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

Ain't that the truth! You can buy complete NEW all-steel cabs and beds for them trucks from Chevs of the 40s and start with virgin, rust-free sheetmetal if you just HAVE to have one!

Stop crying people...better, more "valuable" cars and trucks get scrapped every day. Nothing lasts forever...not even us...so quit whining and just do what you can for as long as you can!!!

 

Crusty Nuts got a point, still sad to see it go to waste though.

 

I scrapped a 91 Cadillac last week, and saw four or five AD trucks in the pile, damn shame.

Rich

 

I would have bought it in a heart beat if it was near me. But the sad fact is the scrap man has the ready cash now. With fuel so high and everything else going up most of us dont have much extra cash these days. Things got so slow for me I took a job driving truck.I havent worked for the other man in a dozen years. Just aint no money in the country around here. Dont blame anybody for scrapping their stuff. At least you tried! OldWolf

 

If anybody has that front bumper, I need one.


This is just too much. I would have tried Craigslist. Here in Nor-Cal you could have posted it for $1,000 @ 5:00am & had it sold by 6:00am that same day.

 

So did all you guy that say "part it out" miss the fact the guy is moving? Wonder how many have shot him a PM on the "next" one that is heading for the same fate? Let me guess, your going to wait until it is scrapped then whine and bitch?

Some people have no understanding of the words "needs to go now". They are somehow under the impression those words mean you can store it for them indefenately, or you can wait until they sell something and may actually have some cash.

I think maybe he is sending out a pretty clear message: If you see something for sale you want, pony up the cash, TODAY. With scrap prices going up and prices of needed things going up as well, I think we will be seeing more of this. Its the times we live in. Gene

 

that last picture is sad-defeated.

 

I feel your pain. When my dad died I drove from Nebraska to Oregon to get all his shit together and auction it all off. My brothers and I kept the early fords and I put ads in all the news papers from all around the area...all the small towns within 50 miles of his place a month ahead of time....every week......
When auction day came it was beautiful weather and I expected a big turnout. Got about 15-20 locals. I ended up selling my dad's rust free 73 ford pickup, his 67 T-bird, a 67 IHC shortbox and even my own 47 Diamond T [had no way to get it home] for scrap! Every one had a good title too. Nobody would bid on any of the cars. Everything sold for scrap and got crushed. I was bummed.

 

It,s a sad result of the economy, trouble in the job mkt, inflation,etc, nobody has room for them. I had 7 cars at my place and it,s a small tract lot. The other side of it is the blow to the hot rod future, I hope this econ gets better soon! ok rant over, dont get into politics! what we need is some 'REAL' hot rod junkyards. [wishful thinking]

 

this is the gayest shit ever. It was like watching a baby get punched.

 

How rusty is that dart? They tend to compost pretty quick. I need another dart like a hole in the head, but I have a soft spot for them.

Has anyone ever tried to find a decent AD truck in the northeast? Not cheap. I wish we had trucks like that up here.

 

You must be kidding? Do you have the money to buy every rusted piece of metal everyone here can find you? If its mine, Ill decide where it goes. Its not your affair unless you plan to buy up everything I don't need anymore. He had it priced under scrap value and no one stepped up to the mike and busted a funky rhyme. I don't think he posted it in Yugoslavia either, I am sure someone would have liked it there too. Shame on you Lobucrod.

Coulda', shoulda', woulda'. If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass on the ground when he jumps. I've read alot of "I would have saved it". News for you, go to your local truck junkyard and buy them all and starve your family trying to rebuild them.

I don't think its nice to make a guy that already hates to have crushed it feel bad in front of thousands of people.

 

That's the sentiment I was looking for.

 

I have a 54 Chevy truck that I've had up for sale for a couple of months now, had a couple of scrap guy's wanting to offer scrap value for it. Had it on the auction site, Craigslist and Hamb. No real interest at the moment.

The cab is solid, looks like I'm going to have another project to store. I won't dream of scrapping it, there's another truck around the corner to me thats for sale which is in far worse condition and the guy's asking twice the amount.

 

I see that you`re in Springtown now. If your still into rodding, I have a buddy that lives south of Springtown, between Azle and Weatherford. He usually has some good parts and stuff if you ever need anything.

 

I know that you were moving and needed it out by a certain time, but you probably could have entrusted it to a friend or another HAMBer in you area, have them try and sell it or part it out and split the profits! there was a ton of good parts on that truck.

We all understand that its yours to do with as you please, but its a shame to see old iron scrapped like that.

 

No rust here?? Hell everything I drag up is rotten from end to end down here.

 

This is sort-of related.

Every now and then, when I am minding my own business or loading lumber into my old Stude, someone just has to come up to me and say something like "you should be horsewhipped for using such a classic like that", or "you should be ashamed of taking that out in this weather" .

I don't even try to be polite anymore.

I simply ask "how many have you saved from the scrapyard?"
I pause for a couple seconds.
"Give me your address, and I'll have them dump the next one in your yard for you to save it."

For some strange reason, they always act as if I was the one trying to start trouble.

 

It was only a chevy not even a old navy crunch.

 

I feel a bunch of the guys "pain"........but, I can only drag home so much stuff and everyone on the web wants to send me cashiers check for more that the car is worth....hahaha......I have a "ROUGH" 41' Zephyr 3 window club coupe that I have been trying to get $500 for on craigslist and this next weekend I am going out with the torch and cutting the "rare" stuff off that I can make coin on Epay........but, I thought about it today that I feel bad, but I may take it to the scrapper in a pile of steel (it is ROUGH, look at my pix in my profile), all I wanted was the running gear and some odd ball stuff........so yes, I feel bad about taking a torch to 1 of 9 (according to the restorers), but no one has stepped up to the plate.

Oh yea, ask "Nate & Zach" about the stuff that this place is crushing..........but, we sorta' got hit with the "sheriff card" from a family feud for over 350 cars that are getting smacked down.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

I probably would have done the same thing....but then I wouldn't have posted about it on the HAMB.

It was just a used up truck...half the parts of those big ones wont even fit your half-ton anyway. And as it's been said, those trucks are a dime a dozen.

 

Funny how eBay is too good to post the whole car on, but the first place you go to sell parts. Craigslist is local only, it's almost impossible to market something there beyond whatever region you post it on. If you expect someone to "step up to the plate" you have to give them a chance to know the car even exists instead of hiding it in a free ad someplace that 50 people look at and don't even know what they're looking at, then sitting there wondering why it doesn't sell. I'm sure there's a guy who wants it somewhere, but he may not know how to search all of craigslist to find it. eBay, as much as it blows, is everywhere, worldwide.

Trust me, I've done this shit for over 10 years, I know what the hell I'm talking about.

 

The Dart isn't really rusty at all! It's banged up...but not rusty! (It sat in a garage from the early 70s until just two years ago!) It IS a four-door, though!

Check the HAMB Classifieds under "225 Slant Six for sale"!!!

 

I agree with you 100%. But I have tried selling parts cars on ebay no reserve, $300, and received 0 bids. I think the issue there is not that people don't want the cars, it just costs the same to ship a good car, as it does to ship a parts car.

None of my European buyers, or Aussies, Kiwis, etc, want parts cars.They want something that drives. I do sell alot of parts overseas through my contacts and ebay. Craigslist, Recycler, etc has always been a waste of time for me.

I still would have stripped the shit off that truck that was good. I need alot of it for one of mine.

I does not matter if you are selling gold bricks or lumps of coal,nobody will know if you don't put out the effort to advertise it.

 

Sadly, I have a 63 Buick 4 door Lesabre that might find the same fate, but I will at least try to part it first. :-(

 

I have all the parts to bring it back to drving... I'd have driven to Tx to pick it up at $200... Man...

 

That would've been a real find around here though.

Its also why I quit regretting cutting up old shit, because whats a "real find" around here is scrap metal out west.

 

If it were within 100 miles of me I would have jumped on it, but gas as high as it is and car haulers charging what they are the cost would have been more than the truck is worth. Too bad it had to be scrapped...

What ever happened to the "Call before you Crush" idea anyway?

 

Yes, but there's a big difference between some common four-door sedan parts car, and a '41 Lincoln coupe, or a '53 Buick Skylark - I sold one of those to Australia a while back that had been wrecked, left upside down for 40 years, had the whole front frame stub cut off and gone along with the motor and trans. The fenders are solid but so mangled most guys would throw them away. Of course, the guy hasn't come to get it like he keeps promising, but I have a local guy who's after it if he doesn't show up soon (he's said he was going to come about 5 times and never shows or calls, I never hear from him unless I bug him).

But before that we sold three late '50s Mopar convertibles to Sweden. Of the three only one wasn't in danger of just breaking right in two. A '60 Caddy ragtop went in pieces to Turkey, of all places, where it's going to become a '59. They all sold for considerably more than scrap, too. I sent two Chevy ragtops to the west coast, one '53, one '59 - both of them near the break-in-two point too. And all of those cars sold via eBay, when eBay didn't quite blow as much as it does now.

With eBay you have to pay the freight, you have to put them in the flat fee $40 to list categories if you want people to find them. I've seen the same car listed in Parts Cars not sell, then get a flat fee listing, and not only sell but get bid a full 30% higher than the last time. But even then it's tough to find buyers, eBay has too much of a reputation for scams. I looked at OnlineAuction.com and saw old stuff getting bids and looking like it was selling, saw some obvious scams too, haven't tried it because it's still a lot smaller than eBay. Hemmings Motor News is another option. $30 for an ad for a month.

I agree, Craigslist is a waste of time - it makes no damned sense to me, the same cars I post here that are located 75 miles out of town I get virtually zero emails on, my buddy posted some of them in the next town over, and actually sold some stuff. Of course it was mostly motorcycles, but still he's getting way more emails than I do. There must be some trick - lie about or leave out the actual location until you get a live buyer maybe, who knows.

But it is hard work to sell a car, unless it's mint and you put a giveaway price on it.



I think a good number of the US guys are just spoiled and lazy - I get tons of requests for parts off this or parts off that, sometimes they offer to buy parts off running, driving cars - I usually ask them if they're high, if it runs and drives, I'll put it on the road for a winter rat before I part it out. They think these old cars are still around by the 100s all over the US, and that's just not the case anymore - at least half of the good old-car yards I've known over the years are gone now and the higher scrap gets the faster they go away.

 

WTF..here they are stealing cars all day every day it seems and you couldnt 'give that away'???...Unreal..