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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Pittsburg, KS
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What's the price of scrap in your area?
Sold a parts truck over the weekend and it got me thinking. It sold within a few hours of listing. So I checked around and scrap prices around here are around $200 a ton. I listed and sold this truck for $250.
I guess my question is.... Do you price your parts trucks reletive to scrap prices? What's the going rate for scrap in your area? I'm just glad its out of my yard and I didn't have to hunt down a trailer and move it myself, but at the same time there was still a couple of usuable parts left on it. The bed and 6 cylinder could of been salavaged for another project. I just don't have the room to keep everything. ![]()
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
$200/ton here in Little Rock as of two weeks ago, when I took a bunch of leftover junk from my '69.
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: hingham ma
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
240.oo ton
and alot of stuff is going to china.. |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Langley, BC, Canada
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
Not sure what mine it, $0.10. I took it 2300 and got $230 for it. That was just a '68 Chevy LWB frame and some odds and ends. I buy trucks like your's for around $200 and complete trucks for $300-400 if they are parts trucks. I see a lot of guys pricing their trucks for scrap value and they always mention it in their posts about taking it to scrap but most of the time they'll sell it cheaper to somebody if it's going to a real truck person and if the truck will be saved vs scraped.
Some guys think they can get some HUGE amount from scrap and are way off though lol Avg car is getting $300 I think at the yard around here, trucks usually upto $500 but no more. Typically you'll make more money selling off individual parts rather than a partial parts truck but then you have to deal with taking everything apart, people bugging you for small random parts etc etc. If you don't mind the extra work, you'll make more money, but $250 for that truck sounds reasonable in my eyes at least.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: everett washington
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
$350 a ton here for a car body. just scraped a POS 92 sentra 4dr, got $435 for it
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Stalker Nate
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Langley, BC, Canada
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
HOT DIGGITY DAAAMMM!!! I'm goin to bring my scrap metal across the border lol
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Ridgecrest. CA, USA
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
You all are getting great prices. Here in California in the high desert the local scrapers pay only 1 Cent per pound or $75.00 per whole vehicle. They crush them and send them off to rust belt areas for high dollar or Canada. They just crushed about 25 of our trucks at a yard that was just purchased, 3000 vehicles in all. The new owners would not sell anything including the 72 Ambulance SuBurban or several 72 Supers that were in there. SAD!!! We have scrap hunters drive up all the time begging for free scrap; these guys drive in from the beach cities out here. I will just make it a point to enjoy what I can and what I own.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New Castle, IN
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
That looks like a nice cab.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Pittsburg, KS
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Re: What's the price of scrap in your area?
The roof was all rusty above the windshield. If the roof wouldn't of been so bad I would of kept it togeather and tried to get it running. The rearview mirror was just barely hanging on. lol.
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