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09-19-2008, 09:48 PM
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Sad sight 72
Enough said...
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67 gmc custom lwb dakota truck. Sold...And bought back 69 swb 4x4 project (in progress) 70 c-10 lwb texas truck 70 4x4/BB/bkts/posi/tach(retired) 70 swb (wifes) 70 jimmy camper 71 K-5 factory 2wd 71 cheyenne 4x4/tach/posi/ plow rig 71 Cheyenne20 BB, buckets, tach, tilt, 4 speed 72 jimmy CST wyoming rig 72 jimmy Colorado rig 72 lifted texas 4x4 3/4 ton burb 65 fury conv. 383/auto 65 chrysler 300 "L" 413 auto |
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09-19-2008, 09:58 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Some people just don't have the same eye for art appreciation as some of us do...
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09-19-2008, 10:00 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
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-Nate  1969 CST SWB - Project Blank Slate (4.5/6" ECE Static Drop, 6-lug disc brake upgrade (manual), Billet Specialties Vintec 20x8.5 255/40 (F) 20x10 295/40 (R), 250 I-6) 1960 AMF Skylark - Tot Roddin' (Lowered with custom frame; soon to include custom push bar and interior) 2008 Silverado CrewCab 1LT (5.3L, 3:73, 4x4, LT1, Z-71, Towing Package) Last edited by 72BlckButy; 09-19-2008 at 10:00 PM. |
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09-19-2008, 10:02 PM
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Nothing to see here.....
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Re: Sad sight 72
there's another power disc brake setup going to waste. r.i.p.
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09-19-2008, 10:03 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
That is sad! From what we can see of the front end, everything even looks pretty straight.
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09-19-2008, 10:05 PM
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Tot Roddin'
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Re: Sad sight 72
You didn't climb up there and start unbolting????
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-Nate 1969 CST SWB - Project Blank Slate (4.5/6" ECE Static Drop, 6-lug disc brake upgrade (manual), Billet Specialties Vintec 20x8.5 255/40 (F) 20x10 295/40 (R), 250 I-6) 1960 AMF Skylark - Tot Roddin' (Lowered with custom frame; soon to include custom push bar and interior) 2008 Silverado CrewCab 1LT (5.3L, 3:73, 4x4, LT1, Z-71, Towing Package) |
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09-19-2008, 10:13 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
ya really get int there and save it !!! bumper and grill look GREAT !!
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09-19-2008, 10:24 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
What's one man's treasure is another mans trash. Oh, wait that's not the way that goes....
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09-19-2008, 10:26 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
That picture brought a tear to my eye!!!!
Where is that junkyard at, there is a not a junkyard 500 miles of me anywhere where they have older vehicles like that.
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09-19-2008, 10:31 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
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67 gmc custom lwb dakota truck. Sold...And bought back 69 swb 4x4 project (in progress) 70 c-10 lwb texas truck 70 4x4/BB/bkts/posi/tach(retired) 70 swb (wifes) 70 jimmy camper 71 K-5 factory 2wd 71 cheyenne 4x4/tach/posi/ plow rig 71 Cheyenne20 BB, buckets, tach, tilt, 4 speed 72 jimmy CST wyoming rig 72 jimmy Colorado rig 72 lifted texas 4x4 3/4 ton burb 65 fury conv. 383/auto 65 chrysler 300 "L" 413 auto |
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09-19-2008, 10:43 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
G'Day to all you chevy blokes on this site. Proud to be here reading all the excelent info. For the last few days Ive been to 4 junk yards and seen about 9 old trucks unceremoniously sent to the crusher with plenty of perfectly good bits on them. We spent hrs trying to remove a few bits only to be beaten by RUST and bloodied hands. Its a sad,sad thing to see them discarded like garbage. I would quit going outta respect but you never know that next hulk might have a tow hook or some buddie buckets that needs saving for my jalopy. Chevs rule eh? Suzuki sierras and subaru brumbys are good little buggers too up the bush.
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09-19-2008, 10:47 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
that 67-68 caddy could have been a nice find to
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09-19-2008, 10:48 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Heck I need the spindle nuts and washers off the front end of it so we can set project BIG ORANGE on the floor!! somebody please help!!!!!
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09-19-2008, 10:52 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
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-Nate 1969 CST SWB - Project Blank Slate (4.5/6" ECE Static Drop, 6-lug disc brake upgrade (manual), Billet Specialties Vintec 20x8.5 255/40 (F) 20x10 295/40 (R), 250 I-6) 1960 AMF Skylark - Tot Roddin' (Lowered with custom frame; soon to include custom push bar and interior) 2008 Silverado CrewCab 1LT (5.3L, 3:73, 4x4, LT1, Z-71, Towing Package) |
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09-19-2008, 11:23 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
eric,its a good thing scrap prices went down,i see that alot in my travels .its a shame
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09-19-2008, 11:31 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
heres one for you all-- i was driving a car the other day.. sitting at a red light, i see this truck go by. its a 71 C20, hauling a 70 C10 stepside on a trailer. the stepside was loaded down with so much metal the tires were bulging. i followed the guy all the way to the crusher... he would NOT sell it to me! i offered to completly unload trailer by hand and pay him more then scrap price for the truck on top of that.. his only reply was "im already here, i've pulled all the good parts off, its getting shredded". this thing had a MINT no rust/no dent set of step fenders on it
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09-19-2008, 11:44 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Did you ask them if they'll pull it down for you? They will here. I've had the guys here pull down more than one, so I could get some parts off. Pay by the pound; it's like 5 times what they paid for it, but still a bargain.
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09-19-2008, 11:50 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
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And to everyone -- do we just write off the fate of that truck? Maybe it's gonna be put to good use; that old Caddy is probably also worth more than just scrap. Many of those vehicles may not be worth saving, but with any luck, some just might be saved. Or did I miss where it said they were all headed for the crusher? Sure would be a shame... 
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09-20-2008, 12:25 AM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Its still good, its still good!
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09-20-2008, 12:46 AM
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Always on the hunt...
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Re: Sad sight 72
Here is another good one, I was leaving a local yard a few saturdays ago when a big u-haul truck towing a trailer came pullin in. What catches my eye is the truck on the trailer, turns out that this guy driving the rented truck had helped an elderly fellow clear some property to get it ready for market and was given these two junk trucks (as he called'em) as a bonus to his payment for labor. One was a dodge club cab that he had already brought in that morning, the other was a well used 70 chevy c20 with no motor or trans and not a single usable piece of sheet metal on it. What this 70 does have going for it is the fact that it was an original 402/th400 truck with a factory tach cluster. After a short conversation (agreed to $50. for whatever I could remove) and thanks to there being a decent size line to get up to the scale, I ended up with about 25 minutes to pull the tach cluster, the bbc/th400 tranny linkage, the bbc motor towers and the bbc/th400 high hump trans cover. Figuring it to be a fairly odd-be-it lucky day, that evening I doubled up on my normal purchase amounts of megabucks and powerball, did'nt hit on either of them but all in all it was a great day spent playin with trucks. Oh-yeah, I almost forgot... the tach was a working unit.
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09-20-2008, 01:08 AM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Now that is a shame, I hope it can be rescued
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09-20-2008, 05:53 AM
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Re: Sad sight 72
Awwwwwwwww.......
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09-20-2008, 10:59 AM
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Re: Sad sight 72
I need that grill!!! Dang!
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09-20-2008, 01:21 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
That grille looks like a nice unit to me ! What if that was a short fleet now that would suck
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09-20-2008, 02:06 PM
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Re: Sad sight 72
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67 gmc custom lwb dakota truck. Sold...And bought back 69 swb 4x4 project (in progress) 70 c-10 lwb texas truck 70 4x4/BB/bkts/posi/tach(retired) 70 swb (wifes) 70 jimmy camper 71 K-5 factory 2wd 71 cheyenne 4x4/tach/posi/ plow rig 71 Cheyenne20 BB, buckets, tach, tilt, 4 speed 72 jimmy CST wyoming rig 72 jimmy Colorado rig 72 lifted texas 4x4 3/4 ton burb 65 fury conv. 383/auto 65 chrysler 300 "L" 413 auto |
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