Features Some people's sanity, seriously questionable. That goes for the yard owner too.

"You just have them dismantle the whole car or you dismantle it and than buy each part separately. The dismantler has met the letter of law, made a ton of money and the system got their taxes. How bad do you want it?"

Not a chance. I have known the guy for 47 years and in that time he has NEVER sold a car, even in pieces. You can buy all the parts you want but the shell gets crushed every time.

 

LOL, I stop posting my Crusher saves, and someone starts... The only thin I can say from being a person that saves cars from the s****per is that to them, weight is money... period...
If you want to save it than pay him his weight for it and take it home...
If you have the room post it for sale and find it a home, if not, like some of mine I cant get anyone to buy, pull any good parts off and take it back to the crusher...

But the guy running the yard here doesnt care about selling a complete car while some do...

 

I know a local car s****per (a flatbed guy who buys cars and then sells them for s****). I drove up to find one of his guys crushing a good looking early 60s Chevy pickup. I told him I would have bought it ----he said he crushed it because it had no ***le.

A lot of these guys are just interested in the quick buck and turning inventory around. They don't want to be in the salvage business, they want to be in the s**** business.

If you want to change this, then make up business cards that say you'll buy cars for greater than s**** value. Buy a flatbed and hand out business cards at every s**** yard.

 

Sad but I have seen better go to the smelter...

 

Sad but true, I see it all the time around here. Seen to many nice cars go to the crusher. Just a few years ago I watched a barn fresh complete 34' Ford 2dr sedan get crushed. I tried to buy it from the s**** yard and offered $2000 cash, manager wouldn't sell because of company policy! I even tried to talk him into saving it for himself and I would buy it off him and he wouldn't go for that either. Iv'e seen everything from a 41' Merc convertible, multiple 49'-51' Mercs, 69' Mustang Mach 1, 1970 Nova SS,tons of muscle cars, scores of 30's pickups, Model-A's and the list goes on and on, go to the crusher. Sometimes you can save em' most of the time not

 

Now wheres all the loud-mouth HAMBers that love to chime in on these threads saying how cool THIS is??? C'mon guys, tell us how great this is.

 

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Relax, its a photoshop from Office Space. No dead horses were harmed....




I want the seats out of that T bird.

 

Not cool. How does that wind up in the s**** yard anyway.

But if a person wanted to smash a 34 ford, well that's between him and what's in between his ears. If some money offered wouldn't stop him, then that's going to cost quite a bit in therapy or education to correct that problem.

Maybe the car was haunted, maybe it was stolen, who knows but since it wasn't mine or yours.....

True story:
Sold a show car for some pretty decent dough. When it was mine it was babied and very well taken care of, not a scratch in the 16 years I owned it. Guy who bought it towed it home on a tow dolly. I told him that would be a bad idea & Could have bought a brand new trailer for about 5% of what he paid for the car. So he gets to the end of my driveway and the Dolly's fender bashed the p***enger side fender all to hell. It was deemed "100% perfect finish" by nearly every car show judge that looked at it.

 

Same tech troll peeing on yet another thread. Proudly, loudly.

 

I'm amazed at the 3-5 year old pickups in the stack at the local yard, guess those electrical problems total stuff quicker than body damage. I did get a '40 front fender out of there two years ago for $2.00 over s**** weight value. Bob

 

I think they came with a 9 3/8" rear. W.A.R.

 

I ran out of popcorn. I'm snacking on spanish peanuts.

 

Ok, Slammed is a yes in the "S****ping '34 tudors is cool". Not surprising, considering the source. So far your all alone on this one...

 

Just For Men, the car is ready for Milwaukee run. And the beat goes on...

 

According to specs on the web, that style 'Bird weighs right at 4,500 lbs.

Junk cars we crushed recently were 12-1/2 cents a pound.

That 'Bird was worth roughly $560. Case closed. "Don't care what it is, care what it weighs" is the official s**** persons mantra.

 

I use to know a guy that built beautiful hot rods... He would build it, show it off for his shop, get business off of it, and when he got tired of it he would put a price on it, wait 2 weeks and if no one gave him his price he took it to a s**** yard and made them crush it while he was there... Than start over on the next project... He figured since people wanted to screw him on what the car was worth than what was the point in selling it...

I picked up 2 55s a few weeks ago that were on a trailer pulling into the yard... Bought them and he towed them an extra mile to my shop and dropped them off WITH ***les... I didnt wanna piss off the yard for pulling money away from them, so I went to see the owner and brought him a 12 pack of beer...

 

Ok just for a few mins ill humor this.
I'll low ball everything and ***ume it was not unusable parts
So there's 4 wheels at 100.00
Wishbones at 200
Axle at 75
Springs at 150
Spindles at 75
Drums at 50
Frame at 1000
Fenders at 800
Floor pan at 1000
Hood at 400
Grill at 800
Door frames at 700
Inner door with parts 500
Bumpers at 200
Windshield at 200
All the inner garnish at 500
Steering gear 200
All the other little stuff 1000.

Engine & trans 400

And then the shell which includes cowl, fire wall and roof sections at 1000 plus

And you offer 2000.00 ????

 

"Just for Men" isnt that like that "Grecian Formula" stuff??

 

Ok, 31Vicky, I know you are one of those younger guys, so you are probably blissfully unaware of this phenomenon. When a guy in my age group says "a few years ago" that can mean like 20 years ago. For example, just recently, I was bench racing with some buds, and mentioned that an incident had occured "oh, about five years ago" and a friend brought it to my attention that it had actually occurred in 1998. As you p*** 40, your past starts to compress, and the older you get, the more profound this time distortion becomes. Hell, if "High Plains Drifter" is in his seventies, in his mind, "A few years ago" COULD conceivably be 1974!
I think this actually has something to do with Einsteins doppler effect.

 

My first truck got crushed in a bitter divorce. (not mine)
I offered 1,000 dollars,(more than fair at the )time the wife only wanted to hurt the hubby.
c'est la vie