"Recycling centers"---WTF!

And they'll remember you next time you're there needing that small yet crucial part.

Flatman

 

There is a local u-pull-it that tries to set aside the older cars to sell whole, but the yard guys don't always listen. I couldn't believe seeing a 65-66 Skylark convert and 66 Impala convert - that were solid cars with good frames - up on blocks being cut up. They'd taken the entire rear quarters off the Skylark. One of the other yards saves whole cars like that, too, and a third one I noticed they set aside a '65 Mustang coupe that turned up one day.

But this place did have a pretty nice '59 Ford Wagon a week ago Monday, 292, 3-speed, that could be had for about $1000. Good floors, no obvious rot, good glass, interior there except carpets. As he said, why sell it for much less when if it went in the yard guys would strip it bare and he'd do that kind of money out of it? I didn't think the price was too bad for what it was.

And I did buy a car for $300 from another one of the u-pull-it yards. A '48 Hudson 4dr. Someone had rodded it, and it came no front clip, no dash, no motor or trans. Had been set up for a Chevy. I flat-towed it home, no less.

Different places have different rules; one other yard here supposedly has a guy who will go $800 on any Pontiac 455 motor. I wanted to nab a convert with one in it, but I looked it over better and it was a POS with a set up 400 (wrong motor for the car) in it. I bet it went to scrap that way.

The one I hate is they charge $1 per inch for taillights. Then try to charge by the square inch - if it's an 8x2 lens, it's $16. That's crazy when the same lense is on eBay for $5. But sometimes you can tell them what you want to pay.. and sometimes it balances out. A steering column is $15 - even a tilt-tele that would normally go for $150 anywhere else. I did a job gutting a '63 Riviera in the one yard. It didn't seem bad but the floor fell out on the left side. I paid $20 for the aluminum drums off the front. Even gave them some shitty iron ones to save the $1 each core fee.

I walked out one day with one of those plastic shipping crates with the folding lid that the gas stations and drug stores use to ship things in and out, and they gave it to me. I still use it to carry some of my car show crap. Could have gotten two, but the bottom was busted out of the other one.

It's all in where you go and who's working on a given day, though, the one yard one counter guy is pretty reasonable, the other is more by the book and can be kind of a dick.

I think I have to pay $10 for a rim and tire, but it's not hard to find good ones. Not a bad deal for something you can just throw on.

 

So you just decide if it's a fair price and if it's not ,you steal it.

 

I dont charge to get in my yard, but fucks like you and the dicks that fill their pockets is the reason NOBODY is allowed in the yard unescorted. And I'll probably send you packing if I dont know you.

We dont even carry any 75-2007 parts at all, due to theft.
The cars come in, and are scrapped right away.

Thanks to people like you.

 

Mammary Lane moved to Wilmington.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

A 'recycling center' just opened in my town about a year ago. It's essentially a CRUSH center. They put out BIG ads in papers around the southern part of the state, which in Maine is pretty damn big, for $200 for your 'junk' cars. They then drive all over the place, pulling 'junks' out of barns, sheds, fields, tree lines, gullies, etc. and crushing them. Unless you know someone there or are a delivery guy or something, you don't get in. My uncle delivers there, and says he's seen tons of 40s and 50s cars flattened that are either viable rod/kustom material or are loaded w/ parts like gauges, mills, rear ends, glass, etc. They have apparently set some of the better cars aside and have some guy that deals in Hemmings take control of them and sell whatever, amazingly overpriced, I'm sure. He lets a lot get through because they don't have the 'value' to salvage. Not ideal, but at least SOME things are being saved, if they sell. I'm seriously considering applying for a job there just to maybe be able to pick a few out of the lot or go on pick-up runs, or strip some goodies before being cubed and turned into cans of FDS or cock rings, or whatever it is they do with the metal. It honestly makes me want to puke. Then the emissions credits can go to industry so they can pump more carcinogens into the air. And to think these places are popping up all over now. Better beat 'em to it guys before it's ALL gone.

Jonny

 

There is one thing that I definately dig about the yard I frequent, if it's old it gets set back, even though he doesen't have any call for the stuff, I think I'm the only one that even buys the old stuff from him. As of right now he has around a 62 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 I got my eyes on, just gotta get the so many cents a pound together at about 5000 pounds and go get her.

 

I think you're looking at it all wrong.. for $1500 you get a '34 coupe AND 2 extra windows.. the 3 window should at least be a couple hundred less.

 

everybody want's a fair deal. but it sounds like your as bad as the scumbag "TWEAKERS" that come by my place in the middle of the night, a "FUCKING THIEF!" ask the last guy what it feels like being pinned under a jeep front differential at 4 in the morning, from the sounds he was making it sounded pretty unpleasant. heh!heh!heh!

 

If I found him there, I would leave him until he was dead. It was 112 degrees today.
I doubt he would make it a day or two.
Fuck tweakers and all thieves. No matter how they try to justify their stealing.

 

Two local yards here are pretty good. One is basically a chop shop type of place (strip and crush). They let you in the yard and pull your own stuff and are really reasonable ($125.00 for a full leather int. out of a 2006). The other one is good about pulling anything older than 1971 and park it on side of the road for sale. They had a 55' Pontiac for 500.00 last time I drove by.
Fitysix

 

I like bringing my battery-sawzall or battery-grinder down there.
When you get something instead of unbolting you just cut it out nice and big.
Especially like draglinks, brake stuff, doors...
(as long as the other part isn't too useful anyway)
I've actually gotten some beers in trade when other guys use the equipment!
tp

 

Well said....

 

I am always cool with the local yard owners. They put stuff aside for me for my weekly forays into the yard if they think I might be interested in it.

Thats how I got my camaro - factory 4 spd, t-top, posi car, with only 50K miles, and an aftermarket turbo setup on it - for $480. Or the complete running, and in nice shape S10 that gave its frame for the 49' Chevy. Or my current daily driver...