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Scrap metal Has Jumped

Tin has jumped from 90.00 a ton to 145.00 a ton that means Car and truck Bodys are now at Risk

On the west Coast and all over


I've been told China has put out a wanted Price Tag on metal 150 million tons has been asked to all the scrap metal recycling yards all over the world

here in calif it slowed a little but all bets are off the ILLAGE mexicans in this state alone will junk a 1957 Cameo for 350.00 be fore he will sell it on the street

1967--73 camaros are at risk

1947--72 chevy trucks are on the chopping Block so to all GM guys out there stay close to any salvage yard or junk yard that are crushing cars or trucks you will get killer Deals on trucks or parts

this is not just are GM products Ford gt500 is there

so is the 11960--1973 dodge cars so i been seeing a lot of are old chevy trucks walk in to crusher for the last 3 days i saw a 1972 short bed step side walk in with a bad windsheild and flat tires and get sold off for 456.00 with pink

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i dunno about anywhere else but all the junk/scrapyards i know of up here are way smarter than to scrap any of those cars.... i have a few friends that work there and they tell me they never even make it on the yard most of the time without being bought....

As for the rest of the crap out there im sure the yards arent being selective about which cars to crush, i.e. they are gonna crush all the worthless minivans and FORDS way before any gems like that..

Well up here anyways, just my 2 cents.

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well SIMS metal Of germany they don't care itsa all about making money here in calif

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11960? Is that B.C.?:lol:
Sorry, couldn't help myself.

how does this price increase affect steel prices?
I have a longbed frame that's probably going to scrap if i can't find anybody that wants it.

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well if you cut it up you will get what ever the scrap yard in your area are giving here in calif you have to cut it down to 4 feet by 4 feet and they will give you the prep price for your steel if you take it in unperpared you will get 150.00 a ton the frame weight 3-4 hundred pound 2250 is the tonage they go buy the english TON not the amraican ton which is 2000 pounds 1 ton stupid

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I was just wondering if since tin was up, if plain old ordinary steel was jumping too.

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here in utah,i got a couple of recyclers, i take cars and trucks there all the time..nothing of our yr models,,but anything over 70 is fair game once i get parts off of it..but it also depends on how good of shap eit is in...if its a junker ,,i shred them...

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There`s plenty of throw-away cars and trucks to fill their needs.Most recyclers know they can get more out of the good stuff than the chump changes price for scrap.Especially in CA where they actual remove body parts and store on racks.They can get as much for one door as what they get for a crushed vehicle.
We do need to make all efforts to spread the awareness to not crush our national treasures.

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i dont really have anything to add to this exept...I HATE CRUSHERS... and the STUPID PEOPLE that crush the wrong cars

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I know a guy in PA with 8-9,000 cars in his junkyard.He`s a`65 Impala fanatic.The crushers come around and he sends them off saying,"Go crush everybody else`s.Then,everyone will have to buy my parts."My bodyman buddy makes alot of money getting parts from him and reselling them to bodyshops in the city.I put siding on his house,now I have Carte Blanche privvys there.I supplied him with a`65 Biscayne wagon(rust free)that was wrecked in the front.It`s a 2dr pro-street sedan delivery,now.
Hopefully he`s not alone.I support the "NON-CRUSHERS!!!"

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NON-CRUSHERS UNITE...hahaha

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Oh well, my truck will be worth more :D

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I was watching some get crushed the other day a 47-53 p/u, lots of complete cars. There was a 90's dually that had the motor,trans and rearend out, but everything else was there doors, interior a complete truck and they smashed it all.:crazy:

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the junkyards around here will take junk metal sometimes, the local scrap metal yard charges to take it !!!!!!!
the only thing they pay for is copper, brass, aluminum and stainless steel.

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Glad to hear it,Jerry.

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STSalvage wrote:>>This is good news. My truck weighs in at 5000 lbs. or 2.2 English tons. That means I could get 2.2 x $150 or $333. That is only $16 less than I paid for it 9 years ago.Not bad depreciation really,plus I'd get the inner satisfaction that my truck would be supplying the metal needed to construct a modern warship for a communist superpower.

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I had a couple crusher scouts locate some trucks for me. They go around the province looking for vehicles. There's always a nice car/truck sitting in the crusher parking lot with a for sale sign.

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Now that is clever!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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China wants steel soooooo bad, we are even able to sell our slag to the recyclers!!!

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It's so they can sell us back "ill fitting" sheet metal panels for 67-72 chevy trucks

:haha:

Funny how the world goes 'round, 'eh?

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LOL, how right you are!!!!

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steel is up to 180.00 a ton and cast is up to 195.00 a ton

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hell, around here, as soon as scrap goes up, the yards go on a crushing spree... nothing is safe.

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then go buy all them if you have a problem with them selling all

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One minute I hear Jihad against all Americans. But crushing classic cars and trucks with a cold hearted smirk is just taking things way to far dangit.
What next, an army fighting against our blessed cheese burgers? Wait a minute...

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:lol: didnt cameo's have fiberglass bed sides??? dang i guess it wont bring in as much for scrap:rolleyes:

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Even illlegals wouldn`t scrap a Cameo.BTW,do you check citizenship and migration status on all you meet?Back east,we have "rode over on the Mayflower" inbreads punching fork tongs through bedsides and crushing everything in site at their legitimate yards on land that was stolen from the noble natives of the Seven Nations.
Maybe these "illegals" actually have roots in California from hundreds of years before it was America.Ever notice how most everything (including the state) has a Spanish name out there?How deep are your California roots?Most Latinos I`ve known have a great appreciation of vintage GMs and have done them the great justice of preserving as many as they can lay their hands on.

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We sell our aluminum slag here too. We call it Chinesium.

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:lol: :haha: Thanks for the laugh!!!

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So,all our classics are getting scrapped and sold to China so they can make diecast models of classics to put on the shelf.Hmmmm....

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Lotsa WW II vet retirees in our area.

Lotsa hard-earned wisdom in those old minds, too.

I heard one old gentleman reminiscing the other day about how he recalled how Japan was buying the heck out of scrap metal all throughout the 1930's, and they were paying top-dollar to get it.

He said: "A lot of the scrap metal we're now selling to China is gonna get shot-back at the US one of these days."

He also said: "I saw a lot of US ships go down because of one determined & dedicated Japanese pilot, and just remember that those Chinese outnumber us by about 1000-to-one."

I don't know if there's anything to that, but it's food for thought............

Maybe another good reason to save our old scrap collectible cars & trucks.

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They can call in our debt right now and it would ruin us.Expect it to only get worse.