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10-01-2004, 09:27 PM
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Totally crushed
I had the day off tomorrow and was going to go to my favorite junkyard and pickup some parts. Called the owner to be sure he would be around and he said not to bother because he crushed it all. Must have been 20 or so trucks with alot of good parts left on them. Some even complete! Thats the second yard near me this summer to totally shut down. I understand the quick $60-70 they get per crushed vehicle but those parts on the trucks were worth far more and I would have grabbed a bunch if I ever would have considered the possibility they would be gone!!!! Just had to rant -------better now
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10-01-2004, 09:34 PM
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Thats a bummer,I vist local yards and strip out all the 67/72 trucks of the good parts and pay the yard owner for what I get. After I leave there's not much left.lol
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10-01-2004, 09:57 PM
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Surprised theres anything left of the bodies on old trucks in Iowa. I just moved from there and anything older than a 95 was rusting apart. The 67-72 trucks rust even easier than the newer trucks to. Iowa cars/trucks do have good interiors and non rusting parts though.
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10-02-2004, 12:35 AM
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Man, thats a bummer, the price of scrap has been going and down, I know a few yard owners and when the price get over 70.00 a ton around here its crushing time,So I make it a point to find out what and when they will be smashing stuff.
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10-02-2004, 12:00 PM
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[QUOTE=Swbman]Man, thats a bummer, the price of scrap has been going and down, QUOTE]
IT HASN'T BEEN GOING DOWN OUT WEST AT ALL. I KNOW A FEW SCRAPYARD OWNERS THAT ARE GETTING OVER $90 A TON, COMPARED TO $18 A TON ABOUT A YEAR AGO.  JOHN
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10-02-2004, 12:03 PM
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good lesson if you go to a junkyard and see parts that you'd like buy them there's no guarrantee they'll be there later
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10-02-2004, 11:13 PM
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Scrap is around $40 bucks a ton here in Utah, down from around a hundred. I still see more loads of crushed cars going down the freeway than ever before. Get 'em while you can.
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10-03-2004, 12:43 AM
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someday it will be done!
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ugh That reminds me.A local farmer up here had a 66 long step sittin on his property.It had a perfect grill and a straight box with reasonably good fenders.When I asked him about it he said "Just take it,if you don't the wreckers will".I got real busy at work and never made it out there.A friend of mine tells me he saw a truck of the very same description sitting at the wreckers waitin to be crushed just recently.....I can't bring myself to go see if the farmer still has the truck.I'd be sick if it was gone.
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10-03-2004, 04:22 AM
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Out here bigger outfits are buying up yards and getting rid of anything about 10 years old...
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10-03-2004, 09:18 AM
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There are so many 67-72's still on the road around here. So usually whatever goes to the crusher has been pretty much picked clean anyways. Its amazing how much revenue a carcass can generate. Maybe its time to get some of these junkyard owners "in the know" about boards like these. All they gotta do is leave a message here letting us all know about whats available. I'm sure someone would show up. Its good for you, its good for me, its good for them!
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10-03-2004, 11:15 AM
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A guy in the town next to the town I grew up in had a whole field of cars. It wasn't like an actual junk yard that was open for business but rather just an old fart with a whole bunch of cool cars. Well, his health was going south on him and he finally decided to start letting some of em go. I was pretty young at the time but I remember the car that I wanted out of the whole mess was a '64 Buick LeSabre convertible. I remember my dad asking him what he would take for it and he said that he was keeping that one to fix up. Keeping in mind that he was in his early eighties, completely blind, and you had to yell at the side of his head so he could hear you. All of his stuff was pretty rust free being that it was all in eastern Oregon. I remember there being a '51 Chevy Coupe, a '59 Cadillac ambulance (ghost busters car) that was complete with light bars, walkey-talkey, everything. There were Mopars, Impalas, stuff everywhere. Even a complete, rust-free '59 El Camino with a running 348 in it. Anyway, about a year and a half later, the old guy finally kicked the bucket and the state came in, sealed everything off so that no one could get in there and crused EVERYTHING. There were easily 200+ cars there. So yeah, latch onto everything you can. This stuff is getting harder and harder to find every year.
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10-03-2004, 12:04 PM
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We got a yard full of em here in oregon..........
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10-03-2004, 12:28 PM
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What all do you have down there?
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10-03-2004, 02:51 PM
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The company I work for has some old machinery and metal buildings in New Mexico that have sat idle for more than a decade. Scrap prices are so high now, it's actually profitable for us to spend the $$ to dismantle them and truck the parts to the scrapyard. It's no wonder some of the auto parts yards are choosing to scrap what they have.
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