1990 Mercury - $800 - New Jersey

http://southjersey.craigslist.org/cto/4854731431.html

Not much of a description and no photos:

1990 Mercury station wagon 5.0 L - $800 (08036)

1990 Mercury fuel : gas transmission : automatic title status : clean

Runs, . . . Or reasonable offer.

 

Considering the scrap value is $450 or so, it would be hard to lose on this one. Could well be a good driver, or nothing but parts shaped like a car. Only way to find out is to look.

 

Here in Cleveland scrap is down to .06 a pound. It would be worth maybe 250.00 if you were able to drive it to the scrap yard so how are you not going to lose money?

 

Might have to wait for scrap to come back up to get $450 for it. Right now here in Phoenix scrap is down to $50 a ton. I've got a lot of scrap to get rid of but I'm holding on to it so I don't give it away.

 

Yup, sheet metal shop I'm with moved. I had a large dumpster dropped off and picked up in Dec of last year......$60 a ton is what we got paid

 

Yup scrap went down the toilet! everyone and their bro were scrap happy for a few yrs now and actually put legitimate businesses out of business.

I can remember when it was $27 a ton

I also remember not to long ago it was at $300 or close to it

 

In 2011 that is how we came to the price of $500 on my Caprice wagon. The place I got it from scraped a truck for $220 a ton and was going to scrap it. I told them it was probably a little over 2 tons so I would give them $500 and remove it for them....so now I have a 2 ton $500 lawn ornament.

 

A while back (21 October 2011) my Dad sold a 1985 Jaguar XJ6 to a junkyard. They same here with the rollback to get it out of the garage, and we got something like $460 for it. Then the next year (June 2012 if I remember right) he sold a 1997 Plymouth Voyager by driving it to another junkyard and he got about the same price for that. But now the price for a 2000 Caravan at the same (latter) junkyard is about $220.