Aaarrrggg!!

[Willowbilly3]

Took a load of scrap in today and there was a complete 38-39 Ford pickup all mashed up at the bottom of the pile, everything but the radiator, even had tires and wheels, tailgate, doors, engine everything. It even had one decent back fender before they moshed on it.

 

[Tripper]

Took a load of scrap in today and there was a complete 38-39 Ford pickup all mashed up at the bottom of the pile, everything but the radiator, even had tires and wheels, tailgate, doors, engine everything. It even had one decent back fender before they moshed on it.

OMG... doesn't that just make u sick!?! 38's one of my fav PU's!!! [dr

BoB

 

[skull]

bother

used to bother me a lot, but nowdays l have come to accept the fact l can't save'em all


Later

 

[Bonehead]

Saw a nice Buick headed down the road on a trailer, I bowed my head in a moment of silence because I knew where it was headed. The recycle center sets some of the better ones off to the side for a couple of days, to see if there is any intere$t.

 

[thevoicenurhead]

Thankfully the guy that owns the recycle center close to me is a car nut and does his best to save them all. [cl

 

[donsrods]

I can see why it is happening, scrap steel is bringing really good money these days. Just last week I stripped down a 351 Ford engine I bought for my Mustang project and took the unwanted parts to the scrap yard down the street from my shop. I had two heads, an old crank, the fuel injection setup, and a couple of misc pieces, and got $ 57.00 for it. I really didn't have much weight there and was surprised at getting that much. I can only imagine what a whole full size car is bringing now.

Don

 

[sawzall]

the crusher by me will hold anything older than 1959 for a month and open the yard once a month for people to view and buy what is there, for really high $$!

 

[hotrod preacher]

cant save em all, but the thought of pre-ww 2 tin going to a crusher just seems un-american! especially since it'll probably go to china to get melted down...

 

[patina]

sad.... i really need to win the lottery and get a warehouse and collect sll the stuff around here... its dissapearing at a alarming rate

 

[Old Iron]

Hwy Patrol went around to all the salvages here, several months ago, and wrote down vin numbers and told the owners to stop selling complete vehicles.
I don't know how that works when you buy a cab or car body.
I also heard Mo. is goin back to notarized bills of sale sometime after the first of the year because of all the fraud.

Jim

 

[Torch]

scrap steel is bringing really good money these days.

Actually scrap steel is requiring a lot more of the bad ol overprinted american dollar. the steel hasn't become worth more. demand for steel is about the same but when they print up as much money as is already in circulation and give it to special interests and bailouts...then the money everyone who worked for it is holding is naturally worth half of what it was before... not worth half to your neighbor who doesn't have a clue anymore than anyone else working for a living but worth half to the capitalists who already know the dollar got chopped in half....because they were the ones or in the same class as the ones who chopped the buck.

 

[Willowbilly3]

The recyler I use now has a claw that they just grab a car by the roof. They used to used the forklift to unload tham and you had some small chance to save a car before it got more piled on top. It is a small yard and they don't have room to put anything aside and seem rather annoyed if you try to buy anything. I have scrounged a few emblems and such.
With the old car market going soft and the scrap prices being higher (actually dipped some right now) but they have kind of met in the middle. Well, anyway, I could have parted $1500-$2000 from that old Ford.

 

[hotrod preacher]

while i dont disagree totally, torchman, i also believe the chinese have been scooping up alot of metal because the overinflated dollar has allowed them to buy more of our metal at no more cost to them... something to do with the value of their money versus ours...[S not that i know this for certain-it was passed to me from another, smarter man...

 

[Torch]

I'm not arguing against you preacher I'm adding the context that crooks here in this country stole half the value of every dollar by the printing press. trying to show why it takes 2x more money.
Americans are brainwashed into thinking inflation is a fact of life that must be tolerated. it is not. it involves crooks, a willfull act and a taking of value. A ton of iron or an ounce of gold will still trade for roughly as much oil, bread, beef, copper, silver as it did a hundred years ago. the money in your pocket got diluted. I'm just spreading the gospel that the value of necessary things doesn't change only the value of the fake-and-bake paper money.

We have to start speaking in honest terms and refuse to parrot the right-think/wrong-think vernacular that the social engineers provided you with all your life to direct you to think in patterns of obedience and servitude so that you may be exploited and love it.

Your right. there is a discrepancy and it can be argued in the style of the half full or half empty cup.
Yes for the sake of the argument is a cup half full or half empty, the cup is still 50% full but why? They don't want you to remember the cup was once full before they started to mislead you.
they took half out for themselves and want you to believe they provided the half that remains while they take that for themselves as well.