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Cool Old Iron in your Hood

On the way home last nite, had to do a double take to make sure it wasnt mine :lmao:

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I hope I'm wrong but they're pretty consistent and thorough when it comes instantly destroying anything that is of value to anybody who isn't running an autobody shop.
 
Junkyard people being junkyard people the first thing he did when he got it to the yard was probably enter the VIN in the .gov portal so that no DMV will register it. :shaking:
Nah this isn't a professional yard like that.

What would constitute good parts? Hoods rotten, floors gone, cromes pitted basically just the grill left and those are probably repop'd for cheap enough.
 
Nah this isn't a professional yard like that.

What would constitute good parts? Hoods rotten, floors gone, cromes pitted basically just the grill left and those are probably repop'd for cheap enough.
I was speaking generally. Shit like forking cars through the windshield so the interiors can rot in the weather because that saves 2sec. Crushing rust fee cabs and frames after the bed has been sold off the same vehicle. You'd think that when a yard has something of reasonable value and not too obscure that no other yard in an hours drive does they'd hang onto that. I'm not asking them to hang onto an Aerostar but when you're the only yard in New England with something like a rust free '99-04 that still has the podunk Georgia town DPW sticker on the door that's potentially something you can squeeze a lot of money out of.

I get that shit has to turn over but it seems like literally every professional yard runs from some dumbass list of shit they save and shit they don't that was built by someone working at a stupid high level. "20yo frame, nope don't need that" "150k Altima CVT that wasn't slipping when the car rod knocked into the yard, that's a keeper". Yet somehow these yards also have shelve and shelves of obscure shit that just piles up until they go through it once a decade.


On this? Little to nothing. The door glass, but frankly I'd pull the doors and sell them whole even if they're shit since that's easier and most people in the market might wanna pick through the regulator too.
 
Nah this isn't a professional yard like that.

What would constitute good parts? Hoods rotten, floors gone, cromes pitted basically just the grill left and those are probably repop'd for cheap enough.
Trim looks decent compared to the rest
 
I was speaking generally. Shit like forking cars through the windshield so the interiors can rot in the weather because that saves 2sec. Crushing rust fee cabs and frames after the bed has been sold off the same vehicle. You'd think that when a yard has something of reasonable value and not too obscure that no other yard in an hours drive does they'd hang onto that. I'm not asking them to hang onto an Aerostar but when you're the only yard in New England with something like a rust free '99-04 that still has the podunk Georgia town DPW sticker on the door that's potentially something you can squeeze a lot of money out of.

I get that shit has to turn over but it seems like literally every professional yard runs from some dumbass list of shit they save and shit they don't that was built by someone working at a stupid high level. "20yo frame, nope don't need that" "150k Altima CVT that wasn't slipping when the car rod knocked into the yard, that's a keeper". Yet somehow these yards also have shelve and shelves of obscure shit that just piles up until they go through it once a decade.


On this? Little to nothing. The door glass, but frankly I'd pull the doors and sell them whole even if they're shit since that's easier and most people in the market might wanna pick through the regulator too.
Truth,

The best example happened to me back in the mid 90s.

I was walking a yard and came across a showroom mint FJ40. It had taken a big hit up front but the tub was better than perfect. I ask about it and they ask what it's worth to me and I tell them $500 right here right now. Nope is the answer come back in a week and talk to the owner they say.

I go back the next Sat and there it is all crushed up and waiting to be loaded on the truck. I just can't see how that makes any business sense even to this day, I figure they must be laundering money through that yard or something.
 
Nah this isn't a professional yard like that.

What would constitute good parts? Hoods rotten, floors gone, cromes pitted basically just the grill left and those are probably repop'd for cheap enough.
All the trim can be replated. Repo trim is plastic and crap, original is a lot more desirable. The VIN could be worth something, they make all new bodies now for 1st gen camaros.
 
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