History Try and not yell at this.

We dont need no stinkin hoarders , It's "harvest time"....a bumper crop......

Possible scenarios - Owner died....widow died... Son / daughter thought they were eyesores...executor thought they were eyesores...too much work to individually sell...etc...

Every car has it's own history, no matter where they are...sad and disappointing to see this again...wonder what the future hoarders will be holding on to ...." oh look honey, at those old 2010 challengers in that field over there"

 

thank god im friends with some of the s**** guys in town. they bring over all the old parts and even questionable items that could be old car parts to my house. then i give them all my s****, its a pretty good trade.

 

Absolutely right, TMan..........all I saw was a lot of old POS cars......nothing very desirable at all in that pile of junk.....
Fordors, oddball cars, and stuff not very many people would consider good candidates for customizing or even restoring.....just another day in our throwaway society.....

CB

 

Come on. Got rid of the cars and kept the tires and rotten wood laying around. The humanity of it all. It's our history fellas and it's all worth saving.

 

Then there are those that would complain if you gave them a hundred dollar bill...."It aint crisp enough"

 

Actually to a good scrounger the aged barnwood is like GOLD, worth ten times the s**** price of the cars. Architectural salvage is booming. There are crews travelling the country scooping all of it up. We have two huge, high end gated mountian comunities being built here, they are paying a premium for stuff like that.

 

Right on tman, and to your 1st reply too. Since these things are designed to get the "oh the humanities!" responses nobody seems to pay real close attn to what's happening. I didn't see the early For truck on the flatbed, not the early 30s cab. But what did go was just like you said. Less than desireable. Barn wood, old doors, old windows, all at a major premium right now. There's decent sized store next door to the Packard Museum in Dayton that specializes in that stuff. Been there a for a bit too.

 

Its places like that, full of worthless **** that make collectors and builders look bad. S**** that junk.

 

Damnit, just like the nightly news...

I keep telling myself not to watch stuff that makes me angry.

I'm going to go back and re-read the thread from yesterday about the new year's discover in a barn. Think. happy. thoughts.

 

The simple economics don't even work here...those mid 50s Buicks would part out for 2 grand apiece - just a tad higher than a few hundred bucks in s**** value. Oh, I forgot - the mantra of the new millenium: "give me the quick buck, I'm not interested in working"

 

Some people just like to have stuff.

After this, all the ones that are left are worth a little more than they were before.

 

They pray to Giaia, the Goddess of the Earth. I am one who has been on the recieving end of that. The tires are still there because you have to pay to get rid of them. I don't know where this happened but it all started in Portland, Oregon- Multnomah County about 30 years ago I had a used parts business and had the misfortune of living in the Columbia River Gorge when it was declared a National Scenic Area. I had bought the property because it was in a ghost town that was byp***ed by the new Interstate Freeway. Nobody wanted to live there. Then the Green Freak Portland Yuppies discovered it. What is a Hoarder? I was taking them apart and selling parts. Multnomah County expatriate.

 

Yup, used a lot of salvage myself. My railings are 500 year old plus pine saved from a 100+ year old barn.

 

Im kind of numb to crushing old cars now a grand will save the car if you want to buy it. Because if you are to friggin cheap to pay up ****er I will crush it for $300.00 hundred AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULT that I crushed history.

 

Yeah..my refrigerator is made from salvage stuff too I hear..I think 1967 Buick..

You know..there's probably some guy on a Traditional Barn & Home forum..crying about that old wood salvaged instead of restoring that derelict barn..

It is the interweb you know..

 

That's a shame, I think I shed a tear...

 

So you'll let them get crushed for $300 but not saved for $300...where's the logic in that?

 

I think what he was sayin' and I've run into this is when someone is selling a field full of cars one at a time they get a bit of the oh that's a rare one syndrome and want $1000 for some clapped out four door. They end up not selling any or very few only to roll in the crusher a year later and s**** them all at 300 a piece. But that's where the s**** guy has a leg up he doesn't care if there's 10 cars or a 1000 cars he's already got a buyer for the scap so $ not a problem. And all the cars trailer manure spreader and what have you gets gone fast. Selling to individuals is a pain in the ***.

 

I'm trying to work a deal with a s**** guy where I get to go in ahead of time and strip out any parts of value for a small fee or inliu of a finders fee.

 

Actually, there are some pretty cool restored barns and other buildings on our sisiter site www.garagejournal.com

So yes, you are right!

 

I would think an auction would be the way to go. Then the collectors and the s****pers could bid against each other, and the highest bidder can do what he wants with the car! (car would have to be removed by winning bidder by a certain time)...

 

Sorry for the way I worded that. Greezeball got it the way it was meant. You dont have to look far there is a post on here stating the scenario I am talking about. Thats what has made me numb. If I was any good at moving or transferring a post I would its the Old N.M Junk Yard about to crush by Bruce Gross.

 

I think that would be the perfect answer. I don't think the high and mightys who called them all pieces of **** could even argue with that. Everybody wins. Owner gets more money, some of it gets saved and the junkman gets to destroy some history plus we would get to say, at least some of them got saved.

 

Awww ****.

 

I know a couple of crushers that wouldn't waste their time going to an auction. They make money off crushing cars, not standing around for a couple of days at an auction. And what happens when the high bid is lower than the s**** value?

I guess you could have an auction (not a small job) and have the crusher come for the rest. The auctioner wouldn't be very happy though.

Not as cut and dried as it seems.
Larry T

 

There is always one or two crush/salvage guys at every auction I have been to even estate auctions.

 

Similar story to both my cars. Rescued both of them from a similar fate at different places. In fact, the last rescue car, a 67 Pontiac 2+2 was the newest car in that yard. Trucks from the 40's, steel wheel farm tractors, several 50's cars all went to the crusher. I could only save one.

 

Me too. Couldn't watch anymore. Every turd on that lot had pieces a HAMB member probably could have turned into a silk purse. My grandfather mined in the Arizona desert. What was left of his camp after 30 years was the cab of an early IH pickup, shot full of holes. The hood ornament never got hit, could not believe it. I removed it and proudly display it in my office.

 

A big problem is a lot of you see these cars sitting around and never ask about them, we can't check on every car of course, but even when they are for sale people never bother to stop in, I have seen that situation turn into this one so many times because nobody will get off their *** to try to save the cars, I have saved so many over the years it's mind boggling.

When I see an old car and I ask about it, even one in plain sight on a well traveled road, they usually give it to me for free or for next to nothing, and sadly when most people find a gold mine of cars they tell nobody, or just close car friends and then this happens to the left overs... tell everyone, get people interested, buy them cheap and sell them cheap so they go to someone who will fix them.

It doesn't actually work that way, back in the day car collectors would buy up cars the same as the one they had just to crush it in hopes the value of theirs would go up, it never actually did though and now there not a lot of those cars for the rest of us.

 

Happens all too often....