This is gonna make you wanna cry

[4-rocks]

The high price of scrap iron has got all the farmers draging every piece of old iron out of the tree rows so they can sell it for 150 bucks a ton. The problem is I've seen several old muscle cars, willys wagons, and I swear I must have seen the very first Toyota ever made going East on a trailer load of junk. Here is a perfect example of a farmer. He has 3 CJ5's sitting in a tree row that I've been trying to buy for years. Wants a fortune for them. He knows a guy that paid 1500 for a 5 and so he thinks his are worth that. I went to an auction a while back and saw a CJ3B bring over 6 grand. Rust, Smoked, bent frame from running a blade, so now everyone around here wants thousands for crap thats been in wash outs for years. But they'll haul the stuff away for 150 bucks a ton. Damn Shame!!

OK rant done, I feel better now.

[Jim B]

...so now everyone around here wants thousands for crap thats been in wash outs for years. But they'll haul the stuff away for 150 bucks a ton.
I've seen LOTS of vehicles for sale in the pick-n-pull with something like "$1,800 FIRM" written in shoe polish on the back window. I'd guess the junkyard gave them $150 or, maybe, $200. :rolleyes: People tend to be a bit unrealistic at times...:shrug:

People who do this: http://www.carsinbarns.com/ piss me off...:rant:

[Tom N]

The other side of the coin is that most people want the dead vehicles free or dirt cheap, or they want to get the best parts off the vehicle free or dirt cheap. I am on both sides of this one.:shrug:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t75/bbigtn/Chevys006600x450.jpg

[JR4X]

When I was a kid my dad got his fingers cut off at work so he was on workmans comp. It didnt cover the bills and all the mouths to feed so he worked under the table at junk yard crushing cars. My brother and I woulg go to work with him and sit and pretend to drive stuff while he was crushing cars. I remember watching him stab the forks of the forklift through the side of a pink car and slam it into the crusher. Then crush it to a thin sliver on top of others already crushed. Now when I look back it makes me sick thinking about watching a complete hemi cuda get get crushed. Or the 429 boss mustang he pulled the hood scoop off of moments before crushing it. Or the torino GT he pulled the scoop off of before crushing. Thats just the ones I can remember. I was 7-8 at the time. Now I watch the scrap yard down the road save 10 bolt axles and crush whole vehicles with 44's. Save a dodge caliber for months and cush out waggoneers and other FSJ's as fast as they come in. It hurts.

[Jim B]

Now when I look back it makes me sick thinking about watching a complete hemi cuda get get crushed.
:eek:

[Budman]

The other side of the coin is that most people want the dead vehicles free or dirt cheap, or they want to get the best parts off the vehicle free or dirt cheap. I am on both sides of this one.:shrug:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t75/bbigtn/Chevys006600x450.jpg

Is that a 48 Cheby coupe???

[Brokeagain]

Buy one whole and take it home! Then you don't have to go to the junkyard to get your nostalgia fix.

I have a late 40's (I suppose) Dodge Brothers truck in my driveway. Rear axle has a 3rd member and a dana style cover. Comes with yellow jackets and cats, the stray cats run out of the cab through the bottom. The brown color blends with the rust. The kids around the house threw rocks and broke a couple of windows, but now it has more of that look.

You know, I guess that these junkyards know how to make money, or they would have been long gone. I guess they don't see their antiques as museum pieces anyway.

[Oscar]

SHoot look at the 10O8 next to it

[Budman]

Sho nuff

[XtremeXJ]

And everyone that calls on my EB - which runs great and is somewhat ready for either a restore or the trail - is ranting about the $5500.00 price tag that is negotiable - I am only asking this price. Oh well - there are people that want something for nothing and there are people that want to give nothing for something.....

[ZooMad75]

Lets face it with the demand for steel being what it is, this is going to happen. I used to work at a VW junkyard in college. Being a Chevy nut, it didn't kill me to scrap old bugs and micro buses, or a wadded up Karmann Ghia ever now and then. I do recognize one man's trash is another man's treasure though. When the yard was filling up and we had a pile of scrap to get rid of, the boss would have me cut as big of hole as I could in the roof a VW and take the bobcat and fill it up with all the scrap. It was fun since I got to use the sawzall on stuff and run a bobcat.

One day the boss tells me to do a scrap run and to fill an old squareback up with the pile. Now even though I'm a Chevy guy I recognize squarebacks are pretty rare in comparison to regular beetles, but the boss told me to right? I'm rolling out the cord for the sawzall when a regular customer (vw nut) asks me what I'm doing. So I tell him and he freaks out. He went off on the rareness and all that. (I'm wondering why he never offered to buy it all the other times he was in the yard before, but whatever!) So I give it to him in real simple terms. You've got 5 minutes to track down my boss and buy it or the sawzall is getting fired up for a new panoramic sunroof. He litterally runs off while telling me not to cut it up. 5 minutes later he tells me he bought it. My boss being the smart guy he was sold it to him for $300 (more than we would have got loaded with scrap at the prices then). Then to give the guy incentive to actually haul it off he gave him 3 days or he'd let me loose with it. The guy was there the next day with a uhaul dolly.

I grew up going junkyarding for 57 Chevy parts with my Dad. As the numbers of 57's went down in the yard we were scrounging for parts for his 78 Malibu's and El Camino and my Nova. At one time Colorado Auto and Parts down off of Santa Fe was a gold mine for those cars. Last time I was there I was hard pressed to find any of those cars in the yard. I do like hitting Andersons when I'm in greeley as they seem to go after the older stuff. But even those guys don't let them sit forever. I go there every couple of months and don't seem to see the same suff from the last visit.

As the years progress finding old stuff in the yards will be harder and harder to do. It's a fact of life. Plus as the older yards get forced out of buisness due to not keeping up with EPA standards in addtion to local and state standards, all the old yards with the really cool old stuff will disappear. People with old hulks they would never sell (gonna restore it someday) for any price will only be able to sell for scrap because the car will be too far gone to restore. It sucks but you can't save them all!

[OrangeCrush]

I bought my Dodge Muscle car from a guy after I saw it in a field in Mississipi this was in 98 and paid 5500 for it but it was a numbers matching 69 Dodge COronet R/T with 440 and 4 speed...

It was parked in 1982 after an engine bay fire, did the full resto on it and had a really fun to drive B-Body

[Tom N]

Is that a 48 Cheby coupe???

Yeppers. Another someday project .

[CLYDE]

If anyone spots a 73 up dart while they are out scrounging, let me know, I need some fenders, and bottom quarters.
I used to be able to buy darts/dusters/a-body stuff cheap, Now I see what were 200 dollar beaters going for 3/4 thousand, absolutely rediculous prices.
Guess I will hang on to this old a-body, now that it has a new engine/trans in it :D

[Oscar]

Yeppers. Another someday project .
Whats the condition of the 10O8 next to the coup?

[ZooMad75]

If anyone spots a 73 up dart while they are out scrounging, let me know, I need some fenders, and bottom quarters.
I used to be able to buy darts/dusters/a-body stuff cheap, Now I see what were 200 dollar beaters going for 3/4 thousand, absolutely rediculous prices.
Guess I will hang on to this old a-body, now that it has a new engine/trans in it :D

I'll keep an eye out. Funny thing is my Nova is similar (69). I used to be able to find stuff dirt cheap for it. Most already knew the 3rd gen Nova shares all it's underpinnings with the first gen Camaro, but they weren't charging Camaro prices for the stuff. It's driven the price of Nova parts up. It's a double edged sword though. Lots of aftermarket parts for the Camaro are out there that will bolt on to the Nova so that's a positive. But the Nova specific parts don't have the same demand for reproduction so repop parts can be expensive. With less ending up at the boneyard it's tough. My saving grace is the range of years is wide on the Nova, 68-74 is completely interchangeable save for the truck bumpers and quarters on the 73-74's. Plus the Apollo's, Ventura's and Omega's add to the mix. Thank goodness mine only needs quarter panels.

[Tom N]

Whats the condition of the 10O8 next to the coup?

I took its axles for my Jimmy. Real nice body though. Another someday kinda thing.

[Oscar]

damn wadda about the diesel in it?

[Tom N]

Its in pieces. The worst thing is they cut a chunk out of the main wiring harness in the cab when they scrapped it. I towed it here from Mclellan AFB.

[Oscar]

damn bunch of bone heads

[HaySeed77]

My mother in law was getting ready to have the old truck in her garage hauled off because she needs storage space for her yard tools.... I asked her what she wanted for it and she gave it to me for free. It is completely straight and all original 1930 Model A Pickup with no dents or broken glass. According to her it ran when it was parked ~20 years ago. As soon as I buy a house, it is getting moved up here and the project begins. I am going to get the original flat4 running and get it painted then go from there. She also has a 191? Model T and a 1932 Model A Coupe. Out at the ranch there is a 1956 chevy nomad 1965 chevy pickup and a 196? caddy but those are the brother in laws rides. Back in Iowa, my grandads IH Farmall super A still sits in the barn where it has been for 30 years untouched. That may get thrown into the middle of these projects for use as a snow plow.

[cwillyrun]

Sweet Jesus. Sign me up for that '32 if you need some cash for the '30 project!!!

So I've seen prices go both ways. 10 years ago, a buddy of mine traded a '67 GTO we had fully restored for a rotting '69 GTO Judge Convertible (one of 102). The kid that we traded with had paid the old man $2000 for the car. I've seen two sell in the past three years, each for over $600,000! On the other hand, I just sold a '27 Dodge 4-door. There was nothing left but frame and body from the cowl back. I was asking $500 but the kid that wanted it gave me $1200 and then paid another $1000 to have it moved! Whatever floats your boat, man!

[Budman]

Yeppers. Another someday project .

My dad just sold his 48 project car before paint and interior. He seems to be good at that. His last 3 projects have gone to buyers at this point.


It was a pretty cool deal. He took the old 48, and a couple of early 80s nova's (chevells or malibus can't remember which) put two frames together, and left the V6, auto and modern electriconics in it. It was a cool ride. The couple who bought it to go to shows live it, 25 + MPG, and all.

My mother in law was getting ready to have the old truck in her garage hauled off because she needs storage space for her yard tools.... I asked her what she wanted for it and she gave it to me for free. It is completely straight and all original 1930 Model A Pickup with no dents or broken glass. According to her it ran when it was parked ~20 years ago. As soon as I buy a house, it is getting moved up here and the project begins. I am going to get the original flat4 running and get it painted then go from there. She also has a 191? Model T and a 1932 Model A Coupe, which will be next in line. Out at the ranch there is a 1956 chevy nomad 1965 chevy pickup and a 196? caddy but those are the brother in laws rides. Back in Iowa, my grandads IH Farmall super A still sits in the barn where it has been for 30 years untouched. That may get thrown into the middle of these projects for use as a snow plow.

[TwistedObsession]

put me in line for the 32 coupe... I just passed up a 34 ford pick up on monday (dumb I know)

[Willy36]

Now when I look back it makes me sick thinking about watching a complete hemi cuda get get crushed.

My soul just cried a little bit to itself. :(