some people are just plain stupid

Who scraps a rustfree 58 Buick coupe? This is near my work here in Albuquerque. I wish I could've caught that one before they messed it up....

 

HEY!! Here's a member that's looking for parts!

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=143123#post143123

 

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Hey Fox, I wholeheartedly agree, but once it goes into the pile at the scrapper, they won't sell any parts from it....its a shame they wasted all the beautiful chrome....dumbasses......

 

You gotta be kidding me! rluke would kill for some of that stuff on that car! I think I would do a midnight auto parts run on that.
The guy MIGHT sell the whole car for more than scrap price, too.

 

So sad! A friend of mine just told me he saw a Colony Park like mine go to the scrapyard.

 

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You should see some of the stuff ppl turn in here, it would make you Snowbelters cry...I know, I'm originally from Penna and it makes me sick to my stomach sometimes (really). If I had some land and Jay Lenos cash, I would stash em.....just the 60s-70s pickups alone were worth a little fortune up north before they pick them up with the claw and mess them up.

 

Smashed and at $200 a ton, it probably sat for 20 years and the guy sold nothing off it.

 

It's only beginning. This current generation is quickly losing it's "love of the wheel" through liberal pushes for public transportation and the act of demeaning the car as the cause of "globalwarming".
Unless we go through some sort of reformation, it will take only one more generation of this and they will start hunting down old cars for the crusher!
All the while forcing us to pay 60% of our income in taxes to support light rail, green jobs, cap-n-trade and the other crazy boondoggles that only end up lining the pockets of union thugs, politicians (on the correct side) and lucky fat cat capitalists.

Enjoy your vintage machinery all you can.

 

I can't imagine why the yard wouldn't put it aside and sell the parts off of it. There must be more to the story than just a picture. It is worth about $350 - $400 in scrap metal, so it should be worth that in parts. Once they make it onto the pile, the drive-line has been removed, so a lot of collectible car value goes away immediately. Cars like this wind up in the Pick a Part yards in California because of the tax and emission laws, according to a friend that lives out there.

 

Unfortunate but well said, Jairus. I'm happy that I lived my good years through my era and not the present or what's coming. I won't get into my seething anger at what the politicians have done, or what we LET them do, but the car as we know it is on its way to oblivion. What really disturbs me, too, are people like the ones that own the yard where these old cars now reside. They are, much to the delight of the politicians, crushing history for a few dollars.
Junk's post claims that his friend is under the impression that these cars will go to a pic-a-part operation. They have already been clamped by the claw and stacked one on top of the other. What parts are left at all are probably useless. I would bet my wagon that these cars will never see a parts yard. They will be crushed and shipped to China for the price of steel. The next time you will see these beautiful behemoths they will be in your kitchen. As a refrigerator. To be enjoyed by those that don't have a clue about how America originated or what it stood for. What a damn shame.

 

I'm thankful that I wasn't able to locate any wagons in that pile.

 

Look again, snoot. Pic number one...the white car behind the 58 Buick. And this is just ONE segment of that yard.

 

Oops, you're right, SF. Knew it was too good to be true. What kind is that? Looks to me like it might be a Kcar wagon? What do you think?

 

Dunno, snoot....good question. I don't remember the K wagons having a matching bumper piece on the quarters like that but I could be wrong. My first thought was that it's a Ford Fairmont type but I think it's too small. Maybe a Cavalier? Foreign job? Dunno.

 

First pic see a cavalier and escort wagons

It's a shame. Those type of scrappers around here you cant touch anything. They won't sell cars or parts because its against the law and they would need to get a couple different licenses from the state and tons of red tape to muck through first. Plus they would need insane insurance coverage. Technically they can't even scrap a car without a title or slavage/scrapping paperwork from the state because they need to have proof it wasn't stolen.

NYS is driving out all the small junk yards that have older cars with all their regulations and BS all thats left is the newer corporate salvage yards that only keep cars in what seems to be limited to about a 10yo span