I should have mentioned that I live in High Prairie Alberta 1200 K north of the border, 4 hours north Edmonton Alberta. Long drive for most...
I have a few friends in the land of hockey and beer. I may be able to relieve a couple of them from you PM sent
Your yard is beautiful just as it is. Think of it this way--each old car covers a spot of ground you would otherwise have to mow. Mowing those spots would require burning gasoline, which as we know is not good for the environment. You actually need to get some more neat old cars. You would save the energy that would be consumed by the crusher flattening them, the fuel that would be burned by the ship hauling them to a steel mill in China or India, and the energy that would be consumed in melting them down. You would continually save the fuel that would be burned in mowing the spot of ground where they sit. You get more neat old cars to look at, more time to spend with your family instead of mowing where the cars sit, and we all get to breathe cleaner air. This is a win for everybody concerned!
if the center pieces of that grille and driver's taillight housing is good on that Monarch, I'll take them (reasonably priced, of course(
What a baited question..... Are you the person responsible for leaving them in such a sorry state? If so, you should give them to someone who might make use of them. But you won't... Ever time I come across a small stash like that it goes like this: Not for sale Not for sale Not for sale Not for sale Crushed. My bet...next pics is of them getting a tractor driven over them.
Some of those cars look very buildable. If you are just planning to clean up the yard, line up the decent cars nice and straight, and block them up so they're high in the air. Keeps them from getting rotten/stuck in the ground and makes it easier to cut the grass. They won't look so much like clutter if they're straightened up, when they're laying all over at random they look more like discarded junk. Some of the rougher stuff (that smashed Chevy for instance) I personally would strip of all good resaleable parts and scrap what's left. The parts you can sell and ship so location wouldn't be a big problem. If you intend to get rid of all of these cars one way or another, some I would sell whole and others I would part out and scrap the junk.
It's an early 50's F2/3 That truck would look good advertised here: http://www.ford-trucks.com/classifieds/index.php/cat/19
Area code 48706. You do ship freight prepaid dont you? BTW, I'm only interested in the '27 roadster saving you a bunch of money. Frank
I couldn't have stated it any better!!! You guys are lucky, I just broke the blade on my mower on a darn root that was covered by grass.
Be alot of fun to chop the back off that 30's 2door and make a pickup cab out of it for a suicide/bobber skullrod. I was looking for something like that but I'm chopping up a 77 ford van I was scrapping for the 460 to make a hotrod cab out of for a suicide axled bobber... No I'm not joking. I drew up some pics look pretty good now if I can just pull it off... It's half sawzalled up right now. going to chop, channel, section, and pull a foot or 2 out of the middle and split the windshield. might shorten those ford pop out windows for my back glass. I might even splice the twin I beams for a solid axle. Have some fun with something, sell the rest for whatever you can get out of it. Hell it's alot of fun just parting stuff out too.
what about the center strip inthe middle of the grille?? It's about 1" wide. Mine's got a hole in it so even a little bent is better than nothing. And the driver's side taillight housing. Don't need the lens, just the housing.
Price them to sell, IE, cheap. That is, if you have no interest except to clean the yard. I don't know if the scrap guys in your area will even pay for the stuff, but I know someone will. I've driven alot further than 1200km to pick up a new project. I had a guy drive from Saskatchewan (sorry if misspelled) to my place in So Cal to pick up a pretty stripped but rust free 59 Ford 4dr HT body. Pretty much body shell frame and doors. So the buyers are out there.
Hire some guy with a trac-hoe to come in, dig a big pit, run over everything once or twice to flatten 'em down, and bury them. That's what I'd do.
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