I hated to do it but I had to scrap it.

,,,

 

get over yourself. it was his to do as he seen fit.

selfish. what the FUCK are you talkin about? it aint public property for the love of shit

 

Ok I'm over myself now. But it still made me sick just thinking about how no one will ever be able to drive that truck again after it lasted 60 years.
My dad had a truck just like it when I was younger, I loved riding in it growing up.

 

that's what i've been saying.
put up or shut up.


had i been closer....

 

if only i was closer. as all are thinking but the close ones didnt want it. so oh well. its not the first one thats been scrapped and im sure it wont be the last.

I would love to have a dually AD though. fun to tow with.

 

what if the widow's hot?
i'd want pics,nekked preferably...

 

"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas came on as I opened this thread. Weird.

So sad to see that happen to old iron. Hard to believe you got no takers for that price.

 

Many of you guys, like the one above are making my point for me. Everyone wants it after it's gone. It is the same as a tire kicker in a hot rod shop. All talk!

 

AMEN!!! Chisel that in stone and hang it at the entrance to the Kingdom!!

Everyone's quick to say "Oh! Don't just scrap that car!", but they fall dead silent when you say "Okay, then...YOU give me the scrap value for it and drive it away!".

I got one destined for the junkyard this week (once I clean it out) unless someone wants it for scrap price ($300). Runs and drives great...but needs a full brake job!

(67 Dart, 225 slant six in excellent running order with a 904 automatic that shifts flawlessly, hot or cold! Hell, the car barely has 30,000 miles on it, but it isn't worth fixing at this point.)

That truck of yours was deffinitely workable, but you offered it for a very decent price and nobody stepped up. Don't lose any sleep over it.

 

Yeah man, its tough..tire kickers, put up or shut up, everybody wants it after its gone, its all true..We can't save em all, but we try..I have a three strikes and you're out criteria..no title, stuck or no engine, and busted windshield (I will make exceptions for four-doors)..In the last year I have given away two cars to hopefully deserving people, a 52 4D Dodge Meadowbrook and a 62 4D Studebaker Lark both with three strikes..at least they didn't go to the scrapyard..Last year a construction company was moving their equipment yard farther down the Hwy. and I found out they needed to dispose of a 59 White Super Mustang tractor truck and after I talked to them they delivered it on the back of a low-boy, hopefully it won't meet the same fate as that old Chevy...

 

I would havedropped it off at a walmart parking lot before I did that. And to think you even took pictures off it

Wow!

 

yea its hard to keep them all. Yesterday helped my son load a friends 61 ford 1/2 ton longbed in a trailer, for the scrapper, nobody would [or could] take it, it wasnt too bad few rough spots but it was a solid ca. truck all there for $300. I used to own one and I couldnt take it, kind hurt.

 

Sure you would have when you could have hauled it a couple of miles further down the road and put 3-4 hundred dollars in your pocket. Be sure not tell anyone "my momma didn't raise no fool"

frank

 

thats where this ones going after i get some parts off......
tried to sell it for $250....
ill take $200 for it now minus tailgate hardware...

 

damn , i could have used a few pieces and parts .. adios old truck..

 

Un-fucking-believeable.

"You should have given it away before scrapping "

Hey let's take a poll!

Johnny can give it away and get nothing

Or Johnny can scrap it and get 300 bucks.

Wish I had the bank account to let me just give things away and not get any bucks in return.

 

That's terrible. That thing was cleeeeaaaan too.

What a waste.

 

Your shop must be doing well these days.

I'm sure you have a bin outside for the scrap mongers and a shelf put up too for parts that sit around for too long...

Above both your scrap bin and old parts shelf, you must have a "FREE STUFF" sign, huh?

 

It wasnt clean by any means, unless you live in the rust belt.

It wasnt a wrecker, my uncle bought it as an old grain truck and had it shortened to pull his mobile home in the early 60's.

Yeah I could have dropped it off at walmart or given it away ...to someone else to haul to the crusher and make a buck. I used the $ to buy gas to make the 3rd of probably 5 260 mile trips hauling all the stuff I wont part with that will fit on my trailer.

At least I did find a buyer for a 56 International COE cab and he came all the way from Austin to get it. I told him to be sure to come prepared to load it up as it was sitting on the ground. Well he wasnt prepared and it took us 3 hours to get it up on his trailer. Good thing I have a wench truck which is for sale too by the way. Who is going to save it?

Actually I am supposed to have a buyer for it if he doesnt bail on me.


Like it or not sometimes we just have to do what we have to do.

 

They should not allow you guys in the south to crush anything. No rust there. Or they should bring them to the junk yards up north. LOL Oh well sometimes you got to make the other ones worth more by making less available.

 

they'll make 2 honda civic's that get 40 mpg outta that fender!

 

How much rat shit? I always said you could turn shit into money!

 

....just a cryin shame all the way around.

 

This thread is a crying shame, thats for sure.

Its like going on a dog lover's forum and posting a video of you putting a puppy to sleep. How did you think this was going to go over????

 

WTH is everyone crying over? Those Chevy trucks are a dime a dozen. Its not like he was scrapping anything rare. Besides that, it was one of the big trucks.

Sometimes you just have to take care of business even when you don't like what you have to do.

 

R. I. P. ! ! !

 

That because you didn't even try to sell them whole, it was all about you stripping and making money off them, not about saving the cars. Especially the woodie, where the frame easily sells for more than scrap on eBay even if it's not perfect. Some people just don't get that because they think something isn't worth building, doesn't mean someone else won't be more than happy to work with it. Short-sightedness and greed gets cars scrapped.

I love these threads where guys come on and say they did this or they did that, I see the clown who can't ever answer his phone then wonders why he can't sell cars chimed in too. You can't sell shit if you say you're going to be home at such and such a time, then never answer the phone, then sell to the first guy who comes along and screw over the guy who made an appointment to come see said vehicle first.


The last car I sent to the scrapper was a bare shell with the rotted frame falling off it - about the only parts I left that I probably should have pulled were the front bumper and some stainless around the windows. I even cut the roof skin out of it. I spent three days working on that car to strip it out. Seats, dash, heater core, pedals, motor, trans, trim, rearend, side glass, grille, taillights, etc etc etc all came out. And it went to scrap because every body panel had some holes in it, the frame was falling apart, and you could buy a nice example of the same car for about $5000 the last I checked. It brought about $260 with a couple old stoves thrown in the back. I paid $300 for the car out of another junkyard in 2006, or it would have long since been crushed.


You couldn't spend even a couple hours with a grinder and a sawzall and strip some pieces off this before junking it? I'm sure doors, grille, fenders would have sold... You got ripped off on the price though, you should have gotten at least $200 a ton, I got $280 a few weeks back for an S10 filled with rotted body parts that didn't have a motor in it. Surely that truck if it had a motor in it weighs on the order of 4500-5500 lbs.

And the last time I actually rode into the scrapyard, I bought a Model A doodlebug off their scrap pile, paid through the nose for it, brought it home and wired together some doors, back and roof for it - *I* put my money where my mouth is, and now there's enough a guy could build something out of it. I went in because I saw a '56 Buick hardtop go by on a rollback, figured sure it was headed to the scrapper, and planned to buy it if I found it.


And guys complain because they post it here and no one buys. You have to put a little more work into it than that - eBay, Craigslist in several cities, local paper, clubs for that kind of car, if you price it cheap enough it will sell to someone. You can't just let it sit out back and hope someone will come knocking at the door. I could sell every car I had here if I was willing to give them away for $1000 or less.

 

I woulda given ya the $175 for just the hood and grill and still let you scrap it....oh well...

 

I have done it. Does not make me happy looking back but shit happens and you can not keep everything waiting for people to quite fiddle fucking around and buy it.

 

and to think folks are cutting up "old navy "store display trucks so they can be moved out a narrow door so they can stitch them back together...
that ol truck looks like a puppy being carried by its mother