city zoning guy got me yesterdya morning, parts gotta go that are outside laying

[Fast68Chevy]

Originally posted by crazy4chevs
Just a thought

This may not help but maybe some people that want /need the parts could donate fencing or help a fellow board member out for the parts they need. It might cost you some parts now, but in the long run you would beat the inspectors and be able to continue behind the fence.

yeh sounds neat and all and i wish i had a way to get some fencing that would be good for hiding items, but with how things are i have no way to do this, and i shouldnt even try on this property anyways. it could be done, but still.. maybe some other day when after i can find a good deal on a coupel or three acres of land out of city limits and at least a car trailer and good hauling truck and such, and i dont have plans and/or desire(s) to stay here even in this state and region, so. I need to quit this for at least temporarily and get my a$$ in school, which i have been working on and need to work even harder on apparently.



thanks

[67cst]

i wish i had a neighbour like you..all my neighbours are old panzees with their heads up there asses, i go out to mow the lawn at like 3 in the afternoon and if they are in their yards they gimme the eye ball because im making noise, about a year ago my older sister had a party and somedudes we goin around the side of the house ( at like 10 o'clock) and my neighbour heard them talking and thought they were theifs breaking into her house so she called 911....fvck i say why cant ppl relax and not be so uptight, you have to give a little to get a little....all i know is i cant wait till my truck is on the road so i can fire it up at 7 every morning before school/work and warm it up good luck with things and dont worry about what clueless morons say

[Fast68Chevy]

not saying my neighbors are like yours or that i have any right to do whhat i do with vehicles and parts on this property,
im open minded on this and am getting rid of vehicles city says have to go.

85 wagon is getting hooked to wrecker out here right now as i type this, and 64 pickup is next to go.....

then 74 camper cheyenne 20

and etc,.
parets on them go to waste, arent going to salveage yard. we have no salveage yards here.


thanks,

[Desert Rat]

I guess alot depends on how you want to live.its hard to make mass bucks and make good cash and pay all the bills of buying a old truck and parting.One more of the reasons ive quit are the people who are on their way,or the checks in the mail.and never show up.my damn shed on the side of the house is as long as the house and 10 ft wide(and cant walk through) ive had 4-5 beds full of parts,cabs full of parts,trucks full of parts,my 62 Wagon is full of parts,anything not running full of parts,my spare bedroom has the rare sh#t,Theres no shortage in AZ of rust free parts for 50s-70's vehicles,hell alot of 60's 70's are still on road,one of my main reasons is i work 50-60 sometimes more hours a week,the last thing i want to do when i come home is wait for some guy from Phoenix to come down to look at a part,its lets say 7pm,he gets here at 8(if he shows up)then amazed with other **** stays till 10.and maybe ive made $50 its not worth 3 hours of my time and the price of the part.i consider into the price,what the truck cost,dragging it home,the time,then the labor to pull part.by then its not worth it even more hell i coulda wrenched on something i liked for all that time,and the $50 dont really help,unless your using the money to try to survive and have tons of free time,and its worse on the weekends,lets say i get up at 7 someone suppose to be here at noon they finally show up at 2 stay for 2 hours,well there goes that day,where my wife and I coulda went somewhere,or i coulda concentrated on getting my ass under a ride,but i hate to get involved in working on something when someone is on their way over,but sometimes its good when they come over to spend $100 and leave with a grand worth.thats worth it.But the city and county is cracking down on what they call hulk vehicles,missing parts dont run,here your suppose to even get a permit in AZ from to motor vehicle department to part one out,and your only allowed so many a year,so i part them as fast as i can,and get it gone.Therefore alot of good cabs and stuff get cut.and with the prices and quality of SOME of the repo parts available why buy used,some parts id rather have used but as time goes on the iller fitting parts will be getting better.always be some company trying to out do the other,then their will be price competing.I guess me fazing out the parts buis on the side is more for me,i wasnt worried about city too much,i can have a truck here and gone within a matter of hours,what my problem was is after my surgery i wasnt allowed to work on stuff,or go outside so everything sat for a long time,i use to move them around.I had all the boxes stacked and parts in them,and the cabs butted against and covered with a silver tarp.so its not a noticeable blue one.you drive down my alley my backyard is one of the better ones,but its a car thing.especially after the front page write up,that one of the signs of a meth house is lots of unfinished and half worked on cars around,because a drug addict takes them on trade and never finishes/or gets to them.Wonder if the guy down the street with 50 or so junk motorcycles and boat motors,and a hundred lawnmowers in his backyard was cited,or the person who collects scrap metal for money.But i figure the less junk i have here the better of i will be,and the more the property value is,why live on the outside like the rest,if a property value guy came out and saw sheetmetal and rearends stacked on one side of the house,and 4 truck beds,and cabs in the yard or green grass,nice gravel,cactuses,etc i know which one would sell faster and be worth more.and for our own pleasure i want to sit in my backyard on some nice grass barefoot,instead of dirt and the fear of picking up a sliver of glass from a busted windshield i pulled.and the less trucks and cars i go out find,bring home and part,and people coming over.i figure ill save money in the long run,and have way more time to go enjoy life,go places,and work on ones i want to keep.If i wanna do it still.ill go buy a truck fix it up and sell it for the bigger dollars,instead of the $10's 20's 50's and 100's here and there.but if not working its a different situation Ive survived on it before more than once,but i threw out the junk,and kept the sellable stuff,throw the knick nack crap out a buck or $2 dont help,unless you need $2 for a 40 ouncer,Sounds like you are thinking in the right direction just go do it,theres no other way.fix whatever car you have,sell whatever you can thats desirable,take that cash and head towards your desired location,then figure it out,even if you have to have a sh!t job,Id even go for McDonalds if it meant sleeping in a Hotel atleast at a retraunt you get free,or discount meals.Just live near the school you desire sure your gonna go in mass debt paying for it,but you have to pay for the education,so if it cost you $40,000 hell your first year at the job they trained you for hopefully will get you in a nice apartment,house,nice ride,you have to make sacrifices to get ahead.I know your not into religion but try it.most churches will help you out,but pay them back somehow,if it means volunteering,driving old people to church service.youd be amazed at whats out their.heck even i go to church every Sunday now,having something to believe in,gives a person hope.Clean all the junk out,sell the profitable stuff(save that money for gasoline and some cheap motel rooms)and go that direction,and while your in that cheap motel.,wash up good and go drop a crap load of applications off,and keep checking back with them,be good to get a cell phone to accept calls,get a base one with no long distance etc,if you wanna call long distance buy a phone card so all of the sudden you dont have a huge bill.Alot of places in communities are willing to help,a good place to ask is a local church-go and say-i just moved here in hopes of bettering my life,i have $300 dollars no where to stay,and no job.alot of churches can point you in the directions,alot like the one i have even offer food coupons,or hotel coupons,or can set you up at the Y,or even help you find a job.just a thought if your serious.Just make a plan and go do it!!!
cool ye but ill take a anyday

[nu2-72]

I guess I am missing something also. You say that this is like the third time. How many times does it take for you to go get the rules and make an attempt to comply ? Go by after work.
Or, use old bumpers for fence posts and grills for fence. Call it art and charge admission.
And yes, go to school. I see someone offering a Union job. What happened with Chevy Duty in KC ? I heard you were told of an opening there. You once asked about electricans schools and jobs. What happened there ?
You have posted parts before and then never replied. How can you sell stuff if you won't answer. I posted looking for front backing plates. Your reply, " I got those." Thats all. No price, shipping, nothing. Other messages to you have been non-responsive.
Maybe you get too much mail or don't have enough time or whatever.
Come on man. Pull your pants on and go outside. There is a big world out there and nobody owes any of us a thing. You make what you get. Now go get it. That's how I got what I have and the things I don't have yet, I'm working on it every day.

[Fast68Chevy]

micah you said it all, everything you said is correct and totally understandable, just too many variables against being able to do something like this,

yes i have been and am interested in getting into a school,. but its not that simple, hard when you are with an employer who lays you off 50-90% of each year and when theres nothing better you can get than that with the education you have, yes i have needed to spend even more time doing research on finding a course/school to start out with and a way to go and survive, ivealways been having to spend every waking hour in the past and current trying to stay ahead of the game, doing the parts vehicle thing has really been the only option i have been able to take up upon with the skills i have or lack and type of region i am in.
like Micah explained, its hard to survive on small stuff, it is great to be able to help out members who have these trucks- and are trying to fix ones up that are actually fixable. are no decent shape vehicles this old around here, have to have them brought from drier climate, this is where it differs between Micah and I,
he is able to have some for projects and part others out that may have more problems or be less desireable than ones he is working on or driving. ive imagined a million times what it wopuld be like to just quit this crap and get rid of it all and be a normal person and just have one or two vehicles and find a new hobby, but finding a new hobby would be hard and id be bored out of my mind, vehicles ARE my life, anything i do is can somehow be linked in one form or another to vehicle,s this would be a hard thing to just give up cold turkey, but with how things have been getting on this forum and here locally i eally have no choice, i have tried several times- as alot of you well know- gotten clos,e nut not close enough to it, i cant come across anythng like what can stil be found out west and south, nothing near it. i really have no reason to keep this up. i really am wasting my time, im sure anyone would agree, especially whne you think of things i could have been doing all this time that would have goitten me ahead in life instead- of ahead and behind- fluctuating extremely often, when the plant does call us back i quit doing this vehicle stuff totally and concrentate my effort towards work over there. if only they'd straighten up, they have a new plant manager now that came over from IN earlier this year and things are looking upo, we have TArget stores chain conttract and got T-mobile contract and so forth, and the plant is now revamping shift schedules and moving employees from one Dept to another to help with operations smoothness., overtime is currently happening for employees not laid off, (all except for about 25 of us), they cant call overtime for more thna two times ina month according to the union contract agreement, witohut callng remaining laid off employees back to work.

i hope we are back soon- lik it looks like we wil be- and so i never have to do this vehicle stuff again, and can save up for some schooling and work my way up. then maybe some day when im in a good climate region i can buy up a few acres of land and have some decent vehicles for once.


and about making responses to replies or posts, well sometimes i get behind and cant find or dont see every little response thats made to a reply or thread of mine, i am a high poster and alot of things get pushed back onto pages 2 and 3 and so far bgefore i can get a chance to check on them, any person who does anytihg liek this like GMC Paul or Wes surely knows what i mean. i haved four email accounts to try and keep from overfilling one, plus the forum inbox and so forth. ive tried for too long to try and survive on this stuff due to employment problems, and city is relentless in trying to stop me and i know why and realize i shouldnt be doing this in a neighborhood even with this place being technically commercially zoned,. ill never win, ill just have to go under and be nothing, screw it. soem day il find a way to survive some other way, maybe ill have to turn to illegal methods, like sell and buy smoke or rob stations, at least what im doing and have been doing to try and honestly stay afloat has been legal as far as in that perspective,
you dont know how i have to live and what circumstances i have been and am under, and i dont know yours either and i dont try to assume them, so dont try to assume mine either,


i just got back with towing guy and a friend, the wrecker frickin ran out of gas, we spent last hour and a half or so trying to siphon some gas out of some kind of vehicle out there with no luck,, he had to walk to nearest house and call for gas. ...

nice day this is starting out as.. i stil have two complete trucks to rob parts off of and have hauled off before wednesday. and figure out how to stash the parts.. im tired of this crap, its not worth it., just let all the parts go to waste no one seems to care anyways.
i see Micah's perspecitve totally now, im sorry for anything ive said to you abotu why you were quitting parts and stuff, i understand now.,



thanks.

[68 Stepside]

[Fast68Chevy]

happy crying, have some fun in FL, TJ,
i know you are one-sided in regards to all this, unfortunately.

all im saying and the whole real point this thread is that i am trying to say that i realize that i need ot quit this and i understand now why others have quit doing this type of thing, even if reasons slightly vary.

i have 64 grille and tailgate to unbolt, one of the last parts il be salveaging for hopefully re-use by someone, i just passed up on a 72 C30 longhorn parts truck i was offered this morning, i really hated to pass it up especially with whats destined ot hapen to it, but i cant do anything about it. i cant save them all, and really cant save any anymore from now on with how things have been getting, i have to resist, somehow..
I'll just have to live with watching good stuff going to waste and not being able to do anything about it unlike in the past..

i know some of you may care, and others dont, i just am stating what has happened and is happenign and what has to happen now,, thats all



laterz.

[68 Stepside]

Man, you've beat this horse to death, way too many times. I stopped feeling sorry for you after the fourteenth time you pulled this. You have to want to help yourself, and it's obvious that you have no desire or ambition to do so. That's not my problem. But it is my problem when you post your silly sob stories on the parts board. The vast majority of people that know you, could really care less about why you have to sell the parts. It's that simple.

You complain about the company you work for keeping you unemployed for the majority of the year. The company isn't keeping you from having a job. Randy is keeping Randy from having a job. You live in a town of something like 15 to 20,000 people, I forget now. You're lying through your teeth if you can sit there straight faced and tell me there are ZERO jobs in that town. You have to put some sort of effort into it.

And what does my moving to Florida have to do with the fact that you don't have a job? Would you like to know why I'm moving there? I'm moving there because I've found a good JOB, working for my Brother-in-law as a construction grunt. Yeah, that blows, but it's a job, and a way for me to get back on my feet. I'm tired of trying to say inspirational things to a person that doesn't want any help.

That being said, I'm done replying to any of your sob stories, and I'm moving this to General Discussion. It's no longer a parts for sale thread. It's a thread about how terrible everything is for you, and how nothing will ever work out for you, because you don't want it to.

If you'd like, you can cry to me by email, or PM's, either way, I don't care. Keep this kind of childish whining off the board please. I wish I could help you man, I've tried, as well as many others on this board, but it's a lost cause.

If you truly want to sell the "parts" in this thread, could you do so without your life history please, it would be appreciated.

Thank you.

TJ

[Fast68Chevy]

your negativity amuses me, very interesting, yet sad,

im not crying about anything, ill liv through this, ill find a way some way or another, thatys not my life history by any means, barely even the basics, you assume way too much, you know lkittle about me, trust me, less than you think you do. sorry. im not here ot be negative or to be unfriendly., im here ot be a member and to do what i can for members and forum, i dont care if you think otherwise, whatever you think and beleive is totally up to you, it does not affect me anymore, i cannot and wil not let it. this thread has gone too far already, need to go no further, really i shouldnt hav started it anyways, but i did, im only trying to help the hobby, even if its in a small way such as this. me saving parts from shredder, but it doesnt seem to be of any hep to it, only helps to piss of city and neioghbors and so forth.

i thank those members who have helped me in the ways that they have and for allowing me to stick around, ill kinda be around here and there occasionally in the future.

happy truckin

[crazy longhorn]

I have parted cars/trucks for years. Im am also in the city limits, & know that im not posta do that, but also as a home owner .....I dont want a load of junk sittin around running MY property value down! I bring em in part em,, & run em out. none of my neighbors have ever said a word about the mess, cause there isnt one. If I get caught at it, I know i broke the rules, & have to deal with it.......there is absolutly no point in complaining about city hall, or the neighbors that dont like what you are doing......you know the rules as well as I do. thats my take on it, the coin has a "flip side", whether you or I like it or not......we still have to deal with it. thats the best way this old man can put it, after lookin at the situation from both pespectives. Good luck......crazy AL (69 longhorn)

[nu2-72]

I'm thinkin, " If I just had a nickel for every post. "

[whateva]

The funny thing is, it is not even his property!! It is his Grandmas property!

He will junk all this time and when the heat dies down, this will all come around again. It always does.

The point is, the first, second and maybe the third time people felt sorry for you. When someone keeps making the same mistake 11,12,13 times, no one cares.

People have offered you advise many time before and there is always some excuse. No money, no truck, no time, my factory sucks,etc.....

There are some people who will make excuses no matter what. Suck it up and do something for yourself!!!

You keep waiting for the fricken factory to call you back? What the hell, the boat has left the dock. Time to look for a new ride. Are you going to be 60 years old and still be waiting for a call from the factory. Face reality, its dead!

People on this board has offered you all sorts of advice and sympothy in the past, but you keep with your failing ways.

Example ebfabman: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ighlight=beans

You keep posting this crap and then you get upset that you are not getting the sympothy you once did.

Most people chose just not to post anything any more. You know the saying, "if you don't have something nice....."

Anyone want to bet that we will be hearing this same crap within 6 months?

Geez!

[Maximum Overdrive]

The answer is pretty simple. If there is no jobs in your town as you always suggest then MOVE . If the town is as bad as you say then there is no reason to stay, ( Same thing I said last year when this came up) Its better to work a crappy minimum wage job all year long then work a job where the employer only has you there 10%to 50% of the year. There is a big world out there and there are plenty of jobs. If all you can do is stay in a town year after year with no jobs then quit *****in about it.

Must be time to archive this subject instead of repeating it every few months.