How sad....

[ABX131]

About a month ago I bought a bunch of parts from a guy parting out a 65' truck....I got home and realized I needed more parts and started putting together a list of things I need. I finally have some extra cash and send the guy a text message to arrange a time and find out it went to the scrap yard YESTERDAY!! I am completely disturbed by this and can't seem to shake it....I tried to get the steering wheel the first time and forgot my wheel puller and I am so upset with my self......

[MOTOIMPAIRED]

I hate seeing any old car go to the yard, espesially when there are so many people wanting to restore them.. Keep youe eyes open, there are more out there but getting hard to find..

[ABX131]

There were so many good parts left on that truck...that is what bothers me...If I had known that was its fate I would have paid him the scrapper's cost and taken it off his hands. I just started a new summer job working for my city's Utilities division and came across a resident who has a 60-63 in his black berry bushes. It looks to be im ok condition and was last licensed in 1999. i will be going down his street every day until I see him and find out if he wants to part with it..

[markeb01]

It’s not a new problem. Back around 1970 a local yard had a midnight blue 1950 Studebaker for sale for something less than $100. The car ran fine and was a one owner original that the people just got too old to drive. I had to wait until Friday when I got paid. Saturday morning I raced back to the yard with the cash – only to find a 1956 Buick Roadmaster parked on the caved in roof. I just about cried.

[LostMy65]

I think that's the part that irritates me - some of these guys won't sell you the parts for $400 a ton, but will take it to the scrap yard for only $200 a ton.

1000lbs = $100
100lbs = $10

A hood is about 80lbs. which = 8 bucks.

Come on people, quit calling the scrap man!
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[hop sing]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

I think that's the part that irritates me - some of these guys won't sell you the parts for $400 a ton, but will take it to the scrap yard for only $200 a ton.

1000lbs = $100
100lbs = $10

A hood is about 80lbs. which = 8 bucks.

Come on people, quit calling the scrap man!
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XX 2 on that one !!! and this too,, Come on people, quit calling the scrap man!
(My dad always told me; Know brains know f_cking headaches!!)

[TopFuel1966]

Sometimes you can only hold onto this stuff for so long before you have to move it one way or the other. Case in point, I had a bunch of left-over parts that I had advertised on CL for the best part of 3 months including a pair of pretty decent front fenders, a pair of inner fender panels that needed some minor sprucing up, and not one but two very nice stock gas tanks. Most of the stuff I sold for what I considered bargain basement prices. I had at least 8 calls re the fenders and several "I'll be out first thing in the morning". One guy kept his promise and didn't waste my time. He showed up and bought the left side fender. The other fender, the inner panels and the gas tanks eventually left in the back of a scrap dealer's truck. Sorry, I did my best, I was moving and they had to go.........

[sigshooter]

I work in a scrap yard and get ALOT of really nice, rare stuff... Prices are dropping and dropping hard and fast ( 10 dollars per ton a day usually but we had a 25 dollar day drop this week ) and will continue until after the Pres election.... Boss got his price locked at 225.00 per ton until he finishes this round of crushing, todays price was down to 180.00 a ton already. Anyways he said everything goes, alot of old stuff will simply be crushed because of falling prices.... I am staying after after hours pulling anything I think I might ever use. Today I pulled a 327 out of a C-40, several misc pieces, tons of bolts.....

He had a 2004 stratus that came out of the impound yard, running driving car.... nothing wrong with it, guy tried to buy it for $2500.00 cash and he didn't sell it for that. Today it was crushed brought around 400 cash after being flattened

[k1rodeoboater]

For the most part people are idiots when it comes to vehicles. More so with older ones
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[jonzcustomshop]

good to hear the scrap price is going down, that will slow down the local scrappers a little bit.

[hugger6933]

When my wife and I go to her home at Thanksgiving[Booneville AR] we go by a crusher in Russellville and on our way up there wereabout 5 c40-50 -60's setting there and I have been looking a while, also a orange white orange white short 72 sitting there as well. She said lets stop and they had closed ,when we came back on the way home, there were all cubes