in scrap! I get $150 for a cab, so I'd sell it to you for half the price of a cab" Lets just say I walked away.

You wouldn't believe some of the super solid classics people brought in there as scrap, it disgusts me

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=685046

This is what I posted a couple of weeks ago.

 

Was that supposed to be witty or something? or do Albertans hit the bottle early on Friday?

 

Hopefully you run into him again. When you do, tell him you would have given him $500...

 

What is Friday the day for blue font? Is Red tomorrow? No I thought most people knew that once something goes INTO the scrap yard, it can never be sold back out. As per my comment that following him to the scrap yard really wont do much of any good.

 

I thought that it was very funny

Read the title again, is the poster the same for not going to scrap yard, are you the same for asking the question, am I the same for typing this stupid answer to you or don't you have a sense of humour?
Ah, to sit behind a keyboard
Have a good one
Rod

 

Every day is blue font with me, kind of a signature thing...

Words fail me here. Never? Obviously you don't understand the concept of crane oil.

 

err....better give him a lotta lumps!